Hopless in sport team games.

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I was wondering ....how many of you are hopeless in sport team games?? ....and I mean hopeless from 0 to 10points in basketgame for example....


I am hopeless for ALL team games whatever how hard I try.....why?

Well, I think being bad at sport games is an aspie characteristic. We tend to have bad coordination, coordination is a skill heavily stressed in most sports so therefore it would be logical for us to often be bad at sports all else being equal. I guess I would give myself a 2 or 3 mainly because 0 or 1 just sound too low, like a person that collapses gasping for air from a second of playing. I have good energy but horrible coordination.

It was never about being good at sports for me, it was about keeping my mind on the game. When i was younger i played soccer... not really though i spent most of the time watching the bugs flying around.

If you'll pardon it, I have a poor track record in team games...

The coordination

The motivation (Why are we doing this, anyway?)

And a fair degree of struggling with the concept "team", which appears to have a meaning beyond "A group of people wearing the same shirts". "Team" doesn't come easily to me, and anything beyond "What is my role in this team, what does the team want me to do?" is difficult to grasp.

I’m not too sure how to assess my team skills in sports and games but I’m sure there is something very aspie about how I was.

With solo sporting things I was very good. Very fast runner, I had a lot of agility, a lot of energy, strength and endurance.

With things that are team sports but rely on individual skill things were a little mixed.

Take rounders: I was always able to get a rounder or even 2 or 3 each time and was always the last player left in the game unless my ball was caught.
I would keep playing, as the only player left until I got the score to a round number then would say I’m finished. I played rounders as an individual not as a team member, I wanted to be on the winning side as I wanted to win as an individual.

I only really had one friend that was nearly always the captain of the team and always picked me first for her team (not sure if because she like me, because I was very good or both).

One time though her sister was picked to be captain along with the usual girl that was always the other captain (who hated me as I was indifferent to her when the other girls looked up to her.) This time neither of the captains picked me, I was the last person during the team picking and so it was done by process of elimination that I got on either team.

As usual the team I was on won and I was last remaining, getting rounders each time so I could carry on taking them to get the score up to what I wanted it to be. The team captain was not very happy about winning and I think it’s because it had largely relied on me.

I was picked as the only girl in the football team at another school, not because I was good but because in this small special school not many kids had any idea how to play and I could at least kick the ball and run and was fast and tough. I had no idea about reading the game and who to pass to for the benefit of the game, I just passed to whoever was nearest or back to whoever passed to me as I thought it would be rude not to pass to them when they had passed to me! (misread social rules I guess).

In infant / junior school we played It / tag / tig, as you do. I would rarely get caught and to this day I’m not sure if it was because I was too fast or because the other kids didn’t really notice or acknowledge me as being there so didn’t bother chasing me. I only ever got caught if I had lost track of who was ‘it’ as I was being so self absorbed and the person was right next to me.

Also at infant school one of the boys thought I was a boy wearing a skirt as I was so fast and was always at the top of the climbing frame and hung over upside down fearlessly before any other kid had even run to the bottom. He used to ask why I was wearing a skirt. I did have quite short hair though unlike all the other girls.

In kiss chase I thought the idea was ‘not’ to get caught and so would run fast. The girl the boys fancied was running in front of me so when one boy was running in our direction I assumed he was after me and squealed with delight, not because I fancied him but because I thought I was being pursued and that meant I was worthy of it! Of course though he was running after her and ran right by me once i had worked out you are meant to pretend to slow down to get kissed!

My skills of teamwork in any team sport is 0 out of 10, as bad as it gets.
However with gymnastics I would fare a little better and I would have rated about 6
Track and Field about 6 as well. (I have won the odd place ribbon there at school)
Except any track and field sport where I have to throw anything like the javalin or discus
That would rate about 2. I may do better at throwing heavy objects like shot put. I could rate that 5

Paul

I suck at playing in team, and i suck even more at ball-sports.
So if 10 is the best and 0 is the "suckiest" (is there even a word like that?) i would give myself a 1

I would probably give myself a 3.I get kind of confused and end up just standing around watching the game instead of running after the ball.The coordination problems dont help either.

Whenever I play sports, I just dink around; and I somehow just pretend that the ball is a some physical property rather than an objective to win the game. So my brother always tells me to knock it off, and I hold the ball in the palm of my hand, somewhat how Isaac Newton held an apple and determined the law of gravity.

i like playing sports even though i am horrible at them.... although i played street hockey with my brothers and his friends. i was goalie because i would block the ball or puck or whatever it was with my body. i was a pretty good goalie because (in my brothers words) i don't feel pain the same way... i was brused but it didn't hurt. i was horrible at everything else though

I like doing teamsports.
However no matter how much i practice i can never get verry good at ball sports.
I do alright at soccer and ping pong.
But i can't seem to get verry good at basketball.

I'm pretty good at the teamwork part though, wich makes up for my lack skills.

I also enjoy lifting weight wich doesn't rely on coordination fortunately

I'd give myself a 5.