Do you ever have to THINK when being physical?

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For example: A soccer ball will be at my feet. I would delay kicking it because I have to THINK of what I should do. It's not insticnt to me. It's not like seeing someone on the ground and automatically I'd call 911 without thinking.

Do any of you have that problem??

Well, I do have to think... to some extent. If I'm playing sport with a team, then yea. But if I'm just kicking a ball because thats fun, then... not so much.

I sure do. I do triathlon, and I always have to think - not of complex things, like what order to do my transition in, but of simple things like which way to shift when coming to a hill, or how to lean forward to make running easier.
To use the example of the soccer ball, I wouldn't have to think to realize I should kick it, but I'd have to think about things like how far to pull my leg back, how hard to hit the ball with my foot, what direction I should send the ball, and things like that.

I think that's the idea of practice and building muscle memory - the more you have to think in real time the more you can get tangled up, way too much to keep up with after a point. Different people have different capacities for muscle memory or trainability though, for me it's never been particularly good so a lot of things that I wanted to do well at I had to try a lot longer and harder than most.

I even have to think to walk "normally".

Sports during PE in school was the most traumatic thing that ever happened to me in my life. Knowing what I know now, I would NEVER put myself through that abuse again, whether the state says its good for me or not.

Now these days at a later age (36) I have worked out off and on most of my post high school life and I've gained a good bit of muscle tone which may make up a little for my lack of motor skill in sports. But I'm not interested in proving anything.

If you exercise in the right way and eat right you do NOT have to play "ball" sports. Its a NT society thing where they weed out the "weak" and praise and raise up the "strong"

it depends.

in rowing i think during practice because i'm constantly trying to improve my technique. during the race, all the thinking has been done and you just do. thinking can actually hurt your performance, the only thing i think is "i hate this, why am i doing this, i'm quitting after this race, i hate rowing, why why why" and yet i just keep pulling lol.

Observation well noted, and I think a lot of the social practices and the deliberateness of pettiness go to show that natural law is and always will be alive and well. It comes down at that point, knowing where we stand, to us just making ourselves happy any which way we can.

I myself was terrible in PE but at the same time in my 20's strange things started happening to where all of a sudden I could at least play basketball without embarassing myself, am slowly learning how to bowl a higher game, am learning to play ping pong pretty well; part of it now I think is because the friends I have currently are natural jocks so yeah - they beat me at everything but at the same time I've wanted to get up to their level or at least close enough for my own purposes. The other thing I'm also thinking real solidly about is martial arts - I'm already working out, doing that at least would help me to make sure that I can be a protector if I ever have a wife and kids (I could never stay with it purely on that motivation but I think I could get the interest off of just seeing it as a sport and enjoying it for that).