How To Find The Best Sport For You: A Short Guide

F inding the right sport for you is an essential task that you can't overlook when getting into sports. You can try out a million different ones and even be passable in them, but to truly excel, you need to find one that fits you. That's precisely why we're going to be telling you how to find the best sport for you. Let's get into it! 

Activity Level 

Sports come with varying activity level requirements that you'll be needing to comply with. If you're more sedentary, obviously a more strenuous sport like running or basketball wouldn't be the right fit for you. However, if you're someone constantly bursting with energy to do something, wasting your potential by going for something relatively less movement-centered is going to be wasting your potential. Therefore, it's vital to make sure the sport you choose isn't pushing you too far out of the activity level you're used to or can achieve. If you're looking for something more active such as running, football, cycling or even skating (or ice skating) might be the one for you. However, if you tend to focus more on coordination than running around, table tennis, ping-pong, or badminton could be your calling. 

Hand-Eye Coordination 

While having a sharp eye and fast reflexes is a prerequisite for all sports, it's a more dominant factor in some sports than others. For example, while football requires coordination and sharp aim, it is also quite dependent on speed. On the other hand, badminton is all about having an eye on the shuttlecock and acting fast enough to get it rather than running too much. If you have good hand-eye coordination, sports like ping pong, badminton, tennis, or archery might be more suited to you. However, if you're someone who's looking for strength and speed, sports like swimming, skating, or rollerblading could be the ones that truly fit you. If you're someone looking for a healthy mix of both, why not try your hand at basketball, hockey, or even volleyball? 

Prior Experience 

No matter how much you try, some sports will need some prior experience or training for you to get into them. While more widely played sports like cricket, football, or netball are open to players of all ages and experience, others like gymnastics are a bit harder to get into. Similarly, ice-skating, especially the figure skating variety, is a sport that can be mastered with no experience at an older age, and will be done better by someone who started a tad bit earlier. 

Time 

If you're someone with a tight schedule, sports, in general, might not be the best fit for you since all of them require regular training and practice to be even semi-adequate at. However, some sports maintain that as an essential point more strongly than others. For example, you might need to dedicate less time for badminton practice, a sport-focused on reflexes and coordination, than a sport like basketball or running, which aims to train and maintain a particular body figure and fitness level to truly master. This point interlinks quite strongly with the point for activity level as remaining active and dedicating proper time to train is more necessary in some physique-intensive sports like swimming than more skill-based sports like table tennis or squash. 

Passion 

While passion is a more corny point than the others, it is less important. It is important to be passionate about the sport you choose rather than treating it as just something to do. If you genuinely love the sport you pick, you will automatically find yourself giving it more time, practice, and dedication than a sport you allocate the bare minimum time to out of necessity. Unless you love what you do, you can never truly excel at it. This is precisely why it is so important to find a sport you are properly passionate about or at least enjoy as then, you will practice with a more present mind which will automatically help you be better at it. It is also important to remember to enjoy the process as mastering a sport is not a task to be done overnight and requires tons of patience, dedication, and time. In the end, it's not only about how to find the best sport for you but also about how to find a sport for you that you thoroughly enjoy.