• Neato@kbin.social
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      Soccer includes accurate throwing from the goalie. I’d posit that hitting a projectile with a stick accurately is a close cousin of throwing.

      That’s all the big ones in US and EU that I can think of.

      Baseball, basketball, soccer, football, cricket, rugby, hockey, what am I missing?

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        I’d posit that hitting a projectile with a stick accurately is a close cousin of throwing.

        That’s just throwing with extra steps.

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          the goalie throwing the ball is an afterthought.

          Games have been lost for less.

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          You’re literally punished for hitting the ball with your hand in football. Have to agree with you here, bar the terminology.

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            That’s because we are too good at throwing balls with our hands. That’s the exception that proves the rule.

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          hard disagree; “concept of throwing”, imo, is accurately predicting some complicated physics and then making the split second adjustments to fling an object from your body elsewhere with enough force to be useful; that it’s kicking rather than hand based doesn’t seem relevant imo, it’s still about accuracy and weird spin and dexterity.

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      “pretty much all” is a stretch, but it’s hard to disagree with that throwing things accurately is an aspect of a lot of our sports. And definitely the extreme dominant trait in American sports.

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          You’re kinda intentionally missing the point.

          If you had to pick one uniquely human aspect to group together as many sports as possible, what would you pick?

          Teamwork is out because wolves hunt in packs and lions hunt in prides. Logic is arguable, everything we do is based in either emotion or logic, so it’s not a good answer imo.

          So what do you have left? Kicking and throwing are probably your best bets.