• Neato@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        the goalie throwing the ball is an afterthought.

        Games have been lost for less.

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        1 year ago

        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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          1 year ago

          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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        1 year ago

        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.