What sports do you do besides fencing?

[Rabid Monk]

Okay, this may (in fact, I would be surprised if it hasn't) have been done before, but I can't find the thread, and since a site as busy as this always has new members, I decided to create this one.

As you probably gathered from the title, this is a thread in which to tell everyone a little more about yourselves, and satisfy my curiosity a little. Specifically, what sports, other than fencing, do you participate in? Are you competitive, recreational, or weekend warrior?

For my part in this: I enjoy mountian biking, and have raced (not well, but I raced nonetheless). I am also involved in weightlifting to a small degree. I have competed in that, and done quite well (don't tell anyone, but there are almost no other local lifters in my weightclass).

[Aestro]

I'll play football or baseball when granted an opportunity, but fencing is the only sport I do on a regular basis. I could use more exercise, but school and fencing tend to devour my time.

[Alain]

The thread has been done before - http://www.fencing101.com/vb/showthread.php?t=15843 - kinda interesting to see how many talented people there are out there who do so many other things

[VELISARIOS]

Hail, I did for 12 years martial arts. Now I am focus in fencing.

[strongbad94]

I do archery on the same day as fencing.

[Victor]

Competitive brain surgery. ("Dude, I had totally removed my patient's tumor before you had finished washing. Looooser!")

And I try to attend full-contact haiku poetry readings at least once a month. ("Leaves on the win-- OOPH!")

[Larrison]

Hmm.. varsity level Football in High School and volleyball. But didn't take up fencing until after I graduated from college.

Now? Fencing, backpacking, snorkeling, camping. Plus the usual sometimes to stay in semi-shape -- running and weight training.

[swordwench]

Traditional archery whenever I need to clear my head. I'm not half bad - I'm a better archer than fencer, alas. Enjoy hiking, x-c skiing, "12-ounce curls". Don't get nearly as much exercise as I'd like anymore - life sort of gets in the way. Used do a lot of backpacking and canoeing, played soccer and softball. Someday...

[Point_Left]

I used to do discus. However, I did not find it intellectually stimulating I left it (around grade 9 or so). I made a coach very angry when I left...

Currently swim, and if I had room to bring my bike to residence, I would have brought it up here. I like snoeshoeing, and used to cross country ski (until little sister made off with my skis because hers no longer fit...I haven't bought another pair yet. I've been buying fencing equipment I could pay her "ransom" of a chocolate bar, but it hasn't been worth it yet.)

Hmmm...that is about it. I sometimes skate, but again a certain sibling made off with my skates. Something about leaving your sporting goods unprotected 300km away, and a sibling is growing into them...oh, well. The skates were dying anyway. As long as she doesn't make off with my bike, swimsuit, fencing gear, or snowshoes I'll let her survive to adulthood.

[RebelFencer]

I've been a wrestler for around 7-8 years and still actively compete in it at the Club level. I also used to swim summer league and wasn't half bad.

[InweCiryatan]

I do archery, speedreading, and pottery. Hey, it takes a lot of muscle power to condition that clay and train those eye muscles!

[AndrastVitesse]

Wait.... you mean there are other sports besides fencing?

[InweCiryatan]

yeah, speedreading!

[AndrastVitesse]

don't forget pottery!

[Epee_Pox]

If blood sports count, I golf poorly.

[pixie]

I'm a knitter, which is considered a granny sport by most.

[ReverseLunge]

I teach wheelchair Taekwondo to policemen who have injured or partially paralyzed in the line of duty.

[Purple Fencer]

Drum & bugle corps...and if you don't think it's a sport, try it!

[Symon]

Rock climbing..... i Climbed before i got into fencing so usually go out on sundays with a few old buddies

[fencerchica]

My college's fencing varsity faded away into a club sport decades before I arrived there, so while I was learning to fence in a basement hallway with equipment older than my parents, I also played tennis on the women's varsity team. I think doing that just added fuel to my quixotic campaign to turn the fencing club back into a varsity sport... made a little bit of progress, although from what I hear it's totally backslid since I left. Well, at least their gear's a little newer and cleaner now. Oh, and I like skiing and swimming, too, and I'm sporadically learning to ride horses.