Why individual sports are better than team sports?
While there are benefits to both
team and individual sport, they differ vastly. In my opinion, the main
disadvantage of team sports is that success or failure depends on many
components. Even if some players of a team are really tallented and skilled,
still they may not be able to win. But as you can see, this imperfection of
team sport is not affecting it too much. In fact team-work based sports like
football or basketball are very popular all over the world. In my opinion, it’s
happening because individual sports are sadly less interesting to watch. This
may be due to fact that team-work based sports creates more action. And as you
know, if there is a lot of interesting action in some movie, the movie will
attract more people. In fact, even if I’m a big fan of individual sports, I
have to admit that I prefer to watch football over tennis.
Returning to the theme, why
individual sports are better? Here are some positive benefits of individual
sports:
- All is up to you! Your success
is entirely dependent on your own efforts. If you lose a match, you can’t hide
behind your teammates, blaming them for your failure. Being carried to victory
by your team is a nice thing, but in this scenario, can you call yourself a „winner”?
This benefit is mentioned first, because for me it’s the most important fact.
Individual sports teaches us that, we are responsible for every decision or
move that we take. No matter if it’s competition or real life.
- Self motivation - Individual
sports teach us how to motivate ourselves. If you want to improve, you decide
to spend more time on it. There’s no preassure from your team-mates, the drive
has to come from within.
- Self-pacing – Working alone to
build skills in chosen sport allows You to work at your own pace, perfecting
and developing your abilities rather than being pushed forward before you are
ready. It can be really important for people with many life changes.
To assume, if you like having
control over your performance or being part of a team puts preassure on you as
you are worry about letting your team-mates down, the best option for you is
picking individual sports.
Source:
-What do you think about sports?
-What do you prefer, individual
sports or team sports?
-After reading my presentation,
can you agree with me that individual sports are better than team sports?
Comments
I always hated physical education at school because all we did were team sports. I was always a thin and kind of fit child (out of school activities) but I fully understand why kids these days aren't interested in exercising at all if everything they get to do is either kick or throw a ball. I remember I loved a rare occurrence when we were taught to vault over a horse or any type of gymnastics for that matter but a few kids would always say they were afraid of jumping so the lessons stopped! If kids were scared of playing dodge ball no one batted an eye and they were forced to play. I always found that to be mind boggling.
I do prefer individual sports myself, because I do them to stay fit and feel better, but I'm also no pro. I sometimes play team sports, but mainly with friends and only for fun.
When it comes to watching sports I am not a big fan of watching games like football or any other team sport, but I can spend hours on watching snowboard halfpipe or slalom, I like to watch Tour the France or any other bike sports, Tennis is also more interesting to me than football :D But in general I don't like to watch sports, it's not that much interesting to me :) I prefer to train instead of watch ^^
I agree with your arguments and now I also like this individual form of disciplines.
Individual sport is 100% depends on you, your training and mind-set. When the MMA fighter is approaching the cage and you know that there is only he against his opponent it is the most interesting moment. We can see the glory of human determination, ability to ignore pain, overcome personal fears and weaknesses as he is the only person he could trust to. There will be no his teammates to back up the wrong decision or compensate his lack of training.
My impression of this article is that you based your article on bad experiences at school regarding PE classes where there are maybe two people who can play and want to play, others sit on the bench. Training in a professional team, each player is equally determined to succeed, and aware that if even one person/player is missing the team would not function correctly. But I agree with you that sports are important, no matter in what form. It is important to bring us health and fun.
Questions:
-What do you think about sports?
I think it is a very vital part of social life, but nowadays we can observe some evolution of that phenomenon as well as a term.
-What do you prefer, individual sports or team sports?
Both!
-After reading my presentation, can you agree with me that individual sports are better than team sports?
Nope, because i think it is a purely subjective case :)