• Neato@kbin.social
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    11 months 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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      11 months 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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          11 months 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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        11 months ago

        the goalie throwing the ball is an afterthought.

        Games have been lost for less.

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        11 months 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.

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      11 months ago

      Football hooliganism is also based around accurate throwing of objects.