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Originally Posted by Captain R
It's never too late to learn. When my son was 7, I was throwing pop-ups to myself in the backyard after he went to bed so I could teach him baseball. I didn't even know how to catch a ball.
Ironically, of all the sports I played as a kid, basketball was probably the one I played the most. I tried real hard and was terrible and then when I got to high school I got a little better but everyone got way better so I was even more terrible. Now I haven't played for a long time so I'm worse than ever on an absolute scale.
Softball/baseball was a breeze by comparison, maybe because I had played a fair amount of tennis before I played baseball, so trying to hit a speeding ball with a handheld object was pretty standard. I'd be solidly average on a typical company softball team.
The sport I apparently crush at? Rugby. I took a class in college and was so good that the coach made a rule that a certain girl and I couldn't be on the same team because we were basically unstoppable together. I never played outside of that class so maybe it's just low N but it's probably one of two times in my life that I've felt more like an athlete than a mathlete.