Sim gaming: a sport?

[tannat]

Silly notion? Perhaps not..

I feel our fun little pasttime requires as high a degree of hand-eye coordinaiton as golf (with perhaps a touch less physical exertion).

Your thoughts...

[Brown, Jon Brow]

or darts

[luvracin]

I once put a heart rate monitor(the one i use at the gym) on when I played racing games on my x-box. My HR barely moved past my normal HR for sitting watching TV.

However, I did the same thing when kart racing and my HR jumped to 150+.

[Penske_ALMS]

Fun little hobby, maybe. Sport? Nah.

[janneppi]

It all depends on the level of force feedback in steering wheels, doesn't it?
Put it to a high level and play for two hours, it feels like you've been shoveling dirt for ten minutes.

[johnny shell]

Ernest Hemingway said the only true sports are bull fighting, mountain climbing, & auto racing. Everything else is just a game.

I see his logic.

so, I would therefore classify sim racing as a game.

but if golf is a sport then so is this

[jso1985]

if poker is a sport nowadays, then staring at birds should be too...

and of course sim gaming