Football is harder then ballet

Thank you for structuring your argument, I will address all five paragraphs. You don"t need to apologize for your lack of structure, it is in your interest to use every sentence and paragraph to advance your ideas. The lack of form and grammar doesn"t constitute a lack of worthy ideas and arguments. If nothing else, it keeps everyone"s panties from getting in a bunch, but it also hones your arguments and allows poignancy to their delivery. In your second paragraph you attempted to define harder to your advantage, you responded to my assertion about the fundamental skills required, and then you suggested that football players have more strength, endurance and coordination than dancers. Using competitive to define what is "harder" isn"t acceptable, nor is it really in the interest of your argument. Football is competitive, one team loses, the other wins. No matter how much they suck, one team WILL win. A 50/50 chance of success is a pretty low threshold. Becoming and remaining a paid professional dancer is far more competitive. Again, this is why training starts so young and goes year round. Back to the six year olds, two groups of six year olds can compete in a football game on the playground without adult direction. They can do it without planning or rehearsing beforehand. The same six year olds cannot execute a ballet, they need to choreograph, plan and rehearse. They also lack the motor skills to throw, or catch other dancers. I am attaching a url address for ballet training. Let"s talk about fitness. To be sure, there are very strong football players out there. Being 300-400 lbs is a good thing for football players, strength to push other 300 lb guys exceeds that of most dancers. Using the maximum strength and speed is ideal for all the players except sometimes the quarterback. The quarterback is the only player who needs limit his strength. Throwing the ball farther than the guy catching it is bad, more is sometimes less. Mastering your strength and controlling it set the quarterback apart. But every dancer has to execute in controlled and coordinated displays of strength and grace. Coordination is no more essential to football players than dancers. As for endurance, please consult this URL as a reference, http://www.sportsonearth.com... DURATION BalletTwo 40-50 minute acts (average) NFL1 hour of clock time On the average, only 11 minutes actual play occur in a game. Thus, players spend 49 minutes of clock time scratching themselves and wandering around. But remember that the 11 minutes is shared between an offense and a defense. So a player averages 0:05:30 of actual play. That isn"t even 10% of the 60 minutes of clock time. But the clock isn"t always running, an hour long football game typically takes 3 hours and 10 minutes, or 190 minutes. Do the math, 5.5/190 = 2.89%. How many marathon runners only run 3% of their race? Dancers don"t get 12 timeouts, they can"t throw an incomplete pass just to stop the performance, and if one of the dancers moves at the wrong time the clock doesn"t stop so that the mistake can be evaluated. If they are pretty sure they did a great job they can"t just take a knee and let the clock run out. Football requires many things, endurance is not in the least one of them. The third paragraph acknowledges that, ""in football you have more to take in less time." (Yeah, 3% is a lot less time.) If a body builder lifts more weight than a football player does that mean their task is harder? No. The strength something requires does not translate to the degree of "hardness." Nor does speed, although I would expect the average speed of a dancer to be more than that of the average football player, especially if it was for more than the five yards and five seconds in a typical play. There are no positions for grossly overweight bodies in a ballet troop, dancers are far more fit than football players in every aspect but strength. The fourth paragraph suggests that dancers have the chance to work out their mistakes in practice, this is an understatement. Dancers eliminate the slightest hint of error not only as individuals but as a group. The offensive line of a football team would do well to copy dancers and eliminate offensive offside calls. How hard is it to perfect not moving? Football is about not doing worse than your opponent, ballet is about unified perfection. Which is harder? In the last paragraph my opponent acknowledges that his position and view are nothing more than his opinion. As a football player he should be enthusiastic and confident in his abilities and training. Ideally, his pride will help him face and defeat opposing football teams. But to win this debate it was necessary to leave the sideline, leave the stadium and compare the two items objectively rather than subjectively. My opponent never did. In closing, consider the differences between football and ballet; time training and performing, skill and dedication to become a professional, whether success can be achieved through another"s incompetence or only your own pursuit of perfection, and the minimum abilities required to complete either. I understand that I went into more detail than may have been necessary, believe it or not I omitted many arguments and examples in the interest of space. So before you vote, please take a look at the points of both sides, if I wasn"t able to prove that ballet is harder than football then I hope you agree that one is as hard as the other. In that case you should still vote more my side because the proponent was obligated to prove football was harder. He didn"t. While he may be fully convicted in his hunches he did not offer convincing and irrefutable proof. I didn"t limit my debate in the casual hope that enough people would agree, rather, like a dancer, I wanted to communicate my arguments clearly, efficiently and effectively. -Whistle