# Which Sport Requires The Most Coordination? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 27, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sport-requires-the-most-coordination/955005 "2021-11-27T01:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2021, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sport-requires-the-most-coordination/955005/21 "2021-11-27T03:57:17Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Wearing a teflon slider on your lead foot, sliding on ice while pushing hard and fast regularly with your other foot, while sweeping hard using both arms, while keeping up with the swept rock and avoiding touching any rocks, in tandem with your fellow sweeper who’s doing the same thing, but with a different dominant lead foot, and not bumping into that player. I wear my gripper while I’m sweeping, which makes it a bit easier, and that does seem to be more common in four-person curling. Mixed doubles players often sweep their own shot, which ups the coordination a bit. > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > …lifting the 40+ lb rock in your dominant hand behind you and bringing it down and forward to launch your slide on your non-dominant foot,… That’s old school. You still see a few players do it that way, but it’s much more common to shift your body weight back-and-forth and leave the stone flat on the ice. That’s the way I teach it. I’m a curler, and I think I’d give the nod to basketball as requiring more coordination. Dribbling a ball while running, footsteps and bounces not in sync, and change speed and direction, is tougher to me than sliding and sweeping. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sport-requires-the-most-coordination/955005)._