Aristocratic sports and pasttime activities

[Jerome]

hey dr S-cool avatara! I myself didn't grow up with servants but of course my granny and the gen. before did and it seems to have been quite annoying at times...all the gossip etc the servs would spread, one had to sometimes take care of every word one was saying also sometimes they treated the children badly...my gg father though was fair at most times, he had many workers and staff also a Russian maid and he was always nice to her...that's why she saved his ass when the Russian army invaded our village at the end of WWII...those ******* Russians were quite brutal btw, some of them were incredibly uncultured, being central Asian fellachs etc..they for example tried to wash fruit in the toilet and flushed them down- they had never seen a water-closett...Yeah if you come from a family with a long history then history itself will come truely alive for you- I think hardly anyone who has not got that BG can relate to that or imagine it...

 

[telemark]

Cricket!?

 

[Jerome]

I think cricket we already had under its more docile designation of croquet (very nice Britishly avatar there, telemark!! I have never tried the telemark style to be honest...funny enough, the best 'telemarker' I ever saw was not in the European- but the Japanese Alps of all places...some foreigner (gaijin), too..I accosted him and he turned out to be an American who was there (in the Northern -Touhoku- region of Honshuu) for some telemark-championships...that must have been in '98 or something...)

Originally Posted by chas

Date ****.
lol, Just saw this now- I think that things like pillaging and ****** was once actually the foundation of many a aristocratic house and noble dynasty but the 'date'-part is what's somehow putting me off...cause those things, I believe, need to come from a more spontaneous, free-spirited mind-set.

 

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Newo

Croquet? Surprised nobody has mentioned that one.

Originally Posted by m@T

Kent Wang is quite the croquet afficionado

ahem

 

[jdcpa]

It seems no one has mentioned Skeet shooting or trap. Unfortunately most of those sports have declined rapidly in popularity. However, there are still many fields that attract a fairly high end clientele.

 

[Wrigglez]

+1 squash, i played it right through high school, cricket?

 

[makker]

Golf?

 

[why]

Originally Posted by makker

Golf?

No.

 

[JonHecht]

Originally Posted by Smudge

For inspiration see "Princess Bride" which besides being the best film ever made (IMHO), also has the best sword fight / fencing duel

While it is the greatest movie ever, the best fencing scene is from Scaramouche.

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[Etienne]

Originally Posted by tor

Fencing is pretty fun, but there's a pretty steep learning curve.
That's actually what makes it interesting. You always learn. Of course, if you are too lazy to be bothered with technique, you can always pick up epee, like I did. You will at least have the illusion that technique does not matter.

 

[Fuuma]

Originally Posted by Étienne

That's actually what makes it interesting. You always learn.

Of course, if you are too lazy to be bothered with technique, you can always pick up epee, like I did. You will at least have the illusion that technique does not matter.

Saber for the win, matches are so insane. I liked Kendo, really fun to practice and one of the only sports that really feel like full contact + no categories means you sometimes get to hit chicks with a bamboo stick.

 

[imageWIS]

Polo, rare vintage car collecting and extreme social climbing.

 

[theincumbent]

Rugby Union. Traditionally an elite "University" sport when compared with blue-collar Rugby League.

 

[Valence]

Fencing requires a considerable investment of time and money to enjoy, and as a previous poster said, the learning curve is quite steep.
The physical demands are much greater than one might imagine, and there is an element of simply needing time to develop the muscles in the wrist, forearm and hand.

 

[tor]

Originally Posted by jdcpa

It seems no one has mentioned Skeet shooting or trap. Unfortunately most of those sports have declined rapidly in popularity. However, there are still many fields that attract a fairly high end clientele.

How could I forget? Trap shooting is quite fun. I've never tried shooting skeet, but I would imagine it to be much harder than shooting trap.