Are there any progamers that are good at sports?

TheSchwA

United States248 Posts

July 06 2009 02:52 +01

I know this is sort of odd, but the interest was sparked after viewing the Nada and Baseball blog. I was curious if there were any know progamers that are sporty? Any of them that are good at sports or big into any.

Clasic

Bosnia-Herzegovina1437 Posts

July 06 2009 03:00 +01

Well, Boxer must be pro at track after the army buffed his ass up!

pubbanana

United States3063 Posts

July 06 2009 03:00 +01

Boxer was good at basketball, July was good at baseball, Reach was good at Hapkido, Kingdom was good at Kendo, and so on. Most of them quit whatever sport they were pursuing when they picked up SC for fear of hurting their hands and fingers.

2nd1rst

United States40 Posts

July 06 2009 03:00 +01

I don't know where I heard this, but someone said julyzerg was good at baseball.

konadora

Singapore66144 Posts

July 06 2009 03:01 +01

Reach was good at Hapkido

No wonder he's so manly!

disciple

9070 Posts

July 06 2009 03:06 +01

Leta made an awesome round house kick Chuck Norris style last year so I assume he is training some martial arts

SayaSP

Laos5494 Posts

July 06 2009 03:10 +01

july hit mad home runs

Adeny

Norway1233 Posts

July 06 2009 03:12 +01

SDM mentioned Iris (I think?) practices some kind of martial arts.

Manifesto7

Osaka27132 Posts

July 06 2009 03:14 +01

Generally progamers do not play sports that may injure their hands, but I do know they play soccer as a team. I don't know if any of them are any good.

faseman

Australia215 Posts

July 06 2009 03:15 +01

#10

Yeah I remember reading something about Leta being hardcore into martial arts when he was younger. And something about Yarnc being good at soccer? Don't have source for these, but they stick in my mind out for some reason.

B1nary

Canada1267 Posts

July 06 2009 03:16 +01

#11

Daniel Lee said in one of his commentaries that July used to be a very good baseball player... until he discovered SC ^^

saritenite

Singapore1680 Posts

July 06 2009 03:17 +01

#12

Boxer did soccer in his school days

IntoTheWow

is awesome32269 Posts

July 06 2009 03:22 +01

#13

Sea likes soccer a lot and plays when he can.

Disregard

China10252 Posts

July 06 2009 03:24 +01

#14

Kingdom practiced Kendo.

NeverGG

United Kingdom5399 Posts

July 06 2009 03:24 +01

#15

eSTRO used to play a lot of soccer as part of their in-house training/lifestyle. Daniel told me once that they were pretty damn good too.

Leath

Canada1724 Posts

July 06 2009 03:29 +01

#16

On July 06 2009 11:00 2nd1rst wrote:
I don't know where I heard this, but someone said julyzerg was good at baseball.

From Pubbanana

plated.rawr

Norway1676 Posts

July 06 2009 03:33 +01

#17

SDM mentioned Iris (I think?) practices some kind of martial arts.

Yea, think he said Berserker were practicing Muay Thai. Manly.

QuickStriker

United States3694 Posts

July 06 2009 03:35 +01

#18

On July 06 2009 11:01 konadora wrote:

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No wonder he's so manly!

koreasilver

9109 Posts

July 06 2009 03:39 +01

#19

Jju used to be a boxer, wasn't he?

Zoler

Sweden6339 Posts

July 06 2009 03:50 +01

#20

Boxer was pretty good at football, and his parents were worried that he wanted to go pro in it. lol they had no idea

ghermination

United States2851 Posts

July 06 2009 04:09 +01

#21

i can easily imagine reach being involved in some sort of martial arts.

Mindcrime

United States6899 Posts

July 06 2009 04:12 +01

#22

boxer is awesome at baseball

jello_biafra

United Kingdom6633 Posts

July 06 2009 04:17 +01

#23

Damn you Mindcrime I was just about to post that. Classic video lol.

skronch

United States2717 Posts

July 06 2009 04:24 +01

#24

LOL....thinking of julyzerg playing baseball reminded me of mo vaughn.

Archaic

United States4024 Posts

July 06 2009 05:29 +01

#25

On July 06 2009 12:17 jello_biafra wrote:
Damn you Mindcrime I was just about to post that. Classic video lol.

Hahaha, I remember there was another video where some guy did the exact same thing. A basketball player I think?

ghermination

United States2851 Posts

July 06 2009 05:46 +01

#26

LOL boxer must have been terribly embarassed, i really feel for him though. I can't believe they didn't have him do a few practice pitches or something beforehand, i mean it must just be so embarrasing to do that.

Mindcrime

United States6899 Posts

July 06 2009 06:01 +01

#27

oov makes me lol

sky_slasher

United States328 Posts

July 06 2009 06:16 +01

#28

Flash said he was a kid who did nothing but played sports, spending all night playing soccer. Savior said he wanted to be a soccer player as a kid. A video of the two talking about this:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=93468

United States6173 Posts

July 06 2009 07:38 +01

#29

In the intro before the grand finals of the 2008 OSL that July won, it said that he was very good at baseball before becoming a progamer. He was the type of good where he could get into high schools with his talent and be on his way towards playing as an occupation or something...but he chose SC instead.