What's you ritual before playing sport?

[Pendu]

I play 5-a-side footie once a week, i try to have roughtly 1.5 litres of water throughout the day. Then an hour before the game, i have a gatorade. I find sometimes rubbing vicks on my neck can help me breath better, is that a good thing or not?

edit- Mod's could you move this to the Lifestyle forum, i only just noticed that forum, need to wear my glasses .

[Xamonas Chegwé]

It's fine here, Pendu. Unless you'd rather move it?

[statichaos]

I attempt to dodge pig manure falling from the sky while ice-skating through Hades.

[Pendu]

It's fine here, Pendu. Unless you'd rather move it?

That's ok, it's fine as is then.

[Feck]

mmm sports do you mean running an stuff ? ........ball games? (is that like water sports ?

[virphen]

If it counts as a ritual, trying to make sure I ate exactly 3 hours before kick-off.

[GrayToneS]

I play 5-a-side footie once a week, i try to have roughtly 1.5 litres of water throughout the day. Then an hour before the game, i have a gatorade. I find sometimes rubbing vicks on my neck can help me breath better, is that a good thing or not?.

When you say "footie", are you referring to soccer, or some extreme form of flirting?
Vicks is fine, so long as your not squirting or spraying anything up your nose before you exert yourself then your good.

I play backyard football every sunday (religiously), the size of the game varies on how many participants we have show up. Sometimes its upwards of 40, and we'll split into several teams and have playoffs.

I gave up drinking on Saturday nights, as playing with a hangover is impossible, plus when I drink I usually go down when the sun comes up.
I always poop before a game to detoxify my body.
I always eat eggs on gameday.
I Drink 4 large glasses of water, starting 3 hours before gametime for proper hydration (as a side effect, I always end up peeing on a particular electric box). And drink as often as I remember to afterwards.
I stretch about 20 minutes for obvious reasons, even if I'm late to show I'll still stretch while my buds try to peer pressure me into jumping in prematurely.
I also do a gentle stretch as soon as I'm done playing.
Thats about it.

[Pendu]

I play 5-a-side footie once a week, i try to have roughtly 1.5 litres of water throughout the day. Then an hour before the game, i have a gatorade. I find sometimes rubbing vicks on my neck can help me breath better, is that a good thing or not?.

When you say "footie", are you referring to soccer, or some extreme form of flirting?
Vicks is fine, so long as your not squirting or spraying anything up your nose before you exert yourself then your good.

Yes soccer mate, should have used a more common vernacular.

[Animavore]

I usually down a couple of pints to get rid of the nerves.

[GrayToneS]

Yes soccer mate, should have used a more common vernacular.

Too much runnin for me!! I do know a gang of mexicans that play at a local park on a regular occasion, I've played with them a few times, you ever notice there's no language barrier in sport?

I usually down a couple of pints to get rid of the nerves.

Stone throwin in the land of Ire could be considered a 'sport', but I doubt downing pints is a ritual attached only to sport.
If you drank "A" beer, I can almost guarantee you'll be bringin it back up if you played a full game of soccer, or football.

[Pendu]

Aww i love runnin, prob why i'm always playing the right back role. They used to call me the duracell bunny in high school.

[Ironclad]

I do a lot of stretching and then hit the rowing machine for 5-10 mins, then stretch again. Not much else really, but then my church is heavy iron and oly bars.

[Stagman]

As a competition sport, I do ISSF 10m Air Rifle. I always have a minimum of 10 minutes rest before commencing and will not play spanner monkey with my cars the previous evening in order not to stress my back.

[GrayToneS]

They used to call me the duracell bunny in high school.

I'll bet that went well with the ladies.

I do a lot of stretching and then hit the rowing machine for 5-10 mins, then stretch again. Not much else really, but then my church is heavy iron and oly bars.

I always wanted to have my own atheist church complete with basketball court, weight gym, and outdoor football field, where the community gathered on sunday to learn about life sciences and compete in various sporting events.

As a competition sport, I do ISSF 10m Air Rifle. I always have a minimum of 10 minutes rest before commencing and will not play spanner monkey with my cars the previous evening in order not to stress my back.

Air rifle?
Spanner monkey?
Stress?

[Pendu]

As a competition sport, I do ISSF 10m Air Rifle.

Interesting, shooting guns is considered a sport, you learn something new everyday.