Is DDR a Sport?

Supa Dupa Fly {FSF} · Trick Member Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Location: Louisville, KY

I've been thinking about this for some time now. A sport is something competetive(sp) and usually athletic. So is DDR a sport? I think it is because of tournements and so on. Do you guys have any thoughts about this.

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It has, plenty of times.

It's not a sport unless you live in Norway.
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RadMooseKiller · Trick Member Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Location: Northeast Ohio

just because theres tournaments for it, doesn't necessarily(sp) mean that its a sport. Example: our local game store has tournaments all the time for halo, madden, and tony hawk games, but that doesn't make them a sport.

But anyways, heres my take on this. DDR is not really a sport, because it is, in reality, just a video game. If it was a sport, it wouldn't take very long for competitions, since the songs are only about 1 1/2 minutes long.
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outlawwolf · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:14 am Post subject:

Norway yo. And I thought they were making it a sport in california.
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tist006 · Trick Member Joined: 25 Aug 2004

if golfs a sport, ddr is an extreme sport

FABO!!! · Trick Member Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Location: Georgia

To me ddr is more than a sport it becomes part of your life once you start playing you cant get away just like basketball and football those people get paid for what they do. if i got paid to play ddr it wouldnt be for the money it would be because the love of the game just like it is right now.

Osiris X · Trick Member Joined: 04 May 2004

First of all, DDR is a sport in Norway, no where else. I think it should be a sport, if poker is a sport, then DDR definatly should be a sport.

Zukin-Man · Trick Member Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Location: War Agony

My $.02...

Is DDR a sport? Yes.

Should DDR be an Olympic sport (because that question always comes up somehow)? No.

Is DDR deserving of product-endorsing celebrities, ready to sell out to a fat paycheck? No.

I think DDR is a sport, but not much beyond that.
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Flag_Burning_Dakota · Trick Member Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Location: Northern Jersey

Is DDR a sport to me?

Yes.

If it gets me to sweat all over the place, then yes. It has a goal in mind (get all those damn arrows) and it can be played in teams.

Hmmm...
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uouuÉ · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jun 2004

i don't think a video game should be considered a sport. athletic? yes. sport? no. except in norway, but i don't like the norweigens (sp?). think about it: all you do is watch arrows and hit them with your feet as accurately as possible. it's not that complicated. sure, you could compare ddr to other rule-free sports, like skateboarding and snowboarding, but you don't need electricity to skateboard or snowboard. it could help, but it's not really necessary.

eryk · Trick Member Joined: 25 Jul 2003 Location: Toronto

Wow. I can not believe some of you thing a videogame is a sport. Sorry, that just boggles my mind. It's a videogame. A videogame

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Daniel · Trick Member Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Location: Sonoma, CA

DDR is a sport.

1. Stepmania gives you a way of playing DDR for free. Konami no longer controls the distribution of the core concept of DDR. Also multiple companies make their own dance pads so Konami doesn't own dance pads either.

2. Even though very few, there are DDR players who have been playing since it's introduction and they still strive to do better. Once you have spent years playing DDR, studying the philosophies behind the drive to win, and observing competitive player archeatypes you will see that DDR has enough depth to meet all the criteria of being a sport.

3. The Japanese have a level of respect for the country's most accomplished players. They take pride in the fact that their country produces the world's most sophisticated video games, and the best players in the world live there. When we English speakers voice our opinions on message boards about wether or not DDR is a sport, we are really just sharing ignorance because Japan has much more serious players. We just don't have the level of experience and character to really answer whether or not DDR is a sport.

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Toji · Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:08 am Post subject:

i see it more as a video game than an actual sport
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Liquid Zero · Trick Member Joined: 11 Apr 2003

Many play it as a sport, and I think it can be a sport for those people, but you have to be somewhat dedicated to the game to play with that mentality. A regular sport requires competing with someone else in order to play the game. With DDR, that's just an option.

I think that's the major reason why people are skeptical in calling it a sport.

billybob · Basic Member Joined: 30 Dec 2004

Who cares if DDR is considered a sport. It RULES!!
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