Active= Extrovert. Ne= Random. Ti/Fe= There is actually a smart, genuinely caring person behind the facade (maturity thing though).

 

I used to do MMA, Boxing, and Muy Thai. I've found that while I can hang okay in ugly slug-fests, when I have the opportunity to use game theory in a slower more technical bought was when I really shined. I liked to play with using fake jabs to initiated action on the opponents part and then knowing where he's going to be I can use the necessary combinations. It sounds complicated but it's really as simple as knowing that your opponent will always roll outside the jab, so if you fake and throw where he's gonna roll out to you connect. Next exchange you throw the jab instead of the fake because he thinks you're gonna fake again. It becomes very Ne related to me, when I feel I should fake, double fake, or throw the punch/combination, albeit it is also luck related, but there were many times when I was in "The Zone" and I picked apart some much more experienced boxers in sparring.

Here's an extreme real life example of Ne in athletics (the second half, not the spiderman movie clip). Anderson Silva isn't freakishly fast, he just knows where Forrest is going to be before he gets there. Knowing where you're opponent is going to be is the key in a technical fight.

I'm also a really good trap shooter, which you think would be Se, but again, it's about where the clay pigeon is going to be.

 

Of all the ENTPs I've known none of them were heavily into spots or physical activities. It depends on the subtype though. The more intuitive subtype will probably be more physically clumsy due to heavily underdeveloped sensory function. Sometimes from aside it looks as if they are going around life bumping into objects. This sight usually inspires a bit of a caretaker instinct in me because here you have somebody going around bumping into things, not taking care of own health, that clearly needs protection from aforementioned objects and attention to its physical wellbeing.

Nevertheless all of them led an active lifestyle as in going out relatively often, and I read that ENTP is the least likely type to suffer from high blood pressure. But yes it is really Ne that looks as if it is Se on surface, but when you hang out with an ENTP you will see that it is Ne and not Se. They say Ne is a function that searches. This is what they were doing - they were constantly searching and doing something in physical world was only a by-product of that.

 

I hate sports. I don't even find them remotely entertaining.

I BMX though, it's a lot more fun. No rules, just having fun and practicing on your own time with friends.

 

I've done/do:

Camping
Hiking/back packing
Rock climbing
Running
Competed in Cross Country/Track & Field
Swimming
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Military service
Weight lifting

Cannot stand watching sports and stopped being into "ball" sports (baseball, basketball, football, etc).

I have a highly developed Se and have an enneagram 7w8.

 

^ That's me as well. Except I'm disproportionately into surfing. Just me and the waves.

 

I'm a huge football fan, other than that I don't watch sports often. I was a pretty serious swimmer for about 15 years and I would still do it if I had access to a pool. I actually just got back from playing glow in the dark ultimate frisbee, probably one of the coolest things I've ever done. I also longboard pretty often.

I think I read somewhere once that ENTPS are "experience junkies" and I think for a lot of us being active is part of said experience.

 

Well, least preferred doesn't mean we can't or don't use it, or that it isn't well developed. I think that ENTP's get into physical stuff more for the mental experience and fun rather than training to achieve perfection or achieve some sort of physical goal...In other words, the physical experience.

 

I've been lazy for the most part, but I'm actually about to start a Contemporary dance class.

I would love to get into some form of fighting, but not the common stuff, the way more technical stuff that requires a lot of calculation and strategy. P:

 

Traditional Budo then. MMA, Muy Thai and K1 is more of "sluggerfest", albeit admittedly crudely effective.
Or fencing of course...

 

um... i guess so if the jocks stereotype is true :laughing:

 

Dont like to watch but depend on regular physical activity.

 

I played football(soccer) for a long time but then I grew tired of it. I have also been into floorball and ji-jutsu but I just get bored after two months..
I love PE but since I know I rock at sports I like to show off (boost my ego~~^^) though it is really important to have good competion almost overwhelmingly or else it will get boring after five minutes. I hate watching sports though..
When for some reason were seprated from the boys and we would play football I would just pick a friend that is equally good and tell the rest of the girls that is us two against the whole bunch.
People acknowledged my skills and often told me that I was good and wanted help from me, I enjoyed the feeling of respect and "superiorness".. I'm not a psycho! ;D

But now I'm not active... I can't stick with a sport but you know for the sake of my health I try to get out and exercise..

 

I played hockey when I was a kid, and enjoy watching the Bruins. I also watch the Patriots, but never played football myself. I don't follow any other sports and I think because I was brought up watching and playing sports have rubbed off on me.

 

I'm definitely not a jock, but there are a lot of sports/active things that I like.

Sports/active things I like: Snowboarding, longboarding, surfing (when I get the chance), wakeboarding, backpacking, camping, lifting, biking, basketball, rock climbing.

I dont really watch sports. Sometimes ill watch some of the world surf tour, and i used to watch football.

I think Ne is the reason I like those things. Most involve figuring out how multiple things will react together to ensure you dont fail. Nothing quite like flying through a few feet of powder in a forest.

 

I currently play Basketball and am in a team. I LOVE sports. Not watching, I feel like it is a waste of time unless I want to learn something. I occasionally swim, play table Tennis and badminton.

 

I skateboard, play basketball and starting to develop an interest in Hatake Karate, MMA & weight lifting.

 

I have been playing in basketball on a club for 11 years now and being intuitive has nothing to do with sports in my opinion. If you focus and use it on sports you guess what others will do before they do it. I also love all other sports except table tennis. I did Muay Thai for 6 months and those were the best trainings i had. Yet i am as intuitive as one can get. Currently doing weight lifting

 

LOVE to watch. Don't play much, if at all.

Do a lot of outdoor activities like hikes and geocaching, camping though.

 

I wasn't the kid who was picked last for sports; I was the kid who sat in the bleachers reading.

 

Except for tennis (and I am not too bad at golf), I was not good at sports nor had a ton of interest in doing them. I did dance and gymnastics and I liked it ok but I was not that into it. I played basketball and soccer but I got pretty bored with it (especially soccer, I would end up daydreaming and forgetting about defending the ball). I come from a family of not particularly sporty people. No one is really good at sports although my brother played soccer from the time he was 9 through high school and played on a intermural team in college, however, he was never particularly good, just liked playing. I am a fairly physical person. I went into geology so I could actually be outside doing things opposed to sitting in a lab all day. I love camping and hiking.

I do, however, really enjoy watching sports. I went to most of my junior high basketball games and pretty much all of my high school football games (my school was known for football and we had several students become NFL players including a guy that was a year a head of me). I have been a Chicago Cubs fan since 1984 through thick (and more often until this last year) thin and always go to at least a couple games a year. I love March Madness (the college basketball playoffs) and always get in on brackets every year. I usually spend some of the first weekend of March Madness at a sports place watching the games on multiple TVs following my bracket. The college I went to was big on hockey when I went there and I used to go to games and taunt the opposing goalie with my friends. I liked the Blackhawks and went to a few games as a kid but I kind of got out of hockey for 10-12 years until the owner of the Blackhawks at the time Bill Wirtz who stupidly stopped televising home games died and his son, smartly, got a TV contract and then put together a winning team. I have a game package now so I go to several games a year. Football, particularly the NFL has little interest to me in general but I understand it. I don't pay attention to the professional soccer league in the US but always watch the World Cup games (both the male and female) since I got the opportunity to see a World Cup game live in 1994 (Spain Vs. Bolivia). As I have mentioned, I am married to an ISTJ and part of the reason we click is we both like watching sports (he isn't very good at playing sports either so our kids are doomed).

Anyway, back to what @fatentomms said, I don't think liking or playing sports is really "type" related. I think it goes back to what you are exposed to and your interests (that I really do not believe has anything to do with type). I will say that an ESTP might get exposed to sports over say an INTJ because they tend to be over rambunctious and physical as children so their parents are looking for an outlet for their energy at a young age (I can name off a few of my friends who have ESTP boys that did exactly that). My INTP son was like pulling teeth to get him to break out of his shell at a young age to play sports. It took him until 9+ to start playing sports with friends at recess but he does not have any interest on playing on a team.

 

Yeah, @Geonerd I also am CRAZY about watching sports. Like I watch them all, but not so when it comes to actually playing them.

 

@SarahWilliams If I must be truthful it is because long ago I gave up care for my bodily harm. For some of us the adrenaline is more important. I destroyed myself with a lot of this shit, but then again that is what ENTPs do. All or nothing. My poisons are relationships, snowboarding, skating, baseball, and jumping out of planes.

Maybe I can't do them all the way I could previously, but even though I wake up with chronic pain I regret nothing. Fear is the enemy of intelligence. If nothing else my mind still works.