sport or hobby?

[John]

Which do you consider four wheeling?

[Jim M]

Since I don't compete at any level it's a hobby for me. I don't keep any score, there are no winners or losers in the groups I wheel with, and there is no specified playing field or time limit. That's me personally.

Overall I think it's a sport for the exact opposite of the reasons I mentioned above. Besides, the sport of rock racing has made better parts for my hobby rig.

[Dukes69]

this should be a poll . . . Quick, Edit!!

I vote for Hobby

[mnjeeper]

I find myself calling it both at times. But to me, I lean more towards calling it a hobby.

[Milan]

When I have to run up a cutline to anchor a winch line I call it a "sport". But most of the time it's a hobby for me.

[Dan-H]

both.

[sethmark]

Lifestyle.

[Allen]

Originally posted by sethmark
Lifestyle.

Dang.....

I wanted to say it first.....

Allen

[Joe Dillard]

Hobby.

[Tumbleweed]

Obsession comes to mind.

[Phil Howell]

Everything.

[Sage]

The wife says obsession...I have to believe that it is just a fun ride around town and a great ride into (and out of!) the backcountry!

Fun!

Yeah, that kinda says it....

[speaceman]

To me, a sport involves some sort of physical exertion with a high chance of presperation involved. While I suppose, offroading could qualify if you are winching a lot or stacking rocks, for the most part you are tooling along in your jeep.

If you figure in the modification aspect of wheeling on top of that, I'd have to say it's more of a hobby or a past-time.

[Chris L]

Necessity to keep sane.

[eurobob]

Originally posted by speaceman
To me, a sport involves some sort of physical exertion with a high chance of presperation involved. While I suppose, offroading could qualify if you are winching a lot or stacking rocks, for the most part you are tooling along in your jeep.

If you figure in the modification aspect of wheeling on top of that, I'd have to say it's more of a hobby or a past-time.

I suppose you don't take the same perspective the Russians do about Chess. Part of (nearly) every sports report from the Moscow Evening News.

I'm thinking a hobby, my GF thinks obsession.

[blkTJ]

It's a great way to spend all my money.

[ChrisO]

I'll add another catagory, Business.

I write-off all Jeep, towing, trip, tools, shop, insurance, fuel (yada, yada), expenses, you get the point.

So, my sport, hobby, obsession is also business related! Best of both worlds .

[mnjeeper]

Originally posted by Chris L
Necessity to keep sane.

So, without the Jeep you'd be dancing up a storm?

[Chris L]

Originally posted by mnjeeper
So, without the Jeep you'd be dancing up a storm?

That was good. Didn't even catch that one.
Never the less, white boys can't dance, unless there's a lot of alcohol involved

[Dan-H]

Originally posted by speaceman
To me, a sport involves some sort of physical exertion with a high chance of presperation involved.

so is mowing the lawn a sport or a hobby?

[Allen]

Originally posted by Dan-H
so is mowing the lawn a sport or a hobby?

That's a chore.....

Allen

[Jerry Bransford]

Originally posted by Allen
That's a chore.....

Allen

When I'm underneath the Jeep grunting and sweating, the heavy black line between hobby and chore grays considerably.

[Wind_Danzer]

Originally posted by Chris L
Never the less, white boys can't dance, unless there's a lot of alcohol involved

Not true.... I've known and danced with a few white boys that know how to move.



Maybe you just aren't coordinated enough.

Oh as for the topic itself, I think it's a combination and that any stupid wheeler can ruin for the rest of us (thinking back to a thread on JU where a teen was holding a can of beer while croutching on the side of his rolled vehicle).

[Chris L]

Originally posted by Wind_Danzer
Not true.... I've known and danced with a few white boys that know how to move.



Maybe you just aren't coordinated enough.

That is most likely the case. I can get the top half moving and I can get the bottom half moving but not in conjuction with each other

[Scott]

For me, wheelin is a hobby, owning a jeep is a lifestyle... So, since I consider a vehicle ownership a lifestyle, I have to be in the minority, which would make it so that I was living an "alternate" life style... And my jeep is my life partner????
Scott

[Wind_Danzer]

Originally posted by Scott
For me, wheelin is a hobby, owning a jeep is a lifestyle... So, since I consider a vehicle ownership a lifestyle, I have to be in the minority, which would make it so that I was living an "alternate" life style... And my jeep is my life partner????
Scott

So do you enjoy that exhaust pipe??? Or would you use the air horn.

[Jim M]

I finally figured it out. If you drive a manual tranny this is a sport. It meets speaceman's criteria of physical exertion, sweating, etc. If you drive an automatic, this is a hobby.

See, that was simple. There can be no argument. I know I'm right, and in time you will too.

[JeepKat]

When I'm driving my Jeep it's a hobby, when I'm driving Blaine's Jeep and get his rear diff stuck on a big rock at the waterfall on Sledge Hammer with the front tires hooked on the top ledge and then say: "I don't want to drive anymore", then it's a sport watching Blaine get his Jeep unstuck!

[Wind_Danzer]

Kat,

[Jerry Bransford]

Originally posted by Wind_Danzer
So do you enjoy that exhaust pipe??? Or would you use the air horn.

Would you care to explain in more detail exactly what you mean by that?