Lots of non-mass sports are that way.
Try getting on a fixed gear bicycle and doing laps at a velodrome.
People that don’t do a sport often have no real clue about the difficulty involved.
There are a lot of target shooters here. How often are you exasperated with people that have no idea how difficult that is?
Stop calling curling a sport.
If curling is a sport, then darts is a sport.
Agreed - that said, I watched a few bouts of curling in the ‘60s - it was almost as boring as watching barrel jumping on ice skates. I guess it takes aficionados of the particular sports to get enjoyment out of watching them...
I shoot group benchrest. I laugh whenever I hear someone say they “shoot 1/4 once groups all day” with their deer rifles. To win you have to average at least .18 inch center to center for 25 shots...try it sometime.
Let anyone — athletic or not — try to crank out Chris Hoy’s wattage on an individual pursuit ...