What hobby, sport, experience etc would you like to do but cannot?

[Cindy]

This is just for fun.

What do you have totally no talent for but would like to do?

Personally I would love to be able to paint and draw, and not not paint the wall 

I'd also love to be able to play music, I'm tone deaf and useless.

Cindy

[Pica Pica]

I'm with you on those two.

I am not very dexterous and very impatient, so I have great difficulty with anything requiring much hand-eye co-ordination. When I played squash at school, they wouldn't even let me play with anyone. I was banned from painting in primary school because of the mess I made, and pottery in secondary school for the same reason. I used to spend the whole of woodwork trying to do one straight line on one bit of wood and could spend a whole hour's needlework lesson threading the needle.

That said, I now have three canvases in my room I have painted, songs on my computer I made, I have painted my uke with nail polis and I have modified a hat with beads and ribbons and another with leather patches. I have done a few bits of DIY. I refuse to let the fact I am rubbish at something to stop me enjoying it.

I have one little treasure - it's a cup painted with glass paint. The paint is smeary mess, but you can just about make out the words 'Not everything is easy, dear'. These were the words that my mum said to me when I was making the glass and getting completely frustrated with my hands - that there were many things I could do as easy as blink, and that it would be unfair if everything was easy. Don't mean I won't give it a go though.

[Cindy]

I took up dress making and I really enjoy it. I was hopeless at the carpentry stuff but I fell right into making clothes from patterns. I have also tried for years to play guitar but still fail totally.

Interesting how we keep trying to stuff we want to do, but have limited skills for. I wonder why?

Cindy

[Pica Pica]

As Samuel Johnson said about a man marrying for the second time, 'a triumph of hope over experience'.

[justmeinoz]

Marry me Pica!  A man who quotes Samuel Johnson is a pearl beyond price these days.

I'd love to be able to dance. Without impersonating a giraffe caught in a washing machine. is the usual reaction. 

Karen.

[Pica Pica]

As an andro with a Samuel Johnson fixation - it's hard not to let the odd quote slip out sometimes.

Besides, he lodges with me http://grubstreetlodger.blogspot.com/2011/07/part-three-joys-of-tv-in-which-samuel.html

[justmeinoz]

Brilliant!   And he's a Clarkson fan too, a truly amazing fellow.
There's another, I wish I could write novels.
Karen.

[Janet_Girl]

Sky Diving.  Just once.  But because I have claustrophobia, I would panic and for get to open the chute.  I would feel as if I was trapped and spiral down from there (no pun intended).

[tekla]

I'd also love to be able to play music, I'm tone deaf and useless.

Don't let that stand in your way.  That's pretty much 8 of the top ten bands anymore.

[JungianZoe]

Running.  I would seriously enjoy the ability to run somewhere and see new things without a car surrounding me.  But I grew up around 4 packs of secondhand smoke a day for 9 years and my lungs are underdeveloped.   If I jog 100 feet, I get a severe mucous reaction in my lungs that will last four or five days and mimic pneumonia.  And the pain is excruciating.

[JungianZoe]

PERFECTLY GOOD AIRPLANE

An oxymoron!  I hate flying.

[regan]

I'm told the first 5 jumps are on a line...you don't have to pull the cord, the chute comes out as you fall away from the PERFECTLY GOOD AIRPLANE that you just left...

That's how I did it...

[LordKAT]

Triathlon, sing, and a secret.

[grrl1nside]

I'm already doing a few things that I have no real talent at and probably part of the reason why I've been able to move forward on the transition front. I've started baking artisan bread (very yummy), playing acoustic guitar and starting on photography. I would love just to be passable in the latter two and they are a precursor to the big one. Writing...

[Ryno]

Mountain climbing and off-road biking/mountain biking. And ripping around town on a crotch rocket. We all know it's just a hobby.

[rexgsd]

Be in the Rodeo =(

And this one *is* a better possibility, but play the banjo =p

[gennee]

Let's see. Ride a bull, play rugby and lacrosse, and make a dress. And this is just for starters!.                                                                          Gennee

[valkyrie256]

 I've always wanted to try Parkour. But my athletic abilities, to put it nicely, suck.

[Alexmakenoise]

I'd like to be able to skate, ski, surf, snowboard.  I don't have the best balance, so I suck at stuff like that.

[kyle_lawrence]

ugh, my list is kind of long.  Pretty much anything that involves upper body strength and flexibility.  I would love to be able to do things like back handsprings and flips, but I just cant move right to do it.   I have scoliosis and had a spinal fusion when I was 15, meaning that about 80% of my spinal column is one solid piece.  It hasnt stopped me from some dance, (couldn't do ballet really after) horseback riding, cycling, hiking and rock climbing, and various other things that make my surgeon cringe, but I can't bend over enough to touch my toes, or do normal "proper' situps.  I've tried snowboarding, but I just can't rotate my body enough to find my balance.  my right shoulder also dislocates VERY easily, so I get nervous about things like cartwheels that put stress and weight on my shoulders.