Sports Initiation I

Sports Initiation focuses on participants who are being introduced to a sport.

In many sports this is very young participating in the sport for the first time. children

INTRODUCTION

In a few sports, initiation into the sport can occur with youth or adults.

Participants get involved to meet new friends, have fun, and to learn a new activity, motivated by the teacher.

INTRODUCTION
There are different kinds of sports:
Individual sports without opposition. Individual sports with opposition. Team sports without opposition. Team sports with opposition. Sports in nature

INDIVIDUAL SPORTS WITH OPPOSITION

DEFINITION:

Individual sports with opposition are those in which the athlete does not interact with peers but with opponents, blocking their actions.
These sports have in common the desire to overcoming against an opponent who looks for the same goals.

INDIVIDUAL SPORTS WITH OPPOSITION

Tennis

Racket

Paddle Badminton Squash Ping-Pong

Individual
sports with opposition

Sports

Combat Sports

Judo Karate Boxing Taekwondo

INDIVIDUAL SPORTS WITH OPPOSITION

INITIATION: First sport contact.
From 8 to 12 years (in judo and other combat sports it can start much earlier). It is divided into two stages: Work on basic skills in the form of sports games (78 to 9-10). Introduction to the easiest specific skills (9-10 to 11-12 years)

TENNIS INITIATION ACTIVITY (8 to 12 years)

Keep it in game

Students play across the width of the tennis court which is divided in four fields with supplementary nets. They should try to keep the ball in play, count the number of touches.
The couple who gets more than three touches will advance to the following field, exchanging positions. The winner couple will be the one that is in the first field when the game finishes (after 8 minutes).

JUDO INITIATION ACTIVITY (8 to 12 years)

The guardian of the treasure

Students should be divided into pairs. Each pair has a "treasure" (ball, handkerchief, etc.). One member of the pair must defend the "treasure" while the other fight trying to catch it. The teacher should facilitate them a soft material for the treasure.

SPORTS IN NATURE

SPORTS IN NATURE
What are Sports in Nature? Physical Activities carried out in the natural environment.
Moving around the physical environment interacting with its elements (Ascaso et al., 1996, p. 31) Those activities wich foster and estimulate life in nature (Bravo
Berrocal, 1996, p. 40)

SPORTS IN NATURE
Outdoors physical education is the group of knowledge, abilities, skills, techniques and resources that allow us to perform or practice physical, playful, sport activities in the nature, safely and with the most respectful attitude towards its conservation, enjoying, sharing and being educated in it (Pinos, 1997, p. 9)

SPORTS IN NATURE
Characteristics:
They are done for phisical reasons and for fun

No institutional competitions
Carried out by natural means and efforts Long teaching-learning process Risk taking

SPORTS IN NATURE
Classification:
Regarding the natural element: Land-based Activities: mountain bike, hiking, trekking, cross, camping, mountaineering, climbing, potholing, orientation, riding.

SPORTS IN NATURE
Air-based activities: paragliding, bungee jumping, hang gliding, gliding, hot air ballooning

Aquatic activities: swimming, finswimming, kayaking, canyoning, canoeing

SPORTS IN NATURE
Animal world activities: fishing, hunting, and horse riding.

HIKING INITIATION ACTIVITY (7 to 12 years)

Hiking is a good way of starting the kids into the sports into the sports in nature world. It is easy, and does not require specialist staff (Leisure animator) Proposed activity: First part of Via Verde de Pelayos (5km)

As a reference for us, practicing sports not only help us physically, we can also find cognitive and social results.

CONCLUSION

SOCIAL:

Playing sports is beneficial for the development of social skills.

Teach you to interact with people, communicate with them and collaborate as a team. Harness your planning and delegation skills.

Build confidence. Winning a game gives you a sense of accomplishment, which boosts your confidence further.

CONCLUSION
COGNITIVE:
Playing sports involve directed thinking. It requires you to strategize. You need to devise ways to score goals, runs or earn points, as the case may be, in order to win.

This definitely involves clever thinking, which sports encourage. Studies show that kids who play sports regularly fare well in academics.

CONCLUSION
PHYSICAL:
Sports serve as an excellent physical exercise.

Those who play sports have a more positive body image than those who do not.
Engaging in sports since an early age strengthens your bones and muscles and tones your body.

CONCLUSION
The regular and measured practice of a sport contributes not only to the physical health but also to the mental, in addition it helps to achieve healthy habits, decreasing in that way risk factors to our welfare.

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