Yesterday the registration period for the aikido and personal defense school ended, an activity included within the sports learning program of UAL Deportes. The course will run until the 29th of this month and takes place two days a week, Tuesday and Thursday, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Dojo-Tatami UAL.
The Aikido School is a martial art that, although it is not a novelty at the University of Almería, since its implementation has been followed by consolidation in previous courses, it does have a new scenario for its development since 2019. From the Pavilion de Deportes then went to the ‘tatami-dojo room’ located on the first floor of the UAL Sports Center, in the very heart of the university sports practice.
The presentation program included a lecture by César Febles, technical director of the Aikido School of the University of Almería and “a luxury for those who decide to enter or continue in this martial art”, it was meant then, Not in vain, Febles presents in his curriculum that he is currently president of the National School of Aikido, 7 Dan of the Royal Spanish Federation of Judo and Associated Disciplines, in addition to 6 Dan of the Aikikai of Tokyo, with the authorization of Japan to carry out degree examinations Aikikai in Spain.
The course consists of training with traditional Japanese weapons, bokken and jo, which will facilitate maintaining a safe distance. Always thinking about minimizing the risks of contagion, the use of an approved mask is mandatory during practice. Classes last one hour.
They are divided into a first part dedicated to stretching and warming up. The second one goes through individual training in ukemi, falls, to continue with the learning of defenses and individual movements with the weapons that are then put into practice with a partner.
The Andalusian Federation of Judo and Associated Sports, where Aikido is found, allows physical contact in its protocol. The practice with contact is not ruled out, but it will be incorporated depending on the situation of the pandemic in our province. “We have the possibility of non-contact training and we will use any resource at our disposal to avoid any risk in our facilities,” say the promoters of this initiative.
The course offered a minimum of 4 seats and a maximum of 10 for the modest price of 2.50 euros per class for holders of the Basic Sports card and half for holders of the Sports Plus Card. The price of each class for the so-called companions is 4 euros.
Business Administration students stand out in Globus, a prestigious business simulator
Two teams made up of ten third-year students from the Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Management at the University of Almería enter the ‘top 25’ of the Glob us ranking, a business simulator.
Professors Elvira Sáez, Gema Marín and Manuel Recio, who teach the Marketing Management subject, believe that it is a source of “pride for both the students and their teachers and the UAL itself”.
It is a complicated challenge in which you compete against the best universities on the five continents, so it has an extraordinary merit that two teams from the UAL have managed to be in the leading positions of the world ‘top 25’.
The ‘HParrot’ team, made up of Lidia Crespo, Francisco Javier Martínez, José Gabriel De Toro, Susana Meyaui and Irene Pérez have risen to third place. In it, they have rubbed shoulders with the well-known business school IE Business School in Madrid and have been ahead of prestigious academic centers such as the University of South Carolina, the National American University, the New York Institute of Technology or the University of Auckland, to name a few. In addition, the other UAL team, called ‘C Company’, made up of students María Trinidad Baena, Miryam Castillo, Nuria Gonzales, Pablo López and María Teresa Trujillo, finished in the eighteenth place. Thanks to their good work, the ten have made the University of Almería the only Spanish higher education institution with two teams in the ‘top 25’. Without a doubt, and as the aforementioned professors have stated, “this is excellent news.”
During the eight weeks that the practices of the reference subject last, students must make more than 100 decisions weekly to lead the world markets. Globus makes students run a technology company that sells fast-action cameras and photographic drones, encouraging them to live an experience that leads them through the reality that they will find at the end of their university studies.
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