Do you know the sport of video? While the court and ball are basketball, the discipline they are playing differs in several points of the NBA. The video shows a Netball match, emerging sport in Chile that is played in teams of seven people, without board and through passes.
What is an emerging sport?
It is considered an emerging sport relatively new or little known sports activities and practiced by small groups, as defined Osvaldo Ibáñezcoordinator of linking with the medium in pedagogy in Physical Education and Health UC, and added:
“Generally they are born to the eaves of a traditional sport or it can be some mixture of traditional sports with Some alternatives that make them a little more modern, avant -garde and that cover a fairly wide range of activities that can be aquatic, aerial, urban, etc. ”, he said.
(Emerging sports) “They generally be born to the eaves of some traditional sport or can be some mixture of traditional sports with some alternatives that make them a little more modern, avant -garde and that cover a fairly wide range of activities that can be aquatic, aerial, urban, etc.” – Osvaldo Ibañez, academic UC.
To make a sport emerging to massive the academic listed a series of requirements: It must be accessible, easy to learn and have not very complex equipment. In addition, the courts where they are played must be easily accessible.
An example of the above is the Padel, which began as an emerging sport but has been massified in the country. Today the discipline, which combines elements of tennis and the squash, has a large availability of courts and its equipment can be leased or buy in different stores.
The academic also indicated that something fundamental to make the best known sport is “The creation of clubs where this sport is practicedbecause having clubs can be generated and created different associations. The association groupings are creating the federations, and when a sport is federated, it has many more possibilities to massify. ”
Some emerging sports in Chile that have gained land are, for example, the Kin–ball, The sport of the giant ball, the slackline, that is practiced a lot in squares, and the CrossFitamong others.
The Roundnet, the Bádminton, the Kabaddi, among others are also recognized as emerging sports. Of these and other disciplines, expert speakers will be taken in the second International Seminar “Emerging games and sports applied in Physical Education class”July 1, 2 and 3 on the sports courts on the San Joaquín Campus, organized by the Pedagogy career in Physical Education and Health UC.
The importance of emerging sports in Physical Education
Soccer, athletics or gymnastics are traditional sports that people know since childhood, either because they see them on television, they know a friend or family that practices it or they themselves begin to train at an early age.
But these activities enhance the people who are more skilled, for this reason the teaching of emerging sports in physical education classes must be promoted, the expert stressed.
“In these games we often find diverse motor skills that it is not always so implicit in traditional sports. Balance, agility, resistance, strength, coordination are constantly present. And this diversity of activities allows inclusion” – Osvaldo Ibáñez, UC academic.
“In these games we often find diverse motor skills that it is not always so implicit in traditional sports. Balance, agility, resistance, strength, coordination are constantly present. And this diversity of activities allows inclusion precisely. There is not much pressure regarding the competition, they are made much more recreational, but also involve many factors that have sports itself, such as teamwork, effective communication, sociabilization, which are extremely important benefits for a physical education class ”explained Osvaldo Ibáñez.
Emerging sports at UC
Together with the Seminar, the University has a series of instances to learn about emerging sports. An activity that was carried out recently was the Netball Clinic on the San Joaquín Campus organized by the Pedagogy Program in Physical Education and Health UC, where students of Physical Education of the Universities Usach and UMCE participated.
Netball is a sport that was born at the end of the 19th century as an adaptation of basketball for women, where control and cooperation are privileged over aggressiveness and physical contact.
It should be noted that the First Netball team in Chile was founded three years ago by students of Pedagogy in Physical Education and Health UC, together with Professor Ibáñez.
