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PADDLE

Do you like racquet sports? Do you like playing in pairs? Are you very coordinated? Then try

paddle, a fun and interactive sport. Paddle tennis or just paddle is a racquet sport played in

pairs. Tennis is a very similar sport, but it also has some differences.

Its roots come from lower Manhattan 100 years ago. A minster wanted to create a unique

sport for the children in his neighbourhood in 1915. The first tournament was held in 1922.

The court measures 10x20 metres divided by a net (its lower than the tennis one- 0, 88 m).

The court is closed and the walls are made of glass and a metallic fence.

The material you need is a 38 mm paddle and some special trainers. The balls are very similar

to the tennis ones, but they are harder and the external texture is different.

The points are counted like in tennis: 15-30-40 and game. When you arrive to 6 games with a

difference of two from the other team, you win a set. Depending on the competition, you need

to get 3 or 5 sets to win.

So, finally, if you want to keep fit and have fun with your friends I suggest you to practise it.

artistic gymnastics

Have you ever wanted to be fit? So try gymnastics. Historically, as a form of physical

exercise, gymnastics originated in prehistory. This sport is very demanding and needs

many hours of training.

In Athens 1896 it became an Olympics sport, but only practiced by men. In 1928

Amsterdam Olympics allowed women to practice it.

From a certain age isnt recommended to start, because you arent so flexible. This

sport is individual.

This sport has four main modes for women: The uneven bars, balance bar, soil and

vault. The balance bar has 1dm wide.

To practice this sport you need a maillot.

This sport very exhausting but I love it. My favourite gymnast is Victoria Komova, avery good gymnast.


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BASKETBALL

BASKETBALL IS A SPORT PLAYED BY TWO TEAMS. IN ONE TEAM PLAY 5 PLAYERS.

THE OBJECTIVE IS TO PUT A BALL IN A HOOP.

BASKETBALL WAS CREATED BY JAMES NAISMITH (PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER) IN

1891.

JAMES PUT TWO BASKETS AND HIS STUDENTS HAD TO PUT THE BALL INTO THE

BASKET.

THERE ARE 5 BASICAL POSITIONS TO PLAY BASKETBALL:

- THE POINT GUARD(USUALLY THE SMALLER AND FASTER PLAYER OF THE TEAM,HE ORGANIZE THE TEAM)

- SHOOTING GUARD(THEY PUT A LOT OF SHOOTS, USUALLY OF THE LINE OF

THEREE POINTS)

- SMALL FORWARD (ITS A FASTER PLAYER AND ITS A GOOD SHOOTER AND

USUALLY DO DRIBBLE PENETRATIONS)

- POWER FORWARD AND CENTER (THERE ARE TALL MAN AND THEY PLAY WITH

THE BACK TO THE BASKET. THEY DO A LOT OF SLAM DUNCKS!)

THERE ARE TO TYPES OF DEFENCE, THE MAN-TO-MAN DEFENCE AND THE ZONE

DEFENCE (THIS IS THE MOST USED DEFENCE METHOD)

I THINK BASKETBALL IS THE BEST SPORT, AND ITS A FUNNY SPORT!

Volleyball

Have you ever tried to play volleyball? Its an exciting activity that you playin a team. Its veryinteresting. Why dont youtry to do it? Its an exhaustingexercise, though. It consists on

passing the ball to the other side above a net. You cant touch the net.

In volleyball to win you need to win 3 sets of 5. One set has 25 points and you have to win for 2

points of difference. There are 12 people maxim in a team but only 6 people play in the court.

Normally the teams have the titular players and they are the 6 best players in that team. Every

team has a coach and for the match the coach is necessary because if one girl or boy is playing

badly he or she can change the player for another player.

If you want to play volleyball you need coordination in your body: you need to coordinate yourhands with your legs. You need to be tall and have strength to be able to send the ball back.


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The best volleyball player in the world is a Chinese player. She plays very well and she plays in

a good team.

In volleyball you need knee pads and short elastics pants, trainers a ball and a net. You need a

team too.

Volleyball is a fantastic sport and the best thing is that you can meet friends. You learn to play

with other people and to trust other people.

FootballFootball is my favourite sport because it is a team sport and it is very

exciting. It is very equalise and intense.

Football origins in China the year 200 B.C during dynasties of Han, but the

football we play now was invented in United Kingdom. The inventors were

H. de Winton and J. C. Thring.

In football, the objective is to score goals in 90 minutes. You can touch the

ball with every part of your body except your arms and hands.

In football there are two teams with eleven players. There are four

referees whose objective is to control the game.

I play football since when I was very young and I am the goalkeeper.

Synchronized swimmingSynchronized swimming is a beautiful sport. The swimmers make different positions

and incredible effects with their arms and legs. There are competitions of a group of

swimmers, of two swimmers or only one swimmer. The synchronized swimmers need

to be very fit.

The teams are organized for countries. There is the team of Spain, of China, of Japan

The Spanish team is one of the best in the world. But the best team is still the Russian

team. They are always the first in the Olympic Games.


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The synchronized swimmers use a swimsuit and a thing to cover the nose. In the

swimming pools there are speakers under the water to listen to the music.

It is a nice sport and its nice to see it

Football is my favourite sport because it is very exciting and is a

team sport.

Football originated in 200 B.C, in China, during in the Han

dynasty.

Football is played in land of (natural grass or artificial), which

has a rectangular form. One of the teams is formed by eleven

players and the minimum number of players is seven.

A team is controlled by four referees. One of these referees is

very important, he controls everything.

The time of the match is ninety minutes. The match is divided in

two parts: first time, for forty-five minutes and second time,

for another forty-five minutes.

In my opinion, football is a very famous sport and playing it isfunny and exciting.


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Ballet is a type of performance dance. Its a relaxing dance and also tires a

lot. You need to practise for being a good ballet dancer.

Ballet began in the Italian Renaissance courts of the XV and XVI centuries.

The creation of classical ballet, as its known today, occurred under Louis

XIV. In 1661 Louis founded the Royal Dance Academy which was charged

with establishing standards for the art of dance. After these, ballet

continued in Denmark, Italy and Russia. On the First World War ballet was

introduced to Europe. And after a few years, ballet was introduced around

the world.

You need a pair of special shoes to do ballet, called point shoes. This shoes

cost approximately from 60 to 200 euros. Also, you have to wear a leotard

or a tutu with stockings.

If you want to be a ballet dancer, you have to be younger than 50 because

you have to have equilibrium and you have to be strength. Also you have

to have rhythm.

In ballet there are competitions in many countries, also every year theres

a competition called international ballet competition (IBC). If you win

you can get a scholarship.

Its a very interesting dance and it relaxes a lot. Also you have to do many

hours and you must be concentrated. Perhaps, this is not a dance for busy

people!


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Bullfighting is a show that you do with bull. You encourage the

animal to attack you. When you do this, drudge him and play

with the capoteand muleta. Finally, the bull is killed.

I like bullfighting because it is interesting an exciting to see. It is

exciting when the bull is put in front of the bullfighter.

My favourite bullfighter is El Juli (Julin Lpez ) because he doeseverything well (the banderillas, the muleta). He once

stayed in front of the bullfighting ring to wait for the bull.

I practice this art because I like it. It is exciting to be in front of

the bull and I have a very good teacher. He teaches me all the

movements.

El Juli


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Dance ballet is not a sport, is an art. We know ballet with the name of Classic Dance too.

It is practised around the world by both girls and boys. People who dance ballet use point

shoes.

There are a lot of competitions like WBC (World Ballet Competition). The girls that do ballet

give it up when they are still very young.

You shouldnt start dancing ballet if you dont do some warm-up before. When you dance

ballet you learn discipline. You are elastic tape and you must be concentrated.

You have to wear a maillot, ballet shoes and a tutu when Is a festival or a competition. You

mustnt wear bracelets and necklace.

I suggest to do this art because it is exhausting and very funny. I really like doing ballet and I

think that is very beautiful to dance and see it.

PaddlePaddle is a sport played by four people (two in each team) with a little ball and a racket. Each

team tries to hit this ball with their racket to make it pass over the net so the other team cant

hit it again.

This sport is similar to Tennis, with the big difference that, after hitting the ground, the ball can

touch the wall and bounce from it, and you can still return it before it hits the ground again. If

the ball hits directly a wall its counted like an out, and it scores a point to the team that

received this out ball.

Other big differences are the size of the field, that is significantly smaller, and the size and

shape of the racket, that is smaller and thicker. The paddle balls are a bit harder.

The score is counted in sets. Each set has got six games, and each game has got 4 points: 15,

30, 40 and game. If the two teams have scored the 3rd point (40), they have to win the other

one by a difference of two points.

Players usually play in two different forms: The attack one, when you have got the ball in your

possession and than you can go near the net to put more pressure in your opponents; or the

defence one, when your opponents have achieved the attack form and you try to take them

out of there to win again the attack form, because it usually ends up winning the point.

Definitely, its a really dynamic sport with lots of action and highly recommended if you have

also enjoyed other racket sports.


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Ballet

Dancing is a thrilling but exhausting activity. It is necessary tohave a good balance, discipline and you must be hard working.

Ballet is practised worldwide.

The most typical style is classic dance and you need a pair of

tights, a leotard, ballet shoes and point shoes (it depends on

your level).

You must train every day because if you want to be good at it. Ifyou have any injuries dont pretend be professional because you

need to be fit.

There are a lot of competitions like Youth American Grand Prix,

Dance World Cup It is interesting to take part in one of these

because you can win some scholarships to learn more in other

schools. You can win money too.

You can wear the point shoes if you have a good level but is so

difficult but you must do foot exercises.

I really like doing this sport and I want to become one of the

best.

PADDLEImgoing to talk about paddle, because I love this sport and I practice it a

lot. Its a very interesting sport and its very funny because you can meet a

lot of people.

Paddle is a sport played massively since the eighties of the twentiethcentury. It is presented by federations and associations. It was invented in


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Acapulco, Mexico, by Enrique Corcuera in 1962. It became popular in

several South American countries and Europe.

The great success of the sport in areas like the Costa del Sol in Spain has

made it popular among tourist from northern Europe, particularity the UK.In 2005 Tennis pro tour was born, the first professional circuit paddle. The

best players in the world playing this tournament played in Spain and

Argentina. Carolina Navarro and Cecilia Reiter occupied the first place in

the female category of the championship, while Juan Martin Diaz and

Fernando Belastegun.

Paddle consists on play in pairs. It has well defined rules. The playing area

is a rectangle of ten feet wide by twenty long is closed walls or walls withan U shape with height of three meters.

It is played in couples and needs of three fundamental materials for its

development: the ball, the racket and a track.

I think paddle is a very funny sport, social and difficult. I practice paddle 3

or 4 days a week and I love it.

SWIMMING:

Swimming its the method that humans use to move on the water. Its a popular sport that lots of

doctors recommend to do it, because its good for the back. Its an Olympic sport that both of

sexes can practice.

It consists on four basic styles: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. You can swim

in swimming pols of 100m or 50m, and the principal races are: 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m

and 1500m. But in open water, you can swim 5, 10 or 25km. It is mainly practised in Europe,

USA and Australia, officially organized as FINA. The most important competition is the World

Championship and Championships.


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Normally swimming is not for particular age, but if you start when you are young, its better

because then its easier to practice all the styles. The first style that all people know to do it Its

breaststroke, because its like diving. The second one is freestyle, and the most difficult ones

are backstroke and butterfly.

The pools can be indoor or outdoor pool. You can swim individual races, or relief. On relief it

can be races of 4x50m, 8x50m, 4x200m, and it can be relief of freestyle, or with all the styles,

and there is an order: first it is backstroke (because the swimmer, started in the water, then

goes breaststroke, backstroke, and finally freestyle.

People think that swimming needs a very basic equipment, but you wear the swimsuit, the

swimming cap, the goggles (this is the basic equipment). If you practice it a lot, you can wear

mittens and fins, and If you get your legs stronger you need a cork. Then you can train with a

load swimsuit, which is a special swimsuit.

Its a good sport to practice, and its easy, but you have to be disciplined.

BASKETBALL

Basketball is a sport played two teams, five players for team.

This sport only can be practiced indoors or outdoors. The objective

of this sport is to shoot the ball in a hoop. Basketball is the most

popular sport in the world and in the USA. The international

organization of this sport is FIBA. This sport is really fast, but thereare more rules.

Basketball was created in the USA in 1891 (December). Dr James

Naismith created this sport in Springfield. The first team of the world

in this sport was the one for the University of Kansas.

This sport is played in pavilions 28,65 meters long by 15,24 metres

wide high. The line of 3 points is about 6,25 meters and other about

4,75 meters.

The positions are:

POINT GUARD: The fastest player of the team and his objective is

to organize the other players.

SHOOTING GUARD: Creates a high volume of shots.

SMALL FORWARD: primary responsible of scoring points.


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POWER FORWARD: plays offensively often with their back to

basket.

CENTER: high size to score and protect the basket closely.

The best league of the world is NBA because there are the best

basketball players of the world and the best teams.

I think it is one of the best sports of the world because it is a fast

collective sport and always very competitive in more than one

match.

HORSE RIDING

Horse Riding is a sport that combines the sensation of freedom and the concentration,

because you are on a horse, and this animal depends on you.

Horse riding is an Olympic sport, and it is very famous around the world. If you touch some

post, the judges take off points. In Spain there are very important horsemen of horsewoman.

You cant do horse riding if you arent fit, because this sport is very tiring and you have to rise

and sit all the time. And if the horse is very strong you need to wear gloves.

The Beries have different measures, high and low. Depending on your age, you pass the tall or

the short ones. You need to wear a specific trousers, because that way it is easier to do it andyou need to wear a helmet to protect your head.

I suggest you to do this because it is very funny, and its very important for the body.


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Basketball

Basketball is a sport in whichyou have to throw a ball into a hoop. Its

exciting and you do a lot of sport, so if you want to be fit try to do it.

Basketball is an Olympic sport. There are also competitions like NBA. Its

played by both women and men, but there are separated teams. Basketball

became very famous few years ago, and one Spanish good player is Pau

Gasol.

You can take up basketball a club in your city or town, but you need to

practise it before.

The team is formed by 5 players. You can score 1, 2 or 3 points depending

on where you throw the ball from. It was originated in the USA in 1891 by a

PE professor.

You need to wear trainers and a tracksuit, normally the uniform of your

team. You need a ball, which is orange with black lines.

Its a good activity to keep you fit and you can play it with everybody and

everywhere.

KYOKUSHIN KAIKAN KARATE

WHAT IS A KYOKUSHIN KARATE

The kyokushin karate is a sport, but the ones who practice it believe that is a lifestyle that

serves to defend themselves in front of a threat

TECHNIQUES AND TRAINING

Kata is a form of ritualized self-training in which patterned or memorized movements are done

in order to practice a form of combat manoeuvring. Examples: taykioku sono ichi


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Kumite is used to train the application of the various techniques within a fighting situation.

GRADING

There are coloured belts, measured according to your learning level.

PHILOSOPHY

In Kyokushin karate style there are not distinctions, not political, religious, racial, based on age

or sex.

olleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.

William G. Morgan created this game. The game took some of its characteristics from tennis

and handball. The first rules were about the net 1.98 m high, a 7.615.2 m court, and thenumber of players.

The history of the volleyball in Olympics started in 1924. During the Summer Olympics in

Paris volleyball was played as part of an American sports demonstration event for the first

time.

Volleyball was initially a simple competition because all teams played against each other and

then were ranked by wins, set average, and point average.

This sport is very fantastic, I dont play volleyball but I would like it to practice it.
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Skiing

Skiing is a competitive sport which has been used

for military purposes and to travel in areas where

there is heavy snowfall. In 1860, skiing became anactivity to do exercise and to compete.

Skiing is practised in areas as Canada, Finland,

Denver, Alps of Italy, Alps france, Spain...

It is a very expensive sport, because it is necessaryto wear lots of items: skis, skiing boots, poles,

luggage, bindings, goggles, helmets, protection,

tools & servicing...


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It is a combination of ability and quick thinking. You have to make decisions very fast. It is

played by 11 players in each team and usually there are 2 referees.

The first football match ever was on November 30thof 1872, between Scotland and England. It

is believed that the origin of football was in the Britain Islands, in the middle age. Children

played it with a leather ball. They kicked the ball with the foot and tried to make a goal.

You have to train hard, but being strong isnt enough. You have to have good reflexes and good

aim, a great resistance and velocity and, of course, you should know how to run with the ball in

your feet, how to shoot and pass and how to dribble. Also you have to train your mind. You

have to elaborate tactics, be

perseverant and dont give up

easily.

The best way to know how to

play is having a coach. He/she

will help you to progress, and in

the matches, he/she will indicate

you what to do if you dont know

it.

To play it you need a field (usually of grass), a ball, 11 players in each team and a referee. The

best clothes you can wear are a comfortable tracksuit, football boots and socks. You can also

buy protections like shin protectors or knee pads because its very frequent to hurt you. The

most often injuries are, for example, a rip your knee ligament or to broke your leg bone.

However, football is a famous sport and it is very fun, above all if the players are competitive

and they take it seriously. You can improve your football skills always!


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KarateDo you like to fight against other people? If you like it, karate is your sport! One of the mostfamous martial arts is karate

Karate is a martial art that begins in the Ryukyu Islands (now there is Okinawa, Japan). Now, it

is practiced in the entire world. It is a sport that you fight with kicks and fist hits. It is a sport

without teams, only you. Karate is a sport that coordinates strength, breathing, balance, position,

a good hip spin and connection with muscles and extremities. In a fight, you find to defeat the

opponent with an only hit.

If you like this sport and you will learn it, you need to go to a gym or another place in your town

that teach karate. You need to learn with a coach, you cant do karate without a coach.

Normally, you are going to do karate three times a week, and when your coach look that you aretrained, you could go to competition, but dont worry, the fights are with protection! If you like

fighting, this is your sport, but keep in mind that you need to be very disciplined when you are

doing karate.

Karate is the second martial art most practised by people around the world, with 50 million

followers in the whole planet, behind taekwondo, with 60 million, but with more than judo, with

16million. But karate is the only martial art of these three that isnt an Olympic sport.

The equipment that you need to do karate are karategi (karate uniform), with a coat, trousers and

obi (karate belt). Obi determinates your level in karate (kyu), from white to black. All there isnt

very expensive and you can buy it normally in the gym.

Karate is a very good martial art, the most disciplinal and violent. It is one of the best sports in

the world, and if you do it with friends, it can be very funny.

Volleyball

Volleyball is the most interesting sport. If you play volleyball you have the risk of hurting your

fingers.

To play volleyball have to wear shorts, t-shirts, knee pads and trainers .

The American William G. Morgan, a physical education teacher, invented volleyball on

February 9, 1895 with the name of mignonette who later changed the name of volleyball, with

tennis, invented a non-contact sport, team, with minimal risk of injury. In Catalonia volleyball

has been practiced since 1920 Catalan beaches, but the first regulation did not arrive until

1925. The Catalan Federation of Volleyball was created in 1959, a year before the Spanish.


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Volleyball is a team sport that consists in passing the ball to the opposite team, over a network

placed across the middle of the track .The score points, you must make the ball touch the

ground in the pitch of the team's. The goal is to win volleyball 3 of 5 sets of the match

The peach is normally 18 meters long and 9 wide, divided into two peach, separated with the

network . Volleyball is player between two teams, and six playing

Volleyball has been a popular sport for many years. Since 1895, beach Volleyball has been an

Olympic sport, too. Many people use them to get to work or school and for fun .

BASEBALLBaseball is a sport that started being practiced in the United Estates.

William Bray, an English lawyer, recorded a game of baseball on Easter

Monday 1755 in Guildford, Surrey.

Baseball is a bat- and- ball game played between two teams of nine

players that take turns playing offense batting and base running, and

defence pitching and fielding.

The objective of the game is make points, who makes more points win. To

make points you have to do a run and make a circle of the pitch. There are

4 bases and you bat. If the pitcher catches the ball, because the defenders

of the other team pass it to him, you can stop in one of the base. There

are 9 enters.


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The material of the defence is a baseball glove , used to catch the ball in

the air.

The offense needs a bat to hit the ball. The bat is or of metal or of wood.

The pitch it wear a helmet to protect himself from the ball.

All the team were a cap to protect of the sun and all the team s were a

uniform to difference of the other teams. And all the team wear

protections.

Soccer

Football is a team sport played between two teams of eleven

players, and is considered the most popular sport in the world. It

is played on a rectangular field of grass. The object of the game is

to score by controlling the ball towards the goal.

The Laws of the Game were originally in 1863 in England.

The game is played using a spherical ball.Two teams of eleven

players each compete to get the ball into the other team's goal.

Each team consists of a maximum of eleven players one of them

must be is the goalkeeper.The basic equipment or kit players are

required to wear includes a shirt, shorts, socks, footwear and

adequate shin guards. Soccer is very popular in all age groups

and soccer is a sport that is very important to good physical

condition.


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The most important competition in football is the champions,

FCB is the best team and the best football player is Leo Messi.

FootballIt is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each and four arbitrators

dealing that standards are met.

The rectangular playing field is natural or artificial grass, with a goal at each end of the field.

The object is to move to any part of the body except the arms or hands, and mostly with thefeet, a ball across the field to try to enter into the opposing goal, action is called score a goal.

In Spain plays football and the best league is LFP (Liga de Futbol Profesional Liga BBVA)

second better is Liga Adelante (League too in LFP). In the late Middle Ages and later centuries

developed in the British Isles and surrounding areas different sets of equipment, to which were

known as football codes.

FOOTBALL

Football is very popular because everyone can play it, it isnt expensive and it is spread around

the world.


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Football has been a popular sport for many years. The Ancient Greeks and Romans are known

to have played many ball games, some of which involved the use of the feet. Football (or

soccer) is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a ball. It is played by 250

million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport; the goal of the

game is Kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. The actually rules of the game are originally

in England (1863).

Each team of eleven players have 10 players and 1 goalkeeper, the goalkeepers are the only

players allowed to touch the ball with their hands, but only in the penalty area.

You need a coach to learn football and you have to practice it. You can play football in the

street with your friends, but if you would like to be a good footballer you should play football

in the football team of your city. Football is very exhausting if you suffer a lesion or a problem

you mustnt play football.

What you need to play this sport is football boats, the t-shirt and the shorts of your team,socks and adequate shin guards.

Actually are a lot of teams and players around the world most of them are European like FC

Barcelona, Real Madrid, Juventus For me the best football player in the world is Lionel

Messi.

Volleyball


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Paddle is a sport that is played by 2 people in the same team. This sport is played in

Spain and in America. Its necessary to play a racquet, a ball and a pitch.

This sport started on Acapulco in 1969, when Enrique Corcuera invented. It had

expended for old the world. The World Paddle Tour is the most circuit from paddle of

the world.

The match finished when one of the team failed and didnt pass the ball. Thepitch is

20 metres long and 10 width.

FOOTBALL

Football is one of the most followed sports worldwide.There are eleven players for each team and the main

objective is to score goal. Is a very funny sport and can be

played people of all ages.

For many years practiced in the world. It was begun in

England. The first competitions were from nearby

schools, after a time began the state competitions. Some

of the best teams of the world are F. C. Barcelona, Real

Madrid, Arsenal, Manchester City, Paris Saint Germain

If you have muscle problems or heart problems you cant

practice football because you have to be very well

prepared physically.

The basic equipment or kit players are required to wear

includes a shirt, shorts, socks, footwear and adequate

shin guards.


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Football stadiums practice on earth or grass, i most

professional stadiums are about 30,000 or 40,000

spectators but also about 80,000 spectators.

PADDLE

Paddle was created in Mexico by Enrique Corcuera in 1962. Is a racquet sport played in

doubles on a pitch. The scoring is the same as tennis. Now a day paddle is a popular

sport played around the world principally in Argentina and in Spain.

The paddle balls are smaller than the tennis one. The pitch include a net in the middle,

and four walls where the ball can rebound, there are two glass and two metallic walls.

The pitch measures 10x20m and the net 92 cm. The racquet is made of wood and it

has little holes in the centre.

To practice this sport you have to repeat a lot of times a movement with the right and

with the left. For security you have to wear a kind of trainers and its not necessary to

wear protections like a helmet.

In 1198 The Us Paddle Association built the first pitch in a private club in Houston, and

the first public pitch was opened in Miami.

You need a teacher to learn to play a perfect paddle game, but you can train a lot

alone or doing exercise to prepare your body. You can practice too playing matches

with friends, its a good form to practice your hit.

BASKETBALLBasketball is a sport played by two teams on a court. The objective is to shot a ball

through a hoop.At each end of the field is a hoop where the opposing team to score.

You can scores two points for the shooting team if is in the area, and if is out of area

scores three points. Who scores more points in the final of game is the winner.

The violations are called fouls. Some rulers are:

1. The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands.

2. The ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands.


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3. A player cannot run with the ball. The player must throw it from the spot on which he

catches it, allowance to be made for a man who catches the ball when running at a

good speed if he tries to stop.

4. The ball must be held in or between the hands; the arms or body must not be used for

holding it.

Five fouls in a match means you are expelled. Basketball has a specialized player

positions: point guard, shooting guard, centre, power forward, small forward.

Early December 1891 a physical education professor was trying to keep his gym class

active on rainy day, he wrote the basic rulers and nailed. He invented basketball.

The most important player of basketball in the history was Michael Jordan

CURLING

Curling is thought to have been invented in medieval Scotland, with the first writtenreference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey,Renfrewshire, in February 1541.Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a targetarea which is segmented into four rings. It is related to bowls, boule andshuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polishedgranite stones, also called rocks , across the ice curling sheet towards the house, acircular target marked on the ice. The team was created for boys and girls.It is necessary use the curling broom to practice curling.Artificial brooms madefrom man-made fabrics, curling shoes are similar to ordinary athletic shoes except


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that they have dissimilar soles; the slider shoe is designed for the off foot and thenon-sliding shoe for the hack foot.The curling stone, as defined by the World Curling Federation is a thick stone discweighing between 38 and 44 pounds (17 and 20 kg) with a handle attached to thetop.It is very popular in Canada in Spain this is sport the boys and girls we dont practicecurling. think that curling is very interesting and its a pity that in Spain peopledont practice this sport.

TENNIS:

In this sport, the players need a racquet, tennis balls, a net and a court with the

reglamentary distances. The objective of the game is to play the ball in such a way that

the opponent is not able to play a good return.

Tennis is a sport that it makes you move a lot, especially if you like running, but is also

a sport that you mustnt play if you have knee ache.

For a tennis player, the shoulder is one of the most used areas of the body, and

sometimes is overused.

If you want to learn how to play tennis you might go to a tennis club and receive

classes from teacher tennis. The easier movements are drive and reserve and they are

the first two movements that people should learn. Then, they learn how to serve

because is more difficult than the first movements. In all movements, there is the easy

one and the difficult one, and you learn them when you dominate the first ones.


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Therere two types of game:

1. This type of game is the most usually and it consists in a player that plays

individually against a single opponent. In this type of tennis, if the ball goes to the

lateral rectangles or to the end of the court, the point is for the player that hasnt hit

the ball.

2. In the other case, tennis can also be played in pairs. This means that the match isbetween two teams of two players each team. In this type of game, the balls can go to

everywhere in the court, inside the reglamentary measures, including the lateral

rectangles.

Tennis is an Olympic game and it can be played by people from all ages. It can be

played by anyone that can hold a racquet even the wheelchair players.

The game was originated in Birmingham, England, in the 19th century and it was called

lawn tennis. There are another ways of playing tennis like beach tennis, front-tennis,

paddle tennis, real tennis, soft tennis, padel tennis, squash tennis or turbo tennis.

To serve, first of all you throw up the ball and when

its in the top you stretch the air and you hit the ball.

To serve correctly, the ball must enter in the little

square.

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a

net. Since 1895, volleyball has been an Olympic sport, too. It became part of official

program for the summer Olympic Games since 1964.

You can play indoors, on a beach and in grass. A volleyball court is 18 m long and 9 m

wide, divided into 9 m 9 m halves by a one-meter wide net. The top of the net is 2.43

m of the court for men's competition, an 2.24 for women's competition. The ball have

a circumference of 6567 cm, a weight of 260280 g and an inside pressure of 0.30

0.325 kg/cm2. Competitive teams master six basic skills: serve, pass, set, attack, block

and dig.


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