Swimming

The Sport of Swimming Swimming is a competitive and recreational activity consisting of various motions that propel the body through the water. Swimming is considered by most experts to be one of the best forms of physical exercise.Swimming Learning something new can be a scary experience. One of the hardest things I've ever had to do was learn how to swim. I was always afraid of the water, but I decided that swimming was an important skill that I should learn. I also thought it would be good exercise and help me to become physically stronger.Common Strokes for Swimming There are four common strokes associated with swimming: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and crawl stroke. Breaststroke and backstroke are considered ‘rest’ strokes; crawl stroke, also known as freestyle, and butterfly are known as ‘power’ strokes. A rest stroke uses less energy to travel the same distance.

Long Jump

The long jump was one of the events of the pentathlon of the original Olympics in Ancient Greece. The long jump was the only known jumping event in these Ancient Olympic Games. All events that occurred at the Olympic Games were initially supposed to act as a form of training for warfare. The long jump emerged probably because it mirrored the crossing of obstacles such as streams and ravines. After investigating the surviving depictions of the ancient event it is believed that unlike the modern day event, athletes were only allowed a short running start.
                                                     These weights were swung forward as the athlete jumped in order to increase momentum. It is commonly believed that the jumper would throw the weights behind him in mid-air to increase his forward momentum; however, halters were held throughout the duration of the jump.

High Jump

The high jump is a track and fields athletics   event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years. It has been contested since the Olympic Games of ancient Greece. Over the centuries since, competitors have introduced increasingly more effective techniques to arrive at the current form. Javier Sotomayor(Cuba)is the current men's record holder with a jump of 2.45 metres set in 1993, the longest standing record in the history of the men's high jump has held the Stefka Kostadinova(Bulgaria) women's world record at 2.09 metres since 1967.

Running

Running is a means of terrestrial  locomotion  allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot. It is simply defined in athletics terms as a gait in which at regular points during the running cycle both feet are off the ground. This is in contrast to where walking one  foot is always in contact with the ground, the legs are kept mostly straight and the center of the gravity vaults over the legs in an inverted pendulum fashion.
                                     Running is a natural form of human locomotion. To many, running is an essential aspect of most sports and is also a simple way that requires little to get exercise anywhere. But because many people have adapted to improper forms of running over time, numerous physical injuries are the results.

Ludo

A ludo board is normally a square marked with a cross. Each arm of the cross is divided into three columns, with the columns divided into usually six squares. The center of the cross is the finishing square which is often divided into four colored triangles. Each colored triangle is combined with a colored middle column appears as an arrow pointing to the finish. The shaft of each arrow is a player's "home column" and is five squares long.
To the left of each home column, one square from the edge of the board, is a starting square, also colored. During game play a piece moves from its starting square, clockwise around the perimeter of the board, and up the player's home column to the finishing square. In the space to the left of each arm is a circle or square to hold a player's pieces before they are allowed into play. Unlike Pacheco there are no resting squares, but the colored home column may only be entered by its own player's tokens.

Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympis team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rulesThe complete rules are extensive. But simply, play proceeds as follows: A player on one of the teams begins a 'rally' by serving the ball (tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm), from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court. The receiving team must not let the ball be grounded within their court. They may touch the ball as many as three times. Typically, the first two touches are to set up for an attack, an attempt to direct the ball back over the net in such a way that the serving team is unable to prevent it from being grounded in their court.

The rally continues, with each team allowed as many as three consecutive touches, until either (1): a team makes a kill, grounding the ball on the opponent's court and winning the rally; or (2): a team commits a fault and loses the rally. The team that wins the rally is awarded a point, and serves the ball to start the next rally.

Chess

The term, 'magic realism' seems to be an oxymoron until one looks into the possibilities of a dream, or perhaps the meaning of a Dali or Picasso painting. For some, life is both real and magic, lived through the traditional senses but understood through the para-normal. 'Metaphor' is yet another of those terms that have been applied to the work of Borges that has a definition that can be found in any dictionary but must be experienced to be understood. This 7 page paper examines the poem, The Chess Game, by Jorge Luis Borges,in terms of the uses of metaphor. In the general sense, all metaphors are related to the living of life. This is true also of this poem. No additional sources are listed. e term, 'magic realism' seems to be an oxymoron until one looks into the possibilities of a dream, or perhaps the meaning of a Dali or Picasso painting. For some, life is both real and magic, lived through the traditional senses but understood through the para-normal. 'Metaphor' is yet another of those terms that have been applied to the work of Borges that has a definition that can be found in any dictionary but must be experienced to be understood. This 7 page paper examines the poem, The Chess Game, by Jorge Luis Borges,in terms of the uses of metaphor. In the general sense, all metaphors are related to the living of life. This is true also of this poem. No additional sources are listed.

Wrestling

Wrestling is one of the oldest forms of combat with references to it as early as the Iliad, in which Homer recounts the Trojan war in the 13th or 12th century BC. The origins of wrestling can be traced back 15,000 years through cave drawings in France. Babylonian and Egyptian relief's show wrestlers using most of the holds known to the present-day sport. In ancient Greece, wrestling occupied a prominent place in legend and literature; wrestling competition, brutal in many aspects, was the number one sport of the Olympic Games. The ancient Romans borrowed heavily from Greek wrestling, but eliminated much of its brutality.During the Middle Ages (fifth century to fifteenth century) wrestling remained popular and enjoyed the patronage of many royal families, including those of France, Japan, and England.

Football

Football requires tremendous amounts of teamwork and sportsmanship to be successful. No one man can win a football game. He may make a big tackle or a diving catch, but without him and the other ten players on the field, he can not win a game. A football player can not be selfish and put himself before his team.   Teamwork is vital in the game of football. If you have nine players doing their job and two not doing.
                                              Sports have entertained the world for hundreds of years from golf to baseball.   America’s favorite sport today is football. People love watching and participating in football events. No matter if watching or playing, football is one of America's most popular sports. Many people attend high school, college, and professional football games every year. You can relate many aspects of football and sports to life.   I think football is the best sport I have ever played or watched because of its teamwork and preparation aspects.