SPORTS GURUKUL

DESIGN DISSERTATION 2019-20

BHAVESH DWARKANATH SATAM

L.S. RAHEJA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
SEAT NUMBER: OCT19-IX-2019
FIFTH YEAR B. ARCH

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 CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that BHAVESH DWARKANATH SATAM has successfully completed

his design dissertation (part 1) on the topic ‘SPORTS GURUKUL’ under the guidance of
AR. SACHIN PRABHU.
The dissertation is undertaken as a part of the academic study based on the curriculum for
Bachelors of Architecture program conducted by the University of Mumbai, through L.S.
Raheja School of Architecture, Mumbai.

SEAT NUMBER: OCT19-IX-041

THESIS GUIDE: Ar. SACHIN PRABHU.

L. S. Raheja School of Architecture, Mumbai

PRINCIPAL: Ar. MANDAR PARAB.

L. S. Raheja School of Architecture, Mumbai

External Juror 1:

External Juror 2:

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 DECLARATION

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Date: 26 November 2019 Place: Mumbai

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank all those people who have helped me directly or
indirectly during the course of this work.

I express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to Ar. Sachin prabhu

for her guidance, motivation, patience, time and for constantly
engaging me in new ideas. He has always been a source of immense
knowledge & motivation for me during this project. His support has
been a very essential part of this thesis.

I thank all the professors at L.S. Raheja School of Architecture for

imparting their knowledge during the last 5 years, which has helped
me during the course of this project.

I would also like to thank my parents, family members, friends, batch

mates for their constant support & encouragement, while working on
this project.

BHAVESH DWARKANATH SATAM

DATE: 26th November 2019

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-ROCKY BALBOA
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 PREFACE

Childhood is the most innocent phase of man's life. With the passage of time, it fades into
adolescence and adulthood. Yet the sweet memories of childhood linger on. My childhood
recollections are those of a loneliness, playing alone in the front yard, no any television. This
loneliness takes over by cricket and other sports from childhood to this date.
When I look at cricket and other sports there is always great difference from the number of
crowds looking at players to the salaries of the players as all the players are representing
nation itself. This happens because we don’t have that much amount of fruitful results from
other sports other than cricket. We have great history of cricketers and their records. But in
other sports we lack such results. We have not yet produced single gold medal in athletics in
last 100 years that hurts a lot to my heart. Yet we have great players like Major Dhyanchand,
P.T. Usha, Milkha Singh, Prakash Padukone. I think this difference between salaries of
cricketers and another sportsperson can be equalised by increasing and improving results of
other sportsperson. If the achievements of sportspersons flourished then media and other
market things get looked into it. For this We have to nurture our young budding sporting
talents in the way that they will create wonders on their arenas with their sporting talents
irrespective of all other odds.
Today’s every single Indian child have dream to play for Indian cricket team. Being
sportsperson, I always like such dreams have to create in coming generation minds for sports
other than cricket. This only happens through improving our performances, through our
podium finishes at international events like Olympics.

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

• CERTIFICATE
• DECLARATION
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• PREFACE
• INDEX

CHAPTER 1: ABSTRACT
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Sports in India
1.3 India At the Olympics
1.4 Sports Needs Revival
1.5 Sports Person in India
1.6 Problems Faced by Indians To Become Sportsperson
1.7 Requirement of GURUKUL CHARACTER to Training Centre
CHAPTER 2: GURUKUL SYSTEM IN INDIA
2.1 Gurukul-Ancient Indian Education System
2.2 Destruction of Gurukul
2.3 Education Today
2.4 Efforts for Revival of Gurukul
CHAPTER 3: SPORTS GURUKUL
3.1 Importance of Gurukul For Sports
3.2 All Round Development of Sportsperson
3.3 Sports
3.3.1 Athletics,
3.3.2 Weight Lifting,
3.3.3 Gymnastics
3.4 Understanding the Work Ethic Programme for Sports
3.5 Educational Facilities
3.6 Personality Development
3.7 Implementation of Yoga, Meditation, Sports Psychology
CHAPTER 4: CASE STUDY
6.1 Abhyuday Ashram, Morena, Madhya Pradesh
6.2 SAI Sports Centre, Kandivali, Mumbai
CHAPTER 5: SITE ANALYSIS
CHAPTER 6: DESIGN PROGRAMME
CHAPTER 7: ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 CHAPTETR 1- ABSTRACT

1.1 INTRODUCTION
• The fastest man on this planet- USAIN BOLT;
Greatest ever athlete on the earth – MICHAEL PHELPS:
Greatest ever batsman in the cricket history – SACHIN TENDULKAR
This taglines before anyone’s name looks better. On the back of the screen, story of Hard
Work, Patience, Dedication, Determination is been hide behind those taglines.
• All above qualities get stronger and stronger by daily routine
Of proper work ethic programme. If they had made it, we also are the humans we also can
make it such taglines behind our names.
• India the nation of great warriors, saints, sages. All those great personalities from have
taught us all above discussed values through their actions, achievements and the books
written by them.
• With having such wonderful historical background, we the Indians still have dessert like
scenario in our Olympic kitty bag.
• We have so many problems, excuses, reasons for this current situation but still we can
achieve the golden era of Indian sports where every sports person stunning the sports
world with his or her abilities, power, strength.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off of the goal
- Vince Lombardi
• We have different government schemes to help upcoming sportsperson, we have big
sporting arena’s in the nation, but still poor performances continue. Then problem is lying
in our brains, vision, attitude, mindset, work ethic.
If you think you can, then you can. If you think you can’t then you’re right. 1
• This issue can solve through traditional way of Indian culture. We have to bring the
Gurukul system in nurturing the underprivileged sports talent who are future of Indian
sports.
• Gurukul has all answers how to bring best human being from small unknown kid.
• Today our athlete’s gone for western countries to train themselves. This is shameful for
country having great tradition of rituals and work ethics. Our countries training centre
have to developed in such way to make athletes mentally and physically tough.
• Sports Gurukul will be the better concept to strengthen the Indian sports where all
players can learn and practice their sporting skills under one roof.

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http://quotezf.blogspot.com/2014/07/motivational-sports-quotes-about-heart.html

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1.2 SPORTS IN INDIA

• India is sports loving and sports playing nation from its ancient days of Veda’s and Indus
valley civilisation. Many games were played, nurtured and originated in India in ancient
times.
• Man is a social animal which loves to live in community. Community started playing sports
for entertainment purpose.
• In ancient India sports were taught and promoted by gurukul were sports tactics was taught
by guru to shishyas.
• The gurus would take their shishya’s under their custody and introduce them to archery,
chariot racing, wrestling, hunting, horse riding, weight lifting, swimming and military
tactics.
• Games like chess, snakes and ladders, playing cards, polo, the martial arts of judo and
karate had originated in India and it was from here that these games were transmitted to
foreign countries, where they were further developed.
• Chess originated in ancient India and was known as Chatur- anga – meaning four limbs. It
represents four-fold division on the ancient Indian army – infantry, war elephants, cavalry
and chariots. Chaturanga is the direct ancestor of Shatranj, which was played by the
Pandavas and the Kauravas.
• Ancient India claims to have been the origin of judo and karate. Kerala’s martial art form
Kalaripayate is similar to karate. Those who practice it have to develop acrobatic
capabilities, when using swords or knives to attack their adversaries, and even an unarmed
exponent who can be a force to reckon with.

Figure 2- VALLAM KALI Figure 3- MALLAKHAMB

• Kabaddi the sport which is originated in India and got fame throughout the world.
• In later years, sports consider as better option over wars where every human being can
come under one roof irrespective of his or her caste and creed and colour.
• From 1896, Olympic games started and new journey of Indian sports began.

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• India were under the British rule for around 150 years. These 150 years of British rule
taught Indians different sports. Out of those sports, one sport today considers as a religion
in nation that’s the ‘Cricket’.
• Today, in India cricket is most loved and played sport. This love and affection towards this
game by countrymen’s makes the country to produce so many world-class cricketers and
to achieve top rank in all cricket playing nations across all three formats.
• On the paper, hockey is India’s national game but in practical vision its cricket maniac all
over.
• For ‘India Pakistan’ cricket match huge crowd pack cricket stadium is there to boost morale
of country but on the contrary this morale boosting brigade disappears for sportsperson
other than cricketers.
• This scenario can be change, until and unless our sportsperson other than cricketers has to
step up to perform extraordinary on their respective arena’s.
• Great performances can uplift the other games and it will inspire new generations to pursue
these sports as career option.
• Example: in badminton, in 80’s we only know ‘Prakash Padukon’ then in 90’s we only
know ‘Pulela Gopichand’ but in later years performances of Saina Nehwal,P.Kashyap, pair
of Ashwini Ponnappa and Jwala Gutta improved so much on international level which
inspires next generation like P.V.Sindhu, K.Shrikant, P.Saipranit, S.Pranay. As a result,
we get pool of players on international circuit to represent nation. Now, badminton
premiere league also started. Lifestyles of players are also get changed as they are getting
fame. This what the development of sport.
• India has lot of scope to develop in other sports. India’s records in other games are quiet
poor which is been discussed in the next chapter.
• Indian government taking different steps to nurture young raw sporting talent by providing
them well developed sporting facilities.

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 80’S AND 90’S ERA OF BADMINTON STARS

PRAKASH Figure 5 PULELA

PADUKON GOPICHAND

Figure 4

21st CENTUARY BADMINTON STARS

SAINA NUMBER OF
Figure 6 NEHWAL PLAYERS ON
THE INTER-
PARUPALI Figure 8 JWALA GUTTA / ASHWINI
PONNAPPA NATIONAL
KASHYAP
CIRCUIT
INCREASES
OVER THE
YEARS

Figure 7
Figure 9 P.V. SINDHU Figure 10 Figure 11

KEDAMBI P.SAIPRANEET
SHRIKANT

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1.3. INDIA AT THE OLYMPICS
• India the 2nd highest populated nation in the world which has great sports history from its
early ancient times had merely just 28 medals in 30 Olympic games.
• This poor performances at Olympics is continues over last 119 years from nations first
participation at Olympic games in 1900.
• It’s always been great challenge to perform at Olympics, it requires so many hard works to
put by athlete over the years of training to achieve that glory with Olympic medal at podium.
• If athletes from other countries can perform so well at Olympics then why we can’t? Why
such poor performances happening over the years?
• Below, table shows India’s performances at Olympics with respect to games.

Table-1
• Above table tells whole history of Olympic sports in our nation. Field hockey at the top
of table due five consecutive gold medals at the Olympics from 1928 to 1952.
• Other medal cracking sports for India at the Olympics are mostly individual sports.
• Michael Phelps the man from USA, the most decorated Olympian of all time has
individually grabbed 28 medals (23 gold medals,3 silver medals,2 bronze medals) on his
own in swimming in just 4 Olympic games. We Indians with 1.5 billion population had
just grab 28 medals in so far 30 Olympic games.
• This showcase that we as a whole nation nowhere in the competition of this one
man. This also showcase the quality of people in our nation on which we have to
work.

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en.m.wikipedia.org

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 • Medal winners at Olympics from India as follows:

Table -2
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https://www.gkduniya.com/india-olympic

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1.4. SPORTS NEEDS REVIVAL
• As by studying all Indian Olympic medals tally, we required the revival of some sports in
which we are lagging on international scenario.
• We also want to revive the sports with Indian origin and having capability to get fame on
international platform. One of the big examples of the sport which is of Indian origin who
got fame on international circuit is kabaddi in few years.
• Following are the sports which needs revival.
ATHLETICS:
o Athletics considered as mother of all games. The sport of athletics is defined by the
many events which make up its competition programmes.
o All events within the sport are forms of running, walking, jumping or throwing.
o These events are divided into the sub-sports of track and field, road running,
racewalking and cross country running.4
o In athletics athlete compete in following events
Running: 100mt, 200mt, 400mt, 800mt, 1500mt, 3000mt, 5000mt, 10000mt, 110mt
Hurdles, 400mt Hurdles, 3000mt Steeplechase, Half Marathon, Marathon, 20km Race
Walk, 50km Race Walk, Cross Country Running, 4 X 100mt Relay, 4 X 400mt Relay
Jumping: Pole Vault, High Jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump
Throwing: Shot Put, Hammer Throw, Discus Throw, Javelin Throw
Pentathlon, Heptathlon, Decathlon.
o In previous chapter we discussed about performance of India as per the games in which
we the Indians have participated.
o India had grabbed just two medals in athletics in 100 years of modern Olympic era.
There has to be a reason for the dismal performance of Indian athletes at the Olympics
but the truth is that the reasons provided by Indian sporting officials are pathetic.
o Officials say that lack of proper facilities is the key reason. It is true that many
Indians, especially those who live in the rural areas are not privy to synthetic tracks,
trained coaches or sports equipment. It is also true that not all of India’s billion people
are involved in organized sport.
o However, that cannot be accounted for our sad performance, especially when, this
number is still more than the people of Mozambique and the Bahamas, and these
countries have managed to win gold medals. True, India has inadequate facilities but
that is hardly an excuse either.5
o A huge contingent goes to compete in the Olympics with great expectations but the
whole nation is disappointed when most of the athletes fail even to qualify for the
finals. An odd silver medal or a bronze is all we get in the mega sports event.
o In the Commonwealth Games, our performance has been slightly better than in the
Olympics, but it is still far from satisfactory. Countries like China, Australia, and
England remain far ahead of us. Expectations are again believed in the Asian Games
where we finish 7th or 8th behind China, Japan, Korea, etc. Our athletes are far below
in performance than those of China.

4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_athletics_events
5
http://www.shareyouressays.com/essays/short-essay-on-olympics-and-india/84483

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o Apart, from all previous discussions and comparisons we came to conclusion that we
need the revival of the sport called athletics. We need to develop our athletes mentally
and physically under disciplined environment.
o Following are some previous records of athletics at the Olympics.
OLYMPIC NO. OF NO. OF ATHLETES MEDALS KEY PERFORMANCES
YEAR PARTICIPATED PARTICIPATED
EVENTS FROM FROM INDIA
INDIA
1900 5 1 2 Silver Norman Pritchard won 2
silvers in 200mt run, 200mt
hurdles
1920: 4 3 - -
1924 9 7 -
1928 9 7 - James Hall: Quarter-Finals
in Men’s 400 metres
1932 4 4 -
1936 7 4 -
1948 10 8 -
1952 10 8 -
1956 9 8 -
1960 11 10 - Milkha Singh: 4th in Men’s
400 metres, Zora singh 8th
in Men’s 50 kilometres
Walk
1964 10 13 - Gurbachan Singh
Randhawa 5th Men’s 110
metres Hurdle
1968 2 2 -
1972 9 8 -
1976 4 4 - Sri Ram Singh: 7th
in Men’s 800 metres
Shivnath Singh: 11th in
Men’s Marathon
1980 12 11 -
1984 7 8 - PT Usha: 4th Women’s 400
metres Hurdles
1988 4 5 -
1992 2 2 -
1996 3 6 -
2000 12 24 -
2004 9 17 - Anju Bobby George: 5th
Women’s Long Jump
2008 10 14 -
2012 3 4
2016 20 35 Lalita Babar, Sudha Singh
3000 m steeplechase –
Reached Finals

Table -3

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WEIGHTLIFTING:
o Weightlifting, is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic program in which the
athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.
o In comparison with other strength sports, which test limit strength (with or without
lifting aids), weightlifting tests aspects of human ballistic limits (explosive strength);
the lifts are therefore executed faster—and with more mobility and a greater range of
motion during their execution—than other strength movements.6
o Weight lifting is one of the sports which is been rooted in Indians culture. Indian
weightlifters are doing good in past few years of commonwealth games and Asian
games; but still we have only one Olympic medal that is Bronze which was grabbed by
‘Karnam Malleshwari’ in Sydney olympics2020.
o Ragala Venkat Rahul, Katulu Ravi Kumar, Pardeep Singh, Deepak Lather, Gurdeep
Singh, Vikas Thakur, Sathish Sivalingam these are current weightlifters from india who
had grabbed attention at with gold medals at recent Gold coast commonwealth games
and youth commonwealth games. We want more our weightlifters on international
circuit.
o There’s no doubt about the continuous improvement of Indian male weightlifters.
o The positive trajectory that weightlifting is on in India; it is predicted more gems will
be unearthed as the sport becomes more popular, not just for men but for Indian women
too.7
o Only one Olympic medal and advancement of game makes us to think on revival of
weightlifting as a sport on grassroot level.

Figure 12- Ragala Venkat

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Ragala Venkat Rahul won gold at

gold coast commonwealth games

6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_weightlifting
7
https://www.desiblitz.com/content/top-indian-male-weightlifters
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https://www.desiblitz.com/content/top-indian-male-weightlifters

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GYMNASTICS:
o Gymnastics is a set of physical activities that require great physical strength along with
stamina, agility, endurance and coordination as well as balance.
o Gymnastics is encouraged as a physical activity amongst children who are able to
tumble and perform stretching and bending on different equipment’s used during the
acts. This not only enhances their physical performance but also helps them build social
and cognitive skills.
o Gymnastics has gained popularity as a sport which keeps you active and fit and is also
enjoyable and improves focus. It is easiest for children to learn gymnastic skills in early
childhood as their flexibility and acquisition are at its peak9.
o Gymnastics came of age in India, when at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Ashish
Kumar won the first-ever medal in gymnastics, he won a bronze medal.10However, soon
after the win, the President of the Gymnastics Federation of India asked Ashish's Chief
Coach from the Soviet Union, Vladimir Chertkov: "Is this all that you can deliver, a
bronze?" The comment was widely reported in the press.
o Later, the coach revealed that "In August 2009, we had no equipment. Ashish trained
on hard floor till February 2010, and then we got equipment around 20 years old." Also,
the Federation announced that no Indian team would travel to Rotterdam for the World
Championships in October, which meant that Indian gymnasts automatically would not
qualify as a team for the 2012 Summer Olympics.[2][3] Ashish also won a silver medal
in the Men's vault at 2010 Commonwealth Games.
o It was Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, from where India's glorious path in
gymnastics started taking shape slowly, when Dipa Karmakar from Tripura, a small
state of India, went on to win bronze medal in the Women's vault finale. But it was
not her medal that stuns the world, but its her 2nd vault, the most difficult vault with a
D-score of 7, the Produnova vault, named after famous Yelena Produnova of Russia,
also known as the vault of death due to its difficulty and likelihood of injury, which
she executed with a score of 15.1 (D-7, Ex- 8.1) which help her to get the precious
bronze11 .
o With this attempt she became 5th gymnast to ever execute the Produnova just after
legendary gymnast Oksana Chusovitina who executed multiples times.In October
2015, Karmakar became the first Indian gymnast to qualify for a final stage at the
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
o Later in 2016 when she qualified for Rio Olympics, she became first Indian gymnast
to do so and also hours after her qualification at 2016 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event
she clinched gold medal in Women's vault event stunning Oksana Chusovitina with
her Produnova again who came second to her12
o On 6 July 2016, FIG honoured Dipa by naming her World Class Gymnast. 13
o At Rio Olympics she achieved 4th place in vaults. That was tough journey.
9
http://www.preservearticles.com/essay/short-essay-on-gymnastics/30426
10
"I could have got gold had equipment arrived earlier: CWG medallist Ashish". Hindustan Times. 9 October
2010.
11
"After a flight, a landing: Why Dipa Karmakar's medal in Commonwealth Games is its bravest bronze". The
Indian Express. 18 April 2016.
12
"After historic Olympic qualification, Dipa Karmakar wins gold in vaults". Times of India. 18 April 2016.
13
"FIG names Dipa karmakar 'World Class Gymnast'". ESPN. 1 November 2016.

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o Gymnastics is such sport which have to nurture the talent in early years of childhood.
Our Olympic kitty is empty in gymnastics which can be full fill in coming years if we
revive this game.

Figure13 – DIPA KARMAKAR

DIPA KARMAKAR THE WORLD

CLASS GYMNAST

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1.5 SPORTSPERSON IN INDIA
SPORTSPERSON: Person with Extraordinary Power.
• Sport players possess extraordinary talent which is nurtured through hard work,
determination and perseverance.
• It is only due to consistent outstanding performance, that a handful sports people reach great
heights and earn huge remuneration, as a reward for their determination and entertainment
value.
• This creates a brand identity of sportsperson among people and it attracts a great deal of
media attention in terms of product endorsements and prestigious government honour.
• Sportsperson inspire the younger generation by setting realistic examples of discipline,
sportsmanship spirit, teamwork, and prevailing national dignity. Also, they enhance the
prestige of the nation by winning international competitions and entertain millions of sports
viewers even beyond their national boundaries.
• Moreover, many sports people contribute a major share of their finances to charitable and
philanthropic activities. Even after retirement, some sports stars work as goodwill
ambassadors or sports trainers.
• Sportspersons are capable of stretching the limits of human physiology, thus motivating us
mentally to extend our efforts for achieving outstanding results.
• No doubt, other professionals like doctors, for instance; study very hard for 10 years to save
people’s life but for a sportsperson, practice and hard work is a lifelong obsession. They
need to remain fit to execute the liveliness of the thrill of the game.
• Moreover, people involved in other professions are not publicly identified as compared to
sportspersons, and so they are less capable of creating impact on a greater number of people,
thus earning comparatively less money.
• Overall, brawny income is justified for sport professionals to compensate for the
extraordinary efforts they put in for making the whole country proud of them.14

India’s Great Sportsperson

• India the nation with great sportspersons. Every sportsperson of this country had gone
through so many challenges, sacrifices. Every Indian sportsperson’s biography is unique,
inspiring, patriotic which boosts our adrenaline to perform on arenas.
• India had so many sporting jewels like Major Dhyanchand, Sachin Tendulkar, Khashaba
Jadhav, Milkha Singh, Paan Singh Tomar, Leander Paes, Sania Mirza, Prakash Padukon,
Abhinav Bindra, Rajyavardhan Rathore, Sushil Kumar, Saina Nehwal, Mary Kom,
P.T.Usha, Mitali Raj, Vijender Singh, Vishvanathan Anand, Kapil Dev, Dipa Karmakar,
Baichung Bhutiya. Above list is never ending.
• All of above names are the revolutionary Men’s and Women’s of their respective sports.
They had showed lot of courage to achieve such magnificent feat. These magnificent feats
inspire the younger generations which is been seen through increased number athletes
which are qualified for last Rio Olympics, increased number of athletes at the
international circuit by nation than earlier years.
• All these improvements have to be converted into fruitful podium finishes.

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1.6 PROBLEMS FACED BY INDIANS TO BECOME
SPORTSPERSON
1.6.1 Societal Pressure
• In India, sports thought to be a leisure activity which majorly has been played by every
Indian.
• Surprisingly, today in India ‘Sports’ is seen as profession, but ancestral people termed
it as leisure.
• People prefer traditional careers over sports.
• Players have to struggle between their rigorous practice schedule and school timings.
• They often have to choose between education or sports and the former wins almost
every time.
• Education is more preferred than education in Indian society.
• For sports nurturing economic backgrounds become hindrance.

1.6.2 Lack of Remuneration

• Life of sports person is considerably more of a struggle and less of guaranteed
achievement.
• Profession guarantees financial safety only for those who are playing for nation.
• Most of the potential sports persons experience disillusionment and stress from the very
beginning of their career and usually end up sacrificing their dreams.
• Most of them due to economic background lacking in ‘Mentors.’

1.6.3. Difficulties
• Day by day costs of sports equipment’s are increasing which makes people difficult to
pursue sports.
•

1.6.4 Sponsorship
• Multinationals and private companies are uninterested in sponsoring a game which
people barely watch.
• Due to Lack of Private Funding the Players Have to Completely Rely On The
Government Funds.

1.6.5. Balancing Job and Sports

• It becomes difficult to balance work schedule and sports practice schedule.
• During balancing job and sports, proper work ethic for sports is get hamper.

1.6.6 Politics
• Political recommendations and corruption have also affected the selection procedure
adversely.

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1.7. REQUIREMENT OF GURUKUL ENVIRONMENT TO
TRAINING CENTRE.

• After understanding, studying the history of sports in India, India’s previous records at
Olympics, about sportsperson of India, about the problems faced by sportsperson we come
to conclusion that we need of such training centre in sports industry which can
nurture young sporting generation in right manner off the field and on the field.
REQUIREMENTS ABOUT TRAINING CENTRE:
• Education which makes person to think over and again to make right decisions. Education
will be the part of training centre.
• Most of the times, education and sports to go in hand in hand is very difficult. But it
can happen if everything is planned very well and if its execution is very précised.
• Practice days of sports person has to be like its matchdays. These things help
sportsperson to perform better at tournaments as he or she continuously practicing as like
tournament performance. Due to this, barrier of imagination which comes into picture it
can be nullified, and sportsperson perform better pressure situations.
• That’s why we need world class sports spaces, instruments, coaches.
• Discipline, Dedication, Determination, Positivity these qualities have to be reflected
through environment of training centre which we are intended.
• Personality development has to be the part of training centre’s routine.
• Live and play facilities has to be nearby to each other.
REQUIREMENT OF GURUKUL CHARACTER TO TRAINING CENTRE:
• It considered that,
IF WE CAN’T WIN AT SPORTS, THEN WE CAN’T WIN AT WARS.
• Sports is nothing but like war where we are competing with others abilities. We the Indians
have great history of brave warriors. Those all are nurtured in Gurukul’s of their guru’s
where they learn the lessons human values to live quality life.
• Our young sports generation also has to be learned under gurukul environment where they
will get more discipline to lean themselves to achieve them to be excellent at their sporting
abilities.
• Gurukul environment has lot of advantages for sportsperson where he or she learn to
control his or her mind and soul during crucial stages at the games. Disciplined and healthy
environment at the gurukul keeps the sportsperson away from the bad habits at the puberty
ages.
• To nurture the sportsperson to be mentally and physically strong and to practice
disciplined work ethic programme by his or her maximum potential, Gurukul
environment is must for the training centre.

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 CHAPTETR 2- GURUKUL SYSTEM IN INDIA

2.1 GURUKUL: ANCIENT INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM

“He who brings up the student (śishya), brings him near unto himself, and
unto the Supreme Self, who invests him with the sacred thread (the mark of
the twice-born) and teaches him the Sacred Scriptures (Vedas) with its
secret meaning and its practical working, he is the true Guru or ācārya.”15

2.1.1 Introduction:
• ‘Acharya devo bhav’ one of the great principals in Indian tradition and rituals where
‘guru is considered to be as a god.’ In ancient times guru was the only person who had
a knowledge of Veda’s and he also knows the eternal truths of god which makes guru
supreme most person of the society. To pursue knowledge of Veda’s and to learn other
arts it was necessary for student (shishya) to stay at guru’s home i.e. gurukul for 9 to
12 years. This stay of student gives rise to one of the great education systems i.e.
gurukul.
• Gurukul is nothing but the family of guru. Student (shishya) stay in gurukul which
makes he or she to live in bigger family comprising of teachers and students where all
live in together in a ‘social milieu’. Gurukul dedicates to ‘All Round Human
Development’ i.e. Mental (Intellectual), spiritual (Religious), physical (Practical) and
god realisation (Brhamasakashtakara).
• “Experience (Anubhav) is the best teacher” this is the key principal of gurukul system.
During the stay at the gurukul, trainee learns, emerges as responsible individuals who
are capable of facing the toughest challenges of life.

2.1.2. Gurukul: The Family of The Teacher

• Gurukul is an ancient Indian concept of education, wherein the student imbibed
knowledge by residing with his Guru as part of his family. The word, (kula), indicates
the close relationship that existed between the teacher and students. Since (kula)
means a ‘family’, Gurukul did not mean the ‘school’ of a teacher but; the ‘family’ of a
teacher. The Guru was more than merely a teacher; he was a parent, a guide and role
model for all the students.

15
The Laws of Manu, trans. Wendy Doniger, New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1991, II, 140. (Hereafter, The Laws of
Manu)

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 • The following text from the Atharva Veda captures the spirit of family in the Gurukul:
“Acharya Upanayamano Brahmacarinam Kŗņute Garbha-Mantaha.”16
That is, the ‘Acharya’, while accepting a child, protects her/him as a pregnant woman
protects her child in her womb. Above Atharva Veda captures could a better imagery
be used to illustrate the relationship between the teacher and student.
• The Guru used to take the place of their real father the moment the children joined the
Gurukul. It is true that while getting admission in the Gurukul, the students leave behind
their parents who had given them birth, but their place is taken by the Guru, who is not
only a teacher but also a parent to them. Gurukul, where the students were loved and
cared for as members of the Guru’s family.

2.1.3. Guru: The Parent of the Family

• From the point of view of traditional etymology, ‘gu’ means ‘darkness’ and ‘ru’ means
‘to destroy’ or ‘to dissolve’. The ‘Guru’ thus is a term that has been associated most
strongly with a spiritually enlightened being, who is capable of ‘dispelling the darkness’
of ignorance and lifting the veil of ‘Maya’ (illusion), so that the student may perceive
the Divine Reality (Brahman).
• The Guru is also called ‘Acharya’ especially because he gathers together all the most
important principles of right and dutiful conduct in the various situations and
circumstances of life from all the various sciences, and practising them himself, teaches
the students to do so, by precept and even more by example.

2.1.3 Qualities of Guru

• Specific Characteristics of a Real Guru: “He Is A Man Well-Versed in The
Sacred Scriptures and Is Straightforward, Who Is Not Tormented by Desires.”
• The first qualification which embody the eternal truths about God, soul and matter. That
is, erudition in the Vedas constitutes his educational qualification. Secondly, the Guru
must be a Brahma-nişţha.
• Apart from possessing knowledge of the ‘Paramatman’ to the utmost limits, he must
have realization of it in his heart. Such personal experience or realization is not possible
without love (bhakti), spirit of sacrifice (tapas) and truthful conduct (dharma). It means
that the Upanishadic Guru was not merely a man ofis that knowledge, but a teacher who
possessed a wealth of qualities, which enabled him to lead his students to the realization
of the Self.

2.1.4. Duties of Guru

• Duties of Guru: A Guru, irrespective of the nature of students, has three tumultuous
things to enact, namely to induce and promote creativity among all levels of students,
to equip students with confidence and ability, and to maintain integrity in their words
and deeds. If the Guru could perform these functions perfectly, the other functions

16
Atharva Veda, 2, 3, 5

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 would take care of themselves, and the education system would be on the correct trail
to the limelight.
• The main responsibility of the Guru would be to embed creativity into the mechanical
minds of students. Where and when creativity is wanting, even the coveted students in
many fields would not come up with immediate solutions to many prevailing
problems.
• Creativity in educational institutions would vanish boredom, and which would, in
turn, generate interest for studies. It has to be stated that the teachers should
concentrate upon unlocking the imagination of students rather than restricting them to
the boundaries of curriculum.
• Confidence building is another vital role for the Guru. It is horrifying to see the
intelligent students lack the ability to deal practical problems with panache. The Guru
has to instil confidence in the students so that their education might become a
complementing factor to their experience.
• Apart from creativity and confidence, the Guru has an important role to play in
maintaining integrity. The teacher’s inability to maintain integrity would generate
wrong signals to the students. As the saying goes, “if a student spoils his character, only
he will suffer; if a girl spoils her character, two houses have to suffer; but if a teacher
spoils his character, the whole generation will suffer.”

2.1.5. Sishyas: The Antevasins of the Family

• One of the important features of ancient Indian education was that it was obligatory
for the members of first three classes – Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Vaiśyas.
However,admission to the Gurukula was not an easy process.
• The Dahrmasastras declare that education must be imparted to the deserving
alone – satpatra.
• The idea that the deserving should only be taught. The Goddess of Vidyā tells a
Brahmin (Guru): “I am a great treasure you have received. You must safeguard me in
the same way as you safeguard a treasure. Spend it with care and distribute it among
the deserving.”17It is also stated in the Laws of Manu that student should not be taught
who is neither attentive nor devoted and who misuses his Vidya. For, “it is better for
someone who expounds the Veda to die along with his learning than to sow it on
barren ground.”18
• Students, therefore, had to convince their Guru that they had the desire, the
determination and the required intelligence to pursue the studies. Regardless of their
social or financial status, the Guru accepts the student, if compatibility was discerned
and if it was perceived that the student was prepared to learn wholeheartedly the entire
course with the observance of the rules of the Gurukul.
• The students who joined the Gurukul have to pass through three essential processes
without which the main objectives of the system will not be fulfilled. These processes
are
1. Upanayana
2. Vow of Brahmacarya,

17
The Laws of Manu, II, 114
18
.The Laws of Manu, II, 112-13

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 3. Ashrama vasa.

2.1.5.1. Upanayana
• Upanayana (sacred thread wearing ceremony) is the important initiation ceremony,
which marks the formal and regular entrance into the Vedic school – Gurukula.
Upanayana, which is derived from upa (near) and nayana (carry), literally means,
“carrying student near to the teacher (ācārya).”
• It is an impressive rite in which the student is ceremoniously conducted by the parents
near to the teacher of known wisdom, virtue and learning, in order that he may be led
by that teacher to Brahma, the Supreme.19
• In ancient times, it was given to both boys and girls, but now it is with rare exception
reserved for boys. Upanayana was an obligatory social rite, which was ordained for
all the castes,20 and practised in a great variety of manners for many centuries.
• The ceremony of investiture begins by the student’s standing opposite to the sun and
walking thrice round the fire. Then girt with the thread, he asks alms from the
assembled company. This begging for alms indicates that the student undertakes to
provide himself and his guru with food. The Guru then initiates him into the daily use
of the holy prayers (Gayatri mantra)21 and admits him to the privilege of repeating the
three Vedas and of performing other religious rites, which are not allowed before the
investiture.22
• The whispering of the Gayatri mantra puts the ‘soul-life’ of the child in touch with
the Infinite Life, and awakens therein a tiny spark of All-Self-Consciousness.
• After the sacrament of Upanayana, the student is described as “twice-born” (dvija).
To be born of parents is the first or physical birth; to be born of guru/acharya is
second or spiritual birth.
• In the investiture ceremony, one finds many symbols of ‘rites de passage’: namely,
initiatory death (the student is covered by a veil or else has his eyes bandaged),
imposition of the hands, sprinkling of water, presence of fire, etc. While performing
the Upanayana ceremony, the Guru brings the student so close to himself as a child is
in the womb of the mother.
• The Guru thus establishes a relationship of unity with his student. For example, at the
time of Upanayana, the Guru addresses the student in the following way: “I take your
heart into mine, your mind into mine.” 23 Hence the student is called the ‘antevasi’
(in-dweller), one who lives in the heart of the Guru.
• This feeling of “one’s own” towards a student is the soul of the Gurukul System of
Education promulgated in the ancient India.

19
Bhagwan Das, Manu’s Code of Life, 248.
20
But it may be noted that Baudhāyana, alone among the lawgivers, admits the Sūdra, Rathakāra, to the
ceremony of Upanayana. Cf. Baudhāyana, D.S., II, 5, 8-9.
21
It is a short prayer to the Sun in his character of Savitri or ‘the Vivifier’, and is the most sacred of all the Vedic
texts. Cf. Ŗg Veda, III, 62, 10: Tat savitur vareņyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhīyo yo nah pracodayāt (Lt us
meditate on that excellent glory of the divine Vivifier. May he enlighten our understandings!)
22
Cf. The Laws of Manu, II, 171.
23
Grihya-Sūtras, Hermann Oldenberg, ed. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, 1964, I, 21, 3.

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2.1.5.2. Brahmacarya:
• There are two meanings of the word, brahmacarya. The derivative meaning of a
brahmacari is “brahmani caratiti brahmacari”.24 That means, one who lives in Brahman
(God) is a brahmacari. The word ‘Brahman’ is derived from the verb brihi, meaning
‘great’. Yes, the one who is great is Brahman. Thus, brahmacari is one who comes to
the Guru with the aspiration of becoming great.
• In the Vedic System of Education, a student getting admitted to the Gurukula was not
merely called vidyārthi (one who aspires for knowledge) but brahmacari. This stage of
life has been traditionally described as Brahmacarya Āshram.25
• The traditional meaning of brahmacari is one who observes complete purity in his
behaviour, leads a life of sexual abstinence and moral rectitude. This is the commonly
known and accepted meaning of brahmacarya.
• Observance of celibacy was highly stressed in the Gurukula System of Education.
Therefore, it was considered to be a necessary duty of the Guru to impart students sex
education, since the significance of brahmacarya could not be brought home to one who
is completely ignorant of sex knowledge.
• The students in the Gurukula were subjected to rigorous discipline. They had to live in
a very austere environment, observe complete celibacy, practice yoga and meditation
under the supervision of the Guru and perform many menial jobs for the Guru’s
household.
• The fundamental spirit of Ashram is shram (labour) and tapas (austerity). This is
evident from the instructions imparted to the students at the entry to the Gurukula:
“Work hard; never sit idle; never lose temper; never speak untruth; don’t sleep
on luxurious bed.”26
• The basis of Vedic system of education was hard work. For, it was believed that a
brahmacari could lead a life of dedication only when he has performed tapas. Just as
heating (tapas) in fire turns impure gold into pure gold, so also tapas makes a human
being true and responsible person.
• Another advantage of leading an austere life in Ashram is that it removes the
discrimination between the high and the low, the rich and the poor. In Ashram all
students are treated at the same level; all are brothers and sisters.
• No one is rich or poor, high or low, all experience in ashram life that they are on an
equal footing. When the spirit of the rich (sukla) and the poor (gupta) pervades in the
educational institutions, then they carry the same spirit of inequality with them, when
they enter the society. The Gurukul System of Education precludes even the
semblance of inequality.

24
Cf. Nagendra Kr. Singh, Encyclopaedia of Hinduism, Vol. 5, New Delhi: Anmol Publications, 1997, 1291.
25
According to the Vedic tradition, there are four Āśhramas or Stages of Life: Brahmacarya (Religious student),
Grihastha (Householder), Vānaprastha (Anchorite) and Sannyāsa (Religious mendicant). See, M.M. William,
Rediscovering India, Vol. I, New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 1987, 238.
26
See, Brahmacarya Sūkta, in Atharva Veda, 11, 2.

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2.1.5.3. Gurukul-vasa:
• The purpose of admission to Gurukul is to live with the Guru in his kula/ashram, until
he has gained a thorough knowledge of the three Vedas (Trayi). According to the Laws
of Manu “the vow for studying the three Vedas with a guru is for thirty-six years, or
half of that, or a quarter of that, or whenever the undertaking comes to an end.”27
• He may even be a student for life, and such students are known as Naishthika
Brahmacarins. Probably it is for these students such long period of studentship as 36 or
18 years are meant.
• Those who would be householders (Gŗhasthāshram) would have to confine their
studentship to a minimum period of nine years or till the desired knowledge is acquired.
• Apart from imbibing the knowledge imparted by the Guru, the students would also be
expected to shoulder some of the household chores or responsibilities (Āshrama-seva).
One text sums up the position by stating that the student is to serve his teacher as a son,
slave or supplicant (Putravat dāsavat arthivat anucaratā tvayā).
• As Apastamba puts it more definitely, the student shall “assist his teacher daily by acts
tending to the acquisition of spiritual merit and of wealth.”28 The former class of acts
will comprise of collecting scared fuel, grass, earth and flowers for sacrifice as also
fetching a pot full of water, while the latter class implies gathering fuel for cooking,
begging alms, etc.29
• Every day the student is to go around the neighbouring villages begging food for
himself and his Guru, and collecting fuel for the maintenance of the sacred fire. Apart
from the services to be rendered to the teacher, there is a second class of duties
connected with the student’s own welfare, such as bathing three times a day, performing
morning and evening devotions, offering libations of water to gods, sages, manes, etc.
• The student is always to pay the most profound respect to his religious teacher, the
Guru, as well as to his parents and to all persons older than himself. “By loving devotion
to his mother, he wins this world; by loving devotion to his father, the middle world;
and by obedience to his guru, the world of ultimate reality.”30
• “Gurudevo bhava” (Guru as equivalent to God) was the ideal cherished by the students.
In fact, “Gurudevo bhava” was a way of life for the students who were part of a unique
educational system of Gurukula in ancient India.
• It was expected of the students to serve their Guru, as they would serve the Lord
himself, and in turn receive invaluable knowledge of Brahman (Brahmavidyā). Guru is
even equated with the Supreme Absolute Being: “Gururbrahma gururvisnu gururdevo
maheśvara” (Guru is Brahma, Guru is Vishnu, Guru is Maheśvara).31

27
The Laws of Manu, III, 1.
28
Subodh Kapoor, ed. Ancient Indian Education, Vol. 80, Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 2002, 263
29
The Laws of Manu, II, 182.
30
The Laws of Manu, II, 233.
31
In fact, reverence for the teacher was enjoined upon the student for three reasons. (i) It was part and parcel
of the Indian Culture to respect parents, teachers and elders. (ii) Guru represented not only a man of scholarly
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 • On completing his studies, the student thanked his Guru with a gift in the form of guru-
dakshina, which literally means ‘offerings to the Guru’. He is then to perform the proper
ceremonial bath (snāna) on the occasion of his solemn return to his own home – known
as Samāvartana.
• According to Manu, “he who knows the sacred law must not present any gift to his
teacher before the Samāvartana, but when, with the permission of his guru, he is about
to take the final bath, let him procure a gift for the venerable man according to his
ability, viz. a field, a cow, a horse, or even an umbrella and shoes, or vegetables, and
thus give pleasure to his Guru.”32
• The word “procure” implies that the student is ordinarily of such circumstances that he
has to collect the gifts for his teacher by begging.
• Thus, it would appear that the offering of the gift is enjoined more as a religious act
formally bringing to a close the period of studentship and marking the fulfilment of a
sacred vow than as any kind of material remuneration for the services rendered.
• The studentship was formally brought to a close by what has been called Samāvartana,
which literally means ‘the returning home of the student’. It included a number of acts
signifying the end of the austerities imposed upon the condition of studentship.
• First, the brahmacari was given a solemn bath, and he thus became a Snātaka. Secondly,
he was given new garments, earrings, accompanied by the use of powder, perfumes,
and sandalwood, etc. Thirdly, a homa or sacrifice was performed with a prayer that the
Snātaka will have any number of students to teach in his turn.
• Finally, donned in his new robes, he was to pay a visit to the local assembly in a chariot
or on an elephant to be introduced to them as a full-fledged scholar. The student’s return
to his own home was made an occasion of great festivity.

teacher as the Supreme Brahman seated within oneself. See, Nagendra Kr. Singh, ed. Encyclopaedia of
Hinduism, 1277-79.
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2.2. DISTRUCTION OF GURUKUL.
• Gurukul The Great Student Nurturing System originated from 5000 BC. Gurukul
Tradition Is Continue from Generations of Satvayug, Dwaparyug, Tretayug.
• During This Generations Importance and Greatness of Gurukul Remains on The
Peak. Gurukul Gives the World the Great ‘Guru- Shishya’ Relationship Examples
Like ‘Guru Vashishtha- Lord Rama, Guru Sandipani- Lord Shrikrishna, Guru
Dronacharya- Arjun, Guru Dadaji Kondev And Saint Ramdas- Shivaji Maharaj’.
• As earlier whole Indian community was divided into four classes i.e. Brahmins,
• Vaishya, Kshatriya, Shudra. Out of four community, Gurukul education facility was
allocated to only Brahmins, Vaishya, Kshatriya. Shudra’s were excluded from
Gurukul education which one of the drawbacks of Gurukul system.
• During the Medieval period, these Gurukul based education systems were dominated
after British interventions. The modern education system was introduced during the
British rule, Thomas Babington Macaulay included English in Indian education in
the 1830.

FIGURE 14 33

• After independence, many commissions and organizations were formed in the

country. Everyone has had anticipated success in the initial goal of ‘Basic Education’.
Changing the education system of pre-independence, the primary education was
made from the fourth to the fifth.
• Education commissions were formed in 1964, 1966, 1968 and 1975 AD. The
education system of 10+2+3 was enforced in 1986. It has been implemented in many
states of the country. This is called the new (current) education policy. In this, efforts
were made to remove many inequalities and errors related to early education.
• We have imported the class room style of education from Lord Macauley, who was
specially sent by British to prepare a project for slavery of Hindus permanently, and
we have even made it worse! British after research found that even after so many
attacks and rulers ruling Bharath, rulers could not destroy the culture. 100 times
Muslims broke the temples and 200 times the temples were built again. 1000 times
they burnt books, 2000 times they wrote again, because our gurus memorize
everything, so if one book is burnt, they have written another book again.
• So British came to a conclusion that merely by conquering Hindus, there is no use.
They realized that they should destroy from inside the culture and Vedas because
Hindus believe in their culture, Vedas and gyana.
• So to destroy this British started this English Education where they pickup students as
youngsters and make them cut their hair and put the shirts and pants like British people,

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 and motivate to live like a westerner and they taught if you live like a western man you
will be great, you drink wine, you dance and eat meat, you have illicit sex, the more
criminal you are you are great.
• More money you have you are great. The result of this education is that even the
Brahmins today have lost their values. So we can see how after 60+ years of
Independence we have lost our Gurukul Education system and values and how British
are successful in their aim of destroying our education system.
• We have abandoned our ancient style of imparting Education used by the Rishis in
their ashrams of Vedic times. We have copied the Western type of schooling—where,
a mass of children are packed into a class and a teacher drives on and on, at the topics
which have no relevance to their life; no relevance to their times, or the needs of
country.
• We do not aim at Character building or making the boy into a good individual and a
useful citizen to the country or a capable asset to his parents. We aim at passing an
examination, by methods which have no morals.
• We have not only copied the class room method of Victorian England but also made
our classes and sections very big. Colleges Schools and Universities—even
Governments go on sanctioning larger classes! This makes a class room an animal
farm!
• The teacher is not even a good shepherd but a helpless victim of this mass of
unmanageable boys. All this should be forthwith scrapped. The strength of class should
be cut down. Even class room style of teaching must go! The teacher must live with
his pupils! They must not be more than six or seven boys, who eat sleep and live with
him.
• The education is intertwined into their life style. The aim is not merely giving them
information, or “General Knowledge” or make them into “Careers Guide books” The
idea is to mould the Character, build his personality and make him a self-dependant
individual, but not to make him a slave or a favour seeking subordinate; not even a
voter worshipping at the feet of Governments, but a master who rules, if need be.

2.3. EDUCATION TODAY -

A CRISIS IN NATIONAL CHARACTER

• The National scene today on the Educational front presents a bewildering picture. The
situation prevailing in the Educational Institutions and the Universities is alarming. The
quality of the teachers and the students has taken a nosedive, in the recent years.
• The production of text books, the planning of their content, the methods of instruction
as well as the goals to be kept in view for making our Education serve the National goal
as well as the individual aims – all these are in a sorry mess today!
• Besides, the apparatus for teaching, as it exists in Indian schools, colleges and
universities, has broken down, and an alternative has to be found. The framing of text
books, the selection of materials for study, the preparation of reading materials and also
the production of high-quality study materials as well as their free marketability—all
these reveal a sorry state of affairs. The new policy will have to take all these distressing
trends into account and suggest remedial measures.
• Today, the main concern in the modern Bharat is that the quality of human material is
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 constant stream of men of character, to man the different walks in life-business, politics,
Education, science and social work, is the National Aim of education.
• Education is the only means of civilizing ourselves, or training ourselves to maintain
high qualities of Integrity, devotion, sincerity and an ethical and moral purpose in our
national life, and correct the poisonous trends of rank opportunism and political
corruption which are destroying our national character. Our only means of educating
the future political leaders is while they are still as students!
• Education, must define its goal. The goal is individual’s character-building. The aim
our National Education should be to provide men of character and patriotism, who are
the basic material, for building up the Nation.
• A fearless open minded and truthful personality as the foundation to character-building
is the first purpose of “National Education”, an honest, self-confident nature is the
greatest security, against corruption, moral bankruptcy and fear complex, which we find
in every walk of life to-day.
• These goals should not merely to be preached or propagated by word-but studiously
and thoroughly achieved – by planned action, in framing revised curricula and also by
expurgating and eliminating from the reading materials of the students all that is hostile
or inimical to these goals.
• This is the duty of not merely our governments, but of every educated man who values
the Freedom of our Nation and Liberty and also our National values.

2.4. EFFORTS FOR REVIVAL OF GURUKUL

• Main concern is the quality of human material has rapidly declined in many fields.
Education is the only means of civilizing ourselves to maintain high qualities of
Integrity, devotion, sincerity and an ethical and moral purpose in our national life.
• The goal of our National Education should be to supply a constant stream of men of
character, fearless open minded, truthful, patriotic, who will become the basic material,
for building up the Nation. Today we have imported the class room style of education
from ‘Lord McCauley’ and we have made it worse!
• We have abandoned our ancient Gurukul Style of Education system, which is a 5000-
year old Hindu tradition of transmitting higher knowledge and enlightenment to the
students by yogic powers by the Guru with an aim to develop the latent yogic powers
of the child and build him up into a Moral & Spiritual stalwarts with attention to
character building to build students into a real Purusha, and not just a walking computer.
• The western education takes a boy and puts knowledge into his head, but Gurukul
education theory is knowledge should not be got from outside it is already there inside,
it comes from within. Today a student is given textbook to put into memory and then
put back into a booklet during examination.
• In Gurukul education, guru will teach how to makeup defects, overcome difficulties,
analyse mistakes, develops the right use of the six senses by training & practice, training
of mental faculty & logical faculty, fundamentals of Hinduism like, concept of Moral
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 karma to stress the need for responsibility for one’s own action are all taught everything
working, playing and living.34
• It becomes necessary for us to revive our ancient gurukul education system to empower
the nation.
• In India still there are some communities which believes in traditional education
system. Some of them are Ahmedabad gurukulam, Shanti Niketan.

2.4.1. AHMEDABAD GURUKULAM

• Started in 2008 by Jain businessman and philanthropist, ‘Uttambhai Shah’, and run
entirely on donations with no affiliation to any school board, the Gurukulam does not
follow the pedagogy of the “Macaulay system” says, principal Deep Koirala.
• Gurkulam nestled in nestled in a residential pocket of Sabarmati,
• The accent here is on ancient Indian learning, the Vedic methods of mastering the arts
and sciences; students are taught metallurgy or space science based on what the
scriptures say.
• Whole gurukul campus intelligently designed and maintain which encompass the
ancient gurukul area. Wooden carts and horses in the front yard, mooing cows in the
barn, walls with hand painted frescoes and food being cooked on a stove fired by cow
dung cakes — this is not a set for a period drama, but a residential school for boys in
the heart of Sabarmati in Ahmedabad.

LOCATION:

AT GURUKULAM

• Kautilya’s treatise on governance Arthashastra’, Vedic Maths, music, arts and

ayurvedic medicine are part of the curriculum as is astrology

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 • No cramped classrooms. Groups of students taught together based on their mental
ability and their proficiency. A music class for instance, could have students from 6 to
16 learning together.
• Students from the age group of 6-18 are enrolled.
• For recreation there is the traditional gymnastics (Malkhamb) and horse riding.35

Figure 15: Astrologer Mohan Bhai Patel taking a class on astrology.

(Smriti Kak Ramachandran/HT Photo)

Figure 16: An arts class in progress. (Smriti Kak Ramachandran/HT Photo)

35
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/ahmedabad-gurukulam-a-dip-into-vedic-education-organic-
living-but-no-degrees/story-VTaVvqdOkrxPBHIaMuSZ4I.html

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 Figure 17: Student’s performance at gurukulam courtyard

2.4.2. SHANTINIKETAN, WEST BENGAL

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but
makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
- Rabindranath Tagore

Located in the heart of nature, the school aimed to combine education with a sense of
obligation towards the larger civic community and at the distance around 182 km away from
Kolkata.

Nearest Railway Station: Bolpur, West Bengal.

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• Rabindranath Tagore establish experimental school at Shanti Niketan with five students
and with equal number of students, on 22nd December 1901.He originally named it
Brahmacharya Ashram, in the tradition of ancient forest hermitages called tapoban.
• Blending the best of western and traditional eastern systems of education,
the curriculum revolved organically around nature with classes being held in the open
air.

Figure 18: Ravindranath tagore with their shishyas

• Tagore wanted his students to feel free despite being in the formal learning environment
of a school, because he himself had dropped out of school when he found himself
unable to think and felt claustrophobic within the four walls of a classroom.

Figure 19: shishyas while learning under the tree shed

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 CHAPTETR 3-SPORTS GURUKUL

3.1 IMPORTANCE OF GURUKUL FOR SPORTS

• Sports is similar to arts where one has to strengthen his or her body to perform as per the
required sports skills.
• Sportsperson has to build himself or herself as a strong character to have strong desire to
win, to be focussed on goal, to follow code of conduct on the daily basis, to have complete
dedication, to be steely determined to win, to showcase emotional maturity on the field, to
be with presence of mind, to show extreme competitiveness, to be in right attitude.
• All above qualities is been taught in Gurukul over the years under the disciple of Guru and
Shishya.
• Gurukul is the symbol of discipline and implementation of work ethic in daily routine. These
are the important qualities transplants ordinary sportsperson into extraordinary
sportsperson. Discipline is the refining fire talent becomes ability. Success of sportsperson
is determined by the level of discipline and perseverance.
• Gurukul is the place where shishya live at the ashram (house) of Guru. During the Gurukul
vasa (period of living at guru’s house) shishya does the all chores, works of the guru’s house
which makes shishya more humble, down to earth which is really key to success. That’s
why gurukul is unique system of training to bring out the best human from the normal
sportsperson.
• Gurukul system knows better way to taught education and sports on the same page as during
the ancient times as earlier discussed, education and artillery arts (shastravidya)
simultaneously been taught at the gurukuls. Sports gurukul has education as an important
part of its curriculum. Open classroom method of gurukul will be better for sports gurukul.

36 37

OPEN CLASS GURUKUL UNIQUE SYSTEM WHERE ARTILLARY ARTS

ROOM SYSTEM SPORTS AND EDUCATION TAUGHT TAUGHT AT
AT GURUKUL UNDER ONE ROOF GURUKUL

36
https://www.esamskriti.com/e/Spirituality/Education/Gurukula-is-a-Man-Making-Education-System-1.aspx
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https://www.artofliving.org/in-hi/guru-purnima/5-role-models-who-were-excellent-students

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• All earlier discussed advantages make gurukul the right choice of environment for training
centre.

3.2 ALL ROUND DEVELOPMENT OF SPORTSPERSON

• All round development of sportsperson included conditioning of mental health, betterment
in physical health, building positive body language, personality development.

CONDITIONING OF MENTAL HEALTH:

• Thevile anante taisechi rahave chitti asave samadhan
-Saint Tukaram
(keep all your belongings in front of god, so that you can be worriless, comfortable.)
• Mental health can be harm by any reason from surrounding
But it can be kept on track with the help of god – realisation process of guru- shishya
rituals.
• Modern sports psychologist can also be better for improve mental health of sportsperson.

BETTERMENT OF PHYSICAL HEALTH:

• Physical health can be better and better after practicing proper work ethic programme on
daily basis over the years.
• Due to years of training muscles of body becomes by hearted with their functions, duties,
skills. That’s way physical health can be made better and excellent.
• Restlessness due to continuous training and heavy work load of continuous tournaments
can harm physical health.
• Rest has to be part of work ethic programme which helps in muscle recovery.

POSITIVE BODY LANGUAGE AND PERSONALITY DEVLOPMENT

• This is important part of all-round development of sportsperson. Personality and positive
attitude come through years of experience.
• Conversations, interactions, sharing dressing rooms with great players of respective
sports, fields bring positive attitude in younger generation inevitably which enhance
personality.
• Being alongside with great players boosts the positive energy in the younger generations.

3.3 SPORTS
• Here we are discussing about requirements for different sports at gurukul.
• Sports taught at the gurukul should be taught and practiced with international standards
because sportsperson should be aware about equipment’s during big tournaments.
• Following sports are included at Sports Gurukul:
o Athletics
o Weightlifting
o Gymnastics

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ATHLETICS:
o Athletics the mother of all sports where endurance of athlete is on the peak during every
movement of the game.
o Athlete should have to work physical qualities such as mobility, speed, power, strength,
conditioning.
o To achieve highest mobility, speed, power, strength, conditioning athlete have to work on
its body and mind.
o Work ethic of athlete should have proper nutritional diet.
o Athlete require proper athletic training for skills, gym training.
o Spaces required for proper Athletic training are Athletic ground where all running
jumping, throwing activities can be practised. Athletics ground should have 8 lanes
with synthetic track which is been use for all Athletic competition. Athletic ground
needs extra play area on one side for warm-ups and special practice sessions.
o Another thing required for proper athletic training are Well Equipped Gym for
Extreme Muscle Training, Weight Training, Functional Workout, Cardio Training.
o With all these facilities athlete also requires Rehabilitation Centre with good facilities
to overcome their injuries.
o Rehabilitation centre requires Modern Facilities of Weight Training, Gym
Equipment’s, Antigravity Trade Meal, Underwater Trade Meal, Customised
Medicinal Therapy.

GYMNASIUM UNDERWATER TRADE MEAL

REHABILITATION CENTRE
ANTIGRAVITY TRADE MEAL

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• All athletic games can be practised on athletic ground of following dimensions. Few of
the events of road running such as marathon, half marathon practised on road.

FIGURE 23: ATHLETICS GROUND

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WEIGHTLIFTING:
o Weightlifting the sport which tests the human strength to lift the weights against
gravity.
o weightlifting tests aspects of human ballistic limits (explosive strength); the lifts are
therefore executed faster and with more mobility and a greater range of motion during
their execution than other strength movements.
o Professional weightlifters need Big Weight Training Hall Where They Can Perform
Various Weightlifts and Exercises.
o Professional weightlifters require Well Equipped Gym for Extreme Muscle
Training, Weight Training, Functional Workout.
o Professional weightlifters need Rehabilitation Centre for Better And Early
Recovery.

FIGURE :24 WEIGHTLIFTING

FIGURE 25: COMBINED

WEIGHTLIFTING

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GYMNASTICS:
o Gymnastics training produces impressive strength gains without requiring an external load
o Gymnastics assist in development of many of the 10 components of fitness: accuracy,
agility, balance, coordination, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, power, speed, strength,
and stamina. Nothing beats gymnastics in terms of developing the four neurological
components of the 10.38
o The most common form of competitive gymnastics is Artistic Gymnastics which we are
including in the sports gurukul. It consists of (for women) the events floor, vault, uneven
bars and beam. For men, it consists of the events floor, vault, rings, pommel, parallel bars,
and horizontal bar.39

Vault event Floor event

38
https://assets.crossfit.com/pdfs/seminars/SMERefs/Gymnastics/GymnasticsCourse_SeminarGuide.pdf
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics

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 Rings event Beam event

o Gymnast for his or her better training requires Big Hall with all gymnastic equipment’s,
cushions. In the interiors of gymnastic hall they require more free space for better
circulation and to avoid injuries.
o Gymnast also requires Rehabilitation Centre to heal their injuries as gymnastic is an injury
prone game.

3.5. EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES:

• Education is one of the key elements of our life. As sports gurukul focusing more on
development of sports skills but on another hand, it also educating sports person.
• Education is the first thing which guides us in taking any decision in life. It also helps in
how to prioritise the things out of many things. Education helps us to find better solution on
problems.
• From the sports gurukul point of view we don’t want to create studious or bookworm
guys by providing educational facilities but on the contrary, we are creating practical
young minds
• Practical young minds can be created through applying our 5000year old Gurukul
Education System in Sports Gurukul.
• The western education takes a boy and puts knowledge into his head, but Gurukul education
theory is knowledge should not be got from outside it is already there inside, it comes from
within. Today a student is given textbook to put into memory and then put back into a
booklet during examination.
• In Gurukul education, guru will teach how to makeup defects, overcome difficulties, analyse
mistakes, develops the right use of the six senses by training & practice, training of mental
faculty & logical faculty, fundamentals of Hinduism like, concept of Moral Responsibility
or Dharma, the scientific basis of the law of “Action & Reaction” or karma to stress the need
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• To provide Gurukul Education System in Sports Gurukul there should be need of open
classes with inclusion of some modern technologies of learning and teaching.

3.6 PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT:

• To be successful as elite sportsperson is not a one-day job. It requires years of tra ining,
dedication, determination and the mind with positive attitude which never stops until he or
she wins.
• Over the years of training and the whole journey to become sportsperson itself develops
personality of sportsperson.
• To develop personality of emerging sportsperson there are various tactics. Emerging
sportsperson should have to interact more with senior elite sportsperson. These interactions
make big impact on emerging sportspersons mind and life.
• Interactions with senior elite sportsperson teaches young minds how to channelize
their behaviour on the field and off the field.
• Autobiographies of Great Sportspersons make big impact on young minds.
• Group activities like drama, dance, music, elocution can be the part of personality
development programme.
• Sports Museum should be included in Sports Gurukul which will inspire young
generations.

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3.7. IMPLEMENTATION OF YOGA, MEDITATION, SPORTS
PSYCHOLOGY
• Yoga is a discipline that seers and saints have been practicing since ancient times to bring
flexibility to the spine and joints, to keep the muscles of the body pliable and youthful,
increase circulation in arteries and strengthen internal organs. And yet, yoga is so much
more than this.
• Yoga is able to mobilize joints, stretch tissues and ligaments, tone muscles, bring flexibility
to the spine and strengthen internal organs.
• Yoga exercises are based on the formula of stretching, relaxation, deep breathing, increasing
circulation and concentration. As such, yoga is beneficial to a professional athlete as it
enables them to strengthen their concentration ability, foster a calm and relaxed mind,
enhance the mind / body connection allowing an athlete to have greater muscle coordination
and fluidity of movement.
• Yoga is also beneficial to a professional athlete as it positively contributes to the health and
vitality of the body, strengthens internal organs such as the heart, lungs and liver and helps
to maintain fitness and agility.
• Yoga also helps to reduce stress and anxiety, cultivate self-confidence and self-belief. All
of these elements are pivotal to sporting excellence and peak performance. As highlighted
above, in order to perform a sporting action efficiently and effectively, a person needs to
have a high degree of concentration and focus with a mind that is calm and controlled.
• Yoga can help a sportsperson to have evenness of mind and control of their thoughts even
during stress and/or adversity. Yoga is able to help a person have control over their body
through control of their mind. As such, Yoga can play a key role in cultivating mind control
and concentration which helps a sportsperson to perform at their peak level.
• In order to understand how Yoga can benefit professional sports persons, it is necessary to
explore what is required to play a sport and play it well.
• It is well acknowledged that to play any sport, whether it be tennis, volleyball, surfing,
swimming or running, we must develop the basic skills and continually train the body so
that we can apply the skill in a refined and polished way.
• This of course requires considerable time, energy and commitment to practice the skill at
hand. Having a body that is flexible, strong and controlled is also another important
consideration, if one is not able to move the body with the grace, velocity and speed
required, then performance will be lacklustre.
• Similarly, if a person is not able to maintain endurance or stamina for the required duration,
the performance will be diminished. In order to play a sport well, it is also necessary that a
person is able to focus and concentrate with confidence on the task at hand without
distraction or timidity. As such, dealing with distractions, adversity and stress is an
important component.40
• In sports gurukul, there should be a space where athletes can perform yoga,
meditation, concentration therapy. These activities can be practised indoor and
outdoor.

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https://www.yogapoint.com/mainstory/TopstoryContents/yoga_sports.htm

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 CHAPTER-4
CASESTUDY-1
ABHYUDAY ASHRAM, MORENA, MADHYA PRADESH

REASON FOR SELECTION:

• To study how gurukul works in remote parts of country
• To study community enhancement through sports.

INTRODUCTION:
Abhyuday ashram, a residential school for ‘Bedia’ girls and boys was estabilished in 1992 by
‘Ramsnehi Chari’, a bedia who has crusaded against the prostitution of women in his
community, for over half a century. The ashram, which is funded by the state department of
women and child, has made a difference in the lives of 1000 bedia children.41 Most of students
came to ashram from poor, malnutrition, prostitution and illiterate family background. Ashram
taught students Taekwondo, Karate, Kabbadi, Kho-kho. Focus of Ashram is that each and every
student should learn martial arts skill which makes them physically and mentally strong. More
than 90 players from Abhyuday ashram had been played National Championship in
Taekwondo for over the years.

ABOUT ASHRAM:
• No. Of students- 200
Education- education from 1st to 10th class is been provided. In certain conditions some
of students stay in ashram after completion of 10th by admitting to nearby colleges
• Students from Bedia, Pardhi, Sapere communities studying in the ashram.
• Students get selected for upcoming academic years through campaigning of ashram in
localities.

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http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2008/06/2201

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LOCATION:
Vimukt Jati Abhyuday Ashram, Water Works Colony, Morena, Madhya Pradesh, India-
476001

• Nearest railway station: Morena (1.5km)

• Nearest airport: Gwalior (38.7km)
• Abhyuday ashram is well accessed through its road connectivity to ‘M.S. road’ on
which whole Morena city is been rested. Abhyuday ashram is within the reach from
renown places of Morena city like Collectorate office, District hospital, Morena
museum, SAF ground.
• Abhyuday ashram is surrounded by houses of local communities. Gyaneshwari temple
which well-known landmark is nearby ashram. Gyaneshwari temple road which is
opposite to ashram is get reduced to one lane of 10ft. Behind the ashram ‘Morena police
colony’ is situated.

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SITE MANAGEMENT:

ROOF PLAN
• Abhyuday ashram complex is well planned as per its user group. Complex virtually is
been divided into 2 parts i.e. girls’ hostel and boys hostel rooms.
• As per the need of privacy, girls’ hostel is been constructed separately which includes
inner courtyard which is leisure place for girls.
• There are four boys’ rooms where all boys are got accommodate themselves. Boys are
having separate washroom which is next to animal shed and another boys room.
Ashram complex have 2 prayer halls which open up into centrally located playground.
• Kitchen is been deserted from other structures of complex to easily escape of hot air
and other gases.

PRAYER HALL NEXT BOYS ROOM PRAYER HALL NEXT TO TEMPLE

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 GROUND FLOOR
• Centralised playground is foremost gathering space for all students. Courtyard is
community space for girls which is surrounded by all girls’ rooms.
• Each and every girls hostel room have bath and toilet facilities whereas boys have their
common washroom.
• Prayer is an important part of student’s daily routine that’s why 2 prayer halls has been
provided. Prayer hall next to karate room is quite bigger than other one.
• Drainage line and sewage line are well planned to drain out sewage and storm water
into gutter which is on the backside of ashram.
• Water supply line connection to ashram is from front side of ashram.

VIEW OF PLAYGROUND VIEW OF BOYS WASHROOM

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MICRO CLIMATE:

• North- south wind flow makes interior spaces naturally ventilated. Playground and
courtyard help in stack effect to circulate combination of hot air and cool air.
• Here, monsoon starts from end of June and ends in mid of September. Less rainfall
is the reason to having less vegetation on site.

DESIGN PROGRAM:
SR.NO. AREA CAPACITY AREA NO. AREA/PERSON
(SQ.MT.) (SQ.MT.
/PEOPLE)
1. Admin office 8 18 1 2.25
2. Prayer hall 200 120 1 0.6
3 Prayer hall 2 50 20 1 0.4
4 Classroom 10 20 18 0.2
5 Karate ROOM 20 40 1 2
6 Kitchen 8 40 1 5
7 Kitchen storeroom 8 20 1 2.5

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DAILY ROUTINE:
• 5:30 - Morning Walk
• 6:30 – Morning Prayer
• 7:00 – Taiquando / Karate Training
• 7:30 – Breakfast
• 8:30 To 9:30 – Tuition, After That Preparation for School
• 10:30 To 12:45 – School Lectures
• 12:50 To 1:50 -Lunch
• 1:30 To 4:30 - School Lectures
• 5:00 To 6:00 – Sports
• 6:30 – Evening Prayer
• 7:30 – Dinner
• 8:30 To 10:00 – Home Work

INDOOR SPACES:

• Hostel rooms itself use for classroom during school time.

• Air circulation at its best due to provision fins and openings as well as due to spaces
like courtyard. Reflection of sunlight from floors helps in gaining appropriate amount
of light during daytime.

MATERIALS:
Rcc and bricks is been prominently used in construction.

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 CASESTUDY-2
‘SAI’ SPORTS CENTER, KANDIVALI, MUMBAI

REASON FOR SELECTION:

• To study how to design sports centre.
• To study how spaces like sports ground, players hostel and its surroundings nurtures
sportsperson’s mind.

INTRODUCTION:
• Sports authority of India (SAI) is the apex national sports body of India. Sai has 14 ‘centre
of excellence’(COE) in sports throughout the nation. One of such centres of excellence of
SAI is situated in Mumbai at Kandivali, which is next to western express highway.
• SAI centre at Kandivali has sports such as Athletics, Kabaddi, Taiquando, Karate,
Wrestling, Judo, Volleyball, Football, Hockey.
• Every year selection trials taken by SAI, through which selected players got membership
of SAI. These players can train and stay at SAI’s COE centre and they can participate in
other national sports events.
• This centre also opens for local civilian during morning and evening hours for morning
and evening walk respectively. This centre is completely ban for arranging any public
gathering or event. For to arrange any event SAI centre person has to take prior
permission from SAI.

LOCATION:
• ADDRESS: Akurli Road,Near Samata Nagar Police Station, Shiv Sagar, Kandivali East,
Mumai, Maharashtra -400101
• ACCESSIBILITY:
Nearby Railway Station: Kandivali
Nearby Airport: Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport
Road Connectivity: Western Express Highway.
• SAI centre is connected to Kandivali railway station through Akurli road, which
becomes subway nearby western express highway.
• SAI centre has connected to expressway through small sub-road to stop traffic during
events in front of SAI centre.
• SAI centre is surrounded by slums and Highrise apartments.
• Area of SAI centre- 53.34 sq.mt.
• At the end of internal road of SAI centre Times of India’s press is located.
• SAI centre has seamless connectivity which makes it more special.

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TOWARDS KANDIVALI STATION TOWARDS DAHISAR

ENTRANCE OF SAI CENTRE

WESTERN EXPRESS HIGHWAY

TOWARDS BANDRA

SITE PLAN

SITE MANAGEMENT:
• Site is well equipped with greenscape which nourishes the sports grounds with oxygen and
keep them fresh and airy.
• One internal road connects all the structures and spaces of SAI centre.
• These trees and green scape act as an acoustic barrier which keeps noisy and polluted
environment away from centre.
• From the entrance, few distance away there are administrative offices of SAI are located
which looks in vernacular appearance.
• Nearby the bunch of offices, kabaddi ground and basketball ground located.
• Here, in SAI centre each sports ground is been separated from each other which makes
sportsperson to focus on his game.
• Athletics ground, hostel, mess placed in such manner that every sportsperson should
have an eye on field from his or her residential room also. It is well explained through
the section.

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 ENTRANCE GATE INTERNAL ROAD ATHLETICS GROUND

ADMIN OFFICES

KABBADI GROUND

BASKETBALL COURT

INDOOR SPORTS HALL HOCKEY ARENA HOSTEL NEXT TO ROAD

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MICRO-CLIMATE:
• Tree cover throughout the sai centre helps a lot to keep whole campus cool and filled
with fresh air.
• Treecover act as membrane to cool the air. Airflow coming from sw direction i.e. from
western express way side is been traped by tree cover .
• Traped air cooled by the tree cover and then cooled air passed onto interior spaces some
air get return back to open spaces like athletics ground.

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DESIGN PROGRAMME:
SR.NO. SPACES NUMBERS
1 Athletics Ground (8 Lane) With 1
Extra Play Area On One Side
2 Kabaddi Ground 2 Courts
3 Basketball 1 Court
4 Field Hockey Ground 2 Turf Ground
5 Indoor Sports Hall 1
6 Hostel 1
7 Mess 1
8 Admin Office 3
9 Washrooms Nearby Every Ground/ Arena
10 Storerooms Depends On NUMBER OF GROUNDS AND
TYPE OF SPORTS.
11 Groundsmen Quarters Depends On Number Of Grounds, Type Of
Ground, Type Of Sports.

CONCLUSION:
• Try to keep different sports arena’s away from each other.
• Try to keep locality around the grounds green asmyuch as possible.
• Entry and exits of the arena’s keep either stepup or stepdown from the road level.
• Plant greenscape such that it cools interior environment and provide fresh air to
grounds and arena’s.

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 CHAPTER-5
SITE ANALYSIS

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION:

• Site should be nearby metropolitian city or within metropolitian city.
• Site should be nearby other well known stadiums and sporting arena’s of the nation. Elite
athletes can visit Sports Gurukul and guide new generation frequiently.
• Site should be well enough located to get raw sports talents from its neighbourhood which
is neccessity of the project.
• Site should be located in such way that players should get quiet isolated from public life so
that athlete can focus more on their training. In ancient era, gurukul was also located in the
outscirts of the city.
• Site should be well connected to other parts of metropolice.
• Site should be big enough to hold all sporting activities, open spaces and training facilities.
• Site should be with less contour topography.

ABOUT SITE:
• Site under consideration is ‘Annasaheb Magar Stadium’ which is been constructed by
‘Pimpri-Chinchwad Muncipal Corporation’ earlier and it is maintained by ‘Pimpri-
Chinchwad Muncipal Corporation’.
• Current sporting facilities available at annasaheb magar stadium:
o Athletic ground
o Swimming pool
o Boxing ring
o 10m indoor shooting range.
• Earlier, site has a proposal of different sporting facilities of which only 20 % sporting
facilities is been constructed due to project cost was quiet high and it was unbearable for
‘Pimpri-Chinchwad Muncipal Corporation’.
• Currently, sporting facilities like athletic ground, 10mt indoor shooting range will go
under demolition as muncipal coprporation already put notice outside the arena which
saying entry under stadium stands is prohibited as structural stability of stadium is been
lost.
• Pimpri-chinchwad muncipal corporation needs new proposal for ‘Annasaheb Magar
Stadium’ which can be sustainable and under cost budget of corporation.
• Annasaheb Magar Swimming Pool is currently in good condition and working very well.
Annasaheb magar swimming pool holds school swimming events, corporate swimming
events.
• Currently, Annasaheb Magar Swimming Pool has only 50mt long swimming pool which is
well maintained. They don’t have diving pool right now.
• Nowadays, Athletic ground is been used for Ajmera School’s cricket practice. District level
cricket matches also been held on the athletic ground.
• At the entrance there are 2 water tanks out of which one is under construction.

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 SITE LOCATION

NEHRU ROAD

SITE UNDER
CONSIDERATION

NIGDI-BHOSARI ROAD

MAJOR DHYANCHAND
HOCKEY STADIUM

PCMC BAZAAR PIMPRI-CHINCHWAD

AND B. ROAD
AMBEDKAR
GROUND

PUNE-NASHIK HIGHWAY

OLD MUMBAI-
PUNE ROAD

INTERNATIONAL
ROWING CHANNAL

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 LOCATION:

NIGDI-BHOSARI ROAD

SITE UNDER CONSIDETRATION

NEHRU ROAD
TOWARDS PUNE-NASHIK HIGHWAY

ANNASAHEB MAGAR
STADIUM

SITE ENTRY
ANNASAHEB MAGAR
KRIDA-PRABODHINI SWIMMING POOL
SCHOOL

TOWARDS OLD MUMBAI-PUNE HIGHWAY

• ADDRESS: Annasaheb Magar Stadium,Trishul Sahakari Housing Society,

Yashwantnagar, Pimpri Colony, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Maharashtra 411018
• ACCESSIBILITY:
Nearby Railway Station: Pimpri (6.1 km away)
Nearby Highway Route: Nigdi -Bhosari Road which is connected to Pune – Nashik
Highway.
Nearby Airport: Pune International Airport (18.7 Km),within the radius of 20km there are
many halypads and few airports are available which gives fast and seamless connectivity.
7 halypads and one internationsal airport is within the vicinity of 20 km around the site.

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SITE SURROUNDINGS:

• Site under consideration is surrounded by different landscape and manmade features. On

Norethen side there are slums of Yashwant nagar and some small scale buildings. Treeover
on northen side is quiet less. Offices of Sports Department of Pimpri-Chinchwad Muncipal
Corporation is also located on northen inside the complex.
• Southern side is quiet desserted because there is no much structure other than two big water
tank.inside the complex on that side.outside the complex southern side is barricaded with
the buildings of PCMC’s Nashikphata Punarvasan Project.
• On eastern side there is much treescape available. Eastern boundry of complex is upto the
waghire odha. On eastern side there is PCMC’s Rose Garden located.
• Entry of the complex is on the western side where is some treescape available. On the
opposite side of the entry of the complex, election office and big housing project located. In
the tree cover one boxing ring is located which is not in use for many days.

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PRESENT SITUATION OF BOXING RING

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SITE JUSTIFICATION:
• Site is located in outskirts of pune metropolice i.e. Pimpri-Chinchwad.
• Whole Aannasaheb Magar Sports Complex is quiet looking silent space as denceness in
neighbourhood is quiet less.
• Site itslf well connected to other parts of metopolice pune within an hour.
• One of india’s well known sporting hub Balewadi is 55 km away from site.
• Within the reach of 200mts there is school named as “Krida-Prabodhini” which is intiative
of Maharashtra Government to nurture raw, underpriviledged sporting talent.
• Krida-Prabodhini school is nurturing every year 250 young sporting talents from class 5th to
class 10th.few out of all sporting talents are been continuing there sporting passion after the
class 10th.
• Nearby location of krida-prabodhini school makes will be key assest for the site as we are
getting raw and nurtured talents after 10 th for sports gurukul.
• Current conditions of the site and of the Stadiums in the site demands for sustainable
growth of sporting culture on the site through traditional way of Sports Gurukul.

IT NEEDS TO BE REDEVLOPED AS
SPORTS GURUKUL

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 CHAPTER-6
DESIGN PROGRAMME

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT SITE:

Name Annasaheb magar stadium
Location Annasaheb Magar Stadium,Trishul Sahakari Housing
Society, Yashwantnagar, Pimpri Colony, Pimpri-
Chinchwad, Maharashtra 411018
Boundaries on all Sides N: Yashwant Nagar Slums
S: Ncpc’s Nashikphata Punarvasan Project
E: Waghire Odha
W: Nehru Road
Accessibility Nearby Railway Station: Pimpri (6.1 km away)
Nearby Highway Route: Nigdi -Bhosari Road which is
connected to Pune – Nashik Highway.
Nearby Airport: Pune International Airport (18.7
Km),within the radius of 20km there are many halypads
and few airports are available which gives fast and
seamless connectivity.
7 halypads and one internationsal airport is within the
vicinity of 20 km around the site.

Climate Zone Tropical Region

Plot Area
Total Built-Up Area
Population No.of People 150-200 People
ADMINISTRATION:
ADMINISTRATION CAPACITY AREA NOS.REQD.
(NO.OF PPL.) (SQ.M)
Watchmen Cabin 4 8 2
Reception lobby 8 30 1
Administration quarter 10 30 3
Washrooms 10 25 1
Meeting room 3 15 1
Guest room 2 30 4
Conference room 15 300 1

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SPORTS MUSEUM:
SPORTS MUSEUM CAPACITY AREA (SQ.M) NOS.REQD.
(NO.OF PPL.)
Reception 50 30 1
Museum Hall 100 100 1
OPEN FORUM 150 225 1
Men Washrooms 20 32 1
Women Washrooms 20 44 1
SPORTS FACILITIES:
SPORT CAPACITY AREA (SQ.M) NOS.REQD.
(NO.OF PPL.)
ATHLETICS
Athletic Ground 30 15000 1
Extra Play Area 10 500 1
GYMNASTICS
Gymnasium Hall 30 1800 1
WEIGHTLIFTING
Weightlifting Training 30 300 1
Hall
Competition Arena 10 80 1
GYM AND REHABILITATION CENTRE
Gym 60 150 1
Water Tread-Meal Zone 6 25 1
Anti- Gravity Treadmeal 4 20 1
Zone
Rehabilitation Centre 25 40 1
Doctors Studio 3 8 4
Yoga Hall 100 200 1
Changing Rooms 30 30 2
Councilling room 2 10 1
TOILETS
Men’s 20 32 4
Women’s 20 44 4

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EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES:
EDUCATIONAL CAPACITY AREA(SQ.M) NOS.REQUIRED
(NO.OF
PPL.)
Modern Classrooms 13 120 10
Congregation Space 100-120 200 1
Kitchen 10 40 2
Dinning Area 200 220 1
Men Toilet 20 32 2
Women Toilets 20 44 2

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 CHAPTER-7
ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH

• For sports gurukul, we need special architectural research for training areas for games
which are included in Sports Gurukul, grounds, gyms, meditation rooms, modern
classrooms with various educational facilities.
• Architectural research helps to understand what extra facilities required by an athlete around
the around the ground and on the ground.
• This research gives exact guidelines while going through designing process. This research
helps to understand the athlete, his or her needs which is first priority for design.
• Architectural research is as follows for sports gurukul as follows:

ATHLETICS:
o Generally Athletics tracks are multi‑­purpose with the interior of the 400m track used
as a pitch for soccer, gridiron and rugby. These tracks are also used for non‑sporting
events such as concerts and public assemblies.
o The IAAF Track and Field Facilities Manual 2008 (the Manual) stipulates
dimensions and equipment for international and other high class competition by elite
athletes. For club and school competitions, the dimensions of horizontal jumps landing
areas, distance to take‑­off boards, the lengths of runways, dimensions of landing areas
etc may be reduced. The safety of athletes must be paramount in making such
decisions.
o Standard competition layout:
Diagram on next page is recommended by the IAAF as Standard Competition Area.
The field events are evenly distributed over the arena to avoid congestion and to satisfy
the needs of the spectators. This layout avoids undue disruption of events by
ceremonies and counterbalances the concentration of interest in the finish area.
o Track events include sprint, middle distance, hurdle and steeplechase events. The 400m
oval track forms the basis of a multi‑­sports arena and its dimensions are dependent on
the requirements of other sports.
o The competition area for track events includes the following:
▪ Oval track with at least four lanes and safety zones measuring no less than 1m on
the inside and outside.
▪ Straight with minimum of six lanes for sprints and hurdles.
▪ Steeplechase track as for oval track with a permanent water jump.
▪ There are three basic types of track surface—synthetic, unbound mineral (cinder)
and grass.
o The 400m Standard Track (the Track) has straight and curved sections of almost equal
length and uniform bends which are most suitable to the running rhythm of athletes.
Furthermore, the area inside the track is large enough to accommodate all throwing
events and also a standard football (soccer) pitch (68m x 105m).42

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 ATHLETIC GROUND
1. FOOTBALL PITCH
2. STANDARD TRACK
3. LONG AND TRIPLE JUMP FACILITY
4. WATER JUMP
5. JAVELIN THROW FACILITY
6. DISCUS AND HAMMER THROW FACILITY
7. DISCUS THROW FACILITY
8. POLE VAULT FACILITY
9. SHOT PUT FACILITY
10. HIGH JUMP FACILITY
11. FINISH LINE

o The Track comprises 2 semicircles, each with a radius of 36.50m, which are joined by
two straights, each 84.39m in length.
o The Track has 8, 6 or occasionally 4 lanes but the last is not used for international
running competition. All lanes have a width of 1.22m ± 0.01m.

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MARKING OF THE 400M STANDARD TRACK:
o All track markings must be in accordance with the IAAF 400m Standard Track Marking
Plan (Figure 2.2.1.6a attached in the Manual).
o All lanes are marked by white lines. The line on the right hand side of each lane, in the
direction of running, is included in the measurement of the width of each lane.
o All start lines (except for curved start lines) and the finish line are marked at right angles
to the lane lines.
o Immediately before the finish line, the lanes are marked with numbers with a minimum
height of 0.50m.
o All markings are 0.05m wide.
o All distances are measured in a clockwise direction from the edge of the finish line nearer
to the start to the edge of the start line farther from the finish.
o The data for staggered starts for the Track (constant lane width of 1.22m) is shown in the
table below.
Distance Bend Lane2 Lane3 Lane4 Lane5 Lane6 Lane7 Lane8
200M 1 3.519 7.352 11.185 15.017 18.850 22.683 26.516

400M 2 7.038 14.704 22.370 30.034 37.700 45.366 53.032

800M 1 3.526 7.384 11.260 15.151 19.061 22.989 26.933
4X400M 3 10.564 22.088 33.630 45.485 56.761 68.355 79.965

ABOUT START LINES:

o The essential requirement for all start lines, straight, staggered or curved, is that the
distance for every athlete, when taking the shortest permitted route, is the same, and not
less than the stipulated distance with no negative tolerance.
▪ For races of 800m or less, each athlete has a separate lane at the start.
▪ Races of up to, and including 400m are run entirely in lanes.
▪ Races of 800m start and continue in lanes until the end of the first bend.
o The exit from the first bend is marked distinctively with a 0.05m wide line (breakline)
across the track to indicate when the athletes can break from their lanes.
o To assist athletes to identify the breakline, small cones or prisms (0.05m x 0.05m) and no
more than 0.15m high,preferably a different colour from the breakline and the lane lines,
are placed on the lane lines immediately before the intersection of each lane and the
breakline.
o Races over 800m are run without lanes using a curved start line.
o For the 1000m, 2000m, 3000m, 5000m and 10,000m, when there are more than 12 athletes
in a race, they are divided into two groups with one group of 65% of the athletes on the
regular arced start line and the other group on a separate arced start line marked across the
outer half of the track. The other group runs as far as the end of the first bend on the outer
half of the track.
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o A cone or other distinctive mark is placed on the inner line of the outer half of the track at
the beginning of the following straight to indicate to the athletes of the outer group where
they are permitted to join the athletes using the regular start line. For the 2000m and
10,000m this point is at the intersection of the 800m break line and the inner line.
4 X 400M RELAY RACES:
o For the 4 x 400m relay races, the starting positions for the first athletes in each lane are
shown in IAAF 400m Standard Track Marking Plan.
o The scratch lines of the first take-over zones are the same as the start lines for the 800m.
o Each take-over zone is 20m long of which the scratch line is the centre. The zones start
and finish at the edges of the zone lines nearest the start line in the running direction.
o The take-over zones for the second and last take-overs are marked 10m either side of the
start/finish line.
o The arc across the track at the entry to the back straight showing the positions at which
the second stage athletes are permitted to leave their respective lanes, are identical to the
break line arc for the 800m event.
HURDLES:
o The standard 400m track and the sprint track with 100m and 110m are used for hurdle
races. The hurdle positions are marked on the track by lines 100mm x 50mm so that the
distances measured from the start to the edge of the line nearest the approaching athlete
are in accordance with the table below.
o The hurdles are placed so that the edge of the bar nearest the approaching athlete
coincides with the edge of the track marking nearest the athlete.
o There are 10 flights of hurdles in each lane, set out in accordance with the following
tables.
Hurdle number, height and position on track
Race Distance Hurdle Distance Distance Last Hurdle
Height Start To 1st Between To
Hurdle Hurdles Finish Line.

110 Mens 1.067M 13.72M 9.14M 14.02M

110 Junior Men 0.991M 13.72M 9.14M 14.02M
110m Youth Boys 0.914M 13.72M 13.72M 13.72M
100m Junior Women 0.838M 13.00M 8.50M 10.50M
100m Youth Women 0.762M 13.00M 8.50M 10.50M
400m Men Junior 0.914M 45.00M 35.00M 40.00M
400m Youth Boys 0.838M 45.00M 35.00M 40.00M
400m Women/Junior/Youth 0.762M 45.00M 35.00M 40.00M

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WEIGHTLIFTING:
o For the sport of weightlifting the field of play relates to the area of competition which
contains:
▪ Competition platform and stage
▪ Technical Officials’ and Competition Management tables
▪ Warm‑­up area43
PLATFORM:
o Two types of platforms are authorised for use by the IWF—Competition and
training/warmup platforms. Both types of platforms must meet the authorised
specifications.
o About plateform and manufacturing on site
▪ The raised, dedicated lifting platform is the ideal lifting surface if allowable in your
gym. Its advantages are better force absorption for dropped weights, meaning less
wear and tear on both the equipment and floor underneath, better noise reduction for
your stupid neighbors, and it creates a clearly-defined lifting area for the athlete. The
disadvantages are the greater cost of materials, time to build, and the fact that it
disrupts floor space for other uses.
▪ The traditional lifting platform is 8x8 feet. This is a convenient size because
standard sheets of plywood and the like are 4x8 feet, and this is enough space for
anything a weightlifter would need to do in training, even with a squat rack on one
end of the platform.

FIGURE 31: WEIGHTLIFTING FLOOR

▪ Build the base of the platform with two layers of inexpensive plywood these sheets
can be low-grade, as they won’t be seen or lifted on directly; they just need to create a
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▪ Lay through the middle areas you can’t use too many screws here. You can glue instead,
or glue and screw, but prefer not to because it prevents disassembly of the platform for
moving or repair later. Lots of screws may be a pain to remove later, but you can remove
them, and they’ll keep the sheets lying flat against each other.
▪ Next, you need to place your top sheet to create the lifting surface. Many people use an
unmodified 4x8 sheet of plywood or MDF here, which will work, but the plates on the
bar will be just barely outside the edges. Trim this top sheet down to 3’6” to add a little
more space for the bumpers to land on rubber. Cut if you’re going to, and lay this sheet
in the middle of the platform don’t attach it yet.

PROCESS TO BUILD
WEIGHTLIFTING FLOOR

▪ two 4x8 sheets side by side along the long edges, with the seam between the two
running front to back. Then lay the other two sheets plywood on top perpendicularly
(the seam between them running from side to side). Screw these sheets together along
all edges .
▪ It’s better to use using ¾” MDF on the top it’s far less expensive than plywood of the
quality you need for this application, and it’s heavy and naturally flat, so there’s less
of an issue of it bowing up in the middle. If you use plywood, you need a quality sheet
with a perfectly flat, smooth surface on at least one side.
▪ Now we need to add the rubber landing surfaces along each side of the lifting surface.
You can buy this rubber from multiple sources the best are as horse stall mats from
ranch supply companies or as rolled rubber sheeting. Buying “fitness” matting is

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 unnecessarily expensive. Buy rubber with a smooth, flat surface at least on one side.
Can’t stand on platforms with diamond plating patterns on the rubber.
▪ It makes the bar bounce unpredictably and hard to get set up in the exact position you
want when lifting. Other rough surfaces are hard to clean and get disgusting in short
order.
▪ If you’ve trimmed your lifting sheet down to 3’6”, you’ll need to cut two pieces of
rubber 27 inches x 8 feet. If you’re leaving the wood 4 feet wide, the rubber will need
to be 2x8 feet.
▪ This is where additional expense and work comes into play you can buy rubber in 4-
foot widths, which can be cut in half to create your two 2-foot wide pieces if you go
with a 4-foot wide lifting surface.
▪ If you opt to use a narrower lifting surface, you end up with a leftover piece of rubber
21 inches wide that you can’t use on the platform without having seams. It’s worth able
to go narrower. think so you can use the extra rubber for other projects, or for on the
floor between multiple platforms.
▪ Once you have the rubber cut, lay it on the platform along the outside edges of your
lifting surface. Get these three pieces aligned and snugged up tightly against each other,
then screw the wooden top sheet down. Again, you can glue it if you don’t even plan
on replacing it or moving the platform. Screw along the edges and countersink the
screws. Finally, screw the rubber down, only screw the corners and a few spots on the
outside edges. This is enough to keep it tightly in place, and you then have no screw
heads where the bumpers will be dropping, so you won’t damage them.
▪ If you need to increase sound-dampening, you can add a second layer of rubber (and an
equally thick wooden layer under the top sheet to keep the lifting surface flat).
▪ This rubber can be underlayment, which is less expensive and more absorptive. Keep
in mind that this will reduce the noise somewhat, but dropping heavy weights will be
loud no matter what you do if the lifting surface is stable and hard as it should be.
COMPETITION PLATEFORM:
▪ The platform is a 4m square and made of wood, plastic or any solid material and
covered with a non‑­slip material.
▪ The height of the platform is between 50mm and 150mm.
▪ If the floor surrounding the platform is the same or similar colour, the top edge of the
platform must have a different coloured 150mm line.
▪ A clear one metre area surrounding the platform is compulsory. This area must be flat
and free from any obstacles.
▪ If the platform is above ground level, a restraining bar at least the width of the platform
must be fixed to the stage, at least one metre in front of the platform.

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WARM-UP PLATFORM:
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GYMNASTICS:
o Gymnastic played wordwide under following disciplines.
• Artistic gymnastics
• Rhythmic gymnastics
• Trampoline
• Aerobic gymnastic
• Acrobatic gymnastics
o Following are technical specifications for various disciplines of gymnastics and categaries.

Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG)

• There are four competitive apparatus in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics:

1. Vault
2. Uneven bars
3. Beam
4. Floor

WOMEN'S ARTISTIC
GYMNASTICS FLOOR
LAYOUT

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MEN’S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS (MAG):
• There are six competitive apparatus in the MAG:

1. Floor
2. Pommel Horse
3. Rings
4. Vault
5. Parallel Bars
6. Horizontal Bar

• The standard performance area for both men and women are 12m x 12m. The border is
100cm minimum and where there is a delimitation strip between the performance area and
the border, the strip is 5cm wide and included as part of the performance area.
• Landing mats
Preference should be given to uniform colours. The thickness of the mats for pommel is
100mm and for all other events, 200mm.

MEN'S ARTISTIC
GYMNASTICS FLOOR
LAYOUT

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 COMPETITION AREA FOR
ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

AEROBIC GYMNASTICS:
• Aerobic Gymnastics requires the ability to perform continuous complex and high
intensity movement patterns to music, which originates from traditional aerobic. Aerobic
gymnasts can compete in following classes:

1. Individual Men’s, Individual Women’s, Mixed Pairs, Trio, Group (of 5 gymnasts)
2. Aerobic Step (8 gymnasts)
3. Aerobic Dance (8 gymnasts)

• The performance area for single events is 7m x 7m and the performance area for duo, trio
and groups is 10m x 10m. The competition area is surrounded by a black delimitation
strip.
• The border is horizontal, even and at the same height as the performance area. It is
100cm in area. The safety zone is also 100cm.

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 COMPETITION
AREA FOR
AEROBIC
GYMNASTICS

DISCIPLINE APPRATUS FLOOR HEIGHT HEIGHT OF HALL

AREA(M) OF HALL (INTERNATIONAL)
Mens artistic MAG floor 18 x 18 7m 8-10m
gymnastics MAG pommel horse 4x4
(MAG) MAG rings 6x6
MAG vaulting table 3 x 35
MAG uneven bars 6 x 12
MAG high bars 6 x 12
WAG vaulitng table 5 x 35 6m 8-10m
Womens WAG uneven bars 6 x 14
artistic WAG balance beam 6 x 18
gymnastics WAG floor 18 x 18
(WAG)
Aerobic AG performance area 18 x 18 6m 8m-10m
gymnastics
(AG)
Table of surfaces of apparatus, safety zones and total surfaces
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MEDITATION AREAS AND EDUCATIONAL AREAS:
• Meditation areas and educational areas focussing more on relaxation and concentration of
mind and body.
• These disciplines are completely focused on the human being, as they seek to work and
satisfy their physical, psychological and spiritual needs.
• Many of the operations taken in these spaces create enabling environments for reflection,
introspection, healing.
• Although each practice may require specific characteristics, most take place in a large open
central space, accompanied by a set of support rooms.

Main Room:
• This is the central space of the building where people gather for practice, and generally
is a free plan, flexible and adaptable to different uses. To determine its dimensions, we
can use the standard measures of a yoga mat, which unfolds fully stretched in an area of
approximately 1.70 x 0.60 meters. It is suggested to leave at least 50 cm between the mats,
to allow the free movement of users during the exercises.
• Some of these rooms have a small platform or elevated area where the instructor or guide
of the session is located, and it is good to add shelves or countertops where people can leave
their 'tools' during the class (water bottles, towels, blankets, slippers). Usually, the room has
mirrors on one or more walls, but this depends on the needs and the taste of the user.

Circulations:
• Circulations gain great importance in this kind of projects, because not only can
function as corridors or hallways, but also can contain storage spaces, waiting and
resting areas, or even a reception. Some cases also take advantage of the walls to
incorporate built--in shelves

Acoustics
• There is a belief that these spaces must be completely silent, but precisely the idea of
these disciplines is to be developed in spite of the ambient noise. In fact, in many cases,
it is recommended to fully perform in exteriors, as many sounds of nature can help a better
realization of different practices. In the case of closed rooms, these sounds (and even smells)
can be integrated by incorporating indoor courtyards or gardens that attract birds, including
moving water, and/or allow the flow of the wind.
• Obviously, if a practice requires complete silence, the design must allow that the space
can be completely isolated.

Ventilation
• This is a fundamental issue in these practices, since they all use breath as the basis for its
development. It is important to allow cross ventilation across the room, making sure that
there is a certain current renew of oxygen inside, during the session or at the times when the
room is not being occupied.
• For this, we should generate a first opening in the facade that receives the prevailing
winds, and a second opening (preferably bigger) on the opposite wall.

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Illumination:
• The light allows to qualify environmentally the space and can help to lead the intension of
the practice being done. In the case of Yoga, direct connection to the sun is essential in
many of their exercises. That's why we should always favor natural lighting, and is
necessary, to incorporate systems to regulate their intensity, allowing darken the
room completely if necessary.
• In order to avoid glare,we can use zenithal openings, windows at floor level, fuzzy
screens, and light courtyard surrounding the main room.
• If practices are carried out at night, artificial lighting choice should be warm and also
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30 Beam event https://insidernorth.org/gymnastics/best-gymnastics-balance-beams/

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