Lesson 1

SPORTS
The word "sport" came from the Old French desport meaning "leisure",
with the oldest definition in English from around 1300 being "anything humans find
amusing or entertaining".

Sports originated in ancient Greece. The world's first sports often involved the
preparation for war or training as a hunter, which explains why so many early
games involved the throwing of spears, stakes, and rocks, and sparring one-on-one
with opponents.

Different Sports Activities

Nature of Different Sports Activities

Sports is a part of human civilization. In the past, people or whole armies

Benefits in Sports
There are several benefits of engaging in sports. One is learning how to set
goals, as well as collaborating with others in order to attain such goals. Another
advantage of sports is learning to follow and respect rules. The value of persistence
and perseverance is also developed in practices, motivated with the desire to
improve technique and the self. While the desire to win is encouraged, dealing with
loss and failure is also learned. The values learned in sports or games are also
lessons students can apply in life. Sports and games are laboratories of life.

There are several benefits of engaging in sports.

● Developing the ability to create goals and collaborate with others to achieve
them. (It is important to highlight the sportsmanship)
● Learning to follow and respect rules.
● While the desire to win is encouraged, dealing with loss and failure is also
learned.
● Playing sports helps reduce body fat or controls your body weight.
● Sport can create a healthier nation.
● The value of persistence and perseverance is also developed in practices,
motivated with the desire to improve technique and oneself. The values learned in
sports or games are also lessons students can apply in life. Sports and games are
laboratories of life.
The Nature of Sports
Sports, by nature, is made up of rules. These rules are put in place for several
reasons. First, rules are put up in sport to secure safety. Skill, strength, speed,
power, agility, competitive acumen, and swiftness of reaction time are
characteristics developed as competitors try to best each other given a set of
parameters that will totally eliminate, if not, minimize harm to each other and to
everyone. Second, rules are set up for a sport or game to be playable, For example,
boundary lines are usually put in place to eliminate players from running away. This
might sound too simplistic unless we think of a specific situation. Imagine playing
basketball without an outside line. Once a team scores, the next time they have ball
possession, they can just dribble the ball away and wait it out. The same logic goes
for time. If there are no time constraints, then a basketball team will not have the
need to drive the ball to the other side of the court and shoot the ball. Jin boxing or
in most martial arts, a player needs to attack given an allowed amount of time. In
weight lifting, the participant needs to lift the weight within a given time after his or
her name is called by the officials. Time and boundary lines are examples of rules to
make a sport playable. Third, rules exist so that the sport is marketable. A sport that
is not understood by the audience alienates that audience. If a spectator is
watching and knows the rules, then the spectator is drawn into the game. The
reasons that a player acts in a certain way may be due to the excitement induced
as the game is played, the thrill of winning or the agony of losing shared by the
spectator. When the audience knows the rules, the demonstrations of skill,
technique, pr strength, and all the other traits are a lot more appreciated. The
audience then become a part of a fan base for the sport who will want to watch m
who will want to engage in it, and the sport will gain popularity.

The different types of sports categories are:

SPORTS FACTS
 The golf ball has an average of 336 dimples.
 Poona was the initial name of badminton.
 Between 1900 and 1920, tug of war was an Olympic event.
 There are exactly 108 stitches on a baseball.
 A chef won the first-ever Olympic Games.
 Alan Shepard, an astronaut from Apollo 14, played golf for the
first time on the moon in 1971.
 Before being made available as a toy in the US in 1929, the well-
known yo-yo toy was first used as a weapon in the Philippines in
the sixteenth century.
 One of the world’s five continents is represented by one of the
Olympic Rings’ colours. ( blue - Oceania, the green- Europe, the
black -Africa, the red -America and the yellow- Asia.
 Turkey is the name for three consecutive strikes in bowling.
 Wilt Chamberlain is the only player to score 100 points in a
single NBA game