SPORTS
SPORTS
• Euphoria (short-term)
• The word "sport" comes from the Old French desport
• Increased energy, focus and attention
meaning "leisure", with the oldest definition in English
• Hinderance to the aging process
from around 1300 being "anything humans find amusing
• Improved memory
or entertaining“
• Improved blood circulation
• An activity that requires physical actions and skills
where individuals or teams compete under a set of rules. • Decreased ‘brain fog’
• Sport (or sports) is all forms of usually competitive PSYCHOLOGICAL benefits
physical activity which, through casual or organized
participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical • Improved mood
ability and skills while providing entertainment to • Reduced stress as well as an improved ability to cope
participants, and in some cases, spectators with stress
• Improved self-esteem
IMPORTANCE OF SPORTS
• Pride in physical accomplishments
• Sport is as old as humanity itself. It’s kept societies fit • Increased satisfaction with oneself
and healthy while building strong communities and • Improved body image
boosting morale. In this modern world of iPhones and • Increased feelings of energy
laptops, the importance of sports is more relevant than • Improved in confidence in your physical abilities
ever. Competitive physical exercise doesn’t only • Decreased symptoms associated with depression
motivate children and adults to get outside and keep fit
but it also instills important values. improved SOCIAL SKILLS
• For many people, sport is taken for granted. It’s • For many people in the modern world, social interaction
something that exists in the background but isn’t is lacking. Sport could be you’re way into making
considered particularly valuable. Maybe it’s seen as a bit friends and reaping all the benefits that come with that.
of fun on the weekend but ultimately, not all that Outside of physical health, relationships are the most
important. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Sport important foundation of happiness. Team sports are
matters and the importance of sports need to be more particularly good for building social prowess. Whether
widely discussed. Without it, many aspects of modern you’re a socially awkward adult or want your child to
society will crumble. improve their interpersonal skills, team games are one of
• From health and happiness to education and society, the best tools for achieving this.
sport matters. Promoting sports, inspiring young athletes,
and increasing healthy competition will help individuals Importance of sport in education
and communities to flourish.
• Building Friendship Among Pupils
The Health Benefits of SPORTS o Kids in schools need to be able to get along
with their fellow pupils. They’ll spend years of
• Improved cardiovascular health. their lives with the same people, confined to
• Lowers risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes classrooms, and cooperating on group tasks.
• Helps manage weight. • Healthy Kids are Better Learners
• Reduced blood pressure o Physical exercise boosts mental energy,
• Enhanced aerobic fitness memory retention, and concentration. As a
• Improved muscular strength and endurance result, children who get a few minutes of
• Improved joint flexibility and range of motion. exercise each day perform better in the
• Stress relief classroom. They’re less likely to get distracted
• Lowers risk of certain types of cancer. and will take in information more quickly.
• Control cholesterol. • Improving Problem Solving Skills
• Ward off osteoporosis. o In addition to healthy children performing
• Strengthens immune system. better at school, athletic children are great
• Improved sleep. problem solvers. That’s essentially what a
• Mental health benefits. sports game is! Kids must find a way to outwit
the opposition to win the match. For the
• Prolonged life.
duration of the game, players are solving
NEUROLOGICAL benefits problems
• Instilling Core Values
• Decreased stress o Sport teaches values that are essential to daily
• Decreased social anxiety life. Respect for the opposition is needed when
• Improved processing of emotions
entering the grown -up world of politics or • These are the decision-making skills or strategies used in
having disagreements with a romantic partner. different situations during the game
The Role of Sport in Society Examples of Tactical Skills:
• Sports’ immense effect on culture is especially evident • A basic example is the use of quick pass and movement
among those who may not enjoy playing or watching against a taller but slower opponent in basketball
sports–these people often still know the names of key
players, and they may still take national pride in What is the health -related and skill - related fitness in
Olympic medals. No matter your individual sports/physical activity?
involvement, sports generally provide everyone in a
• Health -related physical fitness
society with some form of a shared story and a shared
o are the aerobic capacity, muscular strength,
goal.
muscular endurance, flexibility, and body
• In fact, sports in society are so vital that the United composition of an individual
Nations (UN) has declared them a human right: “Sport
• Skill -related physical fitness
and play are human rights that must be respected and
o sometimes called sports fitness or motor fitness.
enforced worldwide; sport has been increasingly
• One of the factors that influence skill -related
recognized and used as a low-cost and high-impact tool
performance is heredity; however, most fitness skills can
in humanitarian, development and peace-building
be developed and improved.
efforts.
Skill Related Fitness Components
TYPES OF SPORTS
• Agility
• INDIVIDUAL
o the ability to quickly change direction and
o are played by one participant on each
control the position of the body while
competing team
maintaining a constant, rapid motion
• DUAL
• Balance
o are played by two competing pair
o the ability to control or stabilize the body
• TEAM
whether a person is standing still or moving
o are played by three or more players
• Coordination
• COMBATIVE
o the ability to use the senses together with body
o is a full contact competition between two
parts during movement
contestants.
• Speed
What does one need to know in playing sports? o the ability to move your body or body parts
quickly.
• History • Power
• Court Dimension / Venue o the ability to move parts of the body swiftly
• Equipment and Gear while applying the maximum force of the
• Technical and Tactical Skills muscles.
• Rules of the Game • Reaction Time
• Officiating o ability to react or respond quickly to an external
stimulus
TECHNICAL
The History of Badminton
• These are basic or fundamental skills needed to play the
game. • Badminton is an interesting sport which is played by
either one or two players on each side of the court.
These are basic or fundamental skills needed to play the game. • The objective of the game is to hit the shuttle so that it
• Basketball lands at the opponent’s side of the court without the
o Dribbling opponent returning. The shuttle should go over the net.
o Passing • When the game is played by one player on each side, it
o Shooting is referred to as singles while that of a team of two
• Volleyball players is called doubles. However, most people enjoy
o Ball reception this game with slight or no idea at all of its history.
o Attacking/Spiking Below is a brief history of badminton.
o Setting • India played a vital role in the development of this game.
This was through the introduction of another game that
TACTICAL was similar to “ti jian zi” called Battle and Shuttlecock
that was played in China, India, Japan and Greece
• The game used shuttlecock which was hit by a o This shot makes the shuttlecock fly as high as
Battledore (paddle). This game was played in the 1860s possible so that it can fall behind the opponent'
in Poona India. The description and the objectives of this s court line.
game are very similar to that of badminton today. • Drop Shot
• The British government officials who were posted to o This shot can make the shuttlecock fall near the
India during those years took the game to their homes in net.
1873. It was here where the nets were added and the • Smash
game henceforth took the form known to date. Duke of o This shot is done with full power and swift
Beaufort was the first to introduce the game in England movement to make the shuttlecock fall in the
and it soon became a hit and a gained a lot of popularity opponent' s playing area.
among the elite in England as a party sport • net shot
• Badminton was first introduced as a demonstration game o The aim of this shot is to play the shuttle as
to Olympic Games in 1972in Munich. close as possible to the net so that it is difficult
• It became an official Olympic sport during the1992 to return
Olympic Games which took place in Barcelona where
COMBATIVE SPORTS ARNIS
the doubles and the singles disciplines were introduced
• The mixed doubles discipline was introduced in • LEGAL MANDATES
Atlanta’s Olympic Games in 1996becoming the only o THE LEGAL MANDATE OF ARNIS IS
mixed event in all Olympic Games. CONTAINED IN REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9850
• In 1934, the international badminton federation (ibf) was ALSO KNOWN AS AN ACT DECLARING
established ARNIS AS THE NATIONAL MARTIAL ART
• Itis know known as Badminton world federation AND SPORT OF THE PHILIPPINES
• England, France, Canada, Denmark, Netherlands, New • Definition of arnis
Zealand, Ireland, Scotland and Wales were the first o Arnis, also known as Eskrima, Kali, Garrote
members and other names in various regional languages,
• Badminton is a sport that uses a racket and a ball made such as Pananandata in Tagalog; Pagkalikali,
of goose feathers called a shuttlecock Ibanag; Kabaraon and Kalirongan, Pangasinan;
Kaliradman, Bisaya; and Didja, Ilokano, is an
badminton terminology
indigenous Filipino martial art and sport
• Side out - loss of service. characterized by the use of swinging and
• Fault - a violation of the rules. twirling movements, accompanied by striking,
• Birdie - shuttlecock. thrusting and parrying techniques for defense
and offense. This is usually done with the use of
• Let - serve hitting the top of the net and landing in the
one (1) or two (2) sticks or any similar
proper court, a serve retake.
implements or with bare hands and feet also
• Match - winning 2 out of 3 games.
used for striking, blocking, locking and
• Rally - a sequence of one or more strokes starting with
grappling, with the use of the same principle as
the service until the shuttle ceases to be in play.
that with the canes.
• In side - team serving.
• Arnis is hereby declared as the Philippine National
• Outside - the team receiving. Martial Art and Sport. The official adoption of arnis as
• Odd and Eve Courts - In Singles - At the beginning of the national martial art and sport shall be promulgated by
the game and when the score is even, the server serves inscribing the symbol of arnis in the official seal of the
from the right service court. When it is odd, the server Philippine Sports Commission and by making it as the
serves from the left service court. first sport competition to be played by participating
• Game Scoring - Played to 21. The side winning a rally teams on the first day in the annual Palarong Pambansa.
adds a point to its score. At 20 all, the sides which gains The Philippine Sports Commission shall be the lead
a 2-point lead first, wins that game. At 29 all, the side agency to implement the provisions of this Act.
scoring the 30th point, wins the game. The side winning
a game serves first in the next game. HISTORY
badminton grip • Arnis can be traced from the ancestors of the Philippines'
aboriginal inhabitants -the Negritos or Aeta who came
• Forehand from the Asian mainland, crossing shallow seas and land
• Backhand bridges. Arnis evolved from a bladed weapon into its
present systematic martial arts which for span a history
Different Types of Shots in Badminton
of over a thousand years. The scarcity of written records
• Lob or clear and the archipelagic nature of our country caused the
art’s fragmented development across the ages, making it
difficult for the researchers to establish its chronological • Basic uniform use are White shirt, Red pants and Rubber
line of descent to the modern times. This art was shoes
practiced primarily for self-defense by the pre-Spanish
Filipinos who were noted for their friendly nature and BATTLEGEAR
legendary hospitality
• Padded stick
• Arnis used to be known as “Kali” , an ancient Malayan
• Head Protector
word which implies a large bladed weapon longer than
• Upper aim guards
knife, Kali must have been derived from Tjakalele which
• Hand gloves
is a native fencing in Indonesia. But it must be noted that
• Lower arm guards
fighting is inherent to man since one of the purposes of
life is its preservation. Men fight against beast with club • Body armor
or with their bare hands, until man fights against man. • Groin Guard
This form of fighting developed into a method of • Upper leg Guard
fighting until it became an art. • Lower Leg Guard
• The writing contains two parts. The first part deals with GRIP
the culture, tradition, and organization of Aetas in Panay.
While the second part tells about the ten Bornean Datus. • In modern arnis about 2 inches of cane is left beneath the
Indonesia was once, in ancient times a part of Sri grip to allow for use as a butt. Grip is firm as though
Vishayan and Majapajit empires whose spheres shaking hands and thumb is folded on top of first finger.
influence reached the Philippines. Wrist is relaxed
• Lapu-lapu was a kali expert on April 27, 1521, Lapulapu
felled the great Spanish navigator and warrior Pigafetta PARTS OF THE STICK
Magellan, with a bladed weapon (Kampilan) thus • Thrusting- Upper part of arnis
marking the Filipino’s first victorious stand against
• Sticking part – Whole stick
foreign invader.
• Butting part – Lower part of the arnis
• In 1564, another conquistador, Miguel Lopez de Legaspi
with his men landed in Abuyog, Leyte. They were BASIC STANCES
treated to a feast and shown a sample of the early
Filipino’s skill in combat with Kali. • Formal
• Kali declined in popularity as early as 1596 when the • Straddle
Spanish authorities discouraged, and eventually banned • Forward
the practiced of the art in 1764. • Backward
• In 1673, the friars introduced the moro-moro, socio
12 STRIKING TECHNIQUES
religious play dramatizing the triumph on the Christian
Spaniards over the Muslim. • Left temple strike (kaliwang sintido)
• Modern Arnis is the system of Filipino martial arts • Right temple strike (kanang sintido)
founded by the late Remy Presas as a selfdefense system. • Left elbow strike ( Kaliwang siko)
His goal was to create an injury-free training method as • Right elbow strike( kanang siko)
well as an effective self-defense system in order to • Stomach thrust (Tiyan)
preserve the older Arnis systems. The term Modern
• Left chest thrust (Kaliwang dibdib)
Arnis was used by Remy Presas' younger brother
• Right chest thrust ( Kanang dibdib)
Ernesto Presas to describe his style of Filipino martial
• Right knee strike (Kanang tuhod)
Artist
• Left knee strike ( Kaliwang tuhod)
SIX CARDINAL RULES IN ARNIS • Left eye thrust (Kaliwang mata)
• Right eye thrust (kanang mata)
• DISCIPLINE – DISIPLINA
• Crown strike ( Ulo)
• SPORTMANSHIP – PAGKAMAGINOO
• LOYALTY- KATAPATANG LOOB COMPETITIVE ARNIS
• ETIQUETTE – KAGANDAHANG ASAL
• Anyo competitions are judged on the basis of the overall
• SELF CONTROL – PAGPIGIL
choreography of the performances, including the
• SELF CONFIDENCE- TIWALA SA SARILI
gracefulness, strength and force employed
CANES, UNIFORM AND EQUIPMENT IN ARNIS • Meanwhile, the leban form tests participants’ agility and
reactions, as competitions are judged based on the
• Standard Arnis cane is made of rattan and is 27-30 number of strikes inflicted
inches long.
• Diameter can vary slightly but is generally about 1 inch.