subject: Involving The Youth Of Today In Sport [print this page] The main purpose of sport in schools is to get people moving. Obesity is becoming an ever increasing problem in UK second only to America, and this is placing a massive stress on the National Health Service.
One of the key ways to combat this is to educate our youth in to setting good examples and habits for the rest of their lives. Doing exercise gives you energy and can help raise you self-worth. Exercise produces endorphins which make you feel good, therefore hopefully encouraging the youth of today to have a better and more positive outlook on life.
Doing exercise can have good physiological effects on your confidence though meeting and socialising with others and the positive effects being part of a team has. Exercise is an excellent release of frustrations and stress for whoever you are, and can help combat the boredom that has forced young people to hang around the streets, and has become a part of our modern society for our youth.
Whether you are a child or an adult getting involved in sport can and will have a positive effect on your life. Sports are part of our lives in the UK from an early age through the school system. Some of the world's most famous sports began in Britain, including football, cricket, lawn tennis, golf and rugby and these sports are still played regularly in our schools today.
It is thought that football is our national sport, but the real national sport is actually cricket. Cricket is played from April through to August on village greens though out the country. Although Cricket is technically our nation's favourite sport, if you ask the average person on the street, football will be invariably be their response. Football is highly televised, and incredibly popular with in the UK. There are a number of England's football teams are famous throughout the world, the most famous being Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool.
Football origins can be partly place on a game known as mob football, this might not seem like the best name, but it basically involved a mob of people trying to manoeuvre an inflated pigs bladder by any means possible from one end of a field to the other.
The Football Association was created and set the first official rules in England in 1863. A football team is made up of two teams of eleven players. Only the Goalie is allowed to touch the ball with his hands during play. The field players are to kick the ball to the opposite end of the field to their team's goalie in the aim to score a goal in the opponents net. The team that has scored the most goals at the end of the game wins.
The game of rugby is a variation on the original game of football which is followed by thousands throughout the world today. A rugby team consists of fifteen players on each side, with up to seven substitutes allowed. A game is made up of two forty minute halves. The object of rugby, like most games is to beat the opposition by scoring more points. In rugby you do this mainly by scoring tries. These are very losing and brief explanation of the game as this is a game of complex rules and regulations.
Other key sports which are played in schools today are Tennis, netball, and basketball along with many others.
