Many parents are now trying to send their child to some kind of sports section, so that the child from the very childhood already began to play sports. Olympic sports have always been a priority for all peoples, since they have a huge number of undeniable privileges, and the most important of them is government funding, which allows them to create a huge number of benefits for all young athletes and their potential career.

A bit of history: ancient Olympic sports

It is a well-known historical fact that the Olympic Games took their start back in the days of antiquity in Ancient Greece. Then only men could take part in them and all games of this kind were dedicated only to the Gods. These games began with chariot racing, and a little later, in addition to running, martial arts of various types appeared, petathlon (or pentathlon), horse races, and a little later the competitions were replenished with competitions of trumpeters and heralds. Some of the Olympic Games were so popular and relevant that they have survived to this day. Running is a prime example.

Olympic and non-Olympic sports

Any sport becomes an order of magnitude more prestigious and more promising after it can become Olympic. To achieve this level, a certain kind of sport must be mega popular in all countries of the world and on all continents, have international associations and a structure of competitions that must be officially approved. However, there are also sports that have the full package of advantages listed above and are recognized by the Olympic Committee, but nevertheless have not yet been included in the program of the Olympic Games.

Many professional sports are not Olympic sports just because they are popular only in certain countries.

Examples of such sports include:

• many types of sailing;
• extreme sports;
• many types of single combats;
• American football;
• ballroom dancing;
• cricket;
• golf;
• rugby.

If a sport is not considered Olympic, then this does not mean that such a sport is unpopular or little known. Many of the above sports have a huge number of spectators and fans, and even have their own considerable funding.

Summer olympic sports

The official program of the Summer Olympic Games consists of 41 disciplines (28 sports):

• badminton;
• basketball;
• boxing;
• wrestling;
• freestyle wrestling;
• Greco-Roman wrestling;
• cycling BMX;
• cycle track races;
• Mountain bike;
• road cycling;
• water polo;
• swimming;
• diving;
• synchronized swimming;
• volleyball;
• Beach volleyball;
• handball;
• gymnastics;
• rhythmic gymnastics;
• jumping on a trampoline;
• rowing;
• rowing and canoeing;
• rowing slalom;
• judo;
• Horseback Riding;
• dressage;
• show jumping;
• triathlon;
• Athletics;
• table tennis;
• sailing;
• modern pentathlon;
• shooting;
• archery;
• tennis;
• triathlon;
• taekwondo;
• Weightlifting;
• fencing;
• football;
• field hockey.

A controversial issue in these competitions is such a sport as wrestling. Nowadays, the exclusion of this sport from the Olympic Games is being actively discussed, and perhaps soon it will really be excluded.

Winter olympic sports

The official program of the Winter Olympic Games consists of 15 disciplines (7 sports):

• biathlon;
• curling;
• skating;
• figure skating;
• short track;
• skiing;
• ski nordic event;
• ski race;
• ski jumping;
• snowboard;
• freestyle;
• bobsled;
• skeleton;
• luge sports;
• hockey.

A huge number of these games have gained great popularity among young people from different countries and not at the level of professional training in a particular sport, but has become just a hobby. An example of this would be downhill skiing, ice skating, or snowboarding.

New Olympic sports

The Sochi Olympics in 2014 introduced three new sports disciplines at once:

• slopestyle in snowboarding;
• slopestyle in freestyle;
• parallel slalom in snowboarding.

Slopestyle is acrobatic stunts that are performed while descending from a height. This sport was included in the Olympic Games after gaining insane popularity all over the world, despite the fact that it is quite extreme. But most of all, the US Ski and Snowboard Association has contributed to its promotion. Sports experts are betting on American athletes to win the sport.

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Kaluga State Pedagogical University

On the subject "Physical culture" on the topic:

"NON-CONVENTIONAL, EXTREME,

NOT OLYMPIC SPORTS ”.

Group: ORM - 21.

Student: Ioenko Denis.

Sport is one of the key moments in human life. For many centuries people competed with each other, tried to be the first, the best, the only ones. It was thanks to this aspiration that various competitions arose, where each person could express himself without harm to others, show what he was capable of.

A huge number of competitions and sports achievements originated in the mists of time, but there are also young sports that are not even decades old. Not all of them are safe for health, but there are people willing to take risks in order to please themselves and others.

In my essay, I would like to touch upon the topic of extreme sports, as well as try to qualify those traditional sports that have not entered the status of Olympic sports, but are an integral part of the life of modern society .. For many years there have been interesting and exciting sports competitions. They, too, undoubtedly deserve attention. And it is about some of them that will be discussed in my essay.

Dozens and possibly hundreds of sports are popular and in demand among a huge number of people. Of course, we cannot even briefly dwell on all of them, but we will get to know some of them better.

Oddly enough, but in the world there are many people who cannot live without adrenaline in their blood. And all these people also make history, although some consider them to be crazy people who are tired of living ...

No matter how hard you try, no one will be able to combine individual extreme sports into any groups and subgroups, each sport is its own world, into which outsiders are prohibited from entering.

In my abstract, I would like to talk in more detail about only one of the categories of extreme sports, which can be united by only one aspect - the presence of a board.

Surprisingly, by the end of the twentieth century, simply stuffed to overflowing with all sorts of technical bells and whistles, avant-garde sports just reached for simplicity. The usual, if not to say primitive, board began to determine the form and content of all newfangled entertainment. They attached a sail to the board and began to glide along the waves - windsurfing appeared. With a parachute canopy behind them, they came up with the idea of ​​jumping out of a helicopter on the board and imitating gliding and dizzying stunts in free fall - sky-surfing was born. Wheels were attached to the board, and a street sports culture was formed - skateboarding. But the board idea did not stand still, and more recently wakeboarding appeared - riding a board behind a towing boat. And, naturally, boarding mania could not ignore winter sports, snow and mountain slopes. A snowboard - a snowboard - can be considered a great sports and entertainment invention of our time, which was supported with a bang by the young generation with enthusiasm, commensurate only with the previous choice of Pepsi.

SkySurfing

Skysurfing - jumping with skis to perform various figures in free fall - is a relatively young type of parachuting. Having appeared recently, it has received a very rapid development in Russia. The aerodynamics of a skier is very different from a simple free fall, which is why ski jumping is considered almost a different sport. Since all the work is in free fall, an air operator is needed to evaluate the jump, who films the entire jump and based on this video, an assessment is made. Thus, the team consists of two people - the skier and the operator. Only 50 seconds of the jump counts. The skill and artistry of performing the figures and the work of the operator are assessed. In order for the ski not to interfere in emergency situations, there is a ski release mechanism. If the ski is heavier than 20 g / cm, it must be equipped with its own parachute. Ski jumping is a difficult sport and only very experienced athletes are allowed to it, although at the moment, according to one of the sky surfers, only the lazy one does not want to ski. Although this statement does not fully correspond to the truth, the dynamics of the development of this sport is simply amazing. In 1995, at the World Championships, our athletes took quite high places, despite the almost complete absence of competitive experience in this form. Russian athletes have shown excellent results in international competitions. And in 1998, Russian skysurfer Valery Rozov took first place at the X-Games.

Skateboarding

Skateboarding is the fastest growing in popularity, ahead of snowboarding, aggressive rollerblades and BMX bikes. It is a participant in all MTV Sports and Music festivals, is part of ESPN's X-Games in three disciplines, and is considered a potential Olympic sport.

Skateboarding originated in the late 60s in the sunny state of California. This state is considered the center of the skateboard movement to this day. Californian surfers invented the skateboard as the land-based counterpart of the surf. Avoiding obstacles, downhill skiing - this is the area that the first skaters mastered and improved. At that time, to be considered steep, it was enough to dashingly slide down the hill without just falling. If you knew how to ride on your hands, then all the local girls wanted to sleep with you.

In the 70s, skaters grew long hair and skateboarding became technically difficult. At the same time, Ollie Gelfand came up with the ollie trick. The ordinary jump on the board without the help of hands became the basis for the further development of all skateboarding. Later, another iconic person, Rodney Mullen, based on ollie creates a whole bunch of tricks that have made up the entire modern street style.

The crisis in the real estate industry played into the hands of skaters. Many swimming pools built for the wealthy ended up without owners. They were perfect for skateboarding, as Americans build their pools with rounded sides. Skaters simply occupied all the empty pools. This is how another direction was born - pool skating. In the 90s, skateboarding finally became a popular extreme sport. The government builds special parks, produces colorful magazines on three hundred pages, the best skateboarders are shown on TV. Osiris' skate video The Storm is released on DVD with a separate soundtrack. Finally, passers-by cease to shy away at the sight of a fellow cruising on a skateboard.

But not with us. Unlike the States, skateboarding in the USSR appeared only in the early 80s. Until the 90s, it existed in the form of slalom. A huge influence on the development of the movement in the country of the Soviets was carried out by the demonstration in cinemas of American films about skaters: Reaching the Impossible and Collision. After that, the boom began. Several military factories retrained to produce skateboards. Some kind of competition was held, such as the Union Cup. But branded boards, on which you can jump, were made only abroad, closed to citizens of the USSR. Information also leaked badly from abroad. Therefore, the popularity of skateboarding gradually faded away by the mid-90s. The second coming began in 96-97, when young people had a real opportunity to travel abroad. And the surge in popularity began in the last two years, when several skate shops opened. The first professionals and competitions immediately appeared. But domestic skateboarding is still ahead. And you have a chance to become a real star in one of its varieties.

Modern skateboarding is divided into several types: vert (skating in the ramp), street (skating in the streets), skating in the mini ramp and pool skating (skating in the pool). Each species has its own technique, its own tricks. The most technically difficult type is vert, not every beginner skater will take the risk, just move off the 4-5m steep edge of the ramp. The ramp is half a pipe, an expensive structure, not everywhere, so vert is an elite type of skateboarding. The names of the top skaters occupying the top lines in this form are known all over the world. These are Americans Tony Hawk, Andy Macdonald, Swiss Mathias Ringstrom. Matthias, for example, starred in a Sprite commercial.

Street style is the most accessible and popular, based on overcoming all kinds of street obstacles with the help of various tricks: benches, curbs, railings, steps, flower beds, litter bins, etc.

For forty years of its existence, skateboarding can be proud of its achievements, recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. Some of them:

In the summer of 1999, Tony Hawk performed 2.5 (900 degrees) rotations on the ramp. 900 degrees is the hardest trick in skateboarding history. Hawk, now in his late twenties, has been trying this trick for 13 years. Another cult skater, Danny Way, has twice jumped from a helicopter, first setting a world record for the height of a jump of 5 meters 5 millimeters, and then trying to beat him.

Many skeptics who are critical of skateboarding do not even realize how deeply the roots of skateboarding have penetrated into youth culture. Gwen Stefanni of No Doubt, Jon Bon Jovi, leader of Metalica, skated. Limp Biscuit, Ben Harper and Innocence Criminals, Beastie Boys, Mel C, 311 invited skateboarders to appear in their music videos.

The scandalous film Kids, the debut of the famous photographer Larry Clark was filmed not just about the life of teenagers, but about the life of New York teenagers - skaters. Sponsored by major skate companies such as the shoe company Airwalk. One of the roles was played by a professional skater from the Zoo York team, Harold Hunter.

Spike Jones, the iconic director, is still making videos for the Girl / Chocolate skate company. It was he who made the video Sabotage for the Beastie Boys trio, and one of his last works is the clip Praise you (Fat Boy Slim). Spike himself played the role of an insane breaker from a community of public dancers. Last year, he worked for Universal Pictures on the feature film Being John Malkovich with fashion actress Cameron Diaz.

There is a youth skateboarding game show on cable TV in Japan. In a huge studio, the designers arranged a maze of ramps, half-ramps, quarter ramps, benches, railings, etc. The player's task is to complete the entire course without falling off the board, without touching the ground with his hands and feet. To amuse the audience, the producers installed a pool with water in a difficult place. The prize fund is several thousand dollars.

Video game developers have already realized that skateboarding is the sport of the future. During 1999, several games were released one by one on the Sony Playstation: Street Skater, Tony Hawk's pro skater, Trasher. Some of them are just as interesting to play as to ride. The developers of Tony Hawk's pro skater relied on the digitization of the strongest professionals. For the tracks, real popular skiing spots were chosen, filmed in dozens of skate videos, such as Burnside Skatepark and Hubba Highout in San Francisco.

The very popular youth shoe companies (starting out as manufacturers of skateboarding shoes) DCSHOECOUSA, Vans are already breathing sports monsters Nike and Adidas into their backs. They, in turn, are trying to break into a lucrative new market with a series of skate shoes. Adidas recruits both old, iconic skaters and up-and-coming young people to their team to advertise their products. Nowadays, everyone is wearing skateboard products. Tommy Hilfiger, Levi's launched a line of skate clothing. Skateboarding is especially closely related to hip-hop culture. Wu-tang Clan have developed skateboards with their own symbols. Coca-Cola, Casio G-Shock, Swatch have signed major sponsorship contracts with some of the pro.

A skateboard consists of several parts: a board (deck), suspensions, wheels, bearings, screws and skin.

1. Any deck consists of 6 or 7 compressed wood layers. When buying, check for visible delamination between the layers.

2. Ask the seller: how long have the decks been delivered? Usually the skateboard of the company is released during the year 2-4 series of decks. If the board has been lying in the store for more than six months, it may break on the very first day, as it gradually shrinks and loses its shape.

3. The width of the hangers must match the width of the board. It can be slightly narrower, undesirably wider.

4. For the ramp, it is better to choose larger wheels, wider boards.

5. I recommend that you tighten all the screws. The likelihood that the board will break is reduced. For a beginner, it is better to buy a skateboard assembly. It will cost you less than buying the deck (board), suspensions, wheels, bearings, screws and skins separately.

So, you really want to learn how to ride a board with wheels like those foreign guys on TV. Behind all the cool tricks on "their" videos (and ours too) are years of hard skating - eight hours a day, or even more. Skateboarding is one of the most challenging extreme sports. So decide, first, if you can afford to spend so much time skating ... The next aspect is financial. New decks and slippers are quite expensive. And the ride will take a long time. On average, a beginner can learn to do about 10 tricks in one season. Plus falls ... About falls - separately. They are an indispensable element of skiing, prepare for the fact that you will have to fall quite often. Therefore, if you have already been involved in extreme sports, it will be a little easier.

The basis for almost every skateboard trick is Ollie is, directly, a jump in the air while the skate is attached to your legs. So, if you are riding a skateboard down the street, and suddenly an old grandmother falls in front of you and blocks your path, then you will have to make an ollie in order to jump over it and continue on your way.

Place your front foot in the middle of the board and your back foot on the tip of the board. This is your pre-placement of your legs, it will help you jump higher.

You need to touch the tip (tail) of the board on the ground (hereinafter it will be called - click). You need to click while you are jumping. Once the tail of the board touches the ground, you should slide your front foot from the middle of your board to the nose (or to the beginning of the board). The secret of this trick is that there must be a "jump" with a "click", and at the same time with the sliding of the leg - this is achieved with practice, so be patient and you will succeed. Tip: You start jumping off the rear wheels before the tail of the board actually touches the ground.

Bounce. By jumping in the air, you "slide your feet" to align your board. "Foot slip" is the process of scraping your foot (or more likely your shoe) up and forward along the skin towards the nose of the board. You only do this after the tail of the board touches the ground and bounces back. In fact, you have to click and slide with your foot at the same time.

Landing. Tip: a good thing to remember is to do any trick I call it a "box". Imagine yourself in an invisible "box" the size of your skateboard. Always keep your body centered above your board and in this box. I find this will help you land successfully when tricking, because the most common mistake is leaning too much forward and backward.

At the end of a conversation about skateboard, I want to say: do not try to do those tricks that you do early, for example, jump over a tire from an ollie of 20 cm or for the first time getting into a ramp, go off the very top. This, of course, is cool that you are not afraid, but maybe because of this you will have to lose the opportunity to skate for a month.

BMX

History is silent when and who invented BMX, but nevertheless it exists and continues to develop all over the world, and in our country. Like most modern sports, BMX was created in America. At first it was just a small bike, not meant for any stunts! They just drove it! Soon, the naughty guys, who were tired of just driving, began to jump and rush through the streets. And manufacturers began to develop and offer new designs of such bicycles. The American Freestyle Association (AFA) was soon formed. It brought together hundreds of riders, flatland riders and Vert fans. All riders tried to follow AFA tradition and wore full protection regardless of discipline. By then there were no “Protec” helmets, so you had to do tricks in huge Ecko helmets. AFA consisted of Beginners, Experts, Experts and Professionals, divided into 4 groups: 13 and under, 14-15, 16-18, 19 and over, and one competition had 120 competitors in the 16-18 category among flatland experts. The best riders competed in both flat and vert.Vert is riding in a pump (most often in Half-pipe) and includes tricks in the air (during departures, the so-called Air-tricks), all kinds of turns, sliding along I paint ramps (coping) and others.

Taking care of the bike was part of the ride day. Before riding, it was necessary to wipe the brake loops, twist the pegs (then they were wrapped around the axle, which quite often led to a breakdown of the axle). There were no chrome rims in the 80s (and chrome is the best surface for braking. Soon the first real freestyle bike, the Haro Sport, was born. It had drop pegs, mags brakes and GYRO (a system that allows the handlebars to rotate 360 ​​degrees without tangling The first bikes were introduced in 1988 and switched to "990s brakes." New companies appear. you could expect from your frame.

Hammer introduced shin protectors. They used neoprene and foam rubber for softening. It was a real lifesaver for a lot of riders because they just "killed" their shins with the pedals and pegs.

In the history of BMX there are 3 years in which it was not that it did not develop, but simply disappeared! This time is from 1989 to 1991. Competitions stopped, bikers were tired of spending huge amounts of money on buying spare parts and fixing bicycles. The magazines were either closed or did not correspond to the topic. 1991 was the death of freestyle. But there was a guy ready to make the bikes a little better. His name was Bill. The renaissance of freestyle has begun. Standard Industries unveiled the first long hardened freestyle axle, allowing pegs to be fitted with a new deep socket bolt on technology (they were bolted on like on modern bikes). Matt Hoffman hosted the BS - Bicycle Stunt Series. This was the first competition that proved that the fewer rules and the more “reckless” the participants, the better. Without exception, flat, vert and straight were all there. Whether you were a pro or just a beginner, it made no difference! The BS series was the start for the X-Games and B3 (X-Trials). The magazine "Ride" appeared and presented freestyle in a way that no one else had done before. They allowed (oh no!) Obscene words on their pages and advertised small companies. Hoffman Bikes took off and riding began to reach its high point. It looks like it was the best year for the competition. The riders finally realized they could make a difference to the industry and started doing it. The GT and Haro, unable to compete with other brands that released all the new bikes, began to redesign theirs. The GT was so popular that it captured a large chunk of the market. Dennis McCoy won BS and became the best at the end of the year. But a new rider entered the arena, who began to step on the heels of Dennis "y. It was Canadian Jay Miron. In 1995 ESPN becomes active. Hoffan decided to quit the competition and take up his bike company. BS comes under the control of ESPN. First of all. , they removed beginners from the competition. They said that they would also not mind getting rid of the flatland. And McGoo "made" this mess. He was a real "stupor." All you had to do was to hold a competition for 500 guys for three days! And people would tell about it much better than ESPN or any magazine. Everyone knew that there are guys who will travel 1000 kilometers to take the last place among beginners and will come home with more desire to ride than ever! In 1996, ESPN continued to talk about dropping flatland from the X-Games (formerly BS). The times when magazines had 10-15 photos of flatland are receding. Vert become the mainstream. Then they began to do 900, Flair (back somersault by 180 degrees), and all that remained was to do the same on a larger departure. The street becomes the most interesting in the competition, as the venues change from place to place. The different location of the trampolines forces the riders to ride differently in each new location. Straight is mainly driving over city obstacles or simulated obstacles in a skate park. Usually these are jumps on trampolines with the execution of Air-jumps, sliding on rails, etc.

To completely limit the number of riders, ESPN began to allow 30 people to participate in each class among professionals and "middle peasants". All riders must register in advance. Riders were forced to ride the same tracks as skaters and skateboarders. As bad as it sounds, this is not the end of the world. Local competitions are gaining popularity again.

In Russia, BMX really started to develop only last year. Now bmx "erov can be found on the streets of large cities, such as Moscow, St. Petersburg and smaller cities: Sosnovy Bor and Pskov. The first people begin to make 360 ​​and real flights. Flatland was developed by Moscow circus performers who do incredible stunts. There are several parks with springboards. for DirtJumping "a. But we are still 6-8 years behind America. As sad as it may sound, but we will never catch up with them, unless a star appears, which will prove to the whole world that Russia can also do something ...

Roller sports.

No one is exactly sure when the first inline skates appeared. It seems that the first skates were just a rework of ice skates, although it is believed that as early as 500 years before, Japanese super-spy ninjas slid lightning across the stone floors of their enemies' castles, rolling them on cleverly secured bamboo skating rinks.

The first recognized inventor of roller skates was the Belgian Jozeph Merlin. He made the first casters with metal wheels in 1760. He showed his invention in London, rolling on the floor and playing an expensive violin. It is said that due to the fact that his skates could not turn or stop, he crashed into a mirror and was seriously injured.

The first "successful" roller skating show took place in 1849, when the Frenchman Louis Legrange used roller skates to portray ice skating in the play "Le Prophete". He made skates by attaching small wheels to ice skates. In the middle of the nineteenth century, many other inventors took up the challenge and a large number of different types of skates emerged. All of them, however, suffered from the same disadvantages as Merlin's skates - they could not be effectively controlled and stopped. So the first wave of roller skates popularity came from James Plympton, who received a patent in New York for a four-wheeled skate with a pair of axles -<тележки>, or<табуретки>... A little later, rink hockey and figure skating on rollers appeared, which are still popular in England, Portugal, Germany, Italy and Australia.

The second wave began in the 1920s in France (re-read the first chapters of Nabokov's "Lolita") and by the end of World War II swept the whole of Western Europe. But back in 1916, especially dashing feminists did not just roller-skate, but also rolled a barrel hoop in front of them using a special hook. For this, special dresses were sewn (at that time, defiantly short and tight-fitting). Since the 19th century, huge indoor skating rinks were built for roller skates, many of which were later abandoned. But in the 80s of our century came the era of "disco", only in the United States then there were 6 thousand hangars with loud music, a light bar and showers. Disco roll shoes, which are still used by many pioneers of extreme culture, have a two-axle platform and a semi-rigid or soft boot with a brake in front - they are really good for dancing, but they are also stable on departures from trampolines. They slide along the railing and twist somersaults, but you can't slide down the stairs - this is already another generation of "hooves".

However, already with<тележек>in commercials, along with the sports and dance direction, street extreme appeared - Street Style (Street Style). Soon it was outlawed, and even special road signs appeared. Tricks on a skateboard, rollerblades, and then on a bicycle - not in a gym or in a circus, but simply on the street, and more often also on monuments, cathedral stairs and other central places, soon became a headache for the police, janitors and city authorities , the subject of discussion in the press and debate in parliaments. Favorite theme of skate comics: typical urban crime around (a man throws his mother-in-law from the balcony, blacks drag a TV set from a broken window, unscrew the wheels from the car), and in the center, a fat policeman, hung with handcuffs and clubs, grabs a little boy on rollers by the collar. That turns out to be the main evil! However, the same authorities are forced to expand the zones of non-motorized transport, and in them create special police units on rollers (the largest in Paris). Street style has become the embodiment of the pacifist and environmental values ​​of a new generation, a new look at independence, freedom of movement and freedom in general. And the big money that Western industry extracts from any youth hobby soon crushed the paramilitary foundations of sports and education.

In 1995, the American corporation ESPN received a patent for X-games (Extreme games). This became the official recognition of street style and clearly separated it from the sport. Still, where did it come from? Oddly enough, the spirit of street style comes from such beachy (and therefore irresponsible and anarchic) ​​entertainment like surfing (riding a board along the crest of a tidal wave). Already in the late fifties, lazy Californian and Australian surfers began to slide down to the beach, standing or sitting on carts from garages. In our country, they still do not replace oiled quilted jackets in any way, but in the west, a mechanic rolls them under cars on a special cart with bearings instead of wheels. In 1965, the first factory (manufactory) skateboards appeared.

It is believed that for the first time polyurethane wheels for rollers were developed and manufactured by the company<Криптоникс>... For a long time, skateboarding developed as a kind of circus<уродство>- unusual acrobatics, with which surfers whiled away storms. Only in the early 80s, in the so-called freestyle (dance acrobatics on a flat area), Rodney Mullen from Florida introduced the technique<олли>- a jump by tapping the bent edge of the board. On the other side of America, in California, at this time, farmers switched to drip irrigation, and a huge number of irrigation canals passed into the possession of skaters. Soon the first pro team appeared, performing on the ramp, a special structure with a flat bottom and rounded (unlike a canal) edges. The sale of boards jumped sharply, but the teams of skaters still looked more like a traveling circus and were rigidly fenced off from young people, primarily by the danger of the ramp (try to slide down from a height of 3 or even 5 meters) and its inaccessibility (3 thousand dollars minimum). By the mid-80s, the technique of departures, flips (somersaults), grabs (grips), grinds and slides (sliding) was already known, but the audience was no longer surprised, and the mass movement had nowhere to develop. Skate companies were closing ... But Powell-Peralta supported young skaters in time, for whom the board became a part, or rather the center of the whole lifestyle. They just didn’t part with her at school, or in the supermarket, or at a party. They were hooligans - behaved defiantly, dressed differently, knew no bounds. They didn't need a ramp - they glided over the railing and jumped onto park benches. The street skateboard sales soon reached the millions. The ban on hooligan skating in the city center soon led to the emergence of skate parks with special equipment that mimic urban<препятствия>: benches, railings, steps, ramps, parapets. Rollers and cyclists began to ride on them next to skaters, performing almost the same tricks and without changing their name.

For example, the legendary Temka Mac Twis 540 was invented and made back in those days on a skateboard. Its author is Mike McGill. Jumping technique developed very quickly thanks to skater Tony Alva. On the ramp was King Tony Hawk. In Germany, Titus Dittmann, first a gymnasium gymnasium teacher, then the leader of street extreme sports in Europe and a millionaire, along with the skateboard business, founded the Titus Roll Sport company and actively promoted<тележки>on the ramp and in the street. At the beginning of 1991, extreme sports began in Crimea, and then in Ukraine. In Moscow, in the early 90s, Natalya Bondarenko began to write about roller skating in the press and promote "Activity-Team", the team<Радиация>collected by Roman Dyrin (Acrobat). By that time in Russia there were already two relatively powerful rival skateboard centers: Leningrad (the first ramp was welded by Sergei Sinodalov himself) and Saratov, where the minirump is still the best in Russia. Kharkov. Riga skaters usually also took part in Russian competitions. Skaters from 20 countries competed at the Volga Open Cup in 1992; in addition to Central Television, these competitions were filmed by an American<Суперчэнел>... Rodney Mullen himself came to St. Petersburg and there were mutual exchanges with the California League (the strongest in the world) for travel to competitions.

In August 93, Roma Acrobat became the champion of Russia in aggressive roller skating for the first time, still performing at<табуретках>... In total, 6 people entered the ramp then, to be honest, compared to skateboarders, they almost did not do any tricks. The new big frenzy of the 90s and the new wave of crazy rollerblading street culture are associated with "blades": four wheels in a row on skids (frames), mounted on a high stiff boot. Their birth took place in Las Vegas, where in 1981 American ice hockey player Scott Olson and Italian Giuseppe Cavazin, a manufacturer of ice hockey skates and alpine ski boots, met at an industrial exhibition.

In the early 90s, the number of roller skaters in the world was estimated by the World Roll Sports Federation at 90 million people. Now only the young Italian firm "Rouches" boasts that it has owned 40 million. Probably the same scale for Rollerblade (USA - Italy), slightly more modest for Bauer (Switzerland-Canada) and Ultravills (USA). Now these firms are fighting for the Russian and Ukrainian markets. Firms that have made money on surfing, skateboarding, downhill skiing and other close entertainment offer their clients roller skates, for example, the prestigious American company "K2" or the Austrian<Оксижен>from the group, tennis makes good wheels.

Interestingly, a consumer revolution took place in Moscow in 96 years: on September 8, among the 1,500 skaters gathered in honor of Moscow Day on Poklonnaya Gora, there were no more than 30 in good skates. The rest stumbled on Chinese fakes made of cheap, bright plastic - such bots are called "rattles" or "rattles". On April 5, 1997, at the 1st international festival of extreme culture in Luzhniki, several hundred Muscovites have already flown on real "hooves", and "Rouches" in Russia is still pressing competitors, despite the fact that "Rollerblade" has settled down in the best place for trade - has its own department in GUM. In the article of the "Rovesnik" magazine (No. 4.1997), describing the roller boom of the summer of 1996 in Moscow, you can see 2 poles of post-Soviet consumption (typical for both electronics and clothing): making fortunes on cheap Chinese fakes, with one on the other hand, and, on the other, the passion of the new Russians for the most expensive firms. People who sensed the "wave" then sold five trucks of skates a week, buying in China for 10-15 dollars per pair and bringing retail to 80 dollars.

A completely different, Western wave passed through a network of prestigious sports and car dealerships. On the alleys of Aleksandrovsky Garden and Gorky Park, one can appreciate the real riot of mobility at the end of the twentieth century: where the cell phone, on which, driving around on rollers, he gives commands, and the length of his companion's legs, brought to a real shock by the design of the rollers, are logically combined with their jeep.

Wakeboard

Wakeboard is a dynamic sport of the 90s and is a combination of water skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing. The boat is towing a rider standing on a short, wide board. Moving at a speed of 30-40 km / h with additional ballast at the stern, the boat leaves behind a wave about 50 cm high, which the rider uses as a springboard. In a jump, you can perform almost all the tricks that are done on a snowboard or skateboard.

For decades, surfing has been the most popular sport of beach dwellers. Already in those days, some surfers rode their boards along the coastline behind a boat or even behind a truck. And so in 1985, a surfer from San Diego named Tony Phin invented the "scarf". Scarfer looked like a small surfboard, and riding on it vaguely resembled a snowboard or skate.

In the summer of 1985, leg straps appeared on the scarf. Their invention played a huge role in the development of the wakeboard. Now you can make big jumps using the wave as a springboard. This added more dynamism and freedom to the sport.

In the second half of the eighties, Tony Fin was actively involved in the promotion and popularization of his invention. The result was the first scarf competition in 1990. Unfortunately, the lack of technology and complex skating technique hindered the development of a new sport. A narrow, with an excess of buoyancy, the scarfer reluctantly obeyed newcomers, making it difficult to start from the water.

It was around this time that Herb O "Brian, owner of HO Sports, a water ski company, began experimenting with boards. He introduced the first wakeboard, the Hyperlite. Formed by compression, the new board had a neutral buoyancy that made it easy to submerge in water before starting. any age.

O "Brian continued to improve the wakeboard. The board had a thin profile at the edges, which allowed it to make cut turns like a slalom ski. The special shape of the bottom absorbed the impact energy upon landing, making it softer. Following the leader, other board companies began to produce wakes.

With the development of the sport, wakeboards have gotten better. The first Hyperlite models, created in the early 90s, were shaped like a surfboard with a pronounced bow. In 1993, Jimi Redmon, an acclaimed wakeboarding guru, developed a symmetrical "twin-tip" shape for the board. Not only the shape has become symmetrical, but also the location of the keels at the ends of the board, as well as the rider's stance.

Since 1992, wakeboard has started to develop as a professional sport. In 1993 the magazine "Wake boarding" was published. In 1992, the major sports promoter World Sports & Marketing organized the competition, which since 1998 has been held on a global scale. More than a thousand different amateur tournaments are held around the world, and the most prestigious competitions for professionals are held as part of the Wakeboard World Cup.

It is very important to choose a board that suits your skill level. Length and shape will largely determine your riding style. Just like snowboarding, there are three main types of boards: freeride, freestyle and allaround. The narrower the board, the better it cuts arcs, the faster and stronger it accelerates. On the other hand, the wider the board, the more it gets kicked off the wave. The length of the board is based on the rider's weight. Wakeboards are available in lengths from 120cm to 147cm. Sometimes longitudinal channels run along the bottom of the board, they absorb the impact energy upon landing, making it softer.

You should also pay attention to the rocker deflection. Large deflection provides a soft landing and good handling. A board with a small deflection will accelerate better, allowing you to approach the wave at breakneck speed and jump really far. What to choose? It all depends on your riding style.

There are currently two main types of wakeboard bindings. Sandals are universal size bindings that are adjustable to almost any foot size, can be easily removed and put on even without water. They often do not have a backdrop and do not hold their feet very well. If your whole family is fond of wakeboarding, one pair of these bindings can save a lot on equipment.

If you decide to practice seriously, you need "boot" type bindings, correctly sized feet. Here are some points to consider when choosing bindings: A. The bindings should fit well around the ankle, this will reduce the likelihood of injury to the leg:

Q: The base of the mount should be made of a material that absorbs impact energy well, protecting the heel and toe from bruises;

S: There is nothing worse than sitting on the pier, trying to get into the mount when everyone has already left for the ride. The heel loop is the equivalent of a regular shoe scoop. It greatly facilitates the access of the leg into the mount;

D: Make sure the mounting plates are made of good metal and do not bend

The fins determine the behavior of the wakeboard on the water. Large, deep fins are good for beginners. They give the board stability and ease of handling. More experienced riders prefer fins that are 5cm or less in height, which allow them to aggressively cut the wave. In most cases, the fins on the board can be changed to find the best fit.

Despite the fact that there is water all around, there is always the possibility of serious injury while riding a wakeboard. The vest significantly reduces the likelihood of injury. It should be lightweight and not rob you of your agility when performing difficult tricks.

The halyard and handle The halyard is the lifeline that connects the rider to the boat. For large jumps, it is important to hold the halyard handle until landing. If this fails, you will have a hard time. Striking the water at full speed will quickly wash the smile off your face.

It is important to correctly set the length of the halyard. It depends on the rider's weight and skill. Usually the average length is 12-15 meters. If it seems to you that the halyard needs to be shortened or lengthened - not a problem, the main thing is that you feel confident.

The main requirement for the halyard is that it must not stretch. This is necessary to maintain balance when trailing the boat and landing. Please note that slalom ropes have little stretch. The wakeboarding handle is also different from the one used in water skiing. For ease of grip, it is made wider (38 cm).

If you are just getting started with wakeboarding, the choice of halyard and handle is not your main problem. Start with what is at hand (clothesline will not work), and over time you will figure out what you need.

If you are already water skiing, windsurfing, snowboarding or skateboarding, it will be easier for you to get started with wakeboarding. It is a combination of these sports and your previous skills will surely come in handy.

There are already more than 20 manufacturers of wakeboard equipment. So far, only the largest of them are represented in Russia: Hyperlite, LiquidForce, Blindside. In any case, before you buy something, it is better to take a board for rent or from a friend to try it, and then decide which wakeboard you need and if you need it at all :)

For surfers, skaters, snowboarders and water skiers (cross out unnecessary), this problem has already been resolved. If you have not yet decided which leg is more convenient for you to move forward, refer to the above (you probably have such friends). There are many ways to calculate your chocolate leg. It should only be added that in wakeboarding the "duck foot" stance is optimal - the legs are symmetrically turned in both directions at the same angles. And when someone pesters you with the question "What leg do you have in front?", You answer "Both, buddy!

Deepwater start This is the element where wakeboarding starts. In the sense that if you want to ride, you have to learn how to do it. In terms of complexity, starting from the water is comparable to climbing a drag lift, standing on a snowboard with two legs locked. In short, it's easy

So. Submerge yourself in the water and lie on your back, position the board so that it is perpendicular to the line of tension on the cable, and your friends in the boat can better see the cool design on the "slide". Pass the cable through the top of the board, hold the handle with both hands. Do not try to lower the board into the water, under yourself. When you're ready, pull your knees up to your chest, smile and shout "Help!" To the boat's minder. or something else that you usually shout in such situations

When the boat pulls on the line and starts pulling you, keep your arms straight and don't try to get up right away - let the 300 hp mechanical miracle. itself will pull you out of the water. Keep your weight evenly distributed across both feet and the board at an angle of approximately 45 degrees to the plane of the water. When you finally feel like the boat has fully pulled you out of the water, shift your weight onto your lead leg, pull the handle toward your stomach and swing the wake in the direction of travel. Everything. Then you fall into the water, everyone is having fun, and you start over.

It may take you a few tries before you get anything done. The main thing is to coordinate your actions and not despair ahead of time.

Wakeboard revolutionized water sports, just like snowboarding was in its day in alpine skiing. From a hobby of a group of enthusiasts over the past few years, it has developed into a popular sport with its own philosophy and culture.

There are no hard landings in wakeboard that can discourage beginners from learning or prevent advanced riders from leveling up. All tricks are very similar to snowboarding, which makes it possible to progress all year round. All you need to do is just change the board!

Wakeboard is an extreme sport and not every person dares to try himself in it, but despite this, there is a large number of people, usually young people, who engage in this sport and develop it. Of course, such an extreme cannot be attributed to the Olympic sports, however, one cannot turn a blind eye to the existence of such sports innovations.

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In conclusion, it should be said that there are many more x-sports in the world that are no less interesting (B.A.S.E. jumping, Trial, etc.). New ones are also being invented: snake (like a skateboard, but with fixed legs), kick board (jumping scooter). New views will open and open, maybe even someone will decide to "run on the rails in the subway", so do not forget about those pioneers who, without sparing themselves (in the literal meaning of this word), tried to give this world devices with the help of which people could get adrenaline and high naturally.

National sports.

In the modern world, millions of people are involved in national sports. From time immemorial, these popular hobbies have come down to us. Even before the very word "sport" was born, a person knew the excitement of rivalry in a duel with the enemy, on a hunting trail ...

Over time, the old local and national isolation ... comes the all-round connection and all-round dependence of nations on each other. This applies equally to material and spiritual production. The fruits of individual nations become common property.

International international forms of physical culture do not interfere with the development of national forms of physical culture, but, on the contrary, contribute to their development and improvement. And this process is a necessary condition for the formation of a new person, the all-round development of the personality, the improvement of the way of life with the use of all types of physical education. Physical culture and sports, being actively involved in this process, are thus one of the important factors in the internationalization of the entire spiritual life of peoples.

National sports generally do not require stadiums. In summer for them, the stadium is a lawn, and in winter it is a packed snowy clearing. About 30 national sports are known only in Russia and the CIS countries.

Sports hobbies of different peoples for their national sports, a good springboard to modern professional sports. So, at the Russian Championship, an aviation mechanic from the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Vladimir Durkin, threw a 350-gram hunting ax almost over two football fields - 186 meters! A native of the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, veterinarian Ilya Smetanin made 169 jumps in a row simultaneously with two legs, through closely set sledges half a meter high and half a meter wide. I could not jump more than 50 times). A reindeer herder from Khanty-Mansiysk Vasily Chaly, in throwing a tynzyan (lasso) at a distance, sent a rawhide belt to 47 meters 18 centimeters and clearly looped a pole vertically placed at this distance.

In the Tuva Autonomous Republic, the Khuresh wrestling championship is regularly held. Before the start of the competition, the wrestlers on the field perform the "eagle" dance, and after the end of the fight, this ritual is performed by the winner. As a reward, he is awarded, in addition to the traditional tokens, a thoroughbred horse.

Throwing a hunting knife, pulling a stick, reindeer sled racing, running, hapsagai wrestling and jumping over sledges have long been loved by the Yakuts. Competitions are usually held on national holidays - "Uruu" and "Msyakha".

In Hasakia, from a boy to an adult, everyone knows the kures fight. On the banks of the Amur, the Nanai, Ulchi, and Nivkhs - hereditary fishermen and hunters - include in their traditional tournaments running with sticks, lifting weights, archery, rowing on boats, and national wrestling on sashes.

National sports traditions have been developing since ancient times. They improved as a person's economic activity, as his mind improved. National sports traditions depended on many factors: landscape, climate, nature, etc.

All types of national sports are aimed at developing physical and spiritual qualities in young people. In addition, many types of national sports are aimed at instilling in young people the will to achieve the goal, at unity with the nature of the steppes, the culture of other peoples.

The data indicate that the processes of mutual cultural influence and cultural communication have a great influence on the nature of the games themselves as one of the important means of spiritual development of people.

National sports are equal with other sports and in sports qualifications. According to them, sports categories are assigned, the best - the titles of masters of sports.

Intellectual sports.

Along with active sports games, there are also less active, intellectual games. These include: chess, checkers, renju, and so on. These board games are also widespread and are an integral part of the country's sports life. Competitions are also held in these sports, the winners of which receive premium awards at a high level.

Let's take a closer look at one of the types. The smallest field for sports battles is a chess court. A square, each side of which is up to half a meter in the usual version and no more than a palm in a miniature version. However, battles are sometimes played out on chessboards so great that even huge sports palaces and football stadiums could envy them.

Chess.

The name "chess" comes from the Persian words "chess mat", which means "the ruler is dead." Before that, the game had a different name, and most likely, the first name of chess was "chaturanga". In Indian it means "four-word". This was the name of the military detachments made up of four types of troops - elephants, chariots, cavalry and infantry. There is a version that the ancient game was based in its first name on the number "four" not only because it imitated the battles of the four-class Indian armies. It is believed that it symbolized the change of four seasons or the struggle of four elements: air, fire, earth and water. In any of these cases, the game of chess reflected the structure of the world.

Everyone knows that chess first appeared in India. But does everyone know how long and through what stages did chess go to its modern form? First, the so-called chaturanga (four-piece army), where the game was not reduced to mating the king, but to the destruction of all the forces of each of the opponents, who made moves in turn, depending on the readings of the dice. So, if the number 2 fell out, then the rook was playing, 3 - the knight, 4 - the bishop, and so on. Chaturanga originated in North India no later than the 5th century. At the turn of the 6th - 7th centuries, chaturanga turned into shatranj (or shatrang) - a game for two opponents, outwardly similar to today's chess, but with different rules. There was no castling here, the pawn moved only one square and turned only into a queen. The queen itself was considered a weak piece and moved the same way as in modern chess. Not only checkmate, but also stalemate was considered a win. In addition, the winner was the one who took all the opponent's pieces, even if the strongest side had only one piece or pawn left by that moment.

Today's chess meets the deep need of people for creative self-expression. Chess is an abstraction, a pure thought, you will not find anything tangible in life that would adequately express in it. This is a demonstration of our ability to create new things on the basis of the known. They test us not statically, not in cold comparison, but in a sharp confrontation of mind, will, insight, imagination, foresight. In an abstract form, they embody the idea of ​​justice: before chess, everyone is equal. The game meets the truly human needs of the mind, our spiritual being. In the struggle, breathtakingly beautiful pieces of chess art are created, bearing the imprint of drama, insights and delusions.

Thus, chess undoubtedly has a positive impact on the mental development of a person. The sharpness of the mind is improved in anticipating the further moves of the opponent, complete mastery of his pieces and their correct use during the game. For the correct development of the entire human body, it is also necessary to engage in various physical exercises that ensure its correct development, good blood supply to the brain, which increases its activity. Immediately before a chess match, it is useful to conduct breathing, movement exercises, which are also useful to repeat after the match, since the game often lasts a very long time. By strengthening your body in this way, it is much easier to perform chess techniques, which require careful thought over the position.

In chess today there are very complex rules of the game. The main pieces are placed from a1 to h1, and the pawns from a2 to h2. In this case, pieces, except for pawns, have their own possibilities of movement. Pawns can only move one square, but during the first move a pawn can move through one square and always only forward. They only cut diagonally. The rook, without restrictions, can move any distance horizontally and vertically. The knight moves with the letter L, making a move through the obstructing pieces. The bishop walks diagonally to any distance. The queen, in principle, has no restrictions, and can move both horizontally and vertically, and diagonally to any number of cells. The king can also move in any direction, but only one square. The whole game comes down to checkmating the king. In addition, there are many nuances associated with castling to the short or long side. Having reached the opposite side of the playing field, the pawn can become any other piece (except for the king, of course), including the queen, which represents a significant force in the "chess battle".

Often, people who are not related to chess hear on television, radio, the media, or simply from people playing chess, various concepts used in the game of chess. These are mainly such as checkmate, stalemate, guard, endgame and so on. These concepts are used in chess when certain positions and situations arise during the game. As you know, the whole point of playing chess comes down to checkmating the king. Thus, from this we can conclude that the entire strategy of the game should be developed from defending one's own king and attacking the opponent's king.

If the king is threatened by any opponent's piece, then in this case the check. In this case, the checked king can either move to the side or close himself with some of his pieces. It is forbidden to castling during check. Castling in turn also refers to one of the concepts of a chess game. It is performed if the king is not threatened and the path from the rook to the king to the right or to the left is clear. In this case, the obligatory rule should be that the king and rook have not yet made a single move. If the king is threatened by an opponent's piece, and there is nowhere to move, then in this case the mat and the winning side is awarded. In a similar case, if not a single piece has a move, but the check has not been made, then in this case it is fixed stalemate, that is, a draw. And even if one player has a significant advantage over the other.

There are also different situations for the queen. If the queen is under the threat of being cut down, then in this case the garde, but the queen in certain situations can be sacrificed if the king is under threat or the circumstances of the game require it. These concepts belong to the basic ones when playing chess and even novice players need to know them.

Thus, tracing the history of the development of the game of chess and the place of chess in the present tense, we can conclude that chess from the very beginning became widespread and famous among many admirers of mental games. And, although chess was not similar to modern chess, yet it was not forgotten.

Despite the fact that chess has never been an Olympic sport, it occupies one of the leading places among the intellectual games around the world.

This game undoubtedly has a positive effect on the human body, but at the same time one should not forget about the physical development of a person.

Chamber (exercise) sports.

Nowadays, most people are inactive. They walk from the car park or bus stop to their establishment, from the work desk to the buffet or cafeteria. Even young people do not really indulge themselves with physical activity. And the lack of movement has a bad effect on the state of health and on the capabilities of a person in all spheres of life. Medical research shows that exercise can help improve mental health, blood circulation, and protect the body against heart disease. Physical activity is what it needs for normal functioning, health promotion and well-being.

Not everyone can afford to train in large stadiums or professional gyms with sophisticated special equipment. Therefore, all the sports presented below are united by the following common features: small areas, the possibility of individual lessons. Such sports can be performed both in the gym and in a regular apartment. They provide a viable route to losing or maintaining weight. It is this aspect that attracts young people most of all. But it must be said that exercise can only contribute to weight loss, and diet is the main factor.

Chamber sports include the following: aerobics, bodybuilding, fitness, strength gymnastics, stepping, etc.

Let's consider in more detail bodybuilding and fitness... Anyone who wants to do these sports can do it by coming to the gym. This is another level of development of strength, speed, determination, dexterity, courage and dynamics.

All segments of the population are engaged in fitness and bodybuilding: to improve health, improve their appearance, raise self-confidence, increase self-esteem, as an active recreation. Orthopedics are beginning to use bodybuilding and fitness to rehabilitate patients with certain physical disabilities. Elderly people, doing these sports fight the aging process. Many athletes in other sports, after completing their performances, start thinking about careers in bodybuilding and fitness.

Bodybuilding and fitness is one aspect of life plus physical health. Bodybuilding is about building the body, and fitness helps maintain these gains, which is why the two sports go hand in hand. Bodybuilding and fitness have great shape, aesthetic image, proportionality, definition and other parameters of the physique, debilitating and dehydrating diets, as well as stage performance and artistic demonstration. In bodybuilding and fitness, when training, the most important thing is the consistency of visiting the gym and the confidence that through training you can change your body, give it an ideal shape. The proof of this is the magnificent figures of athletes.

The path of bodybuilding and fitness can be traced back to ancient Greece with its antique sculptures. Throughout all times, especially in ancient times, there was an interest in physical strength and its effects on human health.

The birth of athleticism in Russia can certainly be considered August 10, 1885. Then the "Circle of Athletics Amateurs" was created, at the head of the circle was Doctor of Physical Education Kraevsky. Since then, they began to call him "the father of Russian athletics."

The general enthusiasm for athleticism dates back to the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Competitions and performances with athletic performances were held everywhere: in luxurious circuses, puritanical gardens of the Society for the Guardianship of Popular Sobriety, city theaters, parks, as well as in numerous booths that traveled across the expanses of Russia.

Athleticism has been popular across all walks of life. Athleticism gradually began to be called bodybuilding, and its ancestor can rightfully be called Eugene Sandov, who in 1911 in England was awarded the title of professor of physical development by King George V. And Winston Churchill came to see the performances of the Russian athlete Alexander Zass in England.

At the dawn of bodybuilding (athleticism), the demonstration of strength was very different; they tore stones off the ground, bent pokers, broke horseshoes, broke chains, lifted people on a platform, held a horse on their shoulders. Over time, all power tricks migrated to the circus, becoming only a spectacle.

In the 1920s-1930s. it became apparent that physical development is closely related to human health. Training knowledge was limited at the time, but bodybuilders could learn a lot by simply comparing their physique to that of a previous generation.

However, the tradition of athletic competitions continued.

In the 1940s. the physique of bodybuilders, as opposed to other muscular development sports, has been recognized as something new and special. Bodybuilding, bodybuilding, athleticism were still unknown sports.

In the 1950s-1960s. a new competition arose - "Mister Universe". Athletes from different countries became champions. This speaks to the popularity of the new sport.

In the 1970s-1980s. superstars A. Schwarzenegger, F. Zane, S. Oliva, R. Wayne, etc. appear, who contributed to the development and promotion of this sport, becoming one of the great athletes in the world.

In the 1990s-2000s. there has been an explosive growth in bodybuilding and fitness - not only as a competitive sport, but also as a way of the physical development of mankind.

The flourishing of bodybuilding took place in parallel with the developing new sport - fitness and a simultaneous increase in interest in human physical health.

Fitness is a young sport, the development of which is very intensive, is a mixture of artistic and rhythmic gymnastics and a sports beauty contest. During the competition, the judges evaluate: the proportionality of the physique, the elasticity and tone of muscles, their density, symmetry, posture, artistry, the ability to stay on stage, the purity of the performance of poses, the complexity of the elements of the free program, style, coordination, strength elements, acrobatics, aerobics and even the choice suit.

Bodybuilding and fitness competitions are organized by category. The age of the participants is not limited, many of them are over 40, 50 and even over 60 years old. The guideline for healthy men and women is the age from 18 to 35 years.

Bodybuilding, athleticism, athletic gymnastics, bodybuilding and fitness are all synonymous. The name of the sport does not change the meaning. Fitness and bodybuilding are some of the best health promoting sports. Training on simulators, choosing the right methods and principles of training, eating rationally and in a balanced way, a person can work miracles with himself.

In many countries of the world, these sports are included in the compulsory program of physical education for young people. The main thing about these sports is that there is no age limit. In many cities there are health groups "who are over 50 years old."

Initial training courses lay the foundation, the basis for the further development and results of a person. It is unacceptable to make mistakes in the training of the initial course - this is the basis of the basics. The usual initial course is designed for 4 months of training.

In the initial course, the training is built on the principle of a split, which means the distribution of training to separate muscle groups, on different days of the week.

For example, on Monday - chest, back and abdominal muscles; on Wednesday - the muscles of the shoulders, arms and abdominals; on Friday - the muscles of the thigh, lower leg, lower back and abdominals. Rest on other days.

The first week of classes in the initial course must be performed one or two approaches, 8 repetitions in each approach, no more. During this week, you need to correctly and technically competently perform the exercises. Learn to breathe correctly, exhale is done on an effort in the exercise, rest between sets. All this will come in handy during training.

In the second and third week, you can do three approaches in exercises, and so during these months you can safely bring up to five approaches in exercises.

Working out in gyms, some want to pump up and gain weight, others, on the contrary, want to lose weight.

Being serious about fitness and bodybuilding, in addition to hard training, involves adherence to a diet, which is better to start in stages. At the first stage, you should abandon fatty sauces, ketchup, sour cream, mayonnaise, etc., replace your favorite sauce with soy. Vegetable salads can be seasoned with a little olive oil. If the first ten days are passed, then you can move on to the second stage of our diet. The second stage is the rejection of all sweet and starchy foods (sweets, pastries, cakes, buns, etc.), replacing these products with dried fruits and diet foods that do not contain a lot of fat and sugar. Having withstood another ten days, we proceed to the next stage. At the third stage, we give up alcohol.

Having endured three stages, we can talk about those products that are needed for life, what you need to eat in order to get the necessary energy. And the last thing we do is switch to protein foods. What foods to get protein from? From fish, river and sea products (pollock, hake, shrimp, squid, lobster, etc.). And also from an ordinary chicken egg, however, we use one protein. You can also eat white chicken meat (chicken breasts). We eat these products only boiled. We also include carbohydrate foods in our diet - these are cereals (buckwheat, millet, rice, bread, rye muesli, bran) and fruits. Protein is not only chicken breasts, but also fish (sea and river), but also mussels, shrimp, lobster, squid, etc. Vegetables are also very important: it is fiber, first of all, and vitamins. You can eat very tasty and lose weight at the same time. Just remember that carbohydrates are the lightest fuel. And fats "burn" in the "fire" of carbohydrates. So, by sticking to this diet, you will be confident in the knowledge that your figure is beautiful and slim. And for girls, this is important.

You should eat every 3-4 hours, there should be no feeling of hunger. Start eating low-fat protein shakes. Thus, we distribute the protein intake at the rate of 3 g per 1 kg of its own weight.

As for the liquid, you can use only still water or natural juice. Vegetables (cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, herbs, etc.) should be included in the diet. This diet lasts about 3-4 months. Having withstood it, the most important thing is not to start eating everything and in huge quantities at the end of the diet.

There is now a lot of literature coming out where they write about new food additives. New scientific developments prove that taking sports nutrition, you will achieve success faster than without it.

A simple example of non-compliance with the rules of training is the state of a person when interest in training disappears and visits to gyms become less and less frequent. The reason for this can be both a simple overwork of the body from incorrectly dosed work, and the absence of visible results due to illiterately constructed training sessions.

To avoid all the unpleasant consequences of physical education, it is necessary to deliberately approach each lesson and, if possible, comply with the necessary training conditions. There are certain requirements that are common to everyone and that first of all need to be paid attention to:

1.Clearly formulate the purpose of the lessons

It is quite clear that, depending on the goal set, a certain plan of training sessions will be built. Moreover, the difference between these plans can be very significant. Therefore, the formulation of the problem is the first and one of the most important stages of training.

2.determine the initial level of your physical condition

One of the main training parameters is the intensity and volume of the session. To successfully achieve the set goal of training, it is necessary to strictly dose the intensity and duration of the load. Moreover, the intensity and duration of classes are directly related to the level of physical fitness.

3.based on the level of training, build an individual training plan

The big disadvantage of some fitness clubs is that people with different levels of physical fitness can work out in the same group. As a result, it turns out that the intensity of the lesson that the instructor offers is suitable only for some of the trainees, and for the rest, whose level is slightly higher or lower, the training will be less effective. Moreover, the lesson efficiency is less, the greater the difference between the required intensity for the trainee and that offered by the instructor. After some time of ineffective training, the majority lose interest in classes (since the result in this case will be very insignificant).

4.After a certain period of time, monitor your results

A noticeable result of your work can be seen only after a fairly long time. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to objectively assess your condition, relying only on your own feelings. In this situation, the use of special tests can help, which in numbers will show your condition for a certain period of time. Based on the test results, you can analyze the effectiveness of your training and decide whether to decrease or increase the load.

Bodybuilding and fitness are science intensive sports. Research institutes and academies of sciences in all countries of the world are working on them. This suggests that bodybuilding and fitness are making their triumphant march across planet Earth.

Speaking of Olympic recognition, it is easier for fitness to become an Olympic sport, since in fitness the refereeing criteria themselves limit (and sometimes exclude) the use of doping.

Does fitness have disadvantages? As a way of life - no. Like a competitive sport, you can find as many as you like. Nevertheless, fitness can become the successor to where we started: that bodybuilding, in which hard training and proper nutrition are in the first place, in which steroids are only a help (and not the main tool) in achieving the main goal of a healthy and beautiful body. ...

Tourist sports.

The development of civilization is closely connected with the development and strengthening of contacts between individual states, nationalities, territories. Numerous - from the very beginning of the development of human society - travel initially played a purely practical role: revealing the nature of neighbors - their friendly or hostile attitude - exchange of experience, search for sales markets and purchase of goods, etc. In this regard, travel repeated the fate of household items, which gradually acquired, in addition to the utilitarian, an aesthetic function that was insignificant for survival, but important for a person psychologically. So travel over time received a new status - also not playing a special role for the life of a given tribe / city / state, but which turned out to be so significant for each individual person that it is not only not lost to this day, but also continues to be actively used, making up one of the important articles in the development of the economy of virtually any country.

So, in addition to people for whom travel was a professional necessity (seafarers, researchers and scientists, merchants, later - priests), there were people who just wanted to see new lands and get new impressions. There was such a thing as tourism.

Most of the different definitions of tourism boil down to the fact that tourism is a set of relationships, connections and phenomena that accompany the trip and stay of people in places that are not places of their permanent or long-term residence and are not related to their work activities.

Today there are a huge number of types of tourism. According to the distance of travel, local (as a rule, local history) tourism, domestic tourism and international tourism are distinguished. Based on the title of the topic under discussion, we will focus on the sport type of tourism. It includes: walking (including mountain hiking, mountaineering), cycling, water (rowing, sailing; river, sea, etc.).

I would like to dwell on such a kind of tourist sport as orienteering.

Orientation.

A map and a compass have led people on the right path since very distant times. The first reliable news of the use of a compass dates back to 235 AD.

Orienteering was included in the course of military sciences and from these exercises emerged as a sport at the end of the last century. The starting point is taken on May 13, 1897, when the first official competition took place in Norway.

The Finns intercepted the Norwegian initiative, creating the world's first federation. By 1946, even a special Nordic Orienteering Union was formed.

After the Second World War, orienteering began to actively develop in the socialist countries, and in 1958 an international conference was established, after which, three years later, the International Federation of Orienteering was established. More than 40 national federations are now represented there.

In our country, orienteering looked completely different from what it is now. Leningraders, for example, ran with lanterns in their hands on night roads. They covered 20-40 kilometers, looking for control points until dawn. It was imperative to carry the weight in a backpack weighing 15 kilograms.

The name "orienteering" was not yet available. The competitions were called “closed tourist routes”. There were no uniform rules for a new sports hobby either. Their foundations were laid in 1961 by representatives of Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Moscow, Leningrad, Sverdlovsk who came to Tartu.

Two years later, the first governing organization of the Knights of the Run with Compass and Map was created under the Central Tourism Board. In 1963, the first all-Russian competitions were held. 12 union republics are represented there. In 1965, orienteering was included in the Unified All-Union Sports Classification. The first masters of sports appeared. The European Orienteering Championships have been held since 1962, and the World Championships since 1964.

In 1979, the All-Union Federation was created. And since 1981, championships and winter cups have been held. This is how this sport was formed and strengthened, which every year wins more and more fans.

Orientation is a cross with a map and a compass in hand. There are three types of competitions: orientation in a given direction, along a marked track and optional.

In the first case, the orienteer transfers all the checkpoints to his map from the reference map and goes to the finish line, checking these notes so as not to miss more than one checkpoint (CP).

In the second case, he runs along the track, already marked for him with special signs, and must copy it exactly to his map by arrival at the finish line.

And finally, in the third case, the athlete is given a card with marked controls and the number of points for each of them. The bottom line is the choice of goals: the more difficult, hidden and distant ones are rated higher, but they are also more difficult to find.

There is a special competition for judges - "table competition". Here the ability to plan a distance on the map is tested.

It is interesting that a number of well-known representatives of other sports have been involved in orienteering in different years, albeit with varying degrees of success. The Olympic skiing champion Finn Veikko Hakkulinen was the national champion in orienteering, and when he left the track, he even entered the national team of Finland. But the no less famous Englishman - runner Gordon Peary also tried orienteering, but was defeated and did not stay in it.

Geographers and topographers read maps best of all. Endurance marathoners run better than others. And the best orienteering masters should combine these qualities. They must choose the most profitable path to the checkpoints with the help of knowledge, experience and intuition, and try to go the fastest of all this path, using their endurance, running ability and patience.

The ability to navigate is a truly vital concept. It ultimately boils down to choosing the most favorable position in relation to certain circumstances.

"Orientation is a human property," one of the knights of the map and compass once said. This is true. Life constantly forces us to choose goals, make decisions and act accordingly.

The history of tourism development cannot be considered either complete or frozen at some stage: it is closely intertwined with the history of mankind, both being determined by it (as mentioned above) and defining it, since the development of tourism itself affects the economy, social and cultural environment and international contacts of the country.

Gradually, from an "elite" pastime, tourism turned into a mass form of recreation, and today it plays such an important role in the lives of many people that it has become a unique largest world industry. And gave people a lot of new sports types.

Technical and military-applied sports.

The list of technical and military-applied sports includes 27 names: airplane, helicopter, parachute, motorcycle, automobile, water-motor, motorball, military-applied all-around, modeling of ships, missiles, cars and others.

These are the children of the twentieth century. Placed on a par with classical sports, they stand out for their youth and power. Their element is motors and speed. They explode the silence with the roar of the engines turned on and show what a person is capable of when the heart of a mighty motor beats in his hands.

The development of technical and military-applied sports is based on democratic ideas about attracting broad masses to strengthening the country's defense capability.

Let's analyze the most popular types of this sport: aviation sports(airplane, helicopter, planetary, parachute, hang gliding), automobile and motorcycle sports,(races (on a cinder track, winter, road-ring, motocross), car all-around, autocross), motorball, powerboat, sports modeling(racing, radio-controlled, replica models), radio sports .

The history of sports is called a marathon through the centuries. He came to us from time immemorial and grew up with humanity. In a matter of decades, sport has captivated millions of people around the globe, and has become a magnet that brings nations and continents closer together.

The sport of the ancients began with running one stage equal to the length of the stadium in Olympia - 192.27 meters. There are now about 100 sports and new ones are still emerging. And it doesn't matter at all whether your favorite sport is Olympic or it belongs to the national, whether you go in for extreme sports or prefer intellectual sports, because the most important thing is that you have entered this wonderful world of sports filled with strength and beauty.

Of course, my essay could not reflect the whole variety of sports competitions that exist in the world, but I tried to reflect the main, key points. It seems to me that the sports presented for consideration belong to different sports areas and most fully reflect the whole versatility of sports in the world. And although they are all so different, in the end they all share the desire of people to express themselves in this or that sport.

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Hello dear ones.
Winter, even if it is so little snow and warm as this year, always becomes a time of mass sports, and not only amateur, but also professional, which is natural. We will not talk about amateur winter sports today, because every reader of this article (unless, of course, he is an indigenous resident of Equatorial Guinea who has never left his village at a distance of no more than 7 kilometers in his life), to one degree or another, at least once in his life, participated in amateur sports games. Therefore, it is not very interesting to talk about this, the topic of professional sports seems to be much more promising. Formally, all professional winter sports can be divided into 2 large parts - Olympic and non-Olympic sports.

ball for bendy

Winter Olympic sports are those that are part of the program of the Winter Olympic Games held every 4 years. I want to remind you that the next Winter (or as it is also called White) Olympics will be held in Russia - in the city of Sochi in 2014. So - there are only seven Winter Olympic events. 4 of them are not subdivided into separate disciplines: hockey, biathlon, luge and bobsleigh. The remaining three consist of various subspecies, which are called disciplines in sports. These are: Skiing (subdivided into Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Ski Jumping, Nordic Combined, Freestyle and Snowboarding); Speed ​​Skating (Figure Skating, Speed ​​Skating and Short Track) and Bobsleigh (Bobsleigh and Skeleton). Here, too, everything is clear and understandable - the rules are defined, there are federations, various championships and cups are held constantly. But what about those species that are not included in the Olympic program? Do they exist? The answer is yes! There are, although not many. There are such popular and well-known sports as Speedway, Ball Hockey (Bandy) or Winter Kitesailing, but today I want to talk about something else - about those kinds that are little known in our country, despite the rather high interest on the planet. I would single out 5 of them - Ice Cross, Aisstock, Skijoring, Rigett, Yukigassen.

Speedway Legend Per-Olav Sirenius

What is this "Ice Cross"? The name itself tells us not only the essence of the competition, but also partly its rules - this is a kind of symbiosis of short track, speed skating, slalom and steeplechase. The founders of tournaments in this sport are creating an ice track, or rather a chute, with a large number of sharp turns, small jumps and sharp descents. It is quite clear that in such difficult conditions the competitor must not only perfectly stand on skates, but also have excellent control over his body, think quickly and be resistant to injury. For, as in every extreme sport, all kinds of bruises and fractures, despite good protective equipment, are not at all uncommon.
Ice Cross's rules are simple. All competitors, in accordance with the lot, are distributed among the races. 4 athletes participate in one race, two of them who came first move to the next level of the competition, two who lagged behind are eliminated. In the end, there is only one who wins the competition.

Ice Cross check-in

The first official tournament was held in 2000 in one of the central squares of Stockholm and attracted great interest. From the same year, the world-renowned energy drink manufacturer Red Bull took over this sport. Since 2001, the annual tournament of the strongest has been held, which since 2010 has received the status of an official world championship. Every year Red Bull finds more and more new venues for the tournament, once it has already been held in Moscow.
Interest in this sport is constantly growing and at the moment athletes from 15 countries of the world are participating in it. The largest number of Ice Cross fans are registered in Canada, Finland and Sweden. The most titled athlete is considered the former player of the Swedish national bandy team Jasper Felder, who has 7 awards to his account.

Jasper Felder

Aisstock is next in line. This is one of the most ancient winter sports, which some peoples of Europe have been fond of almost since the 11th century. In the form in which we know it today, it appeared in the middle of the 19th century in Bavaria. Hence, by the way, its German name originated. The Eisstock was so popular that at the beginning of the 20th century, the International Federation was formed, which holds all kinds of championships, including the world, and in addition, before the Winter Olympic Games in 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and 1964 in Innsbruck, this sport was demonstrated to a high audience on a par with the Olympic and for some time the International Olympic Committee was seriously thinking about including Eisstock, and not curling, in the official program of the Winter Games. However, for objective and subjective reasons, this did not happen. Perhaps it has not worked out yet. As they say, wait and see.

1936 Winter Olympics emblem

The ice stock can be divided into 2 subspecies: the game for accuracy and the game for range.
The rules of the game for accuracy are somewhat similar to the rules of the game of curling. To describe them in a nutshell, you need to throw a special projectile called the stock as close to the center of the target as possible, implicitly knocking out the stocks of your opponents, as well as the puck in the center of the target. The main differences are that the teams are located opposite each other, and for the game you do not need to sweep at all (that is, rub the ice in front of the projectile with special brushes).

Shells for Eisstock

Well, in the game at a distance, everything is simple - you need to send your stock as far as possible. It was I who simplified all the rules and conditions as much as possible in order to describe the essence of this rather exciting game as briefly as possible. If you are interested - do not be lazy, find and read the Eisstock rules, maybe you will become a loyal fan of this sport and in the future, who knows, bring our country one of the first Olympic Aisstock awards.
Several different subspecies of competitions fall under the definition of skijoring: 1) towing on dogs, 2) towing on horses; 3) motorized towing. The principle in any type of skijoring is simple - overcoming a certain distance on skis not only with the help of your own muscular strength, but also with the help of dogs, horses or motorized means.

Skijoring with dogs

The most famous and most widespread is the dog skijoring. In this form, the skier controls 1-3 dogs with the help of special mounts and belts, which help him to drive along the track. The difficulty is that the skier himself uses poles and skis for the intended purpose and it is important that the dogs give additional speed, and not knock them off the run. This sport, as a military-applied type, was developed in the USSR, in which national championships were constantly held. We called it "towing a skier with a dog." Now, by the way, among the dog breeders of our country, he also enjoys a certain fame, although we are still far from the leaders, the same Canada and the United States.

Equestrian skijoring

Equestrian skijoring was invented in North America. In contrast to the dog, the speed is higher here, so the skier is attached to the animals not with a short system of reins, but with a long rope. In addition, competitions are often complicated by various obstacles and jumps, and then it is more likely not a kind of cross-country skiing, but some kind of extreme freestyle. An interesting fact is that the equestrian skidjoring was included in the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz as a demonstration species.
Motorized towing is similar to a horse skijoring with the difference that a snowmobile or motorcycle is used instead of a horse.

St. Moritz Winter Olympics Poster

Ringett. Like many men in our country, I really love hockey. This is a power, contact, furious and, forgive the fair sex, an exclusively male game. Well, I can’t perceive women's hockey in principle, I can’t ... And apparently this is not the only one I am in this world, because in 1963 the Canadian Sam Jax invented a new sport, which he called the ringett (from the English ring - ring). An ordinary hockey was taken as a basis, but the puck was replaced by a round rubber ring, and the hockey stick was replaced by a stick. Plus, a 30-second attack limit was introduced. Thus, a gambling, dynamic game, but absolutely devoid of power struggle, turned out, where not physical dimensions came to the fore, but dexterity and team interaction. In all other respects, it resembles hockey - the same 5 players plus a goalkeeper on a standard site, the equipment is fully consistent with that of hockey, the projectile (rubber circle) must be delivered to the goal. This game was created exclusively for women and, as it seems to me, it could successfully replace women's hockey in the program of the future Olympic Games. It only remains to add that athletes from Canada and Finland are considered the best ringetta players on the planet.

There is a battle at Ringett

Well, the last sport that I would like to mention today will be Yukigassen. This beautiful name hides our favorite snowballs since childhood. Yes, ordinary snowballs. The word is derived from two Japanese characters for snow and battle. It was in the Land of the Rising Sun at the end of the 80s of the 20th century that the rules were thought out and formulated that turned simple children's fun into a game where dexterity, cunning, accuracy and strategic thinking must be applied. The essence of the competition is as follows: 2 teams, each of which has 10 players (7 main and 3 substitutes) build snow fortresses and try to knock out as many opponents as possible with snowballs in order to capture the flag of the opposing team. The fight lasts 3 periods of 3 minutes each, and for one period each team is given 90 standard snowballs. Each knocked out player counts for one point, capturing the flag for 10. Snowballs must not be thrown over to the players of their team. They can only be rolled or transferred.

Yukigassen Championship.

You need to hide from the opponent's snowballs behind your snow fortifications, where you can also store your snowballs. These are, in general, the rules of this simple game. As is often the case, if gambling is structured and the rules are betrayed, it turns into an interesting sports competition. I've seen it myself more than once and I like it. Some kind of simplified paintball.
Now that you, my dear reader, are armed with new knowledge about new sports for you, I hope you decide to try some of them yourself. Dare and remember - good mood and excitement perfectly understand vitality.
Have a nice time of the day

They would become even more popular if they included several new disciplines.

Today, there are several very popular winter sports that, for various reasons, are not Olympic.

And, nevertheless, these sports can compete with many Olympic disciplines in terms of entertainment.

1. Skijoring (dog racing)

This sport is quite young. In the USSR, there was a discipline called skier towing, which was later renamed in Russia as skidoring.

The skier is pulled forward by a horse, dog or deer (less often), which is controlled by the rider or the skier himself - it all depends on the type of skijoring.

It is also worth noting that riding with a snowmobile or SUV as a tug can also be called skijoring. In Russia, this winter sport is associated with dogs, and in the USA with horses.

2. Competitions for speed (alpine skiing)

In this sport, skiers compete for speed, descending from a specially prepared slope. It should be noted that this is the fastest non-motor sport, not counting skydiving.

Usually, in a speed competition, participants can reach a mark exceeding 200 km / h. The speed of the skier is determined on a 1 km segment. The winner is the one with the highest speed.

3. Sports ballet on ice

In the USA and Australia, ice ballet is known as "TOI" (Theater on Ice). This winter sport is a mixture of singles and pair skating and ice dancing sports.

Synchronized figure skating in ice ballet aims to tell a complete story. The emphasis is on aesthetics over technique. For the first time ballet on skis appeared at the beginning of the 20th century in Austria. Despite the fact that the discipline itself is quite new, it is gaining popularity very quickly.

4. Winter sports: military patrol competition (patrol race)

The patrol race is the forerunner of modern biathlon. This sport was known in the first half of the 20th century.

The military patrol competition includes several stages: men's and women's cross-country skiing at a distance of 25 km and 15 km, respectively, a mountain route (ski mountaineering) and rifle shooting at pre-prepared targets.

Before being replaced by biathlon, the patrol race was a winter Olympic sport at the very first games in 1924.

5. Ball hockey (bandy)

There are two teams of 10 field players, who use skates to move. Despite. That in Russia this sport is officially called "ball hockey", in international practice its name is "bandy".

The International Olympic Committee recognizes bandy as a winter sport, but has not yet made it part of the official program of the Winter Olympics. According to the President of the Russian Bandy Federation and the International Bandy Federation, this sport will take place at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

6. Snowkiting

Being a kind of kitesurfing, the main element of this winter sport is a kite (kite), which pulls the athlete along. The participant can ski and snowboard.

In Russia, snoykiting is developing very quickly, in contrast to kitesurfing. For example, in Togliatti you can watch the international snow surfing competition "Zhigulevskoe more".

Snowkiting (video)

7. Non-Olympic sports: sled sailing

Sailing sleds also have another name - gliders. The main structure is the sail, which is attached to the hull, which already has three short steel skates. The rear ridge plays the role of the sled's rudder.

Gullies are capable of high speeds, but it all depends on the ice and wind strength. There are places where sled sailing is a very popular sport, for example Poland, where there are about 2,000 lakes and a huge number of rivers in the northeastern part.

8. Non-Olympic sports: ice climbing (ice climb)

Simply put, it is climbing the icy steep slopes. Here you need to have a high level of concentration. Ice is quite fragile, which means that one careless movement can lead to a crack.

Ice climbers climb the same peaks as rock climbers in the warm season. However, ice climbers have another obstacle that climbers do not have - a frozen waterfall.

It should be noted that Russian fans of this sport can be found in the Caucasus. There are also many ice rinks to be found in Crimea. In addition to natural ones, there are also artificial ice structures for training.

9. Winter equestrian polo

Despite the fact that winter equestrian polo is not an Olympic sport, major competitions are held in it. Competitions in this sport have been held in Moscow since 2004.

The most famous winter equestrian polo tournament is called the Cartier Polo World Cup, and it takes place every year in Switzerland, namely on the ice of Lake St. Moritz. The rules for this sport are the same as for regular equestrian polo. The only difference is the ball, which is painted in a brighter color and has a larger diameter.

Since the climatic conditions in Russia allow this sport to develop, the International Federation of Modern Pentathlon is seriously interested in the prospect of this development. It is worth noting that the head of this federation is Prince Albert of Monaco, who is very fond of this sport.

10. Figure skiing

The sport was part of freestyle (skiing) from the early 60s until 2000. Within 90 seconds, participants had to perform various acrobatic elements while skiing down a small slope to music.

In the 80s, there was a pair competition in which, in addition to jumping and turning, participants had to perform lifts and demonstrate synchronization. The performance was assessed by the judges.

What do you think can combine swimming with athletics, and football and basketball with rhythmic gymnastics and biathlon? That's right - all these sports are considered Olympic. This means that they belong to one of the two programs of the Olympic Games - either the winter or the summer.

Non-Olympic sports - what is the concept?

But in fact, there are twice as many sports in the world than those listed in the Olympic program. What people are not doing! And rugby, and sambo, and bandy, and many, many others. All these are non-Olympic sports, the list of which looks very impressive. Why is it that some of its types are Olympic, while others are not?

There are many reasons for this. Let's say rugby - why is this sport bad? Not too popular? In Russia, yes. But, for example, in England rugby matches consistently gather whole stadiums of fans. And so it is in many other countries.

In this case, this is not the reason. As you know, the Olympic Games last no more than 15 days in summer. For the Olympic championship, for example in rugby, much more time is required. The fact is that rugby is a contact sport. It is very labor intensive, and the players give their best. After each match, they need more time to recuperate, more than, for example, footballers.

And this is also a sport

Another reason is that many games can be categorized as sports at a serious stretch. Did you personally know that bowling and billiards are also considered sports? Most people in everyday life consider these activities only fun leisure, it would never occur to them that these are also non-Olympic sports. The list of them also includes chess - and in fact the overwhelming majority treat them only as a highly intellectual game that develops the brain, but not in any way as a sports activity. And this is provided that chess, like billiards and all the same bowling in our country, have their own federations, that is, they are officially considered sports.

The aforementioned species have been tried repeatedly to be included in the Olympiad program in different years. Perhaps this will happen in the future. But so far they are not. Apparently not spectacular enough. After all, the Olympic Games are primarily related to mass events. It is difficult to imagine how a full stadium of spectators will hold their breath and watch the duel of two chess players.

Of course, all these criteria are quite subjective. For example, curling was recognized as an Olympic sport in 1998. An ordinary viewer does not understand why curling is better or more spectacular than the same bowling?

Fight and don't give up

Representatives of the Federation of Non-Olympic Sports in no way want to come to terms with the status of those and continue to fight hard to be included in the program of the Olympics. But this is quite difficult to do. And in order to "put" any kind of sport into the program, you have to exclude something else.

If the program of the first Olympic Games included only 9 sports, then over time it has grown so much that it was necessary to limit such a variety and even exclude something. Thus, such non-Olympic sports as cricket and croquet, polo, which were present in it in the first half of the last century, were thrown out of the program. In this century, baseball and softball have been excluded from the program, boxing is on the verge of exclusion.

Non-Olympic sports that don't want to be

Representatives of various types of martial arts are fighting most actively for the status of Olympic. They achieved the inclusion of boxing, judo, taekwondo in the Olympiads program. The federations of karate, wushu, sambo, kickboxing and other types of wrestling bombard the IOC with regular applications. But they have not yet achieved the result.

Despite the popularity of certain types of power, their representatives have not yet succeeded in abolishing the status of "non-Olympic sports". So, kettlebell lifting, powerlifting and arm wrestling are unsuccessfully fighting for this status. The Dance Sport Federation, a spectacular and highly dynamic sport, is constantly applying to the IOC and is also constantly disappointed. But sports dances cannot be called less beautiful or spectacular than figure skating, which was "written" in the program of the Olympic Games a long time ago.

Are there any lucky ones?

The aforementioned intellectual sports such as checkers, chess, billiards also have little chance of being among the participants in the Olympiads. It is believed that the IOC prefers competitions that involve real physical activity.

And yet, despite the fact that the program of the Olympiads is filled to capacity, some sports still manage to break into the number of lucky ones. So, relatively recently, the summer Olympic program was replenished with golf, and the winter one with snowboarding.

Most parents strive to assign a child from an early age to some kind of sports section. At the same time, non-Olympic sports in Russia are rarely preferred in our country. When choosing the type of physical activity for a son or daughter, most often they stop at the one that is included in the cherished program. What is the reason for this? The main advantage is state funding, which allows young athletes to build a sports career in the future.

A look into the past

If we turn to history, we can recall that they started on the territory of Ancient Greece in ancient times. Then only men participated in them, and they dedicated their competitions to numerous pagan gods. Games always began with chariot races, later various martial arts, horse races, pentathlon were included. In addition, in the Olympiads of those times, there were competitions between heralds and trumpeters. Some nominations, like running, have not lost their popularity to this day.

Now there are many kinds of sports, known all over the world, prestigious, fashionable, besides having an official structure of competitions and their own international associations. These are non-Olympic sports recognized by the IOC, but still not included in the Olympic program.

Some of them did not become such only because of their limited popularity (in some countries). An example is American football, some types are the same cricket and various extreme novelties.