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Touch Football

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Touch Football

First training, now competition.

  • Touch football is also known as touch rugby and touch, and involves both boys and girls.
  • Touch football is like rugby, with a field, two teams and a ball,  except you don’t tackle, you tap.
  • Touch football is often played in schools since it teaches important sporting techniques and is safer than rugby.
  • Touch football requires a small amount of equipment – markers and a football (soccer ball in America).
  • Touch football began in Australia, in 1923, as a fun thing to do, and as a training game for rugby league.  It did not become an official sport until 1968.

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  • Over 40 countries around the world play touch football in major competitions.
  • Touch football is popular in the South Pacific, Europe and the United Kingdom.
  • Typically touch football games take 45 minutes – two 20 minute halves and a 5 minute half time break.
  • The Touch Football World Cup is held every four years.
  • In 2012 in Australia, there were approximately 400,000 registered players, 500,000 school children, and numerous others that played touch football, making it one of the most popular sports in the country.
Bibliography:
Touch Football (rugby league) 30 December 2012, Wikipedia,  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_football_(rugby_league)>

Geocaching

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Geocaching

Geocaching… a worldwide treasure hunt.

  • Geocaching is when you navigate to a particular location using a GPS to find a box or container called a geocache, hidden at a particular set of coordinates.
  • Geocaches are found all over the world and are generally placed in interesting locations by people who love to geocache.
  • The game of geocaching is free to play and the basic rules of geocaching are:  if you take something out of a geocache, put something in; sign the logbook of the geocache; and log your caching experience at the official Geocaching website.
  • The word ‘geocache’ comes from the prefix ‘geo-‘, meaning Earth, and the french word ‘cache’ meaning hidden location and was first used by Matt Stum on 30th May 2000.
  • The sport of geocaching was created by Dave Ulmer on May the 3rd, 2000 due to new GPS technology that had become available the day before.

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  • There are over a dozen categories of geocaches including Traditional Caches, Multi-Caches, Mystery Caches, Letterbox Hybrids, Wherigo™ Caches, Event Caches, Mega-Event Caches, CITO Event Caches and EarthCaches™.
  • There are approximately 2 million current caches worldwide and over 5 million geocachers.
  • The sizes of geocache containers range from as little as 5ml to more than 20 litres and can take the shape of a lunch box container to a fake rock to a teeny tiny box.  They contain a logbook or log sheet, and sometimes small swaps, like coins, toys and stickers.
  • Non-collectible items can be found in geocaches. These are called travel bugs and geocoins and are trackable via the geoacaching website, and are moved from cache to cache by geocachers.
  • Jeremy Irish, an enthusiastic cacher, created the geocaching.com site which became the official website for geocaching on September the 2nd, 2000.
Bibliography:
Geocaching 101 2013, Geocaching, <http://www.geocaching.com/>

Canoeing

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Canoeing

Canoeing is fun if you love the outdoors!

  • Canoeing is the sport of propelling an open canoe, using a paddle.
  • Canoeing was originally a form of long distance transportation in North America, the Amazon basin and Polynesia, as well as many other countries.
  • Scottish explorer, John MacGregor, after experiencing canoeing in Canada and the US in 1858, started constructing his own canoes on his return to the United Kingdom.
  • The main competitive canoeing sport is racing, although canoe polo, playboating, extreme racing and surf skiing are also conducted.
  • Different boats are used and made for different types of canoeing sports such as whitewater and playboating canoes.
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  • Experienced canoeists typically steer from the stern and beginner canoeists typically steer from the bow, with the paddles.
  • Experienced canoeists, that canoe in shallow river, use a setting pole to propel the canoe forwards.
  • The sport of canoeing first appeared in the Olympic games at Paris, 1924.
  • Canoeists have to keep their centre of mass low, so they don’t capsize the canoe.
  • Canoes were traditionally made from wood and bark, then wood and canvas, and from there progressed to aluminium.  Most canoes today are made from moulded plastic or a composite like fibreglass.
Bibliography:
Canoeing 24 November 2012, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoeing>

Supercross

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Supercross

Supercross. No crosses aren’t super…

  • Supercross is motorcycle racing that uses off-road motorcycles on a track.
  • Another name for supercross is SX.
  • Supercross tracks are normally made out of artificial dirt, with steep jumps and obstacles.
  • Supercross comes from the sport motocross, another motorcycling organisation. Both ‘crosses’ are similar in many ways and are different as well – supercross is for more experienced riders due to a more difficult track involving higher risks and the potential of greater injury.
  • The first supercross race commenced in 1972, California and was named ‘Super Bowl of Motocross’.
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  • AMA (American Motorcyclist Association) supercross competitions are held from late December – mid May and consists of 17 rounds.
  • The winners of world Supercross competitions from 2003-2012 were Chad Reed; Heath Voss; Ricky Charmichael; James Stewart Jr; Ryan Dungey; and Ryan Villopoto.  All are Americans, except Chad Reed who is an Australian.
  • There are three supercross classes: Supercross Class, Supercross Lite East and Supercross Lite West.
  • The popular supercross teams are Hart & Huntington, Honda Muscle Milk, Jeff Ward Racing, Joe Gibbs Racing, Monster Energy Kawasaki, Monster Pro Circuit Kawasaki, Motor Concepts, Red Bull KTM, Rockstar Valli Yamaha, Troy Lee Designs, Two Two Motor Sports, Yoshimura Suzuki and Legends.
  • According to Chad Reed, most supercross riders spend about one and half hours training on their motorcycle every day.  Other training includes keeping fit.
Bibliography:
AMA Supercross Championship 16 November 2012, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercross>

Baseball

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Baseball

A popular team, base game.

  • Baseball is a bat and ball game which is all about running and hitting.
  • There are nine people per baseball team, and two teams per game.
  • The playing field, which has four bases layed out in the shape of a diamond, of a baseball game is typically 27 m (90 ft).
  • A baseball in a baseball game is pitched overarm.
  • The first recorded baseball game with confirmed rules was in 1846, at New Jersey.

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  • Baseball is the national, recognised sport of America, particularly the United States.
  • Baseball first appeared at the Olympics games in 1912.
  • A baseball game uses three main items – a baseball; baseball bats; and gloves or mitts and sometimes helmets.
  • A baseball is around the size of an adults fist, 23 cm (9 inches) in circumference.
  • The Major League Baseball, in America, has 30 teams.
Bibliography:
Baseball 5 November 2012, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball

Archery

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Archery

Steady… aim… FIRE… the arrow.

  • Archery is the practise of shooting arrows using bows made from flexible materials.
  •  The word ‘archery’ comes from the Latin word ‘arcus’ which means bow or arc.
  • Ancient Egyptians practised archery and used it commonly in battle.
  • The arrows are normally made from either wood, fibreglass, aluminium alloy, or carbon fibre, and the bow string, from dacron or kevla.
  • Traditionally bows were made from sap wood, however, today they are usually made from layers of composite materials, including fibreglass, wood and carbon.
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  • Archers use special equipment (a bracer, finger tab and thumb ring), to protect the bow and arrows and the archer’s body.
  • When shooting a bow, you should be perpendicular with your target and your feet should be a shoulder’s width apart.
  • These days, archery is mostly used for hunting and target shooting, and is normally done in a standing position or mounted on a horse.
  • Archers compete in competitions that test accuracy including the Olympic games, where it was introduced in the program for the first time in 1900.
  • In the United States, approximately 9 million people practise archery every year, according to surveys from the Archery Trade Association.
Bibliogaphy:
Archery 2 November 2012, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archery>

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