It is probably the strangest sport anyone has ever invented. It’s not like playing soccer. It doesn’t need a ball and players don’t wear team soccer uniforms. And at first sight, it looks like the easiest. Competitors have to do two things. The first is to stand still. The second is to place their hand anywhere on the body of a car, and keep it there.
This is where things start getting difficult. Lots of other people are doing the same thing. And the winner of the “handathon” contest is the person who can carry on doing it for the longest time. That person gets to own the car.
It still seems to be an easy thing to do. At the beginning it is, anyone can stand still, but when the contest has been going for four or five days, standing still seems like the most difficult job in the world. And keeping the hand in place over this time becomes an act of serious attention. After a few days, the hand seems to belong to someone else—-someone who wants to go home and get some sleep.
Competitors are allowed to take a five-minute break every hour to eat, drink or do whatever else is necessary. No one is allowed to lean on the car for support. Winners need to be able to show great powers of attention. They also need to be able to develop special skill.
Maybe the popularity of the handathon is due to the fact that is not necessary to be a trained athlete to enter. Entrants in the long-view handathon certainly don’t seem to do much preparation. Most say they will prepare by “getting lots of sleep”. Others say they will “eat healthy food” or “pray for success”. The whole event gives ordinary people the chance to do something interesting and win something at the end.
Handathons are competitions, but there is little rivalry between the competitors. They help each other out and keep each other’s spirits up. People who drop out early return with food, drink and encouragement for those who are still standing.
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Monday, August 30th, 2010It is probably the strangest sport anyone has ever invented. It’s not like playing soccer. It doesn’t need a ball and players don’t wear team soccer uniforms. And at first sight, it looks like the easiest. Competitors have to do two things. The first is to stand still. The second is to place their hand anywhere on the body of a car, and keep it there.
This is where things start getting difficult. Lots of other people are doing the same thing. And the winner of the “handathon” contest is the person who can carry on doing it for the longest time. That person gets to own the car.
It still seems to be an easy thing to do. At the beginning it is, anyone can stand still, but when the contest has been going for four or five days, standing still seems like the most difficult job in the world. And keeping the hand in place over this time becomes an act of serious attention. After a few days, the hand seems to belong to someone else—-someone who wants to go home and get some sleep.
Competitors are allowed to take a five-minute break every hour to eat, drink or do whatever else is necessary. No one is allowed to lean on the car for support. Winners need to be able to show great powers of attention. They also need to be able to develop special skill.
Maybe the popularity of the handathon is due to the fact that is not necessary to be a trained athlete to enter. Entrants in the long-view handathon certainly don’t seem to do much preparation. Most say they will prepare by “getting lots of sleep”. Others say they will “eat healthy food” or “pray for success”. The whole event gives ordinary people the chance to do something interesting and win something at the end.
Handathons are competitions, but there is little rivalry between the competitors. They help each other out and keep each other’s spirits up. People who drop out early return with food, drink and encouragement for those who are still standing.
Soccer Training For Kids
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010In today’s competitive sports world, soccer game is more popular and hence the need for coaches to conduct soccer training programs for kids is increasing day by day. Soccer coaches should understand and motivate the kids and always try to keep the soccer training program session interesting with fun. While giving soccer training to kids, coaches should consider certain things that can impress kids.
Soccer coaching skills and strategies
Every coach in the soccer training program should provide coaching in a different way as kids come to the training session with an intention to have excitement and fun. Kids will lose interest and will not enjoy the game if the coach makes the game look serious. Hence coach should not be too strict and not too light as well. It is better for coach to avoid long lectures and focus on some of the interactive games, drills for soccer, etc to make the kids attracted and engaged. Coaches should explain the soccer briefly to kids and allow them to run around and play.
Dribbling and shooting
In Soccer training programs, soccer drilling method is one the effective ways which can improve dribbling and shooting skills for kids. In this method, the coach should line up the kids in a single goal line and ensure that he has scattered large number of balls over the soccer field. Now he should allow the kids to move towards these balls, pick the balls and put it into the goal on the opposite side. If there are more number of kids to practice this soccer drilling and shooting method, then the coach should split up them into two groups. Both the groups should be allocated one or two goal keepers and these goal keepers take care of giving opportunities to all the kids for practicing this simple drill method.
Other soccer coaching tricks
To get started with kids, the coaches can perform other soccer training programs and strategies such as fun soccer conditioning, circuit training and making use of soccer coaching drills. Soccer coaches can advice kids to warm their bodies by going for a small round for jogging or running. This can help the kids to identify their limit and they do not exceed the limit. Often kids faint when they exceed their limit. Coaches should ensure that they make the kids to take small breaks in between which can help the kids to refresh and pep up.