Sports

Monday 31 October 2016

Welcome back, This is our final blog post for this year.

This is a video that we made for this blog. It is a compilation of trick shots that we created and are real at Macquarie outside the gym. Please enjoy this very cool video that we made!

Monday 17 October 2016

Cricket

Welcome back! Today's sport is Cricket.

Cricket is a bat and ball team sport played on a spherical grass oval. There are two teams of 11 on both teams, with a fielding/bowling team and a batting team. The aim of the batting team is to score as many runs as possible and then defend their score, while the bowling/fielding team is to reduce the batting team from scoring as many runs in a certain amount of overs/time or take 10 wickets. The game originated from England but is also very popular in countries such as South Africa, Australia, Sri Lanka, India, West Indies, Pakistan, New Zealand and England.

Bowling

Here is a quick guide:

Batting

The bowling/fielding team must aim to restrict as many runs as they can from the batting team. There are 11 players on the field at a time, 9 outfielders, 1 bowler and 1 wicket keeper (the guy who stands behind the batter). The bowler must bowl 6 legal deliveries to the batter per over.

The batting team's aim is to score as many runs as possible in a certain time frame or overs. Each team has 11 batters and there is a limit of 10 wickets that can be taken from the fielding team before the batting team must cease their innings regardless of whether the overs have been completed or not. Runs can be scored in 3 different ways. Once the ball is hit by the batter, he/she may proceed to complete 1 run by running from one side of the pitch to the other. 4 runs are scored if the ball is hit all the way to boundary rope and a 6 is achieved if the ball reaches over the boundary rope on a full.

Fielding

Cricket is perceived to be a very boring sport in the eye of the general viewer. Many individuals (whether they follow sport or not) find that cricket has way too much down time and is played for too long. This point of view however, is not completely irrational as the game can be played over 5 days and the game requires lots of patience with batters required to find loose balls to hit or else they will leave or block the ball. I believe that the sport can be interesting, especially the shortest format as there is more action and excitement.

(written by Nathan Lam)

Sunday 16 October 2016

Taekwondo 2

Ha guys, this post will have more information about Taekwondo.

The last post of Taekwondo has introduced some of the basic kicking skills of Taekwondo. This post will introduce more different methods of the Taekwondo’s kicking. However, the techniques of this post introduce are more complicated and some of them are require people to grasp the basic kicking which introduced in last post.

Hook kick

Hook kick is a kick like round kick. However, hook kick is not kick the target by the instep, it need the leg to move like a hook and use the heel to hit the target.

Axe kick

The axe kick is another kick that use heel to attack the target. However, unlike the hook kick, the movement of axe kick is from up to the down and it usually aims the head of the target.

Spin kick

Spin kick is kick that require the user spin their hold body before they kicking. Some of the spin kick needs the user have the knowledge of other basic, such as the spinning hook kick, spinning axe kick, 360 turning kick.

Jump kicks

Jump kick is meaning the people jump and kick. Normally, it will be used when people have a height difference with their target or people want to increase the power of their kicking. Usually, people will combine the basic kicks with the jump action to be the jump kicks, such as jump snap kick, jump side kick, jump axe kick.

I am highly recommend you guys to try Taekwondo. Due to it is not only a fighting skill and it can also help you guys to have a health body.

Reference: Google Image
(Written by Ricky Law)

Friday 14 October 2016

Taekwondo

Ha guys, today topic is Taekwondo

Taekwondo is a well-known Korean martial art. The feature of Taekwondo’s skill is focusing on their kicking techniques. In recent years, there are two major style of Taekwondo. The first style is ITF, which have a longest history style; and the second style is WTF, which is more modern and using in Olympics.

Taekwondo have many different kicking methods and here will introduce some basic method. This post will introduce Front snap kick, Side kick, Round kick and Back kick.

Front snap kick

The front snap kick is the basic skill that people learn in Taekwondo. The special of it is kicking in a linear way and it is very fast. Although it seems very usually, it can be very powerful after a long
practice.

Side kick

Like the snap kick, side kick is another way to hit the target in the front. But side kick have one more action is to rotates body and make the kick can have a longer hit range.

Round kick

Unlike the snap kick, round kick is the user turn their hips and kicks the target from the side.

Back kick

This kick is the user turn back their body and pushes the back leg straight toward to the target. This kick is also power in the fight; due to the turning movement provide a power for it.

In next post, we will have more type of Taekwondo kicks .

More informations about Taekwondo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taekwondo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Taekwondo_techniques

http://yoosma.com/the-basic-types-of-taekwondo-kicks/

(Written by Ricky law)

Thursday 13 October 2016

Ice Hockey 2

Hi guys! I am going to talk more on ice hockey.

Ice hockey is one of the full contact sports, which require lots of physical contact between players. So protective equipment is mandatory.

Equipment needed:

1. Skates

2. Stick

3. Helmet

4. Shoulder pads

5. Elbow pads

6. Mouth guard

7. Protective gloves

8. Girdle

9. Shin pads

10. Neck protector

Goaltenders use different equipment as they need to block the puck which can be at speeds up to 160 km/h.
Here we go:

1. Specialty goalie skates

2. Jock / jill

3. Large leg pads

4. Blocking glove

5. Catching glove

6. Chest protector

7. Goalie mask

8. Large jersey

(written by Ron Chan)

Cycling

Hey guys! Welcome back! this post will be about cycle sports.

The Cycle sport is the sport of using bicycles and it usually is an outdoor sport. Unlike the other sport, cycle sport have many type of ways to play, such as BMX, mountain bike racing, road bicycle racing. However, in here we are just go to introduce the basic ways to doing sport with the bicycle.

Bicycles is a human-powered vehicle and it require us to use our feet to move the pedals and produce energy to move the bicycle. Therefore, you need to keep moving your legs to provide the energy for the bicycle and it will training your leg’s muscle. Also, it will challenge your physical strength and your endurance in the long time cycling.

Here is a video to teach you ride on a bicycle.

In addition, doing the cycle sport in daily life is also a good ways to do sport and keep your fitness. Also, it is can benefits the environment.

If you want more information about cycle sport, you can go to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_sport

https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/cycling-health-benefits

(written by Ricky)

Tennis

Ha guys, today's topic is about tennis

Tennis is a racket sport and it can be an indoor or an outdoor sport. Tennis is a competitiveness sport and it requires two people or four players to play, which is singles and doubles. Tennis needs to play on the tennis court and the each sides of the court need to have the same numbers players.

The basic rule of tennis is to hit back the ball from the other side players to the other side within the court. If the other side player cannot hit back the ball or he hit back the ball but the ball is out of the court, you will get 1 point. The game will be finish when one of the players gets 4 points.

In tennis, there are different types of shots for player to use to hit back the ball. Normally, tennis players need to know have to use serve, forehand and backhand to play.

Serve is the shot to use for begins a game.

Forehand is the player hit the ball with the side of their dominant hand. Normally, if you’re dominant hand is right-hand, that you will hit the ball and waving your racket form right to left.

The backhand is similar to the forehand, but it require the player to wave their racket form the other side of their dominant hand.