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Off to the Olympics! Game Over?
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Sports can be a fun activity to share with your family. Perhaps you all enjoy snow skiing together in the winter or water skiing in the summer. Many kids within a family have individual sports they enjoy. One may be on a soccer team, another on a baseball team. And yet another may prefer tennis or horseback riding. Whatever your interest, whether it is a team sport or one you do alone, strive to do your best. In the meantime, take a break from skateboarding, trampolining, biking, or whatever you are doing. Settle back and discover some new and awesome facts in the world of sports.
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Off to the Olympics!
Not only do families enjoy sports together and individually, they support each other. Parents, grandparents, friends, and family can be found at soccer games, swim meets, and other competitions. They are all cheering for their family members. The Yoder family from Indianapolis, Indiana, has two boys and one girl. One of the boys, Alec, and the girl, Ashlyn, are passionate about gymnastics. Their brother Austin prefers golf. We recently talked to them about their love of gymnastics. Alec is a member of USA Gymnastics Senior National Team and has a great shot to make the Olympic team in 2020. He is in school at Ohio State University on a full scholarship for gymnastics. Here are some of the questions we asked Alec and Ashlyn.
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When did you know you were serious about gymnastics? Alec: I started gymnastics at four years old. When I watched Paul Hamm in the 2004 Olympics as a child, I knew that is what I wanted to do. I didn’t become serious about the sport, though, until I was 13. Ashlyn: When I was six years old, watching my older brother made me want to be involved in the sport. I started when I was seven. I would have loved to have had a good chance to make the Olympic team someday like my brother hopes to, but the competition to do that is so hard. My more realistic goal is to earn a scholarship to college in gymnastics and participate on the college team.
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What have been the most difficult challenges in all of your years of gymnastics? Alec: It was recovering from injuries and missing out on special times in junior high and high school with my family and friends. Ashlyn: Sometimes when I was sore, fatigued, and frustrated, I would feel like I wanted to give up. Then I would remember how much I love the sport. How often do you spend time at the gym working on your techniques? Alec: When I was in high school, I spent 30 hours a week training at the gym. Now that I am in college, the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) only allows students to spend 20 hours a week in the gym. Ashlyn: When I was younger, I practiced twice a week. Now, in junior high, I practice six days a week. You might be wondering how Alec and Ashlyn could spend so much time at the gym and still have time for their studies. The answer is, they were homeschooled by their devoted mother. She also drove them back and forth to practices. We asked their brother Austin if he was ever interested in gymnastics. He told us he remembered going to gymnastic classes when he was very young. He said he complained and was more interested in snack time. Although gymnastics was not his interest, Austin has become a very good golfer. That goes to show that not everyone has to enjoy the same sport. But whatever it is you like doing, Alec and Ashlyn had some words of encouragement. Alec: If you want to be the best, you have to dedicate yourself to hard work. Realizing there is significant sacrifice and discipline required. For me, it has been worth it. I have made many lifetime friends and have competed all over the world. Ashlyn: Have a positive attitude and be thankful every day for having a sport that you enjoy, even when it gets hard.
Watch for Alec in next year’s Olympics and also keep an eye out for Ashlyn! If you have questions for Alec or Ashlyn about gymnastics, write to us at Fun For Kidz and watch for their answers in a future issue of your magazine.
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When you play sports, your muscles get a workout. Here’s a fun experiment that will show you what happens when the muscles that move your fingers get tired.
What You Need: • your two hands
What You Do:
1. Weave your fingers tightly together. Squeeze them HARD and count to ten. 2. Now hold both of your pointing fingers out straight, as though they were pointing at something. Keep your other fingers locked tightly together. 3. Spread your pointing fingers apart so there is a space between them. 4. Watch your pointing fingers and TRY to keep them apart.
What Will Happen
While you watch them, your two pointing fingers will move toward one another until they are touching. Even if you try to keep them apart, if you hold your pointing fingers like this for a minute or so, the fingers WILL move together. It is weird to watch and to feel!
The Science Secret
Muscles work like rubber bands. They stretch out and pull back. To move a finger back and forth, you use two muscles. When you point your finger, the muscle in the BACK of your finger pulls tight. When you curl your finger in, the muscle in FRONT pulls, and the back muscle rests.
In this experiment, you are using the muscles in the BACK of your pointing fingers to hold them out straight. Before long, these back muscles get tired and begin to lose strength. When they get tired enough, the muscles in the FRONT of your fingers take over. They have not been working, so they are strong. The front muscles will pull your fingers together until they touch. There really is nothing mysterious about this. Everybody’s muscles – all over our bodies – get tired when they are made to work hard.
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by Gail Piernas-Davenport
Are you ready to try a new, exciting sport? Something that will put a smile on your face and get your heart pumping? It’s called zorbing, and it’s becoming very popular. A Zorb® is a huge ball made of strong, flexible plastic. It’s actually one ball inside another with air sandwiched between them. Riders climb inside the hollow inner ball, the Zorb is given a push, and the thrills begin! The Zorb rolls along a track carved into a sloping grassy hill, and riders bounce, roll around and around, and don’t know up from down. Riders say it’s like being inside a human hamster ball! Some Zorbs use harnesses to hold up to three people in place as they roll. Unharnessed Zorbs hold only one person. With nothing strapping them in, the rider tumbles around like a sock in a dryer. The air pocket between the inner ball, where the rider is, and the outer ball cushions riders when they hit major bumps. Zorbing on level ground is just as challenging as hurtling down a hill. Once inside, people crawl, walk, or run to get the ball moving. It’s quite a workout! Zorbing in a shallow pool lets you walk on water! You’ll lose your balance, fall down, and laugh your head off, but that’s half the fun. Open-side cylinder Zorbs are another way to go. No matter how you Zorb, you’ll come out ready to do it again, even if you feel like a hamster in a ball!
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Would you like to speed across the water, swimming faster than you ever thought you could? Or learn new things and make new friends? Then the world of swim teams could be for you! Being on a swim team is a high-energy experience. The atmosphere is very spirited. During swim meets, shouts of encouragement come from spectators and teammates alike. The swimmers’ teams have fun names, like Dashing Dolphins, Sharks, and AquaDucks. During practice sessions, coaches help swimmers with the four main swimming strokes: backstroke, freestyle, breaststroke, and butterfly. You become a stronger and better swimmer with each practice. This helps you beat your own best time when you race other individuals. There’s nothing like the feeling of crushing a goal you’ve set for yourself! Maybe you’re a natural at the backstroke. You could sign up to participate in that event at a swim meet. If you’re a good all-around swimmer, there’s the individual medley, a combination of all the main strokes. The super-thrilling relay is another event you could try. It’s where four-member teams compete against each other. No matter what the race is, it’s a blast to streak through the water and know people are rooting for you. Depending upon the event, racers may swim the length of the pool between 1 and 66 times. Don’t let this high number scare you. Swimmers say that when they are competing, the distance seems short because they are concentrating on their strokes. And they’re pumped up because their teammates are cheering them on. Ready for the excitement of a swim team? Check out a nearby community swimming pool. Swimmers are grouped by age and ability, so there’s no worry about getting in over your head. Soon you could be having a great, wet time with your Barracuda or Silver Sardines teammates!
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by Guy Belleranti
Begin at START. Draw a line through the letters to spell out: IMPORTANT THINGS FOR EVERY ATHLETE. You may move in any direction, but no letter may be connected more than once. Write the unconnected letters, in order, on the lines below to spell out these seven important things. START I T E R A M M P O W T O R K S P O A R T S M T A N N S H I N I H T P F U N L S G E A R N I N G E X F E R C Y I S H L E P R O A E R C A T T I E C E U R E V N I F O R M S T E FINISH
by Neal Levin
Find your way through the soccer ball. Start at the top and dribble your way down. On your mark, get set, GOAL!
by Annette Gulati
Do you know how to play these unusual sports? See if you can match up the sport with its description.
A. ARCHERY B. CRICKET C. CROQUET D. CURLING E. DISK GOLF F. FENCING G. LUGE H. RUGBY I. SQUASH J. WATER POLO A ___
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1. This sport is played with 2 teams of 11 players, a paddle-shaped bat, and a ball. One game can sometimes last for days.
6. This game is played in the water. Team members try to hit a ball, using their head, hands, or feet, into the other team’s goal.
2. A game where 2 players use racquets to hit a small rubber ball against the walls of an indoor court.
7. A sport where players throw a heavy, polished stone down a strip of ice. They sweep the ice with a broom to try to get the stone to move closer to the goal.
3. A sport played on the grass, where players use mallets to hit wooden balls through hoops, or wickets. 4. Invented in Switzerland, this winter sport has players in sleds racing each other down a track. 5. This sport began in ancient Egypt. Two players use sabers, épées, and foils to defend themselves and attack their opponent.
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8. A team sport similar to soccer and football. Players can carry, pass, or kick the ball down to the other team’s goal. 9. A sport where the player uses a bow and arrow to hit a target from a distance. 10. Players in this sport travel a course, trying to hit different targets with their disks.
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bo ax cup sock kama plum worm heart tonfa sword tepee flicker elf hat baseball sailboat root beer boomerang bowling pin 2 ice cream cones
by David K. Lindo
Find the letters described by the fraction given in each of the following statements. Print the letters you select, in the order provided, into the boxes below. What did you find? Were you surprised? The middle 1/2 of SHOW The middle 1/5 of SUPER The last 1/4 of TRAP The first 2/7 of INTEGER The last 1/8 of LAUGHING The last 1/3 of ENIGMA The first 1/6 of DESIGN How mad can a frog get?
by Guy Belleranti
Search up, down, and across to find the 10 sports on the list. Write the leftover letters, in order, on the lines to spell out another sport.
GOLF TRACK TENNIS SOCCER CYCLING SKATING SOFTBALL SWIMMING BASKETBALL GYMNASTICS
Did You Bring Your A-Game? Find Out Answers on Page 30.
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Pickleball, Anyone?
by Diane Smit Ever been bored and couldn’t find anything to do? You could invent a new sport or you could play Pickleball. That’s right, Pickleball! It has nothing to do with pickled vegetables. Pickleball is a combination of Ping-Pong, tennis, and badminton. Pickleball was created one summer day in 1965 when the bored children of two men said they had nothing to do. One of the fathers, Joel Pritchard (who later was a US congressman), decided to set up a badminton game behind his house. When no good shuttlecocks could be found, the kids hit a three-inch Wiffle ball. But the ball was too big for the badminton rackets, so Mr. Pritchard and his friend, William Bell, got busy. They made four wooden paddles, large enough to whack the Wiffle ball. First the group tried volleying the ball over the net. They discovered it worked better if the ball was bounced on the ground before driving it over the net. Then they lowered the net to three feet instead of the normal five feet. Voila! Pickleball was born. With the net lowered, the players could hit low, hard drives.
How did such a fun sport get such a strange name? Some say Pickleball was named after a family pet, the only sport to have such an honor! Pickles, the Pritchards’ cocker spaniel, would chase the ball after it left the court and then hide it in nearby bushes. After all, it was Pickles’s ball. Why is Pickleball such a hit? The game is challenging, yet easy to learn. Anyone can play and enjoy it. It’s also inexpensive and easy to set up. No special clothing is needed, except a good pair of shoes. As long as you have a net and a flat surface, you can play Pickleball indoors or outdoors. And besides getting a terrific workout, you’ll have a barrel of laughs. Ready to play? What are you waiting for? Get your paddles. You’ll wonder why you didn’t invent this game yourself.
Another friend, Barney McCallum, helped put together the official rules of the game. Later Pickleball was copyrighted. The rules were sent to any interested person or organization. Soon Pickleball courts sprang up all over the country. The Pickleball court is about the size of a badminton or tennis court. You need two to four players. Today’s Pickleball is a small, lightweight plastic ball with holes. Unlike the original wooden paddles, today’s paddles are also lightweight, giving excellent control of the ball.
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by Peggy Thorne • illustration by Pamela Harden Right, left, right . . . I felt like I’d been skating forever. My breath burned in my throat, and my legs felt like lead. I was exhausted, but I tried to concentrate on the things my coach taught me: body low, strokes long and smooth. Swinging my arms helped. Right, left, right . . . I finally passed the finish line. I straightened up and started gulping air. The crowd was going crazy. I found out later that it was because I’d set a new track record for 12-year-old kids. Track: it’s a funny word for an oval laid out on a frozen lake, but that’s what they call it. I turned to look for Kacie. She was standing between our parents, jumping up and down in the snow and cheering wildly. Kacie’s my sister. She’s short, but she still gets a lot of height out of her jumps. She’s a figure skater, after all, and jumps are her specialty. One of them, anyway. The other is giving good advice. If it weren’t for Kacie, I wouldn’t be here today. She’s the reason I’m a speed skater. I used to surf. I lived it, breathed it, thought about it all the time. That was when we lived in California. Then Dad took a job in Minnesota. It was all right for Kacie. She’s been skating since she was six, and it turns out there are almost as many figure skaters in Minnesota as there are in California. No surfers, though. Up here, hockey’s the big sport. Crushed, devastated, miserable – those words don’t even begin to describe how I felt about giving up surfing. Everything else about Minnesota was fine. I liked our school, our house, and our neighborhood. I made some friends, but they all did sports after school. I stayed home, watched television, and thought about surfing.
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One day, Kacie sat down next to me on the couch. “Brian,” she said, “I think you should be a speed skater. I’ve met a lot of them at the ice rink, and you’ve always been fast.” Speed skating? I shook my head. “I’m a surfer, Kacie.” “Not up here you’re not. The nearest ocean’s a thousand miles away.” Then she snapped her fingers and called, “Binky!” Our dog came hurtling downstairs and ran into the living room. He lost a leg in a car accident two years ago, but it’s barely slowed him down. Kacie said, “Binky! Roll over and over and over.” I watched as Binky dropped to the carpet and rolled three times to the right. Kacie’s always taught him tricks, but this was one I hadn’t seen before. “And back and back and back,” she said. Binky rolled three times to the left. He sat up and barked. Kacie gave him a pat. “See, Brian? Even Binky can learn new tricks.” I got the message. Then I got a pair of speed skates, and I’ve been training ever since.
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Trampoline Fun by Jodi Kusley • illustration by Neal Levin
Did you hear about the bear from Missoula, Montana? He climbed a tree and wouldn’t come down. Climbed it right smack in the middle of town. The fire trucks raced in and raised their basket. They waited all day until it was almost sunset. They shot the tranquilizer through the trees and knocked that bear to his knees. He landed on the trampoline waiting below, he bounced back up, the townspeople screamed, “Oh!” He bounced to the ground. He didn’t get hurt. That’s good. Then they released him deep in the woods.
The trampoline in this story didn’t have a safety net. If it had, this bear may have been less sore when he woke up. Safety nets around trampolines prevent jumpers from going over the side. Their construction keeps jumpers toward the center of the trampoline and helps to prevent injuries from falls, one of the major causes of injury from trampolines. Are you aware that trampolining has been considered a sport in the US since 1967? It was recognized as an Olympic sport in the 2000 games in Australia. When you watch a trampoline competition, you will see simple straight jumps, pikes, tucks, and straddle positions. If that sounds like gymnastics, that’s because it is similar to gymnastics.
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Each competitor performs a routine of complex combinations of forward and backward somersaults and twists. The difference with trampolining is that they are bouncing on a trampoline. Scoring is based on the difficulty of the routine and the total seconds in the air. So whether you want to be fit or you want to compete or you just want to have some fun, go out and jump! Try jumping on water-filled balloons. That’s a lot of fun! Whatever you do, practice trampoline safety as you practice your skills. Maybe you’ll be the next Olympic medalist. If nothing else, at least you’ll be better off than that bear from Montana.
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Imagine your soccer team is ready for a game. The other team comes running onto the field and . . . you can’t believe your eyes. There’s a robot among them! Sound crazy? This could actually happen someday. Like all sports, soccer has changed over time. Now robotics is adding extra excitement to the game! Every year, teams of people create, build, and program robots to compete in a soccer championship called RoboCup. The builders are getting better and better at making their robots. The goal of the RoboCup program is to have a team of 11 robots play against the human soccer World Cup champions by 2050. And win! What do you think? Could it happen?
Soccer is a sport for everyone.
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These “kid-sized” humanoid robots are almost 2-1/2 feet tall. They can imitate the movements of human soccer players.
These robotic dogs were big crowd pleasers. Each team had three attackers and one goalkeeper. The one-foot tall dogs played on a field about the size of a Ping-Pong table.
Athens, Georgia 5:10 PM Clammy, muggy, and hot Max and Gracie and their owners, Linda, Craig, and their seven-year-old son, Ed, are driving the back roads of America. Perhaps you have seen Max and Gracie with their heads out the window. If not, here is a letter describing their most recent adventure.
hy do your two-leggers call named Sporty at a dog park. “W dog a met I and cie Gra on, rno This afte you ‘Sporty’?” Gracie asked. feet in the air.” ball or Frisbee. I can jump four Sporty barked, “I can catch any k. bac high,” Gracie barked right “I highly doubt you can jump that n he went. “See? I can do it. I ! Sproing! Sproing! Up and dow Sporty sprang into action. Sproing really can.” or Frisbee? Even if it’s you say you can catch any ball And nd. grou the off foot a ly “That’s bare ok her head in disbelief. thrown a mile away?” Gracie sho “Yes, watch how fast I can run.” around Gracie and me. “That down. He started to run circles k bac e cam and hill a up d Sporty race wasn’t a mile,” Gracie said. he can outrace her. gets upset when any dog thinks she g win kno , ned war I ,” acie “Gr Sporty. “I can.” ’t do a backflip,” she challenged do Gracie ignored me. “I bet you can eyes. “I’ve never seen any dog ve it,” he barked, narrowing his Sporty stopped in his tracks. “Pro a backflip.” s back. ded. Sporty took four paw step “Give me room,” Gracie comman backflip.” you doing? You’ve never done a I whispered to Gracie, “What are “Watch me.” the impossible, she ed like she was ready to perform look it n whe t Jus th. brea p dee Gracie took a in the air. ed on her back, wiggling her legs dropped to the ground and roll snapped. “That’s not a backflip,” Sporty ck. Flip. Backflip.” my back,” Gracie declared. “Ba “Well, I flipped over, and I’m on Oh, Gracie.
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It all started with a piece of wood. We’ll never know who first put a flat board in the Pacific Ocean to ride on the waves. Or who figured out that strapping long boards to people’s feet let them slide across deep snow in Europe. But because of them, we have cool board sports. The list of board sports is impressive. New ones are being invented all the time. Here are just a few.
DID YOU KNOW that long ago, Hawaiian people would settle disputes with fierce surfing competitions?
DID YOU KNOW that the first water skis were barrel staves?
DID YOU KNOW that one of the first uses of snow skis in the US was to deliver mail in the snow in the mountains?
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DID YOU KNOW that the first snowboarders were called “snurfers� (snow-surfers)?
DID YOU KNOW that in Ancient Egypt, pharaohs sand boarded down sand dunes on pieces of wood or hardened clay?
DID YOU KNOW that skateboarding began in California, when people put wheels on surfboards to surf on the streets?
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Sport Shorts
In 1349, Edward III thought that soccer was a threat to the security of England and therefore banned the sport. Soccer was becoming so popular that the practice of archery, so important to military strength, was being neglected.
Check out the ice before you skate.
Make sure the ice will hold your weight.
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by Francis Wheeler
Between 1962 and 1963, 900 Ugandans caught a virus dubbed “the running sickness.” Victims of the epidemic would run madly until exhausted. To add a touch of surrealism to the whole affair, it was reported that many of the Ugandans clutched chickens as they ran!
“Amazing Sports” by Singer Media
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A-Maze-ing Athletics on page 12
Mystery Picture Puzzle on page 13
I T E R A M M P O W T O R K S P O A R T S M T A N N S H I N I H T P F U N L S G E A R N I N G E X F E R C Y I S H L E P R O A E R C A T T I E C E U R E V N I F O R M S T E
Important issues for every athlete: TEAMWORK, SPORTSMANSHIP, FUN, LEARNING, EXERCISE, PRACTICE, UNIFORMS
Be A Sport Puzzle on page 13
G N I M M I W S V L L A B T E K S A B G Y M N A S T I C S S O C C E R R O F L T E N N I S A L L E G N I L C Y C Y O B A G N I T A K S G L L L A B T F O S L
One more sport: VOLLEYBALL Soccer Maze on page 12
Fraction-nition on page 13 How mad can a frog get? HOPPING MAD
Sports Smart on page 12
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Photo Credits: Photos of Alec Yoder by Mark Yoder 4-6; Photos of Ashlyn Yoder by iDeal Photos 4-6; Maksym Kozlenko [CC BY-SA 4.0] 10 (top); ©[meinzahn/123RF.COM] 10 (bottom); Lauren from New York, USA [CC BY 2.0] 22 (background figures); Rachyong [CC BY-SA 3.0] 22 (bottom); AIBO soccer match: Pablo from Granada, España [CC BY-SA 2.0] 24 (bottom-right); SPL team RoboCup 2016: Peter Schulz [CC BY-SA 4.0] 24 (top-right); Sandboarding in Maldives: nattu [CC BY 2.0] 27 (top); Roger Price from Hong Kong [CC BY 2.0] 27 (bottom); 2 Singer Media Cartoons: Amazing Sports by Singer Media 28 (right).
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