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The pre-sport games constitute a phase prior to an individual's approach to competitive physical activity, as almost all sports are.
Pre-sports games are linked to sports, beyond the mere performance of aerobic movement: in each case, the typical movements of that sport are launched, either from the body or with a ball or other object.
See also: Examples of Traditional Games
Pre-sport games in education
The idea is that through these games a person who is not completely familiar with a sport will join their practice. Particularly in the physical education of children, pre-sport games play an important role: it is clear that at that age it is healthy for them to exercise physically at school, but they do not need the motivation provided by competition in an indispensable way, the underlying idea is that they have the possibility to do physical activity for a fundamental reason playful and social.
One of the fundamental premises on which pre-sport games are based is that most sports have rules that are too strict: by the very nature of sports competition, it is often the case that achievements become difficult.
When it comes to beginners, this can become very overwhelming, as the difficulty of achieving the goal is added to the attempt to block by rivals, so the sport can become stressful. In pre-sports games, on the other hand, the flexibility of the rules leads to the fact that, without losing the condition of adversaries, the two participating teams have the possibility of developing cooperative strategies, rather than competitive ones.
Many times accustomed to taking as reference the high competition gamesChildren may not enjoy a much slower, less demanding activity as much as a pre-sport game.
There is the merit of the teacher or organizer responsible for the pre-sports game: revalue the playfulness of sport, beyond the existence of a winner and a loser. It is recommended that the teacher provide freedom and possibilities for the game to adapt to the needs and individualities of the players: precisely there is the main characteristic of pre-sports games, absent in formal sports.
See also: Examples of games of chance
Examples of pre-sport games
Here is a list that names and briefly explains some pre-sport games, with their associated sport:
- Medium (soccer): In a round, the players must pass each other without the one (s) in the middle managing to intercept them
- Basketball (soccer): Similar to baseball, but with the kickoff of the foot. More complicated when the players already have experience in the sport.
- Pass 10 (Basketball): Players of a team must pass the ball ten times without being intercepted.
- Two at a time (soccer): several players play 'little game' passing the ball. When you pass it, you must say a number (1, 2, 3, 4) and the receiver must touch it that many times, saying a word of that many syllables at the same time. The indispensable quality of thinking is practiced while playing.
- Blind network (volleyball): the net is placed somewhat higher, and a cloth is placed that prevents the vision of what is happening in the rival area.
- Bowckey (hockey): bowling-style sticks are placed, but must be knocked down by hitting the hockey shot
- The Ball Hunters (integral): One team must pass the balls with any part of the body, the other must intercept them.
- Against everyone (volleyball): two crossed nets are placed, with four players (or teams). Everyone plays against everyone, throwing the ball and protecting their field.
- Channel + (handball): the bow is divided into several sections, each with different scores.
- Crazy passes (basketball and handball): with a number of balls almost equal to that of players, they must be passing faster and faster, without anyone ever having two balls at the same time.
- Back to back (basketball): positioned like this, one team must wait for the teacher's order to try to dodge the other and reach a line, hitting the ball.
- Knowing my racket (table tennis): children stand in lines; At the signal of the whistle they will go out in pairs walking between obstacles and in the last they will perform a squat balancing with the ball on top of the racket, they will return in the same way and they will give the racket and ball to the partner who touches them.
- Cone-goal (handball): The attacking team passes the ball until one of them is in a suitable position to shoot one of the cones and touch it. In this way a goal is achieved. Each player can touch the ball a maximum of three consecutive times.
- Rats and mice (athletics): Participants placed in two rows in the center of the field, one row will be called RATS and the other MICE. The teacher tells a story in which RATS or MICE appear from time to time. When he says RAT, the mice run off to the edge of the field. Everyone who has been intercepted will change sides.
