Sports in our lives

Sport is a type of exercise that is structured in order to achieve a goal through the competition, under a wide range of rules and each sport demands different skills to perform it correctly. I think the sports are present in history of humankind many centuries ago, the Greeks developed magnificent events known as Olympic games, where they performed the beginning of the actual athletics and artistic gymnastic. In Chile the sports are developed in the schools as a public health policy, however is no enough because Chile is one of the countries with the higher levels of childhood obesity and sedentary lifestyle in Latin-America. Sport are also the principal attraction in Chile, because when Chilean football team plays all the country stopped to watch the match. People know better the football players than the politicians.   

I remember good moments in my childhood related with sports. When I was in second grade the school organized a “sport day” once a year, in which my classmates and our parents played altogether different sports like basketball, volleyball, football, etc. it was very funny. Also, in holidays my brothers and me play tennis many times. We could play all day and did not realize the time that we had expended in this activity.

Sports need basic skills to be performed. Some of them need agility, speed and accuracy, but others need strength and power. My favorite sport is the football soccer. Play football is a very good way to do exercise and, at the same time, enjoy the competition. Football is very curious sport because needs skills that neither other sport needs, I am referring to lower limb skills.  Almost all sports are supported in the upper limbs, a part of our body that we use perfectly and delicately, but the lower limbs are made only for the locomotion. Use the legs in precise movements is very difficult, however in the football, players use these body parts perfectly in accurate way.