The Sports in The Philippines
The Sports in The Philippines
The Sports in The Philippines
the Philippines
BASKETBALL
The story of basketball began when 1891, the Canadian Physical Education
teacher named James Naismith who worked at a school in Springfield,
Mass., Had to create a new sport by order of the school principal to be an
alternative to American Football and Baseball that if they practiced abroad
and in winter it was impossible to practice (very cold and snow).
It was then that he decided to create a sport that did not have physical
contact because of possible injuries, especially being the wooden floor and
that used the feet, He decided to hang two baskets of peaches to 3,05 meters
from the ground (a measure that has never been changed to this day) and
the game consisted of putting the ball into the opponent’s basket. Start up
logo created 13 main rules by which the game ruled.
Some changes were soon emerging as to cut the bottom of the basket so that
one would not always have to interrupt the game when someone marked.
The tables were implemented, which gave rise to rebounds, among other
things.
VOLLEYBALL
The game of volleyball, originally called “mintonette,” was
invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan after the invention of
basketball only four years before. Morgan, a graduate of the
Springfield College of the YMCA, designed the game to be a
combination of basketball, The first volleyball net, borrowed from
tennis, was only 6’6″ high (though you need to remember that the
average American was shorter in the nineteenth century).
The offensive style of setting and spiking was first demonstrated in
the Philippines in 1916. Over the years that followed, it became
clear that standard rules were needed for tournament play, and
thus the USVBA (United States Volleyball Association) was
formed in 1928.
BADMINTON
The Badminton we know today was developed in the mid-nineteenth
century by the British, but the act of playing with a racquet and a pen has
been around for hundreds of years, especially in Europe and Asia.
Many associates being an evolution of the game “battledore” and
“peteca”.