Kitesurf: surfing the wind over water

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The game is set in a man's life by several main reasons : first is an important activity that keeps the body and mind sharp and young. On the other , it is a social excuse to get together with friends or make new groups. However, there is a reason that happens , perhaps most unnoticed but no less important : it is a major supplier of adrenaline. In an effort to find new limits for this search, someone had mixed paragliding and surfing to create a new activity and is passion in many parts of the world : the kitesurf.

Kitesurfing is a sport that involves sliding the use of a traction kite (kite , English ) , stretching the athlete and attached to the body by a harness , allowing hydroplane using a table or a ski Wakeboard type designed for this purpose. Why flying the kite? There is a particular strength that allows : lift . In a fluid (in this case air) pressure and a constant speed , this means that where the flow velocity increases the pressure decreases. Let's see how this affects the aircraft wings , birds and paragliding. As you can see in the illustration, the wing profile is not symmetrical , as the air around him which is on the bottom goes almost without deviation , however the passing overhead has to travel more distance , if you want to get to trailing edge while passing beneath the need to increase its speed. By the above principle the pressure at the top decreases and increases in the lower part . Complicated, but it happens.

Although this sport so is rather recent , it has been known since ancient times in China and Indonesia were used kites to pull small boats. Not , however, until 1977 when Adrianus Gijsbertus Panhuise patented a navigation system on a surfboard for a type of parasailing, becoming the father of the sport. In Indonesia is a culture and an art, the designs are many and varied, in these places you can find the kiteboarding industry . It is also a great place to train and develop the material , this along with the cheap labor and industrial development of this area puts a pioneer in the development of Kiteboarding .

Started in sport. To begin this sport experts recommend doing an introductory course where they teach a first contact with the material , and since it is a dangerous sport , you need at least a basic safety and rescue procedures to resolve situations breakage of material fall from the kite , etc. . This sport in inexperienced hands can be dangerous, but well practiced is a very exciting sport that huge adrenaline rush .

In an introductory course , there is usually a theoretical security , flight window , etc. . and a practical part , which begins in the sand with a trainer kite , which makes contact with the force of the kite in the different positions of the window of flight and its behavior depending on the speed . Procedure to raise and lower the kite loose . Then you get into water and practice the " body drag " movement in the water without the board , this technique allows to recover the water table , then practice the " waterstart" output from the water table

I leave you a picture that might scare more than one who wants to start in sport ... Truth or Fiction ?

Davis Cup: play for the love of your country

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Professional sports , including tennis, have a clear goal, to make money . If it is true that also seeks to add trophies, grow in the rankings and become famous , but all as a way to have more sponsors , play in tournaments and the top end ... earn more and more money. But there is a small glimmer of hope that keeps the essence of pure sport . A cup where the individual is shelved for teamwork ... and not the 4 or 5 players that form but of the millions of people living in a nation and these athletes delegated the responsibility to defend his jersey , no prize without individual fame. This is the Davis Cup.The Davis Cup is an international tennis competition , organized by the International Tennis Federation (ITF ) . Unlike most tennis events worldwide, in the Davis Cup players involved not individually , but national teams for various players nominated by their national federation sports . The Davis Cup , held since 1900 , is a men-only tournament , with the Fed Cup equivalent for female players .
It is the largest annual sporting event counting with 125 existing different national teams during its 2010 edition . The exercise is champion Czech Republic won its second title in the competition after winning the 2012 Davis Cup 3-2 to Spain .
A little history . The Davis Cup is named after its creator, Dwight Filley Davis , tennis player and politician born in 1879 . Davis conceived the idea of ​​creating a national team competition in which the best U.S. will face a team from the British Isles. The first meeting was prepared in 1905 at the Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline , just outside Boston , winning the British Americans 3-0 . Davis , who played with the U.S. team , donated the money for the development of a silver cup , to a design by Rowland Rhodes based on a punch bowl topped with flower ornaments 33 cm high and 43 cm in diameter. Inside this bowl was recorded misnamed the tournament name " International Lawn Tennis Challenge Trophy" , and in his left side listed the names of the participants. The competition had an unexpected continuity and from 1945 , the year he died Davis ( November 28 ) , was renamed the Davis Cup .
The custom of record names Cup finalists and winners , and the fact that it is delivered in property missing soon made room for new entries . In 1921 , Davis won a silver tray of 95 cm in diameter punch bowl base , which were recorded by the end of 1921-1933 . When it was full , they built a wooden base with name plates continued enrollment of 34 editions . In 1969 it was necessary to add a second base, wider than space available until 2002 , when it added a third .

Badminton: like tennis, but more refined

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It's a game of tennis, NO! It's a game of volleyball, NO! It is ... Badminton! A sport, a mixture of many, but with lots of character earned enough respect to call himself an Olympic sport. Its unique "ball" gives a speed and grace to the game that make it a pleasant sight for the sports lover.
Badminton is a racquet sport individual or couple who are placed in opposite halves of a rectangular court divided network. Unlike other racquet sports in badminton ball is not played, but with a projectile called wheel, pen or cock, which consists of a hemisphere (like a ball) surrounded at its base by feathers that make you go slower. Such a design provides resistance aerodynamic projectile path, giving rhythm to the movements and preventing their diversion in case of wind.
Players must hit the shuttlecock with their racquet so that it crosses the track above the net and falls in the sector opponent. The point ends when the pen touches the ground, to overcome the network.
Badminton is a very modern version of a simpler primitive game called battledore, which was invented in China and that in the early years was a simple form of entertainment. He practiced with two wooden paddles and a ball. This was modified so that their flight was slower.
The current badminton game came from the version that was played in India, where it was called Poona, name of a country's population which was originally played. Some British army officers saw the game in India and brought to England around 1873. There, the Duke of Beaufort was interested in the game. Since regularly practiced his country estate in Gloucestershire, known as Badminton, the name associated with the game continued. In its original form, badminton was a rather formal game was practiced wearing Prince Albert coats, buttoned shoes, tie and baggy pants of seda.Y to play it was necessary to belong to a royal family.
The first badminton club was formed in Bath, England, in 1873. The game implemented in the United States in 1890 and was also introduced in Canada. The National Badminton Association (ANB) of the United States was established in 1895. At that time the rules were unified.
The first tournament championship for men and women in England was held in 1899, and the first for women and men in 1900. The first American championships were held in 1937 in Chicago and Toronto. From 1992 he became an Olympic sport.

Bobsleigh: Adrenaline on Ice

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Gliding with a sled a sunny day in winter in Park Hill around grandma is definitely fun. One mistake, one wrong move and the soft snow makes the job of cushioning the blows. But at 150 km / h in the cold, hard ice, the story changes. Adrenaline is triggered, the senses are defendants peak and any mistake could be your last mistake. Like everything mortally dangerous, many people choose it, enough so that the bobsleig be considered a winter Olympic sport. Here his presentation:
Like the luge and skeleton, its origin is in the Swiss Alps in the late nineteenth century. Specifically the first world bobsleigh club was founded in 1897 in St. Moritz, Switzerland and from there spread to other parts of Europe. The first official competitions can consider dating from 1914.
In the early decades of the bobsleigh had little to do with what is at present, as the materials, the design, the tracks have completely changed almost beyond recognition. Major breakthroughs came in the field of materials, in two respects: the new sleds steel and fiberglass manufacturing of which utilize the latest technological advances in aerodynamics, and not least, the artificial slopes in which you can achieve truly amazing speeds with which they had never dreamed the first practitioners of the sport. The ice rinks are narrow passages, tortuous and stilted, with a number of left and right turns.
The key in the bobsleigh is normally at the start. It is critical that these first few meters the crew get the highest possible speed pushing the sled in those initial meters, so they should also be fast, strong people, and that usually depends on the initial explosion the result. The differences between participants rarely exceed a few hundredths so any little mistake is impossible to recover. Although the sled has a brake, this is only used when passing the finish line. Speeds often exceed 150 miles per hour and runners support up to 4 or 5 forces "G".

Curling: Sweeping can be fun

SPORTSMan always has managed to harness the wonders of nature to entertain. With ropes and carabiners challenges the verticality of high walls and cliffs. With an oval carbon fiber table mounted huge waves in the turbulent seas. That if large polished stones together with long brooms and devise a sport on ice, if it is to capitalize on the endless imagination of man. Curling undoubtedly first prize to human ingenuity.
Curling is a precision sport similar to bowling British, Chilean hopscotch, at River Plate or bocce balls Venezuelan native, practiced in an ice rink. Two teams of four players compete against each other by sliding granite stones August 20 kg each on a ice racer.
Once the launch, the other team members (sweepers) provided brushes accompany each stone to acting on the ice surface, facilitating its progress or change its direction, but still not touching the stone. After making all the throws, points are awarded based on the proximity of these stones to the target in the center marked down the hall. For example, the stone closest to the center of the target, has a point, if the following is from the same team, they have two, and so on until the following is the opposing team. By this rule, if a team has to finish the "end" to 0. In case no stones in the target is considered to 0-0. A normal game is played from 8-10 "ends" or sleeves. At the end of the match wins the highest scoring team in the event of a tie, we decided on a bonus manga. The team that wins a sleeve begins the following mandatory.
It is believed that the game of Curling was invented in late medieval Scotland. The first written references to the use of ice stones appear in the engravings of Paisley Abbey dating from February 1541 and it is known that it was a very popular outfit in Scotland between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first World Curling Championship was exclusively for men and was called, "Scotch Cup". It was held in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1959 and was won by the Canadian team. Today it is practiced mainly in Canada (came from the hand of Scottish immigrants), the northern United States and northern Europe.
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Pato: Argentine National Sport

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Thousands of men and women practice it, millions follow him on the court, on radio and television. Maradona Argentina = football = (or Messi?) For 95.5% of world population. But football is a sport ... Argentino English by adoption. Our real national sport includes homo sapiens mounted on elegant equestrian revolean a "bird" to give to the network. If this is the Pato, Argentine national sport. 

The course is perfectly flat and covered with grass or turf. Rings with a diameter of one meter, are located in the bottom line, vertically mounted on poles. The "duck" itself is leather (for environmentalists ... not an animal), with air chamber, and has six handles, is usually white.The eight riders start the game in presets. The team with the duck moves toward the finish line to throw the ring and thus realize somewhat. Players from both teams are entitled to collect the duck when it is in the ground, requiring a mastery of the horse and great physical strength. Whoever makes the duck can pass it to a teammate or riding toward the hoop. Every time the duck is deposited in the network, the somewhat.During the ride, you must observe certain rules to avoid accidents and maintain competitiveness. Notably, there is an obligation to grab the duck with the right hand and extend the right arm and the duck is "offered" the opponent, you can try to grab the duck and steal by "webbing." La cinchada is the characteristic feature of duck, and the most exciting. Two horsemen ride at speed duck taking a handle each, using clean pulls, trying to grab the duck.

In different parts of Europe where it is practiced pole, are sometimes done horseball powers, which happens to be a game adaptation Argentine Duck introduced in France in 1930 by Captain Key. The latter modifies the rules and invents Duck horseball.