Tennis Strokes

Tennis Strokes

Serve:

 The serve is the most important stroke in tennis, since it is going to kick off the point and its proper application can be allowed to punch in an advantageous position upon return or achieve a goal winner or "ace" point won without the opponent impacts the ball, or after the impact the ball does not pass the network or go outside the boundaries of the strips (in which case it is called ace, but the point of service). By having good serve a tennis player learns to stop the beatings made ​​better without the ball touching the ground and can make it difficult for the opponent to mark a point after you make a cut.

Drive (right)
Prepare for the drive (left handed). Right is the basic beat. Is to hit the ball after the bounce, directly, on the same side of the business arm of the player. For most of the players is the key weapon to win a point and the most control.

The reverse is the blow to the side opposite the drive. Despite being a natural mechanical stroke, is often one of the hardest to master when you start in tennis. It is very important body position, which must be placed in profile, used as a technique to it, lower the shoulder to point toward the network, while the right arm for right-handers and left lefties, passes without being bent by under the chin, to settle before returning back to hit the ball, always in front of the body. It is important, as the drive, which body weight is transferred back and forth at the time of ball impact.

Posted By: Andres Castro 7c

THE HISTORY OF THE FOOTBALL FEMALE

In 1894 when Nettie honeyball, a defense of the woman rights, create the first sport club called British ladies football club. Honeyball wants to prove that the women’s have the same ability of the guys. At the begin of the history until twenty century, the football was only for the guys. The interest of the women’s for the football increase sense decade of 1970. They play en many schools and their organization reached the same level of the guys. In 1991 were celebrated the first championship, an attend 12 selections. The First World War was instrumental in the formation of women's football in England. Many men went into battle, the women was introduced massively in the workforce. Many factories has their own football teams, until then were the privilege of men. The most successful of these teams was the Dick, Kerr's Ladies of Preston, England. This team was successful, achieving results like a match against a Scottish team when they won by 22-0.  Women's football has already achieved the figure of 40 million practitioners. This massive growth world-wide has led FIFA to get involved with their promotion and encouragement through the different national associations throughout the nineties. In this country (Colombia) the history of the football started at the begin of the ninety, the women’s that started to play this game was at the final of the eighty because the guys don’t want that the women’s play. Today we can see that the women’s can play football at the same level of the guys.

Posted by: Mariana arias

Rugby 2    

The rugby is a game that is like a war because in the two teams fight to advance to the other camp. In this sport have players in a team have 15 and in the other team have 15. Have 8 players that go to score and are the more strong and tall, the other 7 it’s the more thin and have the ideas no is strong but it’s the brain of the team.
  
The objective of rugby it’s that you trespass the rival camp and you pass to other player to make the goal or you run to the annotation zone. The protection is protector to the teats and specie of helmet. The ball have a form ovular and have the form that a American Football ball its more difficult to you control the ball because when the friend of the team through the ball, the ball jump and the player go down or the ball are up or down.


For you advance of the rival camp you need to through the ball after the camp rival. When this pass the players of a team the ball pass but in a form diagonal and the receptor put the ball in the hand and through to the other player of his team when this pass the player run and run when a rival player taker the other pass and annotate.         

http://extroversia.universia.net.co/html/reportajes/rugby/reportajeRugby_04.html 

 posted by: jorge andres lopez reyes 7c

THE POLO

THE RIDING: POLO

The game consists in move the ball across the field, hitting it down to the goal zone, to score a goal. Then the teams change directions after a goal in order of compensate of wind and field condition. A polo team consist in four players, with a horse each one.

Polo is usually played outdoors in a field of 300 yard long and 160 yards wide. The most of the time a polo match is about one and one-half hours is about one and one-half hours and it is divided into periods call chukkers, each chukkers is 7 minutes long or finish with a goal. The game starts when the umpire throws the ball in the field in each chukker.

In the halftime the spectators can enter to the field to participate in the traditional divot stomping, that consist in help to replace the divot created by the horse’s hooves

Polo players are ranked yearly by their peers and the USPA on a scale of 2 to 10 goals. Team play is handicapped on the basis of ability.

A lot of the polo rules are for the safety of the players and the horse, the polo is the most dangerous sport, and the basic concept of the rules is the line of the ball a right-of-way established by the path of a traveling ball.

The usually number of umpires in a game is two in one chukkers, and is the official number, and the penalty shots are given depending the severity of the foul

http://sportpolo.com/Sport/default.htm

 posted by: Camilo Jose Guevara

THE HISTORY OF FOOTBALL

the fotball history could begin in old Egypt, during the third century BC was made a ball game as part of fertility rite, wich was practiced something similar to handball. 

in old civilizations were also ball games like football. for example the Aztecs practiced tlachtli, a cross between tennis, soccer and basketball and prohibited the use of hands and feet and the captain of the losing team was sacrificed.

The name 'fotbal' comes from the word 'football', meaning 'foot' and 'ball', also called 'Football' in different Spanish-speaking regions, especially Central America. In the British zone will say 'soccer'

Football became popular on islands and spread by British workers who were going to other countries with large financial institutions and mining companies.

By: Mariana arias 

Tennis

Tennis

This sport comes from the Egyptians, Romans, Greeks that played similar games that the tennis. In the century XVIII this sport expands in the entire world, but only can play the high classes. In the actuality the Tennis are famous in the entire world and in 1926 this sport are professional.


The most importants tournaments are the 4 grand slams: Australia, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and US open and the grand slam give 2000 points for the winner


Others tournanments that are important is the Master´s 1000 that are 10 on the year 

The best players of the history are:

Rod Laver: won 11 grand slams tournaments.

Bjorn Borg: won 11 grand slams

Pete Sampras : won 14 gran slams

Rafael Nadal: Play very good in clays court and won 9 grand slams.Roger Federer : Is considered the best player of the history of tennis that won 15 grand slams and have 72 titles in total.

Posted By: Andres castro 7c

posted by: andres mauricio castro 7c

Rugby

Sport Rugby

The Rugby starts in England in 1871. Is a sport that has contact with other people. They need 13 people in the team. The Rugby expands to the entire world. The ball is In rugby union, the International Rugby Board the size and shape of the ball under Law 2 an official rugby union ball is oval and made of four panels, has a length of 280–300 millimeters, a circumference of 740–770 millimeters.

The link of the Rugby World Cup is:

www.rugbyworldcup.com/


posted by: jorge andres lopez 7c