(And I'm not going to lie, it was a sad day in my household when I found out that Macho Man Randy Savage had passed away!)
Since I ended up watching sports with my brothers, I was pretty excited when the opportunity finally came to actually play them. In my community they try to start kids young, so when I was 3 I started clogging. By age 5 I was doing ballet and softball. At Age 6 I added soccer, gymnastics and basketball to the mix. By 5th grade I had narrowed down the sports to dance, gymnastics, basketball and volleyball. I loved playing sports so I always loved my PE classes. However, in high school we only played 3 sports, volleyball, basketball, and softball.
I loved playing sports and thought I had played them all.
Oh how wrong I was!!
When I got to college we played ultimate frisbee, racquetball, tennis, cricket, floor hockey, rugby and more. Why didn't I know about these sports before?! I know we didn't have all the facilities to accommodate these sports, like racquetball, or tennis, but why hadn't my teacher taught us ultimate frisbee?
As a teacher I want to bring these different sports to my students. I don't want them to be as naive as I was. Our goal as PE teachers is to try to get students to be active and develop a goal of lifetime fitness. Hopefully by showing students a variety of different sports and how fun they are, they will continue to be active their whole lives.
I loved reading this post! I grew up playing tons of sports too and wish that I still had the time to play them. I think it's awesome that you are planning to incorporate a lot of different sports into your classes. It can be hard because of lack of resources but like you said, Ultimate Frisbee is cheap and can be played almost anywhere! I think it's a great way to be able to educate students about different cultures while still keeping to your content area.
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