happyliza
The Living Force
Personally I went off sport once it changed from being true school teams, village teams playing a fun and healthy sport to teams incorporating 'transfers' - meaning that no longer did the people originate from the original area. The altruism was then lost. Then - in my lifetime - I witness the awful transformation into corporate ownership/sponsors and big advertising/salaries. I total ponerology - purely for profit and gambling.
I recall when my father was a PE instructor in Germany. Sport was fun then. I used to enjoy watching and travelling to different schools with the teams. I too joined in the swimming/diving. My favourite part was the singing and joking on the buses whilst travelling, the camaraderie. It was more about the teamwork and about being 'ambassadors' for the school/area etc.
Since TV took over - to make yet more profit - people don't even leave their living rooms to enjoy sport. There is no outdoors or nature involved any more. As we can see from the awful sports bars and obese people!
I also remember when the naval vessels used to come into harbour - which was located alongside our school. How the pupils were invited onto the vessels, then the crew used to play friendly cricket and other sports with the school - together with the quintessentially british tea with the cucumber sandwiches etc! All was so very civilized, friendly and all about sharing and co-operation. A far cry from what is deemed sport today.
It has also become mainly a spectator event sadly. Fewer people participate in any kind of fun, team-building kind of sport activity - even a nature ramble! For me I cannot see any point in just watching a screen - I think to myself the time wasted would be far more enjoyable and beneficial in either learning the sport or getting outside and doing something more constructive. No matter how amateurish I would be in any sport.
Again the creative team-building idea of sport whereby people are tasked with creating something that can be utilized, and then perfected is far more productive and useful as a bonding tool. So too the intellectual group outdoor team tasks whereby people have to learn to orienteer, hunt, get themselves out of a situation, or plan and build a means of getting from A to B over a river or similar. If you get my drift.
Sport has become too obsessional and the opposite of co-operation, participation, sharing and learning. It creates nationalism, in-fighting and hooligans as we witness everywhere. Created boundaries and borders as opposed to breaking them down into unity.
Even our innocent playground games have now become an area where bullies reign supreme. So sad.
For me the best aspects of sport is where people can derive knowledge and learning. Gain psychologically, enhance their knowledge of nature and the environment, where it can play an ambassador role of extending friendship, skills, and grass-roots role models.
It should nurture as opposed to dividing. Become more of a local 'festival' - community gathering, the same as the community markets/trading and special celebration calendar dates. IOW sport should aspire to raising itself to the level of becoming a higher 'culture' in society and be appreciated as such in the same vein as our higher 'culture' music and arts activitites IMHO.
I recall when my father was a PE instructor in Germany. Sport was fun then. I used to enjoy watching and travelling to different schools with the teams. I too joined in the swimming/diving. My favourite part was the singing and joking on the buses whilst travelling, the camaraderie. It was more about the teamwork and about being 'ambassadors' for the school/area etc.
Since TV took over - to make yet more profit - people don't even leave their living rooms to enjoy sport. There is no outdoors or nature involved any more. As we can see from the awful sports bars and obese people!
I also remember when the naval vessels used to come into harbour - which was located alongside our school. How the pupils were invited onto the vessels, then the crew used to play friendly cricket and other sports with the school - together with the quintessentially british tea with the cucumber sandwiches etc! All was so very civilized, friendly and all about sharing and co-operation. A far cry from what is deemed sport today.
It has also become mainly a spectator event sadly. Fewer people participate in any kind of fun, team-building kind of sport activity - even a nature ramble! For me I cannot see any point in just watching a screen - I think to myself the time wasted would be far more enjoyable and beneficial in either learning the sport or getting outside and doing something more constructive. No matter how amateurish I would be in any sport.
Again the creative team-building idea of sport whereby people are tasked with creating something that can be utilized, and then perfected is far more productive and useful as a bonding tool. So too the intellectual group outdoor team tasks whereby people have to learn to orienteer, hunt, get themselves out of a situation, or plan and build a means of getting from A to B over a river or similar. If you get my drift.
Sport has become too obsessional and the opposite of co-operation, participation, sharing and learning. It creates nationalism, in-fighting and hooligans as we witness everywhere. Created boundaries and borders as opposed to breaking them down into unity.
Even our innocent playground games have now become an area where bullies reign supreme. So sad.
For me the best aspects of sport is where people can derive knowledge and learning. Gain psychologically, enhance their knowledge of nature and the environment, where it can play an ambassador role of extending friendship, skills, and grass-roots role models.
It should nurture as opposed to dividing. Become more of a local 'festival' - community gathering, the same as the community markets/trading and special celebration calendar dates. IOW sport should aspire to raising itself to the level of becoming a higher 'culture' in society and be appreciated as such in the same vein as our higher 'culture' music and arts activitites IMHO.
