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THE PITFALLS OF 'MORE, YOUNGER' MINDSET Why Starting Kids Too Early and Pushing Them Too Hard Can Backfire in Youth Sports

Better Coaching

A well-designed sports program has the capacity to teach teamwork, sportsmanship, grit, leadership, and many other life skills, as well as a lifelong love for their game. This early commercialism can overshadow the fundamental aim of youth sports: enjoyment, character development, a growing love for the sport, and holistic well-being.

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How I Received Grants for My Physical Education Classes

SHAPE America

Bicycle Grants The CYCLE Kids grant (valued at $25,000) provides schools with 10 new bikes, helmets, a bike pump, and textbooks that teach cycle basics as well as nutrition. You may have seen or heard of schools that have large projector screens with sensors that detect and register movement from a student.

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School sport participation

Learning Through Sport

Research consistently shows a link between low physical activity in adulthood and low movement competence (World Health Organization, 2024). This is important in a country like Australia where reports have suggested we have low youth and adult physical activity compared to previous generations. 1999; Westerbeek et al.,

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Redundancy and Degeneracy in Teaching for Physical Education (PE)

Reinventing the Game

This paper explore the ecological perspective to the complexity existence that skills learning takes place in, i.e. why and how movement emerges. This is perhaps opposed to the more palatable perspective of skills learning as solely mechanical and existing in a ‘simple’ environment of learner and teacher, i.e. how movement is created.

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Escrima - Filipino Martial Art

The Sporting

Some, like BJJ, Karate, and Muay Thai , are well-known and are utilised by countless practitioners. There are plenty of Filipino-American systems as well, with some just focusing on a particular set of weapons such as knives. Escrima is well known for being suitable for everyone. Escrima belongs to the former category.

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Should Physical Education Be Required?

PLT4M

PE programs now boast a comprehensive approach to introducing students to different forms of physical fitness, health, and wellness. Physical activity defined by Shape is “any bodily movement that results in energy expenditure.” Explore how Canton has taken physical education and student wellness to the next level.

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Adapted Physical Education – The Call For Inclusion

PLT4M

Adapted physical education and adapted physical activity programs play a critical role in promoting physical activity and overall well-being for individuals with disabilities. That means we must see this, as well as other research, as a direct call for inclusion for students with disabilities. In this article Alex X.