5/22/14 Communication 100 Water Polo Culture Have you ever thought of how water polo came to be? Where did it come from? How does it impact people on society? Well it’s definitely one of the hardest sports to play, and it takes endurance, pain, and commitment to be in it. Water polo is essentially a culture of its own because of how people’s behavior differs from in this sport and to people who don’t play sports. How this culture began is vital of knowing why water polo is a culture at all. What
About : Winner plays for the varsity water polo team for the YG Institute of Music. When they play their rivals, EXO of SM Academy, Winner is confronted by players that not only rival them in skill but also in love. Prologue: Seungyoon threw his bag down on the pool deck, squinting from the glare of the sun off the water. Taehyun followed close behind, setting his bag down next to his hyung's, holding one hand to his forehead, shading his eyes. "SM Academy today?" he asked. Seungyoon nodded, casting
The history of sports dates back before the discovery of America or even the birth of Jesus Christ. Sports have been in a constant evolution ever since their introduction to the world, such as Tsu’Chu to soccer or polo to water polo. Although soccer and water polo are popular in America today many athletes have come to love these two unique sports. Both sports are physically exhausting, demanding all an athlete has to offer to the game. They test the limit of the body and push it into the next level
for the Marist College water polo team. I practice five days a week, for about four hours a day (6:45 am to 11:00 am). We are a spring sport and dedicate the entire fall semester to getting ready for spring season. We even cut our winter break down two weeks shorter to get in extra practice. Winter break practice is a lot harder because there are no rules and regulations on the amount of time we are allowed to practice. If the coaches so please, they can keep us in the water the entire time without
A once lesser known sport, water polo is slowly gaining popularity. A sport not for the faint of heart, both men and women’s water polo is an exhausting sport that requires heavy weightlifting and constant training. Even in the off-season, training is never easy. In the Olympics, water polo is known for its brutal underwater fights. In high school, we do not have the funding to capture these fights. Therefore, women’s water polo is one of the most physical and challenging high school sports. With
When my brother introduced me to water polo the summer before high school, I knew right away this sport would become part of me. With my previous athletic endeavours, practice was always dreaded, games were just kind of fun, and I never really got too competitive. Water polo was different. I lived for practices and games. On weekends when there were no tournaments, I’d have to wait from Thursday till Monday to play again, and I’d often sit at home just thinking about in-game situations. This sport
Water polo is an intense game that includes many exercise components that can be tested. These components include body composition, strength, power, speed, anaerobic capacity and endurance1. These components will be tested in a test battery that will be aimed at a 12 year old athlete. Body composition Body composition is an important aspect of water polo. The individual needs to be lean and preferably tall1. This assists with the speed of their swimming, their ability to defend themselves from the
all my summers in the water. Whether I was at the beach, or at my local swimming pool, my hair was always wet. My love for the water influenced me to join the swim team when I was only seven years old, and I was a natural. I spent all my time trying to improve and be the best that I could be. When I started to grow up, my love for the water did not vanish. I still wanted to be in the water all of the time, and since swim season was only in the winter, I had to get into the water earlier than that. So
for physicality because of the rock solid form and height of players but does the form and weight of the player really matter if the sport is being played in a pool? Water polo requires the same high-level competitiveness of football multiplied
Water polo. I’ve participated in Marching Band, Track & Field, Soccer, and Cross Country, but I have never had an athletic experience so mentally and physically taxing than playing on a water polo team. I had just completed my junior year of high school, and I realized that I had not done too much that stood out, or that was so spontaneous or interesting that I wanted to write about in my college essay. I wanted to not only have something original and interesting to write about, I wanted a great
The water polo sport industry is rather a very lackluster business. Although USA water polo has recently received to some public attention from its silver medal in Beijing, it has remained a forgotten sport. This is perhaps due to the lack of professional teams in the US and/or lack of a strong youth national development programs. Although water polo may be the most intensive and exhausting sports ever conceived, the water polo family always manages to hang on in some shape or form. As a water polo
Water Polo: History and rules One of the more underrated sports in the world is Water Polo, it has a very interesting history as well as fun gameplay and a very high physical requirement, it is an impressive Olympic Sports as well as it is played in many high schools across the US... Being one of the more Unique sports also means that the sport has many rules that I would like to tell u guys about as well. One of the reasons I think I am qualified to talk about Water Polo is because before this year
intercommunication, lexis, genre, and hierarchy within the members. This year, I was lucky enough to join the Women’s Water Polo Club at Purdue. When I first joined the organization, I felt as if it was going to be difficult to fit it into my busy work schedule, but I was wrong. With school work and other priorities that come with the college lifestyle, the Women’s Water Polo Club works hard to win as many games as possible with the implementation of daily practices, team
While growing up my friends and I played many different sports. The sport we played the most was basketball. 1 Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the United States. As we kept playing the game of basketball we began to take it serious. We practiced on our offense, defense, and playing as a team regularly every day. The more we practiced the better we got at all those things. To master the game of basketball you have to be able to be effective offensively, physically tough defensively
Ethnography - Inter-team Conflict with the Coach Recently, two strong sophomore players quit the varsity women’s water polo team. They said that they were no longer having fun, one saying that the time commitment “just was not worth it anymore,” while the other said that playing polo at Oxy was making her more and more unhappy.” Earlier in the season, one of the players who was named first team All American and MVP of the National Tournament, also almost quit the team for good. Again, her
Ex–Basketball Player – John Updike Never put all your eggs in one basket. It is the ever so common tale of a talented kid with broken dreams. Flick was an extremely gifted basketball player in high school with endless talent and lofty expectations but had nothing to fall back on once those dreams where shattered. In the poem, Ex-Basketball player, John Updike uses basketball imagery and puns to relate to the larger themes of broken dreams, and a predictable future. In the first stanza, John Updike
The Chaffey Water Polo team went to a school named Shadow Hill to go into the finals for the C.I.F. competitions. We had worked hard to get that far and the team, including our coach , Coach Carlos, were stressed. I was a bit pardoned by anxiety, because I wasn't on the varsity team and also, I wasn't playing. I was on junior varsity and my fellow teammates and I, were just merely supporting our varsity team during the games, the only cause for us to enter the pool would have to be that a player
Many days ago I watched The Butterfly Effect. The movie begins with a sentence that impress me very much. "It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. -Chaos Theory" It mentioned that a little unconscious action at the beginning will cause a big serious affair at last. This always happens even though that it sounds weird and unpredictable. Things are happening every day and how I react to them will be crucial
There are winners and there are losers, there are those projected to win and those expected to lose. Malcolm Gladwell writer of, “How David Beats Goliath,” describes how the underdogs do the unexpected and go the extra mile to overcome their opponent. Gladwell refers back to the bible story of David beating Goliath when he was expected to lose. David did what he knew and overcame Goliath, winning the battle. Doing the unexpected is how Vivek Ranadive’s twelve year old girls basketball team made it
There are numerous different steps required to be a good basketball player. There are different aspects of the game that can drastically change the tempo of the game. Of course shooting the ball is important, but improving dribbling, defensive, and passing skills are also important. A players ability in all phases of the game is what makes them a good player. The first thing to practice on is dribbling. Dribbling is one of the most crucial skills to have. Good dribbling enables the player to move