INDIVIDUAL SPORTS.
a) Athletics.
Athletics is an essential grassroots sport. As such, it can be considered as an extension of physical education. Walking, running, jumping, throwing belong as much to general physical education as to sports. By practicing athletics, one acquires both the ease of utilitarian gestures and the effectiveness of sporting gestures.
b) Swimming.
Swimming can and should be practiced from childhood, by both girls and boys. An exercise in coordination and flexibility, it requires continual struggle and develops qualities of character. In addition, it constitutes, like athletics, a basic sport whose utilitarian and social value will be emphasized by orienting it, from the beginning and constantly, towards rescue.
Each municipality where a trickle of water flows must have its own swimming pool. In the cities, heated swimming pools will ensure that the practice of this sport is not interrupted.
c) Combat sports.
Attack and defense exercises are a school of daring and courage. The children will be there, trained early; boys should be introduced to wrestling and boxing very early on, a manly sport par excellence. Fencing must be practiced wherever the necessary personnel and means are available. Shooting can also be related to this group of sports and should be encouraged.
d) The Apparatus.
Apparatus gymnastics is a real sport that develops a sense of balance, skill, flexibility, strength, as well as courage and daring. For a long time in honor, it was then the object of sharp criticism, because the practice was often premature and too exclusive. These errors must be avoided: the various apparatus exercises will be adapted to different ages and the effects of the practice of apparatus will always be compensated for by exercises borrowed from general physical education.
e) Outdoor Sports.
On the stadium, the child lives in the open air; it is therefore geared towards outdoor sports such as skiing, mountaineering, horse riding, cycle tourism, rowing, etc. He will find in the practice of these exercises the occasion of a bath of nature where the effort, often intense, is accompanied by deep joys. It should be noted that skiing is not only a complete sport in all respects, but that it is increasingly called upon to play such a utilitarian and social role that the practice cannot be encouraged too much.
B. COLLECTIVE SPORTS.
Sports opposing teams are particularly educative. Not only do they develop the qualities of the individual, but they also constitute a school of social virtues. Intellectually, they provide a remarkable complement to school studies by accustoming young people to think about questions of organization and command.
These include, among these sports games, rugby, football, basketball - basketball, handball, hockey, pelota, water - polo, etc. Tennis, even played in singles, can be part of a team fight (tournament).
We will honor this admirable collective combat sport that is rugby, so educative when it is practiced, as it should be, by well-bred athletes.
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