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New ideas have old roots: Oddone Giovannetti

Published on September 15, 2016 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

It never hurts to remember, in this case Oddone Giovannetti, one of the founders of the largest Italian Association of Sport for all (UISP9. He born in Correggio in 1924 and died a year ago. I want to remember a phrase that reminds us that the basic ideas for the development of human beings can be used regardless of the historical period.

“Free time is a fundamental right. The man who draws from his work just to live is not a free man, but he lives a purely biological life.”

Risultati immagini per oddone giovannetti

Oddone Giovannetti at Rome Olympic Games (1960).

Risultati immagini per oddone giovannetti

Night cycling race, Catania, 7/9/1958.

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Jambo Free Style Urban Park

Published on May 28, 2015 in Generale and Giovani. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

In what direction goes the youth sports? The Jambo Free Style Urban Park is the UISP answer (the largest Italian Sport for All organization. For two days, Bologna, Italy, May 30-31, UISP will be present at TheJamBO 2015, animating Fiera di Bologna with the activities of urban freestyle like skate, parkour, tricking, speedbol, tree climbing, biking , half pipe and basketball. In a mix of sports and music, metro art and public meetings will be possible to discover and try out these new expressions of movement, which are considered a lifestyle by the crew of practitioners all over the world.

The urban freestyle are sports, because they have all the features, they are skilled expressions of movement. They involve to take risks and therefore require to be focused on the tasks and fast decision-making capacity, as well as coordination and balance. There are other components, such as ability to adapt to a changing environment.

Those who practice this kind of sport, parkour for example, have learned to move knowing to take a calculated dose of risk. They are also exciting activities, where it comes out the ability to manage the emotions. One of the things more intriguing is the ability to learn through their own practice s. The fact of being able to exercise outdoors and in the streets is a form of re-appropriation of spaces in the city. Like it was when we were kids in the ’60s, when you could play freely in the street.

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The run for all and the ultramarathoner

Published on February 18, 2015 in Corsa and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Friday, February 20th at the Press Hall “P.Maccherini” Palace Berlinghieri, Siena, Italy, will host a press conference at 11:30 of the second edition of  ”Terre di Siena Ultramarathon”, track event competitive and not to be held on Sunday, March 1 with departures differentiated from S. Gimignano for 50 km, from Colle val d’Elsa for 32 km and 18 km from Monteriggioni. Will also be a walk of about 6 km through the streets of the historic center of Siena. An event that combines the theme of sport for all organized by UISP Siena, to promote the Siena tourism and culture.
Saturday at 17.30 will be held also a conference on “Psychological Preparation in ultramarathon” by prof. Alberto Cei, consultant psychologist at the Olympics in Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London. At the end of the meeting will be presented the race courses.

Registration is open until Wednesday, February 25 on the site  www.terredisienaultramarathon.it

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#Moveweek

Published on October 2, 2014 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

MOVE Week is an annual Europe-wide event and an integral part of the NowWeMOVE campaign. This year, MOVE Week will take place from 29 September to 5 October. The objective of MOVE Week is to promote the benefits of being active and participating regularly in sport and physical activity throughout Europe. A wide range of promoters of physical activity (who we call MOVE Agents) coordinate events, including existing and new physical activities, for MOVE Week. MOVE Week and the NowWeMOVE campaign are being coordinated centrally by the International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA) in collaboration with the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF). MOVE Week 2014 is financially supported by the European Union. MOVE Agents are the stars of MOVE Week. They make MOVE Week happen. A MOVE Agent can be a grassroots sport organisation, club, school, university, voluntary group, company, municipality/city or individual who organises a sport and physical activity event for MOVE Week. It is the MOVE Agent’s job to choose their event type and location, register it on the portal at moveweek.eu, gather the team they need to implement it, promote it in their communities and oversee it when it unfolds on the day(s). A MOVE Agent is a voluntary position, but ISCA and the National Coordinators in each country can give them advice on how to seek funding and support for their events. Toolkits, posters, flyers, banners and other promotional materials are also available to help MOVE Agents plan, gather support for, promote and stage their events

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Win one football, give one football

Published on June 29, 2014 in Calcio. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

With the “Win one football, give one football,” Coca-Cola has tried to link the soccer of the superstars to the social: the spark that created this link is represented by the football Brazuca, the same used during the World Cup in Brazil. 3.000 football will be given to Uisp sport clubs involved mainly in ethical and social projects. This colorful balloon was the protagonist of a great festival on the beach in Rimini, where it has been organized the “Challenge collective dribbling” among all participants.

Brazuca was donated at the first. Uisp-Italian Union of Sport for All along with Coca Cola are together to promote the ethical and social football. During the month of June, Coca-Cola has raffled off 50 footballs every day. Thanks to the “Win one football, give one football” to win every football Coca-Cola gave another to Uisp, non-profit association, for football projects with characteristics of ethical and social commitment.

“Uisp football is  passion and fun, not forgetting to look around – says Simone Pacciani,  Uisp vice-president  - this popular sport provides  opportunities of relationships and integration, each team is a small community of people who know each other and helps each other. Uisp football  is friendship and active lifestyle for all ages. Every weekend Uisp organized throughout Italy 10,000 football matches. A world of social cohesion that does not know no borders.”

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Try&Enjoy with the free urban movement

Published on June 6, 2014 in Generale and Giovani. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

In what direction goes the youth sports? Try&Enjoy, try and have fun is the answer by UISP (the largest Italian Sport for All organization. For three days, from June 6 to 8, UISP will be present at TheJamBo, animating Fiera di Bologna with the activities of urban freestyle like skate, parkour, tricking, speedbol, tree climbing, biking , half pipe and basketball. In a mix of sports and music, metro art and public meetings will be possible to discover and try out these new expressions of movement, which are considered a lifestyle by the crew of practitioners all over the world.

Are sports the urban freestyle? “I think so, because they have all the features – responds Alberto Cei, sport psychologist – are skilled expressions of movement. They involve to take risks and therefore require to be focused on the tasks and fast decision-making capacity, as well as coordination and balance. There are other components, such as ability to adapt to a changing environment.”

“Those who practice this kind of sport, I think parkour for example, have learned to move knowing to take a calculated dose of risk – Cei responds and on Friday, June 6, at TheJamBo, will coordinate the roundtable on the realities of the European freestyle – are also activities exciting, where it comes out the ability to manage the emotions. One of the things that intrigues me most is the ability to learn on their own practice of these activities. The fact of being able to exercise outdoors and in the streets is a form of re-appropriation of spaces in the city. Like it was when we were kids in the ’60s, when you could play freely in the street.”

What does it happen in the European countries on this subject? With this question will be open the roundtable: What is the attitude of the public institutions in the cities where these activities are not favored and hindered? At the  roundtable will attend different European groups like: Sk8boarder ASBL (Brussels), Team Jiyo (Copenhagen), Jump’in City (Lyon) and KRaP (Italy).

(By Ivano Maiorella)

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Freestyle urban movement: comparing European experiences

Published on May 30, 2014 in Giovani. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

BOLOGNA, June 6th, 2014 – h. 16.00

Notturno Hall, Centro Servizi – Blocco D, 1st floor, Bologna Fair, Piazza Costituzione, 6

 In recent years the phenomenon “parkour” is increasingly present on the media: is not a sport, there are no races. For those who practice is a discipline, an art, a lifestyle.

 

The emphasis doesn’t  fall on the ethics of the sacrifice and on the result, but on a better connection to themselves with physical space, on the courage to take risks, on the aesthetics of the talent and on creativity. Its centrality is based on feelings, the acrobatic evolutions, the strong value of group experience, the self-improvement that makes it possible the impossible. Thus the road becomes a space in which there are no obstacles, but opportunities to move freely, where it is possible to activate the educational-relational process through the practices related to communication codes of the kids and that leave them great expressive freedom.

The same philosophy of these destructured activities is strongly characterised by the concept of community (crew), in which all the kids recognize and choose to belong to.

In Italy  a growing number of young people are attracted to the “phenomenon parkour”, but there are no public areas where to have fun.

Why the local authorities do not consider these young people? Why instead in Europe there are rules and spaces that allow skaters and parkourists to perform without being considered “unruly”?

IDEAS

Our conference will be the first step to tell a world discovered by little and yet misunderstood and TheJamBO becomes the ideal place to do it.

We have to confront one another and sensitize our Local Governments to collaborate because these new expressions of movement can be considered as an integral part of the community and not as “vandals” of urban design.

 

  • PANEL:
  • Vincenzo Manco, Uisp National President
  • Duccio Campagnoli, Bologna Fair President
  • Comparing experiences:
  • Team Jiyo (Danmark)
  • Jump’in City (France)
  • Sk8boarder ASBL (Belgium)
  • KRAP (Italy)
  • Luca Rizzo Nervo, Councillor of Health Services, Health integration, Sport, Coordination and reform of the neighborhoods, Active Citizenship of Bologna Municipality
  • Patrizia Gabellini, Councillor for Urban Planning, Historic City and Environment of Bologna Municipality
  • Simone Borsari, President of District San Donato, Bologna
  • Romeo Farinella, Professor of Urban Planning – Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara
  • Alberto Cei, sports ssychologist (Moderator)
  • Agnese Ananasso, sports journalist
  • Emilio Porcaro, school principal of  IC 10 – Bologna
  • Vasco Errani , President of the Emilia Romagna Region, Coordinator of the Conference of Italian Regions

 

COMPARING EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES…

 Sk8boarder ASBL

Association of skaters of Brussels. It works for promoting these sports in the capital and offers free courses for the young people during the year on the plaza des Ursulines and, occasionally, in other places of the Region of Brussels. The association is supported by IBGE and COCOF.

The actual challenge is to create an indoor skatepark in Brussels.

http://www.sk8boarders.be/

Team Jiyo

It’s a company based in Denmark with some of the best athletes worldwide within parkour, freerunning, breakdance, hip-hop and other street activities.

Team JiYo are the pioneers of parkour and freerunning in Denmark: they started back in 2002 as a pure parkour/freerun company but has over the years been transformed into a professional and many-armed octopus in street culture.

Team JiYo has participated in numerous commercials, music videos, big TV Live show and has designed more than 10 parkour parks in Scandinavia, also the world biggest parkour park: The JiYo Parkour Park, based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

“One of our visions is to inspire children, youngsters and people in general to move and experience the freedom and joy of movement that exists within parkour and freerunning. We wish to see possibilities instead of limitations”.

http://www.teamjiyo.com/en/about-us/

Jump’in City

It is an association that operates for sustaining the activities of Parkour and Freerun. Thanks to an area/space devoted they succeed in offering regular training courses to allow the beginners to discover these practices in a safe environment.

http://www.jumpincity.com/association.html

KRaP

Krap is a Uisp affiliated association born in January 2008, which includes within its several disciplines: Freerunning, Parkour, Skateboard, Snowboard, Mountain Bike, Capoeira, juggling and much more.

The freestyle disciplines are representative of our time and of those young people who are, by their simplicity, promoters of a philosophy of life that includes values ​​such as sports, gaming, creativity, socialization, determination, self-esteem the psycho-physical wellness, awareness and respect for others and for environment.

They represent such a contemporary idea, dynamic and positive of the youth world in which discipline, style and fun,  go hand in hand.

Krap organizes events with international participation, workshops and courses of study of the technique, performances related to the disciplines practiced, with the management, coordination and participation of members of long experience.

http://www.krap.it/

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Vivicittà 2014, the run for all

Published on April 2, 2014 in Corsa and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Sunday is the day of Vivicittà 2014: The race for all. It’s the biggest race in the world because it takes place simultaneously in 45 Italian cities and 10 overseas. This is the 31th edition, which takes place about 12 km away and joining together has always been some of the fundamental human values ​​: the need for sport, environmental protection, international solidarity and to livethe historic town centers. These themes are present up since the first edition of the event organized by UISP and Franco Fava in a 1984 article published by Espresso already presented this way:

” This first edition of Vivicittà is not just a sporting event, even if the sporting and technical certainly not lacking today … do run 30,000 people is no longer a novelty. Distribute though so many runners in twenty different cities, starting at the same time, using as a backdrop the historic town centers among the most beautiful in Italy and make sure to compensate for the run times under the different difficulty of the route is likely to leave almost in disbelief … Surely in the great day of Vivicittà, no one can say that the Italians have finally put aside the bad habits of sports fan but not actives. Certainly no one can deny, however, that a new era is coming on the horizon and a more healthy and democratic sport mentality is close to establish itself for the good of all. THe cities will rise from twenty to forty and one day, perhaps due to Vivicittà , the run made ​​in Italy could be exported.”

Well these predictions have come true and to emphasize the value of sport as a right of all, without exception, the race will also take place in a number of Italian prisons but also in Osaka and Yokohama, in Bosnia in Tuzla and Sarajevo. In other dates will take place in Lebanon in Balbeeck and Sidon in solidarity with Syrian and Palestinian refugees. The fundraiser this year (1 € per participant) will be finalized in the project “Sport and Dignity” in collaboration with UNRWA – UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon to achieve 12 gyms for gymnastics, 12 spaces for volleyball and the training of trainers for these sports.

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Surf, skateboard and parkour: sport as a life style

Published on February 10, 2014 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

In recent years there has been a huge explosion of non-traditional sports to be practiced on the streets and on the walls of the cities with a strong emotional impact for young practitioners. The main one is parkour, meaning “fighter track” that consists in moving from one point to another as efficiently as possible with all forms of movement.

Parkour.NET to preserve parkour’s philosophy against sport competition and rivalry. In the words of Erwan LeCorre: “Competition pushes people to fight against others for the satisfaction of a crowd and/or the benefits of a few business people by changing its mindset. Parkour is unique and cannot be a competitive sport unless it ignores its altruistic core of self development. If parkour becomes a sport, it will be hard to seriously teach and spread parkour as a non-competitive activity. And a new sport will be spread that may be called parkour, but that won’t hold its philosophical essence anymore.” Red Bull’s sponsored athlete for parkour, Ryan Doyle, has said, “Sometimes people ask, ‘Who is the best at parkour?’ and it is because they don’t understand what Parkour is; ‘Who is the best?’ is what you would say to a sport, and Parkour is not a sport, it is an art, it’s a discipline.

David Belle, is considered the founder of Parkour , and the idea of ​​this activity that combines athletic and acrobatic gymnastics came to George Hebert, who before World War I, promoted a type of physical activity based on that of the native Africans. But in the promotion of forms of physical activity such as real lifestyles, surfers in California were those from the ’60s have spread this way of life, and it is no coincidence that the first form of urban sport, that has become widespread in those years is a modification of the surfboard, which turned in skateboard.

To remember those who in that time began this practice I suggest to see the film Dogtown and Z-Boys , dedicated to young who spread this new activity.

 

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Are we aware of what is the sport for all?

Published on November 1, 2013 in Generale and Giovani. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Speaking to the students of the Course on the ” Value of the gender difference in the sport management” I’m realizing every day that we have a different conception of what it’s the sport for all. Indeed, for them it’s the practice of people that are not athletes. They’re probably right, every sports center with its activities is an example of opportunities for everyone, from swimming, fitness room, yoga and more. And the same goes for hundreds of running competitions, which are held every weekend in our cities, district races, racing to finance charity activities or marathons like that of Rome, which have 40,000 participants and involve an entire city. What’s more common of running race involving thousands of people, providing job opportunities for many people. So what is the function of sports promotion bodies whose historical task was to spread the sport for all. Apart from the obsolete term of “sports promotion agency” they continue to be an offshoot of the political parties? It’s a low idea of the sport that one considers that continue to believe in this conjunction between politics and sport, and that it should no longer exist in the twenty-first century.

This is not the concept of sport for all; certainly it’s important to have more gyms, swimming pools and in global terms, more places in which to do the movement and sport but it’s only one aspect of this idea of sport. Sport for all means, however, another thing to practice in accordance with the level of ability, time spent, keeping in mind that it’s a means to improve our physical, psychological and interpersonal well-being. Means placing the individual at the center of the sports world and provide opportunities for movement. The individual, child, adolescent or adult, must be our interest and not the performance, this is the sport for everyone. How many clubs have this purpose? The mission of sport organizations for all must be the development and maintenance of personal well-being through movement. The pursuit of wealth should serve to break down the lack of movement that is one of the leading causes of death. As we remember the best Italian manager of sport for all that we had, Gianmario Missaglia ” it’s acquired then, in 1990, a particular notion of sport for all: sport for all for UISP means  sport for everyone, sport for all means not only formal right of access to the field race, but the right to a permanent practice modeled on the subject. Sport for all is for UISP the exact opposite of the same sport for everyone. It’s only with this vision of the right to sport that we can face the irresistible process of pluralization of motivations and forms of sport which we called sport as it’s possible. ”

Pluralization of practices and sport suitable for everyone . Here’s what unites fitness gyms to sport as a form of social inclusion. Who’s in this flow, what his/her path is in the great river of sport for all. It’s not superiority towards the practice of sport as a pursuit of excellence it’s just another thing, each with its own dignity and errors. What we need to combine in these two forms of sport it’s the encounter with the requirement that the activity is carried out in an ethical manner, we know that this often does not happen because the culture of victory too often dominates the culture of the best win or that which point out the value of participation, to be part part of a story, rather than the result. The sfraud lurks everywhere in competitive sports as well as in the recreational sport because it’s part of being human.

Nobody tells this story today, it’s a pity, because we are missing a significant part of the culture of Italian sport .

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