PART 1. You are required to correct and rewrite the following explanation of the game of handball and then post it on your blog with appropriate headings etc.

Handball (also known as team Handball, etc. Team Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outfield players and a goalkeeper on each team) pass a ball to throw (shoot) it into the goal of the other team. A standard match consists of two periods, 30 minutes each, including a half-time at 15 minutes, and the team who has scored more goals win. Modern handball is usually played indoor, but outdoor variants exist in the forms of field handball. The game is quite fast and includes body contact, as the defenders try to stop the attackers from approaching the goal. However, the contact is only allowed when the defender is in front of the offensive player. Players can dribble the ball like in basketball and can take 4 3 steps without dribbling. They can also pass using, chest pass, bounce pass. Players are only allowed to be in possession of the ball for 3 seconds before either passing or shooting at goal. The game has different phases. Firstly a team needs to gain possession of the ball and this usually occurs with the goalkeeper. The objective is to turn defence into attack. The next phase is moving the ball to the opponent’s goal. The next phase is to get into a scoring position. No players are allowed inside the D zone. Faults occur when players are considered as good defense and refractory to the offensive team’s offensive rhythm. Fouls, although, occur when players use excessive force and play is re-started with the opponent’s free throw. Depending on where the player has violated the opponent, the play will probably be re-started with the opponent’s seven meter free throw. Players are  allowed infinite amount of faults, which acts like fouls in basketball. However, if they create excessive forces to the opponents they could end up as a penalty. Penalties requires more punishment compared to a simple free-throw. Penalties include the opponent’s 7-meter penalty shot, two minute suspension if the foul was very menace or it can even end up to completely leave the playing area.

PART 2 You second task is to design 2 drills and post them with explanations and diagrams on your blog. The First drill is a warm up drill suitable for Handball. Name: Catch the Ball! Skills used: Defense, Offense, Shooting, Passing, Goalkeeping, Ball handling.

In this warm up, you will need at least 8 people (at least 4 on each side). The size of the field should be no larger than 25*15m^2. The objective is to bring the ball inside the 6m line (in Handball) from the opponent’s side to your side by either passing the ball over the boundary line, or shooting from the opponent’s side to your side.

However, if the opponents captures you while you attempt to capture the ball, you will be sent to jail. The jail is located at the side of the field (one per side, two in total), and your team mates have to save you by touching you without getting captured by the opponents. 

Once you get the ball inside the 4m line, you have to get out within five seconds, or you will be forced to get to jail.

The Second Drill is a handball skill development drill to develop either passing skills, defensive skills or shooting skills.

Name: Indiana Pass/Shoot Drill

Skills used: Passing, Shooting, Ball Handling.

Here is a diagram for the drill, since it is really complicated: You start at either of the red squares. You pass the ball to the passers (the green circles), while you sprint forward (blue dotted lines). Near the yellow squares, you will receive the pass from the passers you passed. You will continue this until there is no more passers to pass in front of you. You will either dribble or take three steps and shoot from the orange square! Make sure you get your ball immediately because there will be people shooting from behind. Afterwards, you go to the closest red square, and repeat the structure. After few minutes (your choice), you will switch the sides of the red squares in order to shoot from the left side. You should also substitue the passers with other people who were doing the drill.

Have fun!

Grade 8 Physical Education Unit 1: Individual Pursuits- Health, Fitness and Wellness

MYP Unit Question: How can I improve my health and fitness?

Significant Concept: FIT For Life

Over a couple of weeks, each class in grade 6, 7, 8, and 9 has been investigating a few topics: health, fitness, and wellness. We have been learning the importance of health, fitness and wellness, as well as creating/doing a circuit training as a whole class. The circuit training we are performing are based on the five components of Health-Related Fitness, but one will mention this later on.

Before one will state the progress we have been making throughout the unit, one will briefly talk about the basic definition of health and fitness. The definition of health, coming up with the explanation with Kenneth and Yuki, is which is obtained from different parts, such as: physical condition (stout, skinny), mental condition (stress, friends), sanitation, abnormalities, time management, and relationships between your friends and your family. Personally, physical condition is the largest factor of showing how healthy you are due to its perceptible appearance.The most appropriate denotation of ‘fitness’ is the ability of your body circulating oxygen you inhaled to your muscles, especially the tissues, in the course of increasing your physical exertion. As one have mention in the previous section, there are five components of Health-related Fitness. The components are: Cardiovascular Endurance, Muscular Strength, Muscular Endurance, Flexibility and Body Composition. Cardiovascular Endurance, another word for ‘Stamina’, is how much your heart and your blood vessels can be able to pump oxygen. Muscular Strength is the maximum quantity of your muscle can produce. Muscular Endurance, is the capability of your muscle to maintain its structure under repeated contraction, disadvantageous to resistance. Flexibility is the ability to move your joints/muscles through full-range of motion. Body Composition, last but not least, is the proportion of fat and fat-free mass (including your muscle) in your body. This briefly explains the term BMI (Body Mass Index), where we check if our value is average, obese or underweight, by measuring our weight, height and our age. We should occasionally test our fitness to investigate our strengths and weaknesses in the five components of Health-related Fitness. We can test our Health-related Fitnesses by taking tests that applies to one of the components. In one’s case, we did a Cooper Test, BMI Test, Sit and Reach Test, Vertical Jump Test, Pushup/Sit-up Test and a Burpie-Jump Test. A Cooper Test, is where you run continuously for approximately 12 minutes and calculate the total distance you run. This test, is to check your level of Cardiovascular Balance. In our case, we ran on a 200 meter track near our school, but normally this is measured on a 400 meter track. As one has mentioned on the previous PE post, one has ran 2800 meters, which is recorded as “very good” on the age-group table. For the BMI Test, we measured our height and weight, and calculated digitally in order to work out our BMI. This test is to test your Body Composition. One had a BMI of 19.3, which was an average BMI per age group. The problems when using the BMI test as a standard test are, however, that you have to find the most accurate table in order to find out your level of your Body Mass Index in your age group. This is due to the fact that there are quantities of different BMI table in the internet. Sit and Reach Test, is where you stretch as far as possible, and measure how much you stretched. This test is to examine your Flexibility.  Incidentally, one had the flexibility of 41 centimeters, which is personally better than one has thought of. Vertical Jump Test is where you investigate your Muscular Strength, measuring how much you jump vertically. One had the value of 42 centimeters. Pushup/Sit-up Test, testing your Muscular Endurance, is where you measure how much pushups/sit-ups you can afford to do in a minute. One had the quantity of 51 sit-ups in a minute, and 41 pushups in a minute. Last but not least, Burpie-jump Test, a combination of Cardiovascular Endurance and Agility, is counting how much you can do your burpie-jumps in a minute. One has a number of 30 burpie-jumps in a minute. We can compare our results to other people, by having a look at the general age-group table of each.

In one’s previous post in PE, there is a table showing the levels of the Cardiovascular Endurance, under the date “18 ix 2012″. In one’s opinion, one anticipates that its CV Endurance level is 9 due to the fact that one runs very often and not gets exhausted, feels great after its run, and plays sports that requires numerous amount of Cardiovascular Endurance. For instance, baseball, basketball and swimming are one’s favorite sports, but having a slight larger value of VO2 than other sports. One is quite fit at Muscular Endurance as well. This is due to the numbers mentioned in the previous paragraph. One has a maximum of 51 sit-ups in a minute, and 41 pushups in a minute, which is actually very fit compared to one’s classmates. One is also fit at flexibility, which is pretty surprising due to the fact that one cannot astride its legs flat on the ground. In the Sit and Reach Test, one records a maximum flexibility of 41 centimeters, which was extremely unbelievable that one has thought of. One’s another well-fit component, will be Body Composition owing to the fact that one’s BMI is 19.3 (Height:158 centimeters, Weight: 48 kilograms), which is in the “average” based on the most accurate Body Mass Index age-group table.

In spite of the fact that one is pretty fit at Muscular Endurance, Flexibility, Body Composition, and in particular, Cardiovascular Endurance, one’s weakest component is Muscular Strength. As you can have a glance on the previous section, one achieved its highest vertical jump of 42 centimeters, while other people in one’s class has recorded more than one’s value.

Personally, the significant components of health-related fitness are Cardiovascular Endurance, and Flexibility. Cardiovascular Endurance is exceptionally significant in one’s perspective due to the sports that one is involving: baseball, basketball, and especially, swimming. Swimming requires a large amount of Cardiovascular Endurance owing to the fact that it also uses aerobic energy system to charge our movements, which can also improve your CV Endurance more. Flexibility is also another important component from one’s point of view due to the fact that swimming, requires its component in order to swim faster and as less air resistance as possible.

Over the next three months, one would like to set 3 well-thought goals which will further develop one’s components which will need to be ameliorated. This will be based on Muscular Strength, and some other components. The following goals will last for three months, and perhaps forever:

1. Being conscious when jumping in basketball. (Muscular Strength)

2. Swim more, and as hard as possible in order to train one’s CV Endurance. (Cardiovascular Endurance and Flexibility)

3. Eat healthier food, in order to lose one’s BMI value. (Body Composition)

Overall, I would like to thank Mr.Noon, our Physical Education teacher for this academic year, who not just taught us each of the factors one has mentioned above, but also helped keep up my motivation in hard circuit trainings such as using weights.

10 ix 2012

What does it mean to be healthy?

In my group with Yuki and Kenneth, we came to a conclusion that health is obtained from different parts, such as: physical condition (stout, skinny), mental condition (stress, friends), sanitation, abnormalities, time management, and relationships between your friends and your family. We assume that physical condition is the largest factor of showing how healthy you are.

There are five Components of Fitness:

1. Heath-Related Fitness

• Cardiovascular Endurance

• Muscular Strength

• Muscular Endurance

• Flexibility

• Body Composition

13 ix 2012

What is heart rate?

Heart rate is a certain speed/rate of your heart beating, and how much the oxygen goes into the blood.

Today, we learnt about that if a student had the relaxing heart rate of 40-60, then it will indicate that you have an outstanding Cardiovascular Endurance. In my case, I had the relaxing heart rate of between 55 and 70, so I think I have a good Cardiovascular Endurance. We can calculate our maximum heart rate by subtracting your age from 220. For me, My maximum heart rate would be 207.

18 ix 2012

This is a youtube video about Stoke City, one of the teams in the England Premier League, having a moment of silence for the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災). I think this is one of the sporting event where internationalism and sporting spirit is evident, because the video shows that even the Britain, which is not close to Japan, prayed their (Japanese) soul may rest in peace.

Reflections of how you felt during and after the run. Did you feel good, sick. Any injuries? Proud?

On my 1st run, I was really slow since it have been a year past since I last ran at Negishi. During the run, I was in a good mood since there were nature surrounding me, which made me relaxed. However, I hurt my left flank a lot in the first run on 2011, which usually happens to me. Although, I broke my PB (Personal Best). On the 2nd run, I beat my PB again with 11.26, and I was in a better mood than the last run. One reason was that I changed my shoe into a shoe which is produced from a sports brand, which has a cushion on the heel to absorb the impact from the hard asphalt, and also can change the impact to power to go forward. On my 3rd run, I was in a bad mood even I broke my PB again with 11.11. The reason was that during my run, my left flank started to hurt after I passed the 1st lap, and after I finished running, I became Hyperpnea since I ran my best and sprint the last 100m. On my 4th run, I was also in a bad mood because I finished 19 seconds slower than my PB. I think it was because I was tired from the last day, and was hurt in some parts such as my thigh. Besides, I started slow first, so I became slower. But after I finished running, I felt great, like releasing stresses from my body.

Your two goals- Outcome goal- What you wanted to achieve after your first run and your Process goal- how you will get to your outcome. Did you need to reassess them?

Outcome Goal (now): To finish at 11.08 (finishing three seconds faster than my PB.)

Process Goal: Looking back maximum once.

I had to reassess my outcome goal twice because my first one (reaching 11.30) was already achieved on my 2nd run, and my second one (reaching 11.15) was also achieved on my 3rd run.

Discuss the strategies you used to help you improve your times and meet your goals, for example did you use any psychological techniques such as self talk?Music? Breathing techniques, better shoes. Did you do more practise on your own?

Although I didn’t do any practice on my own, I achieved my goal twice and improved my time a lot. I think because I ran with better shoes, one of the psychological techniques above. On my 1st run, I used shoes that are mostly for short distances so I finished slower than I thought. But from my 2nd run, I used shoes that are created from on of the famous sports brand, which included cushions in it, so it made me faster.

A visual representation of your times and progress for example a line graph.

At the end of the unit you need to provide a score out of 8 of how you felt your performance was in the unit.

I think my score would be 7 out of 8. I think it is because I accomplished my Outcome Goal twice , and also ran as best as I can on my 3rd run, which become my new PB with 11.11. Besides, in the X Country day, I endured my right knee pain, persevered, and achieved a new PB of 10.41! I also achieved my Process Goal, which I accomplished in the X Country Day.

Overall, I improved myself a lot, for instance, enduring the pain and running without stopping. And today, I became 10th in the total of the Gr. 7 & 8 boys, and became 4th in my grade!

Here are some videos of me running in X Country on November 10th (I am the person who is short running with a red T-shirt):

Hi! Today I’m going to talk about my Cross Country goals and my time for each lesson. First of all, Cross Country (X Country) is located in Negishi Park (根岸森林公園), and it’s a 1.3 km course. However, we run 2 laps, so it’s actually 2.6km total. Well, this is a brief information about our course. Now I’m going to write my goals, which are;

Outcome Goal – To finish at 11:08 (11 min. 8 sec.)

Process Goal – To look back over maximum twice.

Well, here are my times;

1st run (October 3rd): 11:53 (11 min. 53 sec.)

2nd run (October 6th): 11:26 (11 min. 26 sec.)

3rd run (October 11th): 11:11 (11 min. 11 sec.)

On my 3rd run, I broke down from exhaustion, and almost suffered heat stroke since I tried my best.

Grade 7 PE Indoor Invasion; Basketball Self Analysis Masaki.M 7C from Masaletics 1998 on Vimeo.

In Grade 7 Unit 1 in PE, we learned about Indoor Invasion sport, mostly about basketball. And, we had to do an assignment of our self-analysis video about basketball, after we’ve finished our unit. Please have fun listening + watching my video !

On Wednesday, 14 Danish Gymnasts came to YIS to perform their dance, and 4 of them came in to teach some things to us in PE class. I was a little bit surprised because I never knew that these experts would teach us. First, we did some exercise with those 4 danish experts and some Rock-Paper-Scissor Game. I wasn’t the winner, but still it was enjoyable. After that, we got separated into 3 group. One was dancing, one was trampoline, and one was mat motion. We did all, and was really fun. We danced with music in the dancing part, which made me not give up. On mat motion, we did handstand, cartwheel, front revolution, back revolution and other. On trampoline, we also used jumping box for our start point. You jump off from the start point, go on the trampoline, jump and you twist or somersault. Although we didn’t somersault, we had a lot of fun and I thought that I want to do this again next year!!!

After we finished our PE time, ate lunch, had recess, we went back to the gym and watched the danish gymnast performance. They were awesome! My favorite one was the robbery in the night because they did somersaults and backflips which made me astonish and made me felt “Are they OK if they make a mistake???” To summarize, that day was an awesome day with the danish gymnasts.

We had a Cross Country unit as our first PE unit. To cut a long story, the main topic was to run 2 laps in Negishi Park which was 2.6km long. I had a good time in the first XC lesson, but to upgrade my time, I used some mental strategies which the PE teachers said. For example, goal setting (which we set 3 goals) really helped us to motivate us when running, self-talking which you say “Pace up” or “Keep on going” to put in more strengths even you are tired. I tried it, and the time shaved two seconds of my best time! Another example, some people listen to the music so that to run without stopping. At assembly in October, we saw a video of a marathon runner who ran in the Olympic with an injured leg. In the REAL cross country day, Mr. Kenji Kimihara, who got a silver medal in 1968 Mexico-city Olympic marathon run saw our run and advised to us that you have to practice more if you want to be better at it. These things made me felt more as a runner who has motivation to do something.

In this unit, I had some good points and my bad points. My good points were to always run from my house to the nearest station (2~3 minute run) which made my running posture better, because I was shouldering my schoolbag that stopped being stoop. Also I self-talked to myself when we were practicing for X country, that shaved my time more than a second and ran without stopping. On another hand, my bad points were to look backwards. I need to improve on this from now on!!

I have self-assessed myself in a score out of 8 (or 10):

This is a picture of me running at X country 2010

This is a video of the marathon runner who finished the goal with an injured leg:

On PE yesterday, we played indoor soccer inside the gym for our lesson because it was raining… Changing the story,  few weeks ago when we were playing soccer, the boys said and acted like “Don’t pass these balls to the girls,” and “We don’t want you in my team.” When Mr. Noon heard how we were discriminating with the girls, he noticed to us that we should not doubt that the girls are bad at playing sports. Soon, he said that they was a super good soccer player girl in 12th grade and he will bring her between our class. Yesterday between our class, she visited and showed her skills.

First, juggling the ball. I was surprised because she juggled the ball way lot more than what I do. Next, she showed her shooting skills with a goalkeeper; first Ren, then Shin which are our soccer stars. But she score against them, which made me surprised!!! When each time she scored, we booed, but when one of the keeper saves the ball, we cheered to them. Still, I was astonished with her, because I had never seen a girl beating our super stars. Also, I thought over half of the grade 6 were surprised with her…