Rowing

How Rowing is perceived in Independent Schools, compared to traditional major sports such as Rugby, Football & Cricket.

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How Rowing is perceived in Independent Schools, compared to traditional major sports such as Rugby, Football & Cricket.

Introduction

Sport plays a very prominent role in the life of English people. Sports are popular at both the individual and group level. Popular team sports include cricket, football, rugby union, and rugby league. Major individual sports include badminton, tennis, golf, athletics, and horse riding. One sport is of particular importance, that has not been listed. Rowing, the water sport, involves competing teams or even individuals to take their skills in water on boats and put their physical limits to the test. This sport has been considered an elitist sport, since it involves huge money to support such a resource demanding efforts. Its selection of players is also not easy, as only very restricted students can be allowed to practice and compete in the actual play. In contrast to state schools, independent school in England provide greater opportunity to engage in this sport. This essay reflects the perception of rowing as compared to other traditional sports in independent schools.

Discussion

Today, sports are a part of our lives, culture, and national heritage. Many of the sports today played across nations, did not even existed 120 years ago. While those which did existed, were in a form largely apart from how they are played today. The games and sports today as we see them are a result of an evolutionary process over time. The culture influence on these sports is widely visible. The sports have become more formalized and standardized with the cultures. These games also reflect social values of the past. Like football was used to be, very dirt game, involving injuring other person, just for fun, and competition. The role of technology is also visible in games today. However, in early days, it was the independent schools, which use to lead in formalizing and introducing games. Most of these games were played in independent schools of England. The spirit of breaking the records of others, competing with the opponents in the field and proving who is the best, has taken the games so far today, that, the nations compete with each other, and the whole country witness the event.

The opportunities to play the sports have always been tilted towards the independent schools more. The monetary resources needed to afford such activities are often with the private sector schools with heavy fees structures. Therefore, most of the sports were initially considered to be for the rich or even if with working class, later they were formalized by these schools. Rowing is one of these sports.

Race is considered the oldest organized sport in the word. The Egyptian pharaoh Amenophis II tomb's inscription shows him rowing circa 1430 B.C. Oared barges raced on the Nile as early as 2500 B.C. Rowing is a water sport; Athletes compete against each other in ocean, river, or ...