Fight against exclusion by bilateralization of asymmetrical sports
Every year athletes motivated and well trained must renounce practicing their favorite sport because of its asymmetric nature.
Pain appear and are strengthened over years of practice up prohibit this activity.
The doctor diagnosed tendonitis or other degenerative rheumatic problems or fatigue fracture...
Examples of asymmetric activities:
- Racquet sports (tennis, table tennis, squash ...)
- Target sports (shooting, billiards, bowling ...)
- Activities on stadium (cycling and running), etc ...
Other people have a cons-indication to asymmetric activities. This is particularly the case for children with scoliosis and scoliotic attitude. They are therefore excluded all their life from this activity.
These athletes are not disabled persons, they lead a normal life in terms of their activities of daily living, their school work or their professional activities, and they practice other symmetrical sports without pain.
This is not the federation of disabled sports to "recover" these sports activities arranged for disabled people, but the federations of their favorite sport to offer them a new sport similar and symmetrical.
The idea would be to create within each federation, new symmetrical disciplines in complement to asymmetrical activities who already exist.
Most federations are multidisciplinary. The "new symmetrical disciplines" can be easily integrated into these organizations effective and well-established.
Examples:
- The French Athletics Federation (FFA) manages many disciplines grouped into: running, jumping, throwing and walking...
- The French Cycling Federation (FFC) includes: road cycling, mountain biking, track cycling, cyclo-cross, BMX, indoor cycling, cycling for people with disabilities and bike polo.
- The French Tennis Federation (FFT) has already standing tennis and wheelchair tennis ...
The case of a teenager who was part of a team track cycling (in a cycling stadium) was the trigger of my action of bilateralization of physical activities and sports.
Indeed, the regulation requires to turn always in the same direction in the stadium.
Which causes asymmetric constraints on the joints, tendons and muscles.
This resulted for this young sportsman, tenacious tendonitis of knee, persisting hydarthrosis, which ended his favorite physical activity.
If the young athlete was able to recover normal function of the knee after many therapy sessions; frustration resulting from the forced abandonment of sport has persisted longer.
Unfortunately, in many disciplines, most athletes who begin are not immune to the problems associated with the asymmetry of their favorite sport.
This is a general problem for many physical activities or sports asymmetrical.
Currently there is no alternative. if they are affected by a pathology related to the asymmetry, they become excluded from the sport.
Faced with these problems unacceptable, I'm sure the federations concerned will react and fight these exclusions intolerable.
This is why I am very optimistic.
Asymmetric sports will emerge and grow significantly and universal for the benefit of participants and federations.
With the support of the media, their popularity will grow.
They will diffuse their physical merits:
- Symmetrical development of the body of the sportsmen,,
- Less pain and rheumatological disorders
- Absence of underdevelopment on one side of the body,
- Bilateral coordination.
Their psychological benefits are recognized, in particular the opportunity to win two times instead of one makes the symmetrical game more attractive and playful.
The federations will accommodate a growing number of participants and their brand will be strengthened.
The new rules of symmetric game remain to improve and validate by each federation.
In fact, the principle is relatively simple.
Example rule for the symmetric racket sports:
Each game consists of two separate parts:
- The first part is played with the non-dominant hand (usually the left hand, but not always, because there are many left-handed who must declare it before the competition).
- The second part is played with the dominant hand.
This increases the motivation of participants and playfulness of this sport since there are two opportunities to win: one for the part made with the non-dominant hand and one for the part performed with the dominant hand.
Participants will want to win both games.
There is good ideas that never materialize.
It will not be the case in the bilateralization process of physical activity and sports
The opportunity to start a symmetrical competition has already been given me in the family and it was during the summer of 2012 I organized the first competition of "ping-pong symmetrical."
The first game was played with the dominant hand, the second with the other hand.
It is a real advantage to have several opportunities to win.
So, my granddaughter who had lost a game with the right hand, had the joy of winning with the left side.
Initially, as with all new activities, there is a moment of reluctance:
"Yes it is, but not for me because I can not do anything with your left hand!"
But by insisting a little, we soon realize that there are untapped opportunities of bilateral transfer.
Bilateral transfer is the possibility for the non-dominant side to benefit of previous experience on the other side in order to learn faster.
The best example of bilateral transfer was given by Karoly Takacs.
This pistol champion before the war lost his right hand as a result of the explosion of a grenade.
(loss of dominant hand with which he shot).
After the war, it has managed to become Olympic champion pistol with his left hand.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/07/olympic_countdown_38.html
This example of bilateralization is a model for all those who have at heart to join in this action of progress.
It is likely that a new generation of players bilateral will be a nursery of champions through the action of the bilateral transfer.
It is my experience over many years with kobudo in particular practice nunchaku and bō (stick used in martial arts) which allowed me to understand while practicing; and assist the teacher in the initiation of many youth and adult novices to use both hands to perform a single coordinated action
Examples of strikes on targets (called "pao") or interception of fast moving objects with nunchaku or bō that must be performed with the right and left hand.
It is comparable actions to service of tennis or to receiving the ball in racket games.
In martial arts, you have to execute an attack or defense both right and left, and with speed and precision.
Of course, there is always one side that is more skilled than the other, but with a regular training, it is always possible to manage to make respectable performances on both sides.
What it is possible to Kobudo is also valid for all other physical activities or sports.
My approach is devoid of any mercantile motivation and no patent has been taken on these ideas.
But, being published in this article falls into the public domain.
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Authors of this article:
Roland SULTANA (physiotherapists in a rehabilitation center and teacher in physiotherapy)
Serge MEASURE (Doctor in Science and physiotherapist)
Gilbert Heurley (physician specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation)
Thierry RUBINO (physician specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation)
Sandie FRECHET (Physiotherapist)
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