A BIT OF SPORTS HISTORY

Hello everyone, this publication belongs to the month of April.

Today we will see three theories of the sport of different authors that try to explain the beginning of the sport, we go there:

1) Beginning we see the approaches of Popplow (1960) who tells us that the origin of sports activity, although incipiently, is located in the Middle Paleolithic period (33,000 b.c), developed mainly by:

-the ritual dances

-organized fighters

-first games of hunting as initiation to adult levels by the members of the different colonies of men and women.

Popplow, believes that physical exercise had a purely spiritual sense that allowed man to approach the vital unit with their gods and nature. Mainly the dance possessed characteristics that support this theory fundamentally because it integrates a physical activity that prepares for the fight and the hunt, exalts the hunter and unites the group in a common activity.

                                                                                                                          Ritual dances.

2) In another point of view, Diem (1978) states that the origin of sports activity is purely cultural, this associated with the representations of activities carried out by dead ancestors; that is to say the birth of the sport is by evocation of the realized thing by the dead, in the form of exaltation of virtues and dedicated to them.

                                                                                                                                 Organized fighters.

3) Eppensteiner (1964), on the other hand, certainly does not seek the origin of sport, but rather promotes the modalities of sports activity at the beginning, seeking to respond to the forms and advances of sport through the ages. The author highlights two types of sports:

-The original, which starts as a natural and normal activity of human development, is a search for the cultivation of the body;

-The cultural, which denotes a cultural phenomenon of the development of peoples.

Speaking of the original type, we must point out that it would be a series of instincts converged with the biological needs of human development, arguing the natural tendency to move as a pleasant activity; and in turn the need for expression.

Initiation to adult levels.