Atividade apresentada ao Curso de Letras Português/Inglês

Claretiano – Centro Universitário de Batatais

Isabela Cristina de Brito

RA 1142546

Portfolio activity: Popular Sports

Atividade apresentada ao Curso de Letras Português/Inglês, 7º Semestre,  do

Centro Universitário Claretiano de Batatais-SP , como requisito

parcial para a conclusão da Disciplina de Língua Inglesa V, sob

orientação da Professora Renata Helena Pin Pucci Gobbi E Silva.

October

Ibitinga / 2016

Roller Skating – A popular Sport

Roller skating is a very old sport and who has gained many fans and athletes. I chose this sport because I practiced for 10 years, but I had to stop because of pregnancy.  I’m in love with this sport. There are many colors and style, more attention because it is dangerous if you are not wearing safety equipment.

The origin of the wheels comes from skating ice and it has several modes like any sports. The skating was born around 3000 BC, proven through waste skates bones found in Sweden, according to historian Stefan Lovgren (2008). It is believed that the creation of skates aimed to cross frozen lakes with greater speed, according to Federico Formenti (2006), studies of development the on the evolution of locomotion on the ice, finding residues of skates made of bone to 1800 BC the Dutch were the first to put metal blades as the basis for your skates, around the fourteenth century, according to Mary Bellis (2008), writer on inventions.

 

The roller skates were recognized for the invention of Joseph Merlin (1760), Belgium. The first patent for roller skates, "four-wheeled" which were two to two parallel (traditional), was in January 1863, made by James Leonard Plimpton, who was also the founder of the first wheels Skating Association New York (NYRSA).

 

The patent inline skates was created in France in 1819 by Monsieur Petitbled, with in-line wheels that could be of metal, wood or ivory.

 

Robert Henley, nephew of Micajah C. Henley, who was one of the great men of skating, began placing the bearings in the skates around 1890, from the thought of bicycle bearings.

Some sports are as follows:

Free Style:

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This is the mode in which the skaters skate alone to present their routines. The presentations are always accompanied by music and dance combine with the technical elements of skating. Skaters are evaluated with regard to technical and degree of difficulty presented, and of the presentation, including positions, use the track, the choreography balancing and their suitability to music.

Footwork:

It is a method that has been widely used in competitions and as part of training athletes. It consists of execution of the figures, which are evaluated by judges regarding the cleaning of the movements, perfection of stroke, constancy in speed. Executed in circles, evaluating the shaft and skater posture.

Singles:

This is a widespread sport in the world. The skater performs free movements according to the music, exploring their expression and sympathy in the development of dance, including many working footwork without heels , sits pin, camel, axel, mapes, salchow, flip, lutz, loop,etc.

Single and Pairs

Single Dance Creative:

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Brazilian and preparatory mode for the South American, where the athlete explores the rhythm of the dance in a diagram on the track. His sympathy and artistic expression is essential to a good presentation.