YP Sports Day - 30-Jan-11 was really fun good clean sports with YP Coaches/students - even BF PROs came to join us too.
Blessed with nice cool weather & YPs were assigned to 5 different teams to break the ice in getting students to know each other through sports. YP had great potential footballers + badminton players too.
The Buddha said: ‘Good health is the highest gain’ (Dhp.204) and he encouraged monks and nuns to do exercise as a way of promoting vigour and health (Vin.II,119). As far as the mind is concerned, sport can help to develop positive states like team spirit, friendship, alertness and even a degree of detachment (gracefully accepting the umpire's decision or defeat). Sadly, nearly all sports today have become excessively competitive and few things bring out the worst in people as much as competition does. Cheating, violence amongst both spectators and players, personal animosities, doping, match fixing and being a bad loser have all become the norm in professional sports. Some encounters are even promoted as ‘grudge matches.' The old value of ‘it is not whether you win or loose but how you play the game' has been unceremoniously shoved aside by large egos and even larger salaries.
With T.V., movies, computers, and video games becoming more and more popular, it has become so much easier for teens to be by themselves rather than going out with friends. Kids used to go hang out at the mall or drive around town; now they just sit at home. Getting your teen into a sport gives them an opportunity to go out and socialize. While they may not find a new best friend, they will learn how to interact and work as a team; something they’ll find useful later in life.
1 particular YP student showed honesty being practiced during his football game when he found a dollar coin in Yeo's Auditorium & told me to donate to BF Charity Box.
So very proud of YP Coaches + Students - Great Team Spirit
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