Sport is an integral part of many people's lives, it brings us good health and positive mood, also increasing the self-esteem. Last week on creative thinking seminar our class was assigned to a special task - think up a new kind of sport, that would be: 1) entertaining; 2) universal in terms of gender, age and culture and 3) pro-environmental.
An example of such sport is golf, since it is excitable enough, can be played by men and women of any world culture, plus it can only be played in on a nature-side.
However, it's not that popular among the citizens of many developing world countries like Latvia, because this sport is elite and costly.
During the seminar we generated such a games: so-called Sky-hopper: the participants wear huge backpacks filled with helium or other light gas (like baloon), which significantly decreases one's weight. Then the participants can jump as high as they can, competing each other in hight, or distance of jumps. And, of course, these rules can