Understanding Sport Development: Benefits and Approaches

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of sports development, exploring its profound impact on individuals and society. It begins by defining sports development and then elucidates the numerous benefits it offers, including improvements in education, the cultivation of essential life skills, and the enhancement of personal and professional development. The report also highlights the crucial role of sports in promoting physical and mental health. Furthermore, it examines various approaches to fostering sports development, such as encouraging sports days, promoting the sports industry, and increasing funding for sports initiatives. The report includes compelling case studies of individuals like Kieran Behan, Michael Jordan, Bethany Hamilton, and Michael Phelps, who exemplify resilience and achievement in the face of adversity. In conclusion, the report emphasizes the essential role of sports in daily life, advocating for its integration into routines to reap its myriad benefits.

Understanding Sport
Development

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
Benefits of Sports Development.............................................................................................2
Approaches to Sports Development.......................................................................................3
Case Studies............................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Sports development is defined as the conducting such physical activities by a person through
which physical health could be maintained. For example, indoor and outdoor games,
participation in competitions of these games, games like basketball, volleyball, table tennis,
badminton, chess, marathon and many more games. There are awards in winning such games,
not everyone can play, and proper coaching is needed to participate in sports activities. People
also consider sports as profession and business to earn some money through games (Sport
Development. Systems, Policies and Pathways: An Introduction to the Special Issue, 2020). The
following discussions is based on the development of sports in a country-United Kingdom,
benefit of sports playing with appropriate case studies and finally the conclusion of the analysis
done in this report.
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MAIN BODY
Benefits of Sports Development
Sports in Education
There are lot of benefits of sports in education system, it teaches honesty, teamwork, fair
play, giving respect to each other and following rules and regulations. Sports playing teaches
honesty as in sports generally coaches teaches honesty in playing any sport, dishonesty is
considered against ethics in sports development. Teamwork is the best part which is to be
educated to the students because this helps them in some organization also which proves
beneficial for them. Fair play is a major part for any sport so it is important for anyone to learn
such things. Sports also teaches the respect giving value to others or opposition team with giving
learning of following norms, rules and regulations (Attwell, Morgan and Parker, 2019).
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Sports in life skills and personal development
There are lot of benefits of sports in developing personal skills such as sensible,
improving sleep routines, lowering level of anxiety, mind clarity, lowering depression and
lowers various diseases. All these skills develop a person personally by sensing most of the
things right because it results in better sleeping time which leads to the relax mind which lowers
stress level and many more negative things. Therefore, sports enhance the personal development
of a person by refining their personal skills.
Sports in professionalism
For any person, professionalism is equally important to it’s personal life. Undoubtedly
sports helps in building up personal life positively, it also assist in developing professional life of
a person by making them realise the importance of routinely sleeping, eating, working,
travelling, playing and many more activities which is included in daily life of normal person.
Working in some organization needs well attire, discipline, following rules and regulations and
many more restrictions which lead the life to a good way (Baker, Cobley, Schorer and Wattie,
2017).
Sports in Health
Sports has a major role in health and fitness of a person. Because sports involves a lot of
physical activities like running, jumping, exercising, warming up, stretching and other actions.
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These activities assist the person in building up their mental as well as their physical health. This
is considered the most beneficial point in sports development because health is something where
a person takes it on priority. Developing a good health like it cures heart disease, lungs problems
and many internal problems as well. Therefore, sports are considered as essential in every part of
humans life.
Approaches to Sports Development
Encouraging sports day with festivals, clubs and events
This approach can be used in schools and colleges for the students to encourage them to
participate more and more in sports activities. Like organizing sports day with different fun
games, celebrating sports festivals to gain more interest and spending on various sports clubs and
events so that students participate in competitions and enjoy the same with full enthusiasm
(Cryan and Martinek, 2017).
Promoting sports industry
This approach is for the sport development in a country by the government that they must
encourage industries who supports sports in any form like selling sports products, conducting
any event and occasional club formation. This can be done by either public sectors to promote
sports or by encouraging private sectors to build up such activities for the people of the country.
Encouraging education programmes based on sports
This approach is similar to the approach of schools and colleges. Motivating educational
institutions helps the people of country to take more interest in sports because now a days youth
power is becoming more in trend. So sports development starting from youth is much more
benefit to grow and develop sports to other aged citizens also.
Increment of funds for sports industry
This approach is beneficial for the firms who deals with sports products or who wants to
encourage sports activities in a country. Government must look into it to increase the funds of
not only the government sector firms but also the private sectors so that development can be
possible all over the sectors which are present in a country (Mackintosh and Dempsey, 2017).
Promoting research and development in sports sector
This approach focuses on creativity and innovation in the field of sports. Until and unless
the innovation and updated sports activities are not introduces, people cannot take interest in the
sports by participate in a same thing again and again. Therefore, it is important to initiate
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something new for the country so that citizens could happily indulge in sports development
activities.
Investment in sports infrastructure
This approach aims at the physical look and infrastructure of the sports area so that
people could participate comfortably without any uneasiness in playing. Competition must be
secure for them by having good and strong infrastructure with well-furnished so that it can be a
fun playing there (Misener and Misener, 2017).
Providing awareness to the country’s people about benefits of sports
This approach is very essential for the development of sports because until the creation of
awareness is not done by the government then it is very much difficult for them to encourage
citizens of country to participate as much as they can. Awareness of benefits of sports, promoting
sports events and clubs makes people more interested in involving in sports activities.
Case Studies
Kieran Behan, gymnast
She is a great gymnast. She won many medals in the field of sports and continued even
after knowing that she is having the thigh cancer and doctors said that she would not be able to
walk again. She was on her wheel chair for a couple of months but never got demotivated
because of her legs. After full treatment of her legs, she again stood up and started playing again,
initially she was facing problem but after a lot of practice and hard work, she is can do gymnast
with full efficiency and beautifully (Morrison and Misener, 2020).
Michael Jordan, basketball player
He was not facing any health problem. But was facing lots of failures. During his school
times, he was unable to play basketball well and loose almost all the matches. But this did not
discouraged and demotivated him. He decided to be a best player in basketball, he started taking
coaching, did a tons of practice day and night and made this his profession, and now he is one of
the best player of basketball (Patatas, De Bosscher and Legg, 2018).
Bethany Hamilton, surfer
She suffered a lot in her surfing career. She started her surfing career at the age of seven.
But one she was on surfing practice, suddenly shark came and injured her left arm. She has lost
her one arm and doctors told her that she can never surf again in her lifetime. She didn’t accepted
this, after full treatment of her arms for some months, she started surfing again with one arm and
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practiced a lot with all her disabilities and then finally entered into the competition and won the
game.
Michael Phelps, swimmer
He is a great swimmer who won eight medals in swimming. This was hard to believe that
how a swimmer can win such number of medals in swimming. He was having a disease called
ADHD, in this disease, person feels restlessness and impulsiveness. Even after having such
problems, he managed to continue his passion of swimming and won medals by doing hard work
and tolerating such health problems within him (Sotiriadou, Filo and Kunkel, 2018).
CONCLUSION
It is concluded that sports are the very essential part in every human’s life. It is not
important to make it a passion, hobby or profession, instead it is necessary to make it and adopt it
in a daily routine because of it’s countless benefits on a person. In this report, it is discussed
about that how the person can be benefitted by sports, how they develop sports activities in them
and some case studies related with real time examples. It is said that health is wealth and health
comes from physical activities which are generated by sports development in a country.
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REFERENCES
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Baker, J., Cobley, S., Schorer, J. and Wattie, N. eds., 2017. Routledge handbook of talent
identification and development in sport. Taylor & Francis.
Cryan, M. and Martinek, T., 2017. Youth sport development through soccer: an evaluation of an
after-school program using the TPSR model. Physical Educator. 74(1). p.127.
Mackintosh, C. and Dempsey, C., 2017. The British Asian Muslim male sport participation
puzzle: an exploration of implications for sport development policy and
practice. Journal of Youth Studies. 20(8). pp.974-996.
Misener, K.E. and Misener, L., 2017. Grey is the new black: Advancing understanding of new
organizational forms and blurring sector boundaries in sport management. Journal of
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Morrison, K. and Misener, K., 2020. Strategic management failures in the pursuit of community
sport development in a local sports council. Managing Sport and Leisure, pp.1-15.
Patatas, J.M., De Bosscher, V. and Legg, D., 2018. Understanding parasport: an analysis of the
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perspective. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. 10(2). pp.235-254.
Sotiriadou, P., Filo, K. and Kunkel, T., 2018. Challenges to sport development and sport
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