Showing posts with label Maya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maya. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

What is Basketball?

Basketball or Basket-Ball is a team sport first created by James Naismith, a Canadian physical education professor.

While he was a coach in Springfield, a college in the U.S.A, he was looking to occupy his students between the Football and Baseball seasons in winter, when practicing a sport outside was difficult, he also wanted a sport where physical contacts are forbidden, so players won't get hurt.

He decided to replay an old game, invented by the Mayan civilization, he placed two peach baskets

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

D’où vient le Basket-Ball?

Le Basket-Ball ou Basketball, est un sport collectif crée en 1891 par James Naismith un professeur d'éducation physique d'origine canadien.
Pendant qu'il enseignait dans le collège de Springfield aux états-unis, ils cherchait à occuper ses étudiants entre les saisons de Football et de Baseball, lors de l'hiver, quand la pratique d'un sport en dehors était difficile, il voullait aussi un sport où les contacts physiques sont restreints pour ne pas causer de blessures aux élèves.