What is a sport?

Simply put, special sports are the collective name for all training, competition, and promotion-related activities that revolve around the exclusive rules of a single sport. The biggest difference between it and the "pan-sports" and "basic physical training" we usually talk about is that all action designs and ability requirements are closely based on the characteristics of the project itself.

I have led youth training in an amateur track and field club for two years. I have seen several children who have very solid basic strength training. They can squat twice their own weight, but their 100-meter time is stuck at 13 seconds. I later found out that they were patronizing I focused on practicing general strength, but did not convert my ability into the explosive kicking and rapid leg swing speed required for sprinting. I only supplemented the starting platform kicking and 30-meter interval sprint for two months, and my performance directly improved by 0.8 seconds. This is the difference between practicing and not practicing for special events.

Of course, there is no absolutely unified view on the boundaries of special sports in the sports circle. Most old-school project coaches believe that only content directly related to project technology is considered. For example, basketball specialization can only be dribbling, shooting, tactical movement, etc., and rope ladder training and core anti-rotation can only be regarded as basic quality training.； But now the new generation of physical fitness coaches prefer to put all customized content that serves to improve project performance into special categories. For example, the rope ladder steps designed specifically to improve the flexibility of basketball players in changing directions are essentially designed to meet the needs of the project, and they can be considered special auxiliary training.

In fact, it is easy to distinguish among us ordinary sports enthusiasts. If you sign up for an adult badminton class, the coach will come up and take you to swing the air shot for half an hour and practice fixed-point return. That is serious special training.； If I first take you to run two laps of the playground and do a few sets of jumping jacks to warm up, then that is a general basic activity, not a special event. Don't look at the simplicity of swinging the racquet. The waist rotation range, racket introduction angle, and hitting point control are all unique requirements of badminton. They are completely inapplicable to tennis and table tennis. To put it bluntly, it is similar to the logic of the professional public courses we took when we were in school. Public courses can be taken by anyone. Professional courses are only for corresponding majors. Specialized sports are "professional courses" in sports.