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Thu, 20 Nov 2008 6:00 am CIT

City: Denpasar
Temperature : 25 °C
Low : 26 °C
High : 32 °C
Condition: Partly Cloudy
Sunrise: 5:49 am
Sunset: 6:21 pm

  
 
 

Sanur Beach Cluster (CSB)


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Serangan Island Cluster (CSI)


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Nusa Dua - Benoa Cluster (CNB)


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Kuta Beach Cluster (CKB)


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Beach Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m) high hoop (the goal) under organized rules. Basketball is one of the most popular and widely viewed sports in the world. In Asian Beach Games, this sport will be performed at the beach....more
Beach Waterpolo
Water polo is a team water sport. A team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Gameplay involves swimming, players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a net defended by a goalie. As such, water polo has similarities to association soccer and netball. Beach water polo provides more chalennge as it will be done under beach current and wind....more
Beach Pencak Silat
Beach Pencak Silat is a combative art of fighting and survival. Pencak Silat describes the martial art forms practiced throughout the Malay Archipelago. It has evolved in Indonesian and Malaysian civilizations for centuries into a social culture and tradition....more
Beach Kabaddi
Beach Kabaddi is basically a combative sport, with four players on each side; played for a period of 15 minutes with a 5 minutes break (15-5-15). The core idea of the game is to score points by raiding into the opponent's court and touching as many defence players as possible without getting caught on a single breath....more
Beach Wrestling
Beach Wrestling is practiced in swimming suit within a sand circle of 6m and consists of very simple rules. A match lasts three minutes and is refereed by a single referee. To win the match, the wrestler must keep his opponent’s shoulders on the ground (victory by fall), bring him to the ground twice or push him out of the competition area twice. This new wrestling style is very popular and contributes to wrestling being more accessible and festive....more
Woodball
Woodball is a lawn game where the players use a mallet for teeing off and fairway for playing and putting. Woodball consists of playing a ball from the starting area through the gate by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Woodball Rules. The competitor who plays the stipulated round or rounds in the fewest strokes is the winner. Each team consists 2 to 4 players....more
Body Building
In Competitive Body Building, bodybuilders aspire to develop and maintain an aesthetically pleasing body and balanced physique to a panel of judges who assign points based on visual appearance according to body building standards. The competitors show off their bodies by performing a number of poses thus revealing their toned definition through a combination of fat loss, oils, and tanning or tanning lotions....more
Windsurfing
Windsurfing is a surface water sport using a sailboard that is usually two to five meters long and powered by a single sail. The sport combines rules and aspects of both sailing and surfing, along with certain athletic aspects shared with other board sports like skateboarding, snowboarding, waterskiing, and wakeboarding....more
Sailing
Sailing is a surface water sport using a boat, sails, wind and water to increase, maintain or decrease speed....more
Triathlon
Triathlon is an athletic event consisting of swimming, cycling and running over various distances. In most modern triathlons, these events are placed back-to-back in immediate sequence and a competitor's official time includes the time required between the individual legs of the race, including any time necessary for changing clothes and shoes....more
Surfing
The sport of riding on the crest or along the tunnel of a wave....more
Paragliding
Paragliding is a recreational and competitive flying sport using a free-flying, foot-launched aircraft. The pilot sits in a harness suspended below a fabric wing, whose shape is formed by the pressure of air entering vents in the front of the wing....more
Beach Sepaktakraw
Beach Sepaktakraw, a cross between soccer and volleyball, is a sport native to Southeast Asia, resembling volleyball, except that it uses a rattan synthetic ball and only allows players to use their feet and head to touch the ball across a volleyball-type net....more
Marathon Swimming
Marathon Swimming is long distance swimming across large bodies of water such as the Great Lakes, the Atlantic Ocean and the English Channel. Marathon swimming is an endurance sport that pits a swimmer not only against other contenders in the race but also against the currents and tides of the water. According to International Swimming Federation rules, swimmers cannot use wet suits as this can artificially increase speed or endurance. Swimmers are accompanied by a nearby boat crew that monitors and advises the competitors....more
Jet-Ski Sport
Jet-Ski Sport is an extreme competition on a type jet ski. The sport discipline involves racing and adrenaline-pumping free-style contests....more
Dragon Boat Racing
Dragon Boat racing is a sport where a very long and narrow boat is powered by a team of 10 to 50 paddlers. It originated in China and dragon boats are always rigged with decorative Chinese dragon heads and tails and are required to carry a large drum aboard that leads the crew throughout a race with the rhythmic beating that indicates the timing and frequency of paddling strokes, from the cadence to picking up the pace to slowing down....more
Beach Soccer
Beach Soccer is a variant of the sport of football played on beaches. The irregularity of the soft-sand playing surface leads to a style of play where players must improvise. The compact pitch (measuring 28 x 37 meter) allows players to score from anywhere....more
 
 
There are 4 major games sanctioned by the OCA: Asian Summer Games, Asian Winter Games, Asian Indoor Games and Asian Beach Games.
 
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An Interview with Mrs. Rita Subowo

BABGOC (Jakarta) - Mrs. Rita Subowo, President of the Indonesian NOC (National Olympic Committee) as well as the Director General of BABGOC (Bali Asian Beach Games Organizing Committee), talks about her optimistic view in having the first Asian Beach Games in Indonesia.

Q: Whose idea was it to organize the Asian Beach Games?
A: The idea came from the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), now under the leadership of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Sabah from Kuwait. He thinks there should be more multi-sport events held in Asia. At the moment, there are three multi-sport events in the Asian region, the first one is the already well established Asian Games/Summer Asian Games, which was held in Doha, Qatar in November 2006; then there will be the Winter Asian Games which will be held in Cancun, China and the Indoor Asian Games. From these events he has observed that there are still a lot of sports not being included in those events so that’s why they’ve come up with the fourth Asian Games, the Asian Beach Games, the sports event which will focus on beach and water-related sports.

Q: Did the Olympic Council of Asia suggest the event to be held in Bali?
A: The idea of Indonesia hosting this event to be held in Bali was borne out of the misfortune that Bali had ever since the two terrorist attacks on the Island which subsequently resulted in the downfall in their economy. Bali now belongs to the world. We are hoping that the Asian Beach Games can further revive the situation in Bali. Therefore, the OCA members unanimously chose Bali to host the first Asian Beach Games. For the next event the usual bidding process will be put into play because there are countries like Yemen, China, Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines who have shown a lot of interest in hosting the event. So we are really grateful that OCA is giving us this great opportunity. That’s why we have to make the best out of this trust that they’ve given us.

Q: Do you have any major concerns in hosting the Asian Beach Games in Bali?
A: Of course there are, but ... then again I reiterate that we have to use this opportunity the best that we can. We have to work hard and under the leadership of Mr. Djoko Pramono we are motivating the athletes and relevant sport bodies to participate and give their all in this competition. I think there’s reason to be optimistic since we have seen major improvements in sports like beach volleyball, beach sepaktakraw, sailing, paragliding, and dragon Boat which has shown promise in Sea Games. It’s just a shame that there is no such sport as beach badminton (laugh)...

Q: What is the collaboration with the government?
A: We have yet to officially give a clear picture to the government concerning how we’ll be organizing the 1st Asian Beach Games. I intend to invite one of the delegates from OCA to meet with our government because this is very important. I don’t think we can have this event without their participation.

Q: Is there a problem in the limited number of athletes in Indonesia compared to other Asian countries?
A: I think our problems are similar to other countries. Maybe we are a bit behind in sports like triathlon, handball, and woodball. But then again handball is not really that popular in the Philippines and although it’s popular in Malaysia, but woodball is not a popular game in Japan. To me personally, it doesn’t matter whether we are lacking in talent in certain sports. What matters is that spirit of friendship and unity we’ll be celebrating amongst Asian Countries through the first ever implementation of Asian Beach Games and once again I’m very grateful that OCA entrusted Indonesia with this huge and historically-significant event.

Bali is part of the Republic of Indonesia. It is one of the country's 33 provinces with the provincial capital in Denpasar towards the south of the island. Bali is home to a population of over 3 million, the vast majority....more
Sanur Beach

On the south eastern coast of Bali, Sanur has a 1km long white sand beach protected by a coral reef...more
Music

Balinese music can be compared to Javanese music, especially that of the pre-Islamic period when Javanese tonal systems were imported to Bali....more
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