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Bali Today Thu, 20 Nov 2008 6:00 am CIT  | City: DenpasarTemperature : 25 °C
Low : 26 °C
High : 32 °C
Condition: Partly Cloudy
Sunrise: 5:49 amSunset: 6:21 pm |
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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
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HOME » UPDATES & ARTICLES » INTERVIEW
BABGOC (Jakarta) – Deputy Director General of BABGOC (Bali Asian Beach Games Organizing Committee), Mr. Djoko Pramono, talks about his preparation as well as his aspiration for Indonesia with the 1st Asian Beach Games.
Q: What is the objective of Asian Beach Games and what could Indonesia gain by having this particular championship?
A: As we all know many Asian Countries can be considered as maritime countries and Indonesia in particular has a vast number of beaches that we can use to our advantage. There was a questing asked by our friends that mainly live in regional areas, ‘why don’t we have a beach sports championship?’ We thought this was a very good idea considering that Indonesia is an archipelago country. So, we are very excited to be able to host this Asian Beach Games.
Q: Do you have any concerns in terms of the number of participating athletes considering the not-so-popular aquatic or beach sports among Indonesians?
A: Well, I do but we are fully aware of the situation. It seems that our people since the colonial era have been told not to go into the sea. As a result there’s a sea-related phobia amongst Indonesians even up until today. I happen to love the sea and enjoy water sports but I have observed that this mentality still prevails.
Q: Can you elaborate more on that?
A: Long ago many ancient kingdoms in Indonesia ruled over the sea, for instance the Singosari, Majapahit and Sriwijaya Kingdom. They practically reigned supreme over our vast ocean. However, after the arrival of the Dutch, the Portuguese, the Spaniards and the British we seem to have been frightened to go into the sea. This is why it is imperative that we socialize this positive view that our nation can be greater and we can leave an indelible mark in the world of water and beach sports if we make the best use of our ocean.
Q: What are some challenges you’ve encountered?
A: One of our main challenges is, as you’ve said, the unpopular aquatic sports among Indonesians, for example the triathlon which doesn’t have an official sport organization to support them. We’re hoping now with the first Asian Beach Games, it can spark the spirit amongst fans of aquatic sports to form an official body.
Q: So how do you approach them if there is no official organization?
A: We go directly to the person or groups that have an interest in those sports. That’s what we did on the triathlon team, as well as the wood ball team for example. We were not aware of this sport but since there is a demand coming from other countries for it to be included, we went to them directly. I mean we cannot be the only country not playing the sport now can we? So, as you can see there are a lot of benefits hosting the Asian Beach Games.
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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
