PORTBALL

Basketball is a game played by two teams of five players in which goals are scored by throwing a large ball into an open ended net fixed high on a hoop at the opponent’s end of the court. The game portball is played just like the game basketball. In this game, we use a player instead of the net. So, portball game is played between two teams of six players. One player of each team remains in standing position. They stand on chairs placed in goal areas of opponent’s court. Remaining five players of each group play the game.

 The game starts with a toss. The winner of the toss chooses side of the court. Then one player of each team come to the centre and stands facing his own goal areas. The play begins with jump ball. The referee throws the ball upward in between them. One of them strikes the ball with hand and gives pass to his own playmate. The ball passes from strikes the ball with hand and gives pass to his own playmate. The ball passes from one hand to another. The team whose players succeed in placing the ball in the hand of the player standing at the chair in opponent’s goal area, scores one point. Then one player of the opponent team throws the ball from the place just behind the sideline. Duration of the play may be two halves of 10 minutes each along an interval of 2 minutes.    

KHO KHO

Kho Kho is an interesting game. It is also another skill game. We shall practice all those skills in our children life like school level. The game Kho Kho is played between two team of 9 players. One of them is chaser team which the other team is called runner or defender. The turn of runner and chaser changes after a fixed time. Eight players out of 9 chasers, sit on squares made in the centre lane. They sit in such a manner that adjacent chasers face alternately but they all face to the sideline. Runners make three equal groups. One group of runners enter in to the court and the remaining two groups take their place in the lobby. The active chaser begins to chose and try to touch the runners inside the court on getting signal from the referee. He can touch and say ‘Kho’ to one of the remaining chasers to make him new active chaser succeeds in touching the runner, then his teams gets one point. Second group of runners enter into the court in case all the runners of the first group are out. After nine minutes of the play, the turn of chaser and runner changes and they are allowed to hold their position within 5 minutes. After interval of 9 minutes, they again play for 9/9 minutes. The team which gets maximum point, is declared winner.

VOLLEYBALL

Volleyball is a game in which opposing teams of players hit a ball forward over a high net with their hands without letting it touch the ground on their own side.

The game volleyball is played on a court 18 meter / 9 meter and it is divided into two equal parts by a net at a height of 2.24 meter for students under 16 years of age. This game is played between two teams. Each team consists of only six players. The purpose of the game is to try to ground the ball in the opponents court and to prevent them doing the same or to force the opponents into making errors. The skills such as serving, digging, volleying, spiking, blocking etc is used to fulfill his purpose.

Point are only scored by service team when the receiving team loses the volley. It the same error is done by the serving team, the right to serve the ball changes. At the same time, the new serving team rotates the position of its players by one place in a clockwise direction. The game is won by the team which score is 15 points first. If both teams have scored 14 points each, the winner will be the first team to gain a 2 points lead.

Running

Running is basic skill of most of the games or active sports. This skill is used to participate in race, marathon, etc. Running warms our body and keeps the body in perfect condition. We can run in different ways we can run in a straight path. We should not run on the roads. We can should press the ground with our paws to more forward and raise the legs up to the knees height.

We can run along the tracks. We should practice running before we practicipate in a any race. To start running we should keep our left leg at the starting point. Tracks are made according to the number of players. In each track, a starting line and a finish line are marked with white line powder. While starting the race or running for a race, three commands like ‘on your mark’, ‘set and go’ are given to the participants. We should stand behind the marked line before starting for a race. At on your mark command we should place our hands on the track just behind the starting line keeping fingers together. We should keep our arms straight and parallel to one another. We should raise our back and keep our head slightly bent and look front. ‘On go’ command, we should start running and reach the finishing point and cross it to win the race.

DODGEBALL

The game Dodgeball is played according to the following term and rules. The game dodgeball is played between two teams. This game required a rectangular playground 20 meter long and 10 meter wide. The number of players in a team may be 9 or 11 or 14. Out of 14 players, 7 will be in the own court. 2/2 will remain outside of the of the  opponents court and 3 behind the end line of the court. The play begins with toss. The winner team of toss is awarded ball. The players of toss winning team begin the play on getting signal from the referee. They pass the ball to their own teammates and try to stricke the opponent players within the court with the ball to obtain points. Players playing within the court, may not cross the boundary line of the court during the play. Similarly, the players standing behind the end line, may not be cross that end line to enter into the court.  The opponent team gets the ball, in case a player during the play crosses the boundary line of the court. Then the players of the opponent team also pass the ball to their own teammates and try to strike the players of the facing court with the ball to get points.

If a player succeeds in striking the opponent player, his team gets one point. The player who has been striken with the ball, goes out of the court and sits behind the right end line of the opponent’s court. At the same time , one player from the left side enters into his own court and others standing out of the court change their position in anti-clockwise direction. The play resumes after the players have changed their position. The owner of the ball team begins to play again. The player will not be give out in case the ball has touched the ground first and then it has striken to the player. In such circumstances, the point will not be awarded and the play will be resumed by the opponent team. Only the players playing inside the court can be striken. Duration of the game is 10 minutes. The team which gates more points, is declared winner.

Baghchal

Baghchal is also traditional and local game in Nepal. If played between two persons. This is a moving tiger’s game. We don’t need a big area to play this game. We can play this game on a wooden board, card board, paper, ground, floor, table or a flat stone. We can make the small playing area. There are 25 intersection point of playing area.

It consists of four tigers and twenty goats total no of tiger and goat is twenty-four. Ant two different objects can be chosen for tigers and goats. The tigers or goats can be chosen by one of the players. The four corners of the playing area. The goats are placed at the intersection lines. We can start the game by placing the goat object at the crossing lines and moving the tiger to hunt the goat by jumping over. The tiger are moved to eat the goats and goats are moved to block the tiger’s move. Only one blank inter section point available for moving tiger and goat.