Animals in sport. Fishing and hunting are extremely popular in all parts of the country and have been since the days when they were necessary activities among the early settlers. As a consequence, they have never been thought of as upper-class sports in the U.S. And it is easy to forget how much of the country is open land, how much of it is still wild and filled with wildlife.
New Jersey, for example, has enough wild deer so that the hunting season there is used to keep the herds smaller. Wild turkeys have also returned to the East and Midwest in great numbers. In the states of the Midwest, of course, there is much more wild game, and hunting there is even more popular. Hunting licenses are issued by the individual states, and hunting is strictly controlled.
Some hunters dont actually hunt, of course. They use it as a good excuse to get outdoors in the autumn or to take a few days or longer away from the job and family. Indoor poker games are rumored to be a favorite activity of many hunters who head for cabins in the woods. There are many more fishermen around 50 million in 1990 than hunters 17 millions, and many more lakes and rivers than bears. Minnesota advertises itself on its license plates as the land of 10.000 lakes.
This, of course, is not quite true there are more. Michigan not only has a long coastline from the Great Lakes, it also has what official descriptions simply call, without counting, thousands of lakes. 1, p.142 3.3. Unusual sports There are several sports and sports activities in the U.S all having their strong supporters, which many people think are a bit strange or at least unusual. For example, Americans will race just about anything that has wheels. Not just cars, but also funny cars with aircraft and jet engines, large trucks with special motors, tractors, pickup trucks with gigantic tires, and even motorcycles with automobile engines.
Truck racing, it seems, has made it big in Europe. In 1990, The European paper wrote that in only six years since it found its way across the Atlantic, truck racing was attracting crowds to rival those of the Formula One grand prix motor racing circus. Other sports are popular because they dont involve motors.
The first people-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel was pedaled by an American. And the first hot-air balloon to make it across the Atlantic had a crew from Albuquerque, New Mexico. There are also several sports in the U.S. which were once thought of as being different, but have now gained international popularity. Among these, for instance, is skate-boarding. Another example is wind-surfing which very quickly spreads in popularity from the beaches of California and Hawaii.
Hang-gliding became really popular after those same people in California started jumping off cliffs above the ocean. Those who like more than wind and luck attached a small lawnmower engine to a hang-glider and soon ultra-light-weight planes were buzzing around 1, p.143 . 3.4. Camps US Sports Camps USSC , headquartered in San Rafael, California just north of San Francisco, is America s Largest Sports Camp Network and the licensed operator of The NIKE Sports Camps. It was started in 1975 with the same mission that defines it today to shape a lifelong enjoyment of athletics through high quality sports education and skill enhancement.
By associating with the country s best coaches to direct our camps and by providing them with valuable administrative and marketing support, USSC has become the largest and most successful sports camp operator in America. During the summer of 2007 more than 52,000 campers attended US Sports Camps at 400 locations nationwide.
US Sports Camps include youth and adult programs in the following sport categories NIKE tennis, NIKE golf, NIKE volleyball, NIKE lacrosse, NIKE basketball, NIKE softball, NIKE running, NIKE field hockey, NIKE swim, NIKE soccer, NIKE baseball, Nike water polo, NIKE multi-sport, as well as the NBC Basketball Camps, Vogelsinger Soccer Academy, Contact Football Camps, Snow Valley Basketball Camps, International Hockey Schools, McCracken Basketball Camps, Peak Performance Swim Camps, and Professional Sports Camps. From this chapter it should be concluded that over the past quarter century recreational sport has become an incrisingly large part of American life. The Americans like to spare their lasure time doing sports and thats why they are ready to spend great sums of money to keep fit and be in good form or just to have a fun and joy. Each person chooses sport that suits him best it can be a traditional kind of sport such as basketball or just something that even can shock the public, for example wrestling.
Nowadays in the USA there are a lot of different programs in schools and colleges that allow students to get involved into public life. When there are summer holidays in The United States, students are offered a variety of sports camps where they are able to develop their physical abilities and just make a number of friends. Some kinds of recreation such as fishing or hunting dont need much money and many American men are always ready to spend their spare time doing that. Moreover the natute of the USA has resourses for that.