What are the main competitions in the Asian Games?

The main competitions of the Asian Games:

1. Baseball.

Referring to the baseball sport is a bat batting ball as the main characteristics of the collective, confrontation is very strong ball sports projects. It is more widely carried out internationally and has a greater impact.

In the United States, Japan, especially prevalent, known as the "national ball". It is also a team sport, the minimum number of legal players for the game for nine people, its similar sports for softball. Baseball players are divided into offense and defense, and play in a fan-shaped baseball field using bats and gloves.

2. Surfing.

It is an extreme sport powered by waves; the surfer waits prone or sitting on the board in the ocean where there are suitable waves; when suitable waves gradually approach, the surfer adjusts the direction of the head of the board and paddles prone on the board in the direction of the waves, giving the board enough speed to keep the board in front of the waves;

When the waves propel the board to slide. The surfer stands up and stands naturally with his/her legs in front and behind him/her, with both knees slightly bent, using the center of gravity of the body, the shoulders and the back legs to control the direction of the surfboard.

3. Karate.

In 1994 the 12th Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan, karate for the first time to become an official competition, karate competition venue is generally 8 × 8 meters; as for the competition program has a set of race (type) and fighting (group hand) two kinds of competition, and in the group hand competition on one side of an effective attack led to the opponent instantaneous loss of fighting ability or center of gravity obviously move for the scoring criteria.

4, paragliding.

It is a group of love skydiving, paragliding wing flight personnel invented a kind of flight movement, is now very popular in Europe, America and Japan and other countries, in Taiwan has also set off a whirlwind. Paragliding is different from the traditional parachute, which is a flying machine.

5, rock climbing.

From the mountaineering sports derived from the competitive sports program. 50 years originated in the former Soviet Union, is the army as a military training program and exists. 1974 included in the world competition program. In the 1980s, modern competitive climbing competitions with difficult climbs began to emerge and attracted widespread interest, and the first difficult climbing competition was held in Italy in 1985.

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