Gaoiran, Analyn

BSECON 2-5
ACTIVITY #1

Cite a total of 5 short trivia about dance, physical education, and sports.

1. The gold medals in the Olympics are silver-plated, but they used to be solid gold. The last time they
were solid gold was 1912.
 The Gold Medal was made entirely of pure gold when it was originally presented in 1904. At
the Stockholm Summer Olympics in 1912, when the medals ceased being manufactured of pure
gold owing to shortages brought on by the war, the final batch of Olympic medals made of solid
gold was presented. Since then, Olympic gold medals have only featured a tiny amount of gold
due to the high cost of solid gold medals. The host nation chooses the medal's design, however,
the IOC does retain some regulations regarding the metal's composition. At least 6 grams of gold
are used in the plating of today's gold medals, which are mostly constructed of sterling silver
with some gold filling. That is around 1.34%.
2. Yellow, green, red, black, and blue are the five colors that appear on every flag in the world. This is
why they were chosen as the colors to represent the Olympic rings.
 Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who was also a co-founder of the current Olympic games, designed
the interlocking rings that make up the Olympic flag. The five rings stood in for the five then-
participating continents. Each of the 16 prints represents one of the five Olympic
continents.  Africa (yellow), the Americas (red), Asia (green), Europe (black), and Oceania
(blue). When the flag was first adopted as the official Olympic symbol in 1915, the colors of
each nation's flag could be seen on its white backdrop. The five colors used in this design are
found on all current national flags of the world, and they symbolize the world's five continents
connected by the Olympic ideal. The Olympic emblem embodies the work of the Olympic
Movement and symbolizes the coming together of athletes from all over the world during the
Olympic Games as well as the five continents as a whole.
3. The dance world is full of superstitions. By saying things like "break a leg" before a show, people are
saying the exact opposite of what they hope will happen on stage.
 It doesn’t truly intend for people to break their legs when they say "break a leg." Why dancers
use this intriguing word in the first place is the question. The theatre industry, which is known to
be a little mystical, is thought to have given rise to the expression. Instead of shouting "good
luck," actors would instruct one another to "break a leg" since they believed doing so would truly
bring ill luck on the stage. In that case, the reverse would occur. The dancer would put on a
faultless show as opposed to breaking a leg. It is thought to have started in the early 20 th-century
American theater scene. Some believed the term may alternatively be originated from the Hebrew
benediction "hatzlakha u-brakha," which means "winning and blessing," or from the German
expression "Hals-und Beinbruch," which means "neck and leg break."
4. Did you know that dancers have better than average peripheral vision?
 The dance dictates the dancers' head angles, so if they wish to gaze to the side without rotating
their heads, they must do it using their eyes alone. This is a fun fact about dancing, but it may
also be a cool ability to have. Dance educators and dancers have access to a lot of knowledge on
designing dance training and practice thanks to their understanding of sensory modalities.
Teachers may devise and put into practice particular strategies for teaching different skills when
they are aware of how powerfully sensory input influences motor control. Although there are
various examples in this area, teachers and dancers are urged to be imaginative and deliberate
when coming up with their strategies. Dancers place a great deal of importance on peripheral
vision. They need to be conscious of the dancers, scenery, and their exact location in the
 performance area. When a dancer frequently attends class or practices without considering these
factors, the transition to performing is challenging and sometimes intimidating.
5. Working out sharpens your memory
 Exercise boosts the generation of memory and learning-related brain cells. People treasure
their memories, yet in truth, we only recall a small portion of our life. Exercise increases memory
capacity and power while accessing memories, recording them, and expressing them with others
all serve to firmly establish their position in the brain. The brain receives more blood when you
exercise. The brain requires adequate circulation because of its high metabolic requirement,
which exercise helps to achieve. A rise in blood flow is not only very advantageous but also
necessary. Exercise improves blood flow, which carries all the nutrients the brain needs to
operate, and it also boosts the synthesis of chemicals vital to memory and other brain functions
because the more the memory improves in function and capacity. If you lack the motivation to
exercise, think about how important your emotions are and begin moving to keep them alive.