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Hello, hello and welcome into ielts.
Speaking part three, we're talking about sports in general.
And rory, he is an athlete, i am not.
He does wild water swimming, he does um.
What do you do climbing?
Okay.
So a life update, Don't do.
Well, I've never done karate.
I used to do jujitsu.
I don't do that anymore.
Oh, jujitsu.
Okay.
But I still do yoga.
And I think by the time this episode comes out, I will be halfway through my yoga teacher training course.
And I do rope climbing, which is when you climb up walls using ropes.
And weightlifting.
You see weightlifting.
You see the power, the strength this man has in his body.
The noodley arms.
The complete lack of sanity.
The authority.
You feel the authority.
Rory is a reliable person.
He knows what he's talking about when he talks about sports.
He is sport.
Like Rory is the definition of sport and discipline.
Yeah, amazing.
Amazing.
Let's talk about sports.
Which is more dangerous, team sports or individual sports?
Doesn't that depend more on the actual sport?
I mean, if you go rock climbing alone, then clearly that's more dangerous than playing something like touch rugby with a team of people.
Although if we have to pick one, I'd probably say the individual ones.
I mean, at least if you hurt yourself in a team sport, people are around who can help you.
But of course, that's just one factor to consider.
What kinds of sports are the most popular in your country?
Oh, wow.
I think that's either rugby or football, just based on the sheer volume of teams we have.
Though apparently there's a thriving gymnastics scene, which is surprising to hear.
And which do people in your country prefer to watch, team sports or individual sports?
Well, just based on what I said, I think it's safe to say that team sports are probably the most popular.
You don't see a lot of people watching gymnastic competitions, but football is considered the national sport.
And we do well in a lot of other things like rugby, cricket, etc.
And all of them involve teams.
So it sort of makes sense that team sports are the ones that are sort of above the others in terms of popularity.
Do encouragement and applause from the audience have an impact on athletes?
At a guess, I'd say probably not, at least not in the immediate context.
The reason I say that is athletes tend to be pretty focused people, so they're probably fixated on winning to the exclusion of just about everything else.
Maybe after they win the audience, reactions and praise might have some sort of psychosomatic effect, but other than that I don't see it being much of an influence.
How does the weather affect outdoor sports?
Well, that's contingent on the sport and the weather, really.
Unlike football matches, rugby matches hardly ever get rained off.
But heavy snowfall or low temperatures might stop a game going ahead if the ground freezes and that poses some kind of risk to the players.
What sports are popular among elderly people?
Well, there used to be a thing where old people played a lot of bowls and went bowling.
Or at least not bowling like ten-pin bowling.
They would go to Bowling Greens.
But I don't know if that's still a thing or not.
And I think golf is popular with retirees, though God knows why, given how dull that is.
And I guess I'd say it's because it tends to have a slower pace and isn't so intense compared to contact sports, which could definitely be rougher on older people.
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You know, Rory, what sports are popular among elderly people?
Tai Chi.
That's not a sport, is it?
Well, I think it's kind of like a sports activity, Tai Chi and Taijiquan.
And all this you know like Chinese.
Oh, what do you call martial arts?
But they are kind of very soft.
And the elderly people might make some moves, but not necessarily fighting, right yoga.
But actually tai chi is super popular and all this, you know, like martial arts in china, in in asia, because lots of like, elderly people go to parks and they do this.
You know, you know movements, this.
This is the thing.
I don't really see yoga and tai chi as sports, and not because i don't think that they're worthwhile, It's just for me sport is something like a competition.
But you don't really compete at yoga.
You do it to kind of improve yourself.
So, like I say, it's more of a discipline than anything else.
Or a hobby.
Of course, other opinions will be available.
Yeah, would bowling be a sport?
Yeah, because bowling is a sport.
Yeah, you play to win.
Yeah, but there are Tai Chi competitions.
So, Tai Chi, dear listener, is a Chinese martial art.
Okay, it's martial art.
And yoga is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices.
Yeah.
Yeah, is yoga a sport?
Is tai chi a sport?
Yeah, that's a question.
It kind of goes against the whole idea of yoga being about the spirit, whereas competition is, I would say, not about that.
However, other opinions are available, probably.
Yeah, dear listener.
So if you talk about activities like yoga, you can say well, I don't know about sports, but the elderly people might go for such activities as yoga, tai chi, so it's okay.
But what is a sport?
Well, I think a sport involves some kind of competition and playing to win.
Wikipedia, there we go.
Sports is a physical activity or game, often competitive, often and organized that maintains and improves physical ability and skills.
However, it's funny because, of course, I went to yoga yesterday and my yoga teacher was saying that Yoga in Scotland is supervised by something like the Sports Council of Scotland, making it a sport legally.
Interesting.
That's just in my country.
You know, my country does not make the decisions for all other people.
Okay, we have a list of sports and let's check if yoga is there.
Oh yeah, yoga as exercise, acroyoga, competitive yoga, Rory!
I feel like a lot of people that do yoga would not be really happy with that.
Competitive yoga is the performance of asanas.
Asanas?
Asanas.
Asanas.
They are the poses.
The activity is controversial as it appears to conflict with the nature of yoga.
Yes, that's what I said.
Yeah, people.
Yeah, so what do you call sports?
It's up to you.
But also there's a list of sports on Wikipedia, so you can take a look.
And also like martial arts, like sumo, arm wrestling are considered sports.
Yeah, that seems like more of a sport because you can win at arm wrestling.
It does require some kind of skill and strength.
Oh yeah, tai chi is there.
Is it?
I don't know much about tai chi.
I assumed tai chi was very similar to yoga, but maybe I'm thinking of something else.
No no, no.
Well, tai chi is like a martial art right, but for for the elderly people kind of.
They do exercises and they just they move the hands, the feet and it's all very nice, you know, but it's, it's much more than that.
Sorry, if you are a tai chi master, i'm very sorry because yeah, i'm.
I'm explaining it in a very simple, very basic terms.
So Tai Chi, just Google and read about Tai Chi, okay?
It's much more than that.
It's about the spirit as well and body and mind and everything.
Yeah, very interesting stuff.
Okay, now we know what sports is.
Now let's Google what individual sports are.
Individual sports is a sport in which participants compete as individuals.
Okay, 25 sports you can play by yourself.
Oh, swimming, swimming, there you go.
Dancing, also you can dance alone.
Golfing, you are alone without a team, but you can be part of the team.
Kayaking.
Mountain biking, dear listener.
You're just compete as one person, but not a part of a team.
Ice skating, also you can do it alone.
Surfing, bowling, skiing, archery, gymnastics.
Oh, actually, fishing.
Fishing is a sport.
What?
Yeah, you can definitely do sport fishing.
We've talked about that before on the podcast.
Oh, okay, okay.
And diving.
So you just compete as one person, but not as a team.
See, this concept of sport is not as easy as we thought it was.
Well, just don't think too hard, you know.
Swimming.
Okay, so just like a sport that you can do by yourself alone swimming dancing golfing cycling, you see, kayaking.
You take your kayak, you take yourself and off you go, you know.
So which is more dangerous?
Well, hard to say.
It is hard to say.
Yeah, and then you just give examples.
If you go rock climbing alone, that's more dangerous than playing rugby with a team of people.
Yeah, but that's a question.
Rugby is a crazy game.
It's super dangerous.
They can kill you there.
Well, they can kill you everywhere.
Yeah.
And you can say that if I have to pick one, so if I have to answer this question, if you can make me, I'd probably say the individual ones, the individual sports.
Because you are alone, you can hurt yourself, but in a team, people are around you so they can help you.
At least I think so.
I hope your team would help you if you hurt yourself.
The most popular sports in your country, please Google now, you should know, according to IELTS.
So in Scotland, football, rugby and gymnastics.
See, this is it.
I didn't know about this gymnastics obsession until I was a primary school teacher.
And then it seemed like everybody does gymnastics.
Really?
Then it seemed like everybody did gymnastics.
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But all over the world, the most popular sport is football, dear listener.
A fan base of roughly 3.5 billion people all over the world.
Then cricket and hockey, tennis, volleyball.
So if you have no idea, you just say OK.
Football hockey tennis volleyball, table tennis basketball golf, rugby.
So they're kind of popular all over the world, like top most popular sports all over the globe.
Yeah.
And then you can say that, wow, like surprisingly, there is a thriving gymnastics scene.
There is a thriving, thriving, it's developing, it's growing bigger.
It's growing well.
With C2.
Thriving.
C2, yeah, band 9 moment.
Nice.
So thriving, growing, developing, being successful.
For example, a thriving economy.
A thriving community.
Or a thriving football scene.
A thriving gymnastics scene.
So if lots of people do Tai Chi, so there is a thriving Tai Chi scene in my country.
I think most countries probably have a thriving football scene.
Yeah, that's true.
People prefer to watch different sports.
And usually people prefer to watch team sports.
Because they are quite exciting.
It's exciting to see team teams compete with each other, to watch people going at each other.
Yeah, go at each other, compete with each other.
So it's, it's spectacular.
So football is a spectator sports, sports.
You just go to a stadium as a spectator and to watch all this beauty, according to rory, football is boring.
It is boring.
Sorry if you're a football fan, but I am not.
So imagine, dear listener, you watch a competition or you watch a football game.
You are at the stadium and what you do?
You shout, you applause, you clap like yay yay woohoo, like this clap.
And does this encouragement, does this applause have an impact on athletes?
Yes.
So imagine yourself as an athlete, as a sportsman.
You're running and everybody's clapping, everybody's just encouraging you, applauding.
So does all this noise affect you?
Rory's answer is genius.
You'd have to ask the athletes, okay?
If you want to know the answer, just go and ask the athletes.
I'm not an athlete.
How should I know?
Well, you can answer this question like this.
You'd have to ask the athletes, really.
At a guess, like, if I were to guess, I'm just guessing.
I don't know, but I'm guessing.
At a guess, I'd say probably not.
So, the clapping and the encouragement doesn't have any impact.
And then explain.
Athletes tend to be pretty focused.
So they are focused on what they're doing.
If they run, they focus on running and they don't look around, usually.
But again, this is at a guess.
We are guessing.
They are probably fixated on winning and they exclude all other things.
That's just a paraphrase of being focused.
They are fixated on, they are focused on.
Nice synonyms after they win the audience, reactions and praise does have a huge effect.
It might have.
It might have yeah, it may not.
But i guess, like if a person is running, it's difficult like, and they hear this, you know, like shouting and encouragement and applause, all this clapping, it does help.
I don't know, like i i'm not an expert in that area And because I'm not, I just guess and say it might have some kind of psychosomatic effect.
Surely, surely that is a C2 level word.
Come on there.
Psychosomatic.
What?
Psychosomatic.
Caused by anxiety and worry and not by an infection.
So it's just, it's psychology.
So it's kind of psychological effect.
But if you want to be super cool, Ben 9, you don't say it has a psychological effect.
You say it has psychosomatic.
I can't even pronounce it.
Or just a psychological effect.
No, it's too easy for us now.
Psychosomatic effect.
It's usually used to describe how people's psychology can affect their physical body.
But I was using it to describe a positive version of that.
So if you're very stressed, for example, you might break out in eczema, for example, or you might have your heart rate affected by that.
But a positive psychosomatic effect might be like getting power to do something or feeling like you have the power to do something as well.
If you are tired of using it depends on, it depends on, you can say that's contingent on the sport.
And it is.
Yeah, if swimming is done indoors well, it doesn't matter what the weather is like, the swimming will be done indoors, no problem.
But if we have a football match and it rains, the match can get cancelled, could be called off, they can stop a game because of heavy snowfalls or low temperatures.
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The most dangerous sports ever.
Actually, what's the most dangerous sport?
Well, how do you decide what the most dangerous sport is?
If it's by rate of injury, it's probably going to be something like boxing or rugby, because that will be a contact sport.
So if the injury rate is high, that means lots of people get injured frequently.
However, if it's by injury severity, then bungee jumping, because if you drop from a great height to a solid surface, you will be very dead.
Okay, okay.
The top five most dangerous spots for youth.
Oh, the young people.
What about old people like me?
No, you're not old. oh yeah base jumping yeah number one according to google base jumping okay and rugby somewhere there but uh bull riding bull riding yes yes i can see that being very dangerous yeah motocross big wave surfing oh they're just crazy people there big wave surfing american football Well, it's kind of rugby.
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Which is more dangerous, team sports or individual sports?
Doesn't that depend more on the actual sport?
I mean, if you go rock climbing alone, then clearly that's more dangerous than playing something like touch rugby with a team of people.
Although if we have to pick one, I'd probably say the individual ones.
I mean, at least if you hurt yourself in a team sport, people are around who can help you.
But of course, that's just one factor to consider.
What kinds of sports are the most popular in your country?
Oh, wow.
I think that's either rugby or football, just based on the sheer volume of teams we have, though apparently there's a thriving gymnastics scene, which is surprising to hear.
And which do people in your country prefer to watch, team sports or individual sports?
Well, just based on what I said, I think it's safe to say that team sports are probably the most popular.
You don't see a lot of people watching gymnastic competitions, but...
Football is considered the national sport.
And we do well in a lot of other things like rugby, cricket, etc.
And all of them involve teams.
So it sort of makes sense that team sports are the ones that are sort of above the others in terms of popularity.
Do encouragement and applause from the audience have an impact on athletes?
At a guess, I'd say probably not, at least not in the immediate context.
The reason I say that is athletes tend to be pretty focused people, so they're probably fixated on winning to the exclusion of just about everything else.
Maybe after they win the audience, reactions and praise might have some sort of psychosomatic effect, but other than that I don't see it being much of an influence.
How does the weather affect outdoor sports?
Well, that's contingent on the sport and the weather, really.
Unlike football matches, rugby matches hardly ever get rained off.
But heavy snowfall or low temperatures might stop a game going ahead if the ground freezes and that poses some kind of risk to the players.
What sports are popular among elderly people?
Well, there used to be a thing where old people played a lot of bowls and went bowling.
Or at least not bowling like ten-pin bowling.
They would go to Bowling Greens.
But I don't know if that's still a thing or not.
And I think golf is popular with retirees, though God knows why, given how dull that is.
And I guess I'd say it's because it tends to have a slower pace and isn't so intense compared to contact sports, which could definitely be rougher on older people.
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