Sporting facilities is one of the factors that inhibit the growth of sports here in the Malaysian sector as I have faithfully observed. In a fast paced economy where Learning Institutions are donning high rise buildings, the laming growth of sports and related activities can be explicitly explained. Not even gyms in the Colleges for students to work-out the pressures.
As opposed to the jinx that foreign athletes have a clear-cut edge over locally breed ones, I would say that from my observation and findings, there are lots of promising sports men and women here who just need a little bit of 'push' to reveal the world-class potentials they have in them. In order to correct an age-long flaw that is tanishing the overall beauty and expectancy, we need to revisit the foundation - the school.
Gone are the days when a learning institution must have ample extra-curricular learning facilities to be approved as a landmark. With "Fast food" Colleges sprouting all over the place, we should start worrying over the extra calories of stuff that is fed into the brain of the Future. A school without a defined space for at least a football field was never approved by the governing bodies not to mention not having courts in the 'premises' for other sports.
Gone are the days when a learning institution must have ample extra-curricular learning facilities to be approved as a landmark. With "Fast food" Colleges sprouting all over the place, we should start worrying over the extra calories of stuff that is fed into the brain of the Future. A school without a defined space for at least a football field was never approved by the governing bodies not to mention not having courts in the 'premises' for other sports.
The sad turn of events have had its pros and cons one of the cons being that budding talents are brutally killed in their prime. In countries where sports have had an upper hand, the success story could always be traced to the learning institutions. This is where these dreams are discovered and nurtured to the greatness they have attained or are yet to attain. With the many College 'Complexes' around, the issue of Sports is becoming complex as well. Colleges with expensive state-of-the-art modern facilities and gadgets are out to train the brains while the body begins a slow journey of decay and paralysis. This is not intended. Maybe it could explain why the Stadium is barely filled during a serious football match but 'mamak' stalls are having problems with having enough space for their teeming customers to teh-tarik in. The interest is surely weaning and might only be revamped through intercollegiate games and sports.
You see students so eager to play but are denied the privilege. They sometimes take the initiative of organising themselves and renting sporting arenas just to have a little bit of what they should be always entitled to - a Playground. This does not hold quite often seeing the 'unholy' cost of renting these spaces and the unavailability of them at such and such times. A lot of travelling has to be done to and fro the venues as there are no or very limited sporting facilities within the college campus.
For sports to take a gaint leap here, the emphasis should be laid on the grassroots. Only a few aspiring students will go the extra mile of sporting outside or beyond college. The ones that do are just only a handful. Once in a while my college tries to organise sporting events and this really pays off. Students take time off from traditional studying and take the books to the fields. You get to see the competitiveness in that should be always eminent in students show up. A boring day in class was always revived by sweating it out in the fields but, students nowadays have to sleep with it as there are no adequate fields to play in. Only the fingers are gets to be exercised pushing vigorously the buttons of the keyboard playing some “StarTrek” game online. Other adventorous Students resort to nightclubbing as the only form of ‘bodily’ exercise in a long-boring week.
If my opinion would matter, I would say, incorporate extracurricular activities in to the syllabus, make Games and Sports fairly compulsory in schools and colleges, our youngsters are dying of boredom.
You see students so eager to play but are denied the privilege. They sometimes take the initiative of organising themselves and renting sporting arenas just to have a little bit of what they should be always entitled to - a Playground. This does not hold quite often seeing the 'unholy' cost of renting these spaces and the unavailability of them at such and such times. A lot of travelling has to be done to and fro the venues as there are no or very limited sporting facilities within the college campus.
For sports to take a gaint leap here, the emphasis should be laid on the grassroots. Only a few aspiring students will go the extra mile of sporting outside or beyond college. The ones that do are just only a handful. Once in a while my college tries to organise sporting events and this really pays off. Students take time off from traditional studying and take the books to the fields. You get to see the competitiveness in that should be always eminent in students show up. A boring day in class was always revived by sweating it out in the fields but, students nowadays have to sleep with it as there are no adequate fields to play in. Only the fingers are gets to be exercised pushing vigorously the buttons of the keyboard playing some “StarTrek” game online. Other adventorous Students resort to nightclubbing as the only form of ‘bodily’ exercise in a long-boring week.
If my opinion would matter, I would say, incorporate extracurricular activities in to the syllabus, make Games and Sports fairly compulsory in schools and colleges, our youngsters are dying of boredom.
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