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[The Dog Ate My Keitai]

Yes, I love football. And because I can't watch my beloved Eskimos (Go ESKS!) (CFL for those who don't know any better) I make do with NFL, which is also entertaining...

Anyway, I've been requested by one of the elementary schools where I teach to do some extra-curric stuff with the kids and I would just LOVE to do some FLAG football! I've taught the kids football before and they really seemed to take a shine to it..

However, I'd like to get a bit more teacher support/involvement. They've indicated to me that they'd like to but are intimidated by it, and don't know the rules or anything.

Does anyone know IF/where I can find a fairly simple "football 101" primer in Japanese, that would include the BASIC rules so I could print it out and give it to them in their own language. The BASIC part is key... I'm sure there's an official rulebook that's been translated somewhere on the intranets, but I really don't want them to be reading about exact field dimensions, or what bogus rules like "fair catch" are all about... (Sorry, Americans -- I just couldn't resist!)

For example:

UNACCEPTABLE : **(Courtesy NFL.com official rulebook)

Ball
1. The home club shall have 36 balls for outdoor games and 24 for indoor games available for testing with a pressure gauge by the referee two hours prior to the starting time of the game to meet with League requirements. Twelve (12) new footballs, sealed in a special box and shipped by the manufacturer, will be opened in the officials・locker room two hours prior to the starting time of the game. These balls are to be specially marked with the letter "k" and used exclusively for the kicking game.

ACCEPTABLE:

Ball
1. The ball is brown. It's oval shaped. It's not a rugby ball. If you call it a rugby ball, I'll hit you with it.... We throw it, catch it and kick it in order to score points....

Well, anyway. You get my picture right? Am I asking too much? Or can anyone help me track down a source of info for football in ni-hon-go?

THanks in advance

[PAULH]

I just did a Google search. American Football is called AmeFuto here so anything under that and ru-ru for "rules" should bring up links


http://www.team-unicorn.jp/rule/

http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/dawa-c/explain-f/rule-f.htm

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Athlete-Athene/7158/index.htm

[GambateBingBangBOOM]

If you can wait until there's an NFL game on TV (one of the BS channels often play them) and then video tape it and show the teachers then it will suddenly be really easy to understand.

Also, even though this may go slightly against Japanese norms, I would teach them schoolyard football (ie you have three/four downs to get the 10 yards, you snap the ball etc) and not worry too much about penalties and stuff like that (which, I think, is sort of what you want to do, judging from your post). If that is the case, maybe you can just write the basic rules in English (however you played in your schoolyard, but taking out tackleing), show the Japanese Teacher of English a video of the game and have them translate the rules into English.

[The Dog Ate My Keitai]

Paul: Thanks. I really didn't know where to start looking, as I didn't know that the sport was called: Amefuto in Japan (even though that makes perfect sense as I sit here and type on my paasokon)....

[markle]

might also be a good idea idea to introduce games that focus on specific skills rather than the game as a whole for example

Red rover, British Bulldog, whatever,- draw a line on both ends of a large area. choose one kid (preferably bigger and more adept than others) to go into the middle of the area the rest all stand behind one line. the centre kid then chooses a another kid to try and cross the open space to the opposite line. If the chosen kid makes it then all the kids cross the open space. If the chosen kid is caught by the centre kid then he joins him and calls out another kid. The kids in the centre can call all the kids over at one time if they want.
Develops Tackling skills, dodging, speed and is a heap of fun.

Force'em back
Divide the kids into two groups and put them at opposite ends of a large area and have them throw/kick the ball to each other. The objective is to try and force the other team back by throwing/kicking the ball over the other teams heads.
Develops, throwing/kicking and catching skills

Both of these are games I played at school

[JimDunlop2]

'500' is a good one too... The player who's "up" assigns a point value to the ball he's about to throw or kick (from 50-500) and the first kid to accumulate a total of 500 points takes over when he can.

Teaches throwing/kicking/catching skills....

[stretch]

Wow, 500!
There's a game I haven't even thought about in 20 years!!!!!!!
It used to be in the baseball format for me though. One bounce half points.
Ohhhhh natsukashi!!!
Thanks for that Jim.