[Emerging Movement] Everyone often sees the term in the media . What is the definition of an emerging movement?

Emerging sports is not a new definition proposed by any scholar or organization, but a category born from the conventions of the sports industry and the media. There is no official unified statement. According to the development trend in recent years, this association attempts to summarize the elements that define emerging sports:

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1. Non-mainstream

Mainstream traditional sports have generally been included in the physical education curriculum of schools, and the penetration rate is quite high. The opposite is true for emerging sports, but it is precisely because the penetration rate is not high that there is a need for promotion.

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2. New invention

Some of Hong Kong's emerging sports projects may have been invented for less than ten years, but this is not an absolute factor. Many projects have been developed in foreign countries for decades or even a hundred years, and they came to Hong Kong from scratch.

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3. International

From the Asian Games project to the only projects carried out in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the world, there are also opportunities to be called emerging sports.

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4. Type

Extreme sports, team sports, individual sports, and even physical fitness activities have the opportunity to be called emerging sports. But generally speaking, it is more common to call the competitive category an emerging sport.

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5. Low threshold

Traditional sports are mature and have high technical requirements. At the same time, the training of players tends to be elite, which is very different from the strength of beginners, forming resistance for beginners to participate. Emerging sports are mostly new projects. The advantage is that the threshold for beginners is low, which is one of the incentives for promotion and allows beginners to invest. But in fact, every emerging sport has also advanced over time and gradually matured. Senior players and coaches have begun to appear, and it is an indisputable fact that they gradually integrate with traditional sports.

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Summary

Looking at the above analysis in different dimensions, the definition of emerging sports is indeed rather vague, and sometimes it is confused with traditional sports. In reality, the projects that are most easily defined as emerging sports, most of which are defined by whether they are mainstream or not, and the definition of mainstream can also be defined from the public perception, media perception, social popularity, government recognition, market value, etc. Factors.

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This will also refer to the list of members ( each emerging Athletic Association ), understand the definition of the new movement:

Hong Kong VX Sports Association

Hong Kong Evasion Association

​Hong Kong and Finland Timber Pillar Development Association

Hong Kong Snow War Alliance

​Hong Kong Balloon Volleyball Association

Founder of Leli Emerging Sports Club

​Huang Qiu Nan OSMAN WONG

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