Badminton

Historically we know that indians had played a similar game with a raquet and a ball but the origins of badmniton are british. British military officers created badminton with a Champagne cap and feathers upon their return from India and named it battledoor and shuttlecock. The first rulesbook was written by Isaac Spratt but no exemplar exist anymore. Badminton was considered as an olympic game in 1992.

There are two types of game : single and double.  The rules are very simple. First you have to engage diagonally after the first line and before the last one, in a double game the player has to engage before the second line, in every case of engagement you must engage under the hips. The side limits of the court are the sidelines, the first if you are a single player or the second if you play a double game. Now you have to touch the otherside ground with the shutllecock.

But sometimes it isn't as simple as the rules, like here in this match between China and Malaysia.

Now in single game the world champions are chinese and in double game Danmark for the men and malaysian for the women. The fastest shutllecock ever thrown had a speed of 416km/h !!!

Have a nice time playing badminton.

Francis

°Oo A go0d cake without gluten oO°

It soon the Day of the kings and i tried to make the cake :) and it was so delicious, i didn't think it was so easy to do it. I think it's a good idea to show you that is easy to cook without gluten, and everybody can eat like this.    For the puff pastry i bought it at the Coop. 

→ Ingredients:

- 250g gluten free flour

- 150g softened butter

- 2 heaped tablespoons of cream

- 1 egg

- 1 pinch of salt

- 1/2 gluten free yeast packet

- 100g brown sugar

- 25 g butter melted

- 1 rounded tablespoon of cream

- 100g ground almonds

- 1 egg + 1 white - keep the yellow to brown

→ For the frangipane:

- 100g brown sugar
- 25g butter melted
- 1 rounded tablespoon of cream
- 100g ground almonds
- 1 egg white + 1 - keep the yellow to brown

→ Preparation :

Mix softened butter with the egg, add sour cream, flour and yeast and the pinch of salt. Make a ball and refrigerate 1 hour.

Prepare the fragipane: combine all ingredients except 1 egg yolk.

Preheat the oven to 180 °C.

Spread half the pastry between two sheets of bakinf paper. Use a tart pan to cut the cake.

Remove the roll obtained on the hob.
Garnish with almond paste, leaving half an inch all around. Put 2 beans in the frangipane.

Then repeat a second round of dough to cover the frangipane. Make a few strokes with a knife and brush dough with beaten egg yolk. Putin the oven 25 min at 180 ° C. And you eat it warm !

Enjoy  ♥

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Kin ball

I’m going to speak about the kin ball. The kin ball is an activity that was invented in

Quebec in 1986 by Mario Demens, Bachelor of Physical Education.

Object of the game

The object of this game is to serve the ball to one of the opposing teams in such a way that the opposing team will not be able to catch the ball before it touches the ground.

For the receiving team the object is to lift the ball upward.

Match:

A match is composed of three fifteen minutes periods. And the area where the game is played is the gym floor.

A team:

Each team has four players on the court. And on the court there are always three teams.

The game:

To serve the ball three players of a team hold the ball and the fourth player of the team is the server.

The other teams are positioned in each quarter of the gym. The server has to shout « omniking » followed by the colour of one of the opposing team. And then hit the ball with one or two arms. The team who has been called becomes the receiving team. The receiving team has to control the ball with any part of the body before it touches the ground.

If the receiving team drops the ball, the serving team and the other one, become a point. If the opposing team caches the ball, they have to immobilise it and then re-serve it. If the team who serves the ball commits a fault, a point is given to the two others teams.

One this picture we can see that the ball is very big. We can also see the three different teams. We can see that the ball has just been served, because this man is in the serving position.

It’s not a sport very known by the people, but I think that it could be an interesting activity to do at school. In some other countries they have this activity at school, for example in France. It is easier then the volleyball because it’s not very technical. We have not to know how to hit the ball.

In Switzerland there is not a national team. But there are some clubs where it’s possible to play kin ball.

Leana