What is Netball?

Sport, which has its origin at the end of the 19th century, Netball is usually seen as a sport created and persecuted by women. Neball was invented by Clara Gregory Baer and became one of the most popular sports for women in many nations around the world. Neball is very popular as a participant and spectator sport in such countries such as Australia, Great Britain and Western India.

Origins Netball has a close connection with the creation of a sport of basketball a few years ago. Basically, Netball was created as a sport that would offer women similar competing exercises because the newly created basketball game offered young men. As such, the basic rules for this form of female basketball were very close to the rules of men's basketball. Several slight changes have been made, mainly due to the prevailing cultural factors concerning the abilities and correct roles of women in society.

One of the niches is illustrated, the way of dressing during participation in the game. UniformILA to protect female modesty in terms of Mory of the day than for easy movement on the playground. As a result, Netball players did not deal with the same level of running and dribbing that were common with their male basketball counterparts.

One of the significant differences in Netball regulations compared to the basic basketball rules is to create territorial areas that basically establish areas that each player would guard. Some sources suggest that the creation of territorial areas has occurred due to some misunderstandings by Baer's basic rules of movement on the basketball playground, while other sources suggest that Baer intentionally included this innovation to help Netball to provide his own identity. Until 1901, Netball had an officially recognized set of rules and was also established sport.

during the first half of the 20th century Netball became founded in a number of countries. Over time they began to be in the disputeLocal elements incorporated, which could somewhat difficult to organize international competitions. In 1960, national officials of Netball from South Africa, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Australia and several countries in the West gathered to standardize the sport regulations. The result of their efforts was to create an organization that is currently known as the International Federation of the Netball. In 1963, the first international tournament occurred under the auspices of this new association. Since then, membership of the Federation has continued to grow and more tournaments have been organized. Today, Netball has grown into such an important sport that it has become a recognized Olympic sport in 1995 and is now included in a number of Lesser sports competitions as well.

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