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Sports as a hobby report

Morphine Opilio

Sports is one of the big fields in Kenya; lots of people spend their time practicing sports and it has since turned out to be a hobby for many people.

Due to the desire to find out what people prefer as a hobby, I did an online survey to find out what people preferred as a hobby and here’s the outcome of it:

PlayStation, a video game developed by Sony and first released in 1994, took the lead though tying up with Car & Bike Racing as the most preferred hobbies. They both tied at 28.33% each from 17 out of 60 personnel.

Surprisingly, the basketball and boardgames tied too with 16.67%, each having 10 responses out of 60 people. Basketball is a famous game played almost in every part of the world.Board games is a game that involves the movement of counters or other objects round a board.

In the case of one not being an ardent fan of PlayStation, car& bike racing, boardgames and basketball, they had an option of listing what they preferred. This option lead to lots of varied responses: swimming, cooking, sleeping, volleyball, bunjee jumping, rope skipping & wall climbing.

These are just but preferences of what people prefer practicing as a hobby. We continue to gather more info next week and find out more on sports as a hobby.

Sports as a hobby survey

Morphine Opilio

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Sports is one of the big fields in Kenya; lots of people spend their time doing sports and it has since turned out to be a hobby. I did an online survey to find out what people preferred as a hobby and here’s the outcome of it:

PlayStation and car-bike racing took the lead, tying at 28.33% each from 17 out of 60 personnels

Surprising the basketball and board games tied too with 16.67 5 and each having 10 responses out of 60 people.

In the case one is not an ardent fan of PlayStation, car and bike racing, board games and basketball, they had an option of listing what they prefer. This is composed of a lot of varied responses: volleyball,netball and sleeping.

This is just but a preferences of what sport people would do as a hobby. We gather more next week.

Interview with American Football

Morphine Opilio

An interview with MMU’s American Football players ; Hamza Mateya & Timothy Waweru.

Interviewer :What’s your name and what do you do?

My name is Hamza Mateya , 3rd year Engeering student at Multimedia and I play as a wide receiver and also the corner back for defence option For MMU’s (Multimedia university of Kenya) American football Club called Panthers

Interviewer : What is NFL? We don’t know what that is.

NFL stands for National Football League, which is usually played in the USA and parts of Europe

Interviewer: (Turning to another player) How about you? What’s your name?

Timothy : TimothyWaweru, 1st year Business & Economics student. Am the tight end and line bucker in the defence option.

Interviewer: what’s the tight end and line bucker?

Timothy :Tight end is like a wide receiver. Can receive the ball and also can protect the quarter buck.

Interviewer : So for how long have you been playing the American Football?

Hamza : I knew American Football from the movies and since it’s not been there in Kenya, I can’t say that I’ve played alot because I’ve only had like 3 sessions with JKUAT students and only one session with UON football club and that’s when we Decided to form our own club here in MMU.

Interviewer: How did your passion in American Football come in? Why didn’t you choose any other game like Volleyball, Basketball

Hamza : The passion just developed, as in, I’d play rugby before in highschool. So when I came to MMU, the rugby wasn’t well facilitated and didn’t wanna get wasted in the rugby so, I kept on exploring the other options till I came to encounter with This game.

Interviewer : For how long has American Football been in existence in Multimedia?

Hamza : American Football is one month old in MMU. (Laughs) it was introduced last month

Interviewer : When was AF introduced in Kenya

Hamza : Around 2014..started with USIU then JKUAT and the rest follows

Interviewer : how would you describe American Football to another game?

Timothy : it’s a game that encourages team work . when one person messes in a game, the whole team is fucked up.

Interviewer : Why do you play this game?

Hamza : it is for both commercial and passion purposes. It began as a passion then commercialisation came through

Interviewer : How about you Timothy? Why do you play the game?

Timothy : I play for passion.

Off-road Challenge,Kenya

It’s all about Mud Fun off-roaders and it’s spectators. This is a challenge involving the off-road bikers,showcasing their skills on the muddy terrains. The event took place on the 24th November 2019, at Rio Nderi.

The mud-offroaders challenge takes place thrice yearly, each happening every quaterly of the year and at different venues. The event is in partnership with another offroad team called African Wildchild adventures headed by Grace Mwari. The event preceeds very hard off-road biking training and the trained racers get to showcase their skills.

The event had Karai MCA, Hon Sam Mugwanja as its special appearance. In a one word explanation, the event can only be described as Epic.The tickets were going for ksh500/ and a team of 5 went for ksh2000/ . It got lots of people entertained and the racers were upto the task. The sponsers of the event were the Enduro team, Monster, Motul and Cocacola. There was lots of drinks and music that left lots of people wowed.

Morphine O.

Softness of Softball

Morphine Opilio

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Softball is a bat- and- ball sport played between two teams of 9 players. It is a baseball -related sport although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand, softball uses a softer ball compared to baseball and its a faster sport. It was invented in 1887 in Chicago , Illinois, United States as an indoor game.

The equipment used in playing of the game is : softball Bat, softball, softball gloves and bases. The objective of softball is to score more run(points) than the other team by batting (hitting) a ball into play and running around the bases, touching each one in succession (playing offense at that time). When three outs are made, the teams switch positin on defense/offense.

Softball is a world Game that was played in 1981, 1985 and invitationally 2009-2013. It was first played in 1887, USA. It’s highest governing body is : World Baseball Softball Confederation.

softball is more commonly played at a recreational level and played smaller than that of baseball. This is a growing sport in Kenya , one that you can’t miss trying out.

Bike Danking poster

Morphine OpilioThe Bikers Connect organizing team are set to close the year 2019 with a bang once more. Just like the previous Bikers Connect Gigs, this one seems to attract lots of adrenaline junkies who prefer bike riding as a hobby. It’s all about Bike Danking. Can you bike dank or you prefer spectacting? Y’all are covered.Show up at Whistling Moran ,Arthi River on 1st DEC and dank! Tickets go for 500/ -adults and 250– kids.See You there!

Softball in Kenya

By Morphine Opilio

Pitcher holding a softball,MMU,during the internal tournament // photocredits: Opilio

“softball is life with volume turned up!” These are the first words that hit your ears once you ask a softball player, not considering the fact that it was introduced in Kenya around 2012 and its slowly gaining momentum among the university students. Brief introduction to my fellas who don’t know what softball is: it is an outdoor game that is played with a bat and a ball and,for the most part,its rules are same as those played with baseball. One would easily mistake the two because they are variants of the same game , though primarily the difference is that in softball, the ball is pitched underhand while in baseball, the ball is pitched overhand, and just like the name implies there’s a difference in the balls.

“We’re so good your moms cheers for us.” states the Multimedia University of Kenya Softball school team. They occasionally chant the slogan to inform the non softball players that they missing out on the most exciting game one would want to play. Having been introduced recently in the country, it’s surprising how it has turned out to be a hobby to a number of people trying out their hands in the pitching and bating intrigues of the game.

“Save the drama for your mama, we’re here to play,” states one of the funny softball slogans. Agree with me that when one hears this slogan, you’d be interested in what the content is all about and this would lead you to terms such as, Umpires ,who are in charge of the rules of softball and control how the game proceeds, pitcher, who delivers her pitch to the batter.

“In my 1st year in University, I was invited by a friend to the pitch to watch Softball being played. Watching the game made my mind clear and relaxed since it required full concentration and engagement. That was just how I got hooked up to the game. I’d look forward to classes ending so that I run to the pitch for some softball moments and just like that, a hobby was built,” says Ms Mwangi, a MMU alumni who has been playing softball for the past 6 years.

Just like other ball games,Softball is a game that requires one to have total concentration and be able to think ahead, hence resulting to building up of a hobby. Softball has been described to be highly addictive and once you get hooked up to it, there’s no turning back. Playing it increases strength to the upper and lower parts of the body. It also improves cardiovascular fitness and increases the speed and agility.
Generally, softball is a good way to stay fit and maintain a healthy lifestyle and just so you know, softball is not for softies!