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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.