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Run the WoRld Festival

WhEN FitNESS mEANS

A wholelot oF FUN...it Was aMaZiNG hoW the otherWise sereNe katara

beach turNed iNto a party hub for aN eNtire Week,

With hordes of youNGsters takiNG part iN the

couNtrys first youth festival. orGaNised by the

youth coMpaNy (tyc) aNd poWered by the Qatar

MuseuMs authority, the ruN the World festival

(rtWf) Was based oN the idea of spreadiNG the

traditioNs aNd theMes of other cultures to

proMote fitNess, sports, a healthy lifestyle aNd

civic eNGaGeMeNt aMoNG the youth.

By

CaSSeyolive

ira


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whaT did you miSS?

The rst day of the festival had

young photographers and

lmmakers showcase their art

works and express their vision of Youth and

Sports through a photo/video contest, while

on the third day around 100 delegates and

experts in the sports arena came together to

discuss projects that were related to engaging

youth with sports in Qatar. The best projects

that received funding will be implemented

this year.

Parents and children poured in on the fth

day of the festival, which was also the Family

Day. While kids were busy playing their

favourite beach sports, parents too were

entertained with live performances. The sixth

day not only had young people participating

in a fun-lled Track Marathon; young singers

and musicians also got an opportunity to

showcase their talent in a You(th) Got Talent

Competition. The festival culminated on

December 18, 2011 with the grand celebration

of Qatars National Day and the closing

ceremony of the Festival.

Throughout the weekend, different health

and medical associations such as Queen

Medical, the Qatar Diabetes Association,

Qatar Recreation Center and Hamad Medical

Corporation offered visitors free consultancy

for problems associated with the health of

youth. The Festivals campaign also raised an

important message for the countrys youth to

adopt a healthy and active lifestyle.

uniTed we STand

This years RTW Festival was handled by a

young and international team comprising

people from Mexico, Russia, Slovenia, the

USA, Canada, Brazil, Italy, India, Egypt,

Pakistan, etc. Volunteer Director for RTWF

2011, Abdulrahman Sajid from TYC, said,

The youth of Qatar have shown that nothing

is impossible. If 30 young people ranging

from 14 to 27 and from different cultural

backgrounds can organise a successful

nation-wide festival with the theme of sports

and healthy lifestyle in just three months,

t h e n i t s t r u e y o u t h c a n c h a n g e

everything.

With the success of its rst attempt, TYC

is hoping to make this an annual festival and

create a platform for future events and

opportunities in the country. I believe that

RTWF will grow bigger and better each year.

We have already started planning for the

2012 edition and are expecting more than a

hundred staff members, nearly two thousand

volunteers, and a lot of companies that

believe in you(th) to participate. RTWF will

thus be an opportunity for each and every

individual in the country and region to

showcase their talent, he added.


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human FooSBall

Yeah, foosball or table football is fun.

Now try playing it off the table itseven more fun! Real-life players arearranged in a similar fashion on ei-ther side. You could either have ropestied parallel to each other or maybehave lines drawn on the ground toknow where each person has to stand.And then the game begins. Since itsimpossible to play a 360-degree shotor spinning in this case, there are fewchances of you playing foul.

geT going...The RTWF managed to generate some interestingactivities. CAMPUS takes a look at a few...

Parkour

People running up walls, ipping in air, jumpingover railings... the scene might look straight from amovie, but its actually a popular form of practice inFrance, where people are trained to get past hurdlesjust like a superhero!

A professional parkour practitioner (also calledtraceur) can jump across building rooftops, but itwould be advisable for you to start off with some-thing less dangerous!

Theres a Doha, Parkour & Freerunning group onFacebookthat you could look up for more.

SkaTeBoarding

They say that skateboarding wasborn when surfers in Californiawere wondering how to surf onat waves. Over the years, theskates have denitely left theshores to rule the streets. Just likeyour bicycle, skateboards are acool mode of transportation. Andthanks to the rebellious few,there are a lot of tricks one canperform while skateboarding,such as the hippie jump.

So gather a few pals, take outyour skateboards, and wheeloff... but be sure you are not amenace for pedestrians!

aikido

The city is quite safe, but theres noharm learning some self-defencetricks. Aikido is a Japanese martial artform that is practised for defendingoneself while at the same time notcausing grievous injury to the at-tacker. Rather than attacking back,Aikido only curtails the attack.

A group of aikido enthusiasts prac-

tise frequently at Karate AcademySports Club, located off al-Nasserstreet. Its a good way of channellingyour bodys energy. Moreover, its notjust your physical strength but alsomental strength that builds up.

liP duB

How many times have you lip-synced your favourite songs? So

what if you are not a great singer;you can pretend to be one withlip dub. Lip dub is a video thatfeatures a group of people lip-syncing to a song. The video isusually shot in one go, and movesfrom one person to the otheracross different rooms.

Now all you need is a videorecorder!

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