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Physical Education teachers have been using some very classic team sports, like football, basketball, handball, volleyball, etc. for many years in order to develop their education work at school. As a consequence of this, the benefits of this kind of activities on Physical Education lessons have not been as notable as we might have expected, since, even if they are increasing, their development and application are still low. There are many and very varied new non-traditional sports that have emerged and extended across Spain in recent years. To mention an example, we could refer to a newly created non-traditional sport such as kin-ball. This sport was created for the purpose of achieving a way to combine several factors such as health, team-work and competitiveness. Three teams of four players each participate. This way, every player can participate to a great extent in all the moves of the match, for each of them must defend one area of their half in order to achieve a common objective. Besides, kin-ball helps to develop motor skills at school in an easy way; that is, coordination, balance and perception. There is a large variety of non-traditional games and sports that are similar to kin-ball, such as floorball, intercrosse, mazaball, tchoukball, ultimate, indiaca, shuttleball... All of them show many physical, psychic and social advantages, and can help us to make the Physical Education teaching-learning process more motivating, acquiring the recreational component that it showed some years ago and which has now disappeared.
Key Words: Kinball, health, team-works, competitiveness, coeducation.
Introduction
Physical Education (PE) teachers have been using some very classic team sports, like football, basketball, handball, volleyball, etc. for many years in order to develop their education work at school both in Primary Education (Real Decreto 1513/2006) and Secondary Education (Real Decreto 1631/2006). However, in some occasions their lessons have become a mere teaching process of technical movements aimed at sport as performance rather than at the educative function, which should take precedence in PE sessions (Martínez- López, Lara, Cachón and Rodríguez, 2009).
Nowadays, to continue with such a wrong model would mean some backwardness. Hence, a change is necessary regarding this way to understand Physical Education. So much so that society has been requesting this change...