About thirty boys and girls, from different islands, discover the native sports of the Canary Islands in Costa Teguise. The Lanzarote municipality hosts the first edition of the Native Games and Sports Campus, an initiative that will allow 33 boys and girls from La Palma, Tenerife, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura to enjoy a few days of coexistence, while learning about the different native sports of the islands.
Promoted by the General Directorate of Native Sports, coordinated by Lorena Hernández, this activity, which is born with the will to continue, aims to have participants deepen their knowledge and practice of the different native games and sports, through a program full of activities over five days.
The young people, aged between eight and thirteen, have been selected by the different regional federations of native games to experience an intense week of learning, through a wide catalog of recreational activities, practices and audiovisual projections.
The days will be organized around two practical activities, which will take place throughout the day, and an audiovisual projection before the well-deserved rest. The mornings will be divided between different activities, one each day. From Tuesday to Friday, practical workshops will be held on Canarian ball, handball, Canarian wrestling, shepherd's jump and garrote wrestling, which will be led by specialized technicians and monitors from the island and regional federations, guaranteeing a complete and enriching educational experience.
In addition, from Monday to Thursday, in the afternoon, the boys and girls will immerse themselves in the practice of Latin sailboat, which, in Lanzarote, not only has enormous roots but also has the ideal conditions for its practice.
At night, before concluding the day, different audiovisual projections will be made with which the participants of this initiative will deepen in a more theoretical way the knowledge of native sports. These sessions will complement the practical activities of the day to day, thus offering a comprehensive vision of the cultural and sporting richness of the islands.
Regarding this initiative, Hernández highlighted that this first edition is "the beginning of a project that aims to be repeated annually on different islands of the archipelago." In addition, she explained that the objective of this action is none other than to "inoculate the seed of love for our traditional sports in the youngest, ensuring that these practices endure over time and are transmitted from generation to generation."
The organization of this first Native Sports Campus responds to the commitment acquired by the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports, led by Poli Suárez, to "promote the knowledge and practice of traditional native sports and motor games" in the citizenship, with special attention to the youngest, so that they are the ones who "maintain, protect and preserve their traditions."
