What types of sports are included in specialized sports skills?

At present, in the mainstream classification of the domestic sports industry, special sports skills mainly cover five major directions: ball games, track and field, water and ice and snow, fighting and confrontation, gymnastics and skills. Many practitioners will adjust the classification dimensions according to the application scenarios, and there is no absolutely unified standard answer.

The sports that we usually come into contact with the most are definitely ball sports. Whether it is basketball and volleyball played by everyone on campus, badminton and table tennis played with friends on weekends, or football and tennis with the strongest money-drawing ability in professional events, and even niche squash, baseball and softball, they are all included in this category. The core logic is to carry out confrontation or racing around specific equipment. The barriers to entry are generally not high, and the public acceptance is also the highest.

The strongest basic attributes are track and field sports. To put it bluntly, they are running, jumping and throwing. The marathon and fitness walking that ordinary people practice every day, the high jump and shot put in school sports games, the 110-meter hurdles and the 20-kilometer walk in professional events are all included in the category of track and field. Basically, the basic ability training of all special sports must pass the track and field level first.

If you like to go to a cooler place, you will most likely be exposed to water and ice and snow sports. Freestyle and breaststroke are learned in swimming pools in the summer, surfing and paddleboarding are played at the beach, skiing and snowboarding are practiced in ski resorts in winter, and short track speed skating and curling are popular in the Winter Olympics. These types of sports all belong to this category. In the past, these types of sports had high requirements on the venue. In recent years, the support has been provided, and more and more people want to learn.

Friends who like head-on confrontation will basically choose fighting and confrontation sports. Taekwondo classes that are often held in schools, popular Sanda, boxing, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in boxing gyms, as well as wrestling and fencing events in the National Games, all fall into this category. The core is to pay attention to confrontation skills within the framework of the rules, not to fight blindly.

There is also a category of gymnastics and technical specialties that focus on body control. Rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline that I enrolled in hobby classes when I was a child, indoor rock climbing and parkour that young people love now, and even the freestyle skiing aerial skills that are so popular at the Winter Olympics can essentially be classified in this direction. The requirements for physical coordination and core strength are particularly high.

Of course, this division is not fixed. I know many friends who are engaged in outdoor sports, and they are accustomed to separately classifying mountaineering, orienteering, and paragliding as outdoor specialties. My colleagues in professional sports are more accustomed to using the event group theory and splitting them according to the large dimension of "physical fitness-led, skill-led". School sports teachers often separate martial arts as an independent category. To put it bluntly, classification is for convenience. The division logic in different scenarios is different, so there is no need to impose a unified standard. Last time I helped a relative's child choose an interest class in a sports school. Because the local area is the hometown of martial arts, the list given by the coach specifically included martial arts as a separate category, which was adjusted based on local characteristics and was very flexible.