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Welcome to Junkyard Sports! |
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Written by The Junkmaster
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Sunday, 29 April 2007 |
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." -- Thomas Edison Read about Junkyard Sports in Kid Scoop and Family Fun Magazine |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 31 December 2010 )
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Written by Junkmaster
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Thursday, 10 March 2011 |
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Since we first visited Trangleball, some eight years ago, two things have changed: the sport has been far more widely adopted, and the equipment has become more refined. The sport is being played in summer camps, on college campuses and in high school gyms, in backyards and beaches. The equipment is now made of heavy duty plastic. It is completely weatherproof - as home on the sand or lawn as in a gym. It's also easier to set-up and tear-down, the three triangles secured to each other by plastic bolts and wing nuts. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 August 2011 )
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Building a new sport for a new society |
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Written by Bernie DeKoven
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Friday, 31 December 2010 |
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The goal is not just to create a new sport, but to create a sport that embodies certain social beliefs, such as inclusion, cultural sensitivity, and human dignity, as well as certain aesthetic attributes, such as grace, skill, and spectacle A further goal is to create a sport that can easily be scaled up, for "professional" execution, or scaled down, to be played by children or adults in a wide variety of different environments. The following is an example of how the above goals can be embodied in the design for a new sport. There is no intention here to depict what we think would be the winning design for such a sport, and we would fail in our intentions if the sport we are about to describe were actually performed, as described. Rather, we simply wish to exemplify HOW such a sport might be designed. |
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Written by Bernie DeKoven
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Monday, 25 January 2010 |
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It pleases me significantly to announce, proclaim, and otherwise acknowledge the availability of Junkyard Games, an "innovation simulation" based on my variously named Found Object Tabletop Olympiad, a.k.a. The Junkyard Sports Tabletop Olympiad, et. al.
Many are the insights one could draw from a comparison of the game, and the simulation based on it. You might, for example, have already noted how the "Found Object" component inherent to the concept of Found Object Tabletop Olympiad has been replaced by a cunning collection of pre-found objects. Interesting. By including three identically cunning collections of intriguing objects, the Junkyard Games simulation controls for chance - what each team accomplishes has nothing to do with the objects it has in its collection, and everything to do with the collective creativity of its members. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 25 January 2010 )
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Junkyard Sports for everyone |
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Written by Bernie DeKoven
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Thursday, 11 August 2011 |
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The editors of Disability Living were able to appreciate what the Junkyard Sports concept can bring to people of different abilities. Here's part of what they wrote: |
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