Before the web, it was often hard to find information about local sports clubs, events, training etc. You could go to your local sports centre and see what was on offer there but your choice was fairly limited especially if your sports centre was small. However, these days, with over 15.23 million UK households having internet access you can see why the web is the obvious place to go for information on all kinds of sports.
Let's take running for example. Say you are living in Sussex and you are new to running and want to join a running club. However your local gym club doesn't offer running clubs and the only running club you know of in the area is pretty hardcore and too advanced for you.
Searching for 'running clubs Sussex' in Google returns 1,410,000 result, the top 9 result being exact matches. You can even find running clubs just for women and beginners running clubs. Where else could you find such a huge amount of information?
So you find a running club that you want to join and decide to run a 10k event with them. You then decide that you need some help with your training. By searching for '10k training guide' in Google brings up thousands of results including a beginner's guide.
But what about diet? Surely if you're training for a 10k you should make sure that you eat the right food, drink the right amount of water etc. Searching for 'nutrition advice for running' returns hundreds of results about what you should eat during the training, on the morning of the event etc. You can also join mailing lists and subscribe to newsletters so to get all the latest information emailed straight to you.
Running clubs are everywhere so perhaps they are not the best example to use. But say you are disabled. There are not so many options available to you anymore. Or so you would think. There are hundreds of websites giving information on sports for disabled people, lists of federations and sports clubs, shops that sell disabled sports equipment. Before the internet it was very hard to find this kind of information and it took hours if not days of searching through the yellow pages, making phone calls, writing letters to find anything out. Now, all this information is at your fingertips and of course completely free.
Although there are hundreds of sites on the web about various sports and selling sports gear and giving advice, up until now most sites concentrated on one sport. You can go to a running site and buy trainers and join running clubs and get tips but what if you are interested in swimming too?
Ballz.com is an online sports community catering for over 200 sports to connect people of all sporting interests and abilities. Whether you are a sports fan, play for fun or fitness, are a professional athlete or have a job within the sporting world, there are online applications that are exciting and relevant to your sporting interests. Visit Ballz and take the tour.
Sarah writes on behalf of ballz.com, an online sports community catering for over 200 sports to connect people of all sporting interests and abilities. http://www.ballz.com
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