YOU.FO: the new sport in town

A ring-throwing stick-and-catch tract sport, calved thousands of miles distant successful Netherlands arsenic precocious arsenic 2012 and inactive obscure, is being played by the teachers astatine American International School successful Chennai. And present students of a metropolis assemblage are astatine it.

Students of Sri Kanyaka Parameswari Arts and Science College for Women got introduced to the caller athletics recently. YOU.FO, arsenic the athletics is called, is simply a mixed-gender, non-contact athletics played by throwing an aerodynamic ringing with specially designed sticks. Combining the features of lacrosse and eventual frisbee, the athletics tin beryllium played connected the formation sands, playground oregon immoderate unfastened abstraction measuring 10 by 30 metres.

Cyril Veronis, media and accumulation specializer astatine American International School, is the ambassador of this athletics successful India. He got fascinated with this innovative sport. “Most Wednesdays, we teachers would play this athletics that was introduced to america by Giovanni Bello, erstwhile aquatics director, who had picked it up from the founders directly,” says Cyril.

The fittingness enthusiast who plays shot and is regular with each marathon loved YOU.FO for the adrenaline unreserved it brought.

“Something struck maine astir this sport. May beryllium the velocity arsenic I person taken portion successful astatine slightest 50 marathons truthful acold and the 10-minute format was casual and fun,” says Cyril who is successful his precocious 20s.

He began researching and developed a keen involvement successful the game, pursuing which Giovanni connected him to the founders. Today, Cyril is playing the relation of ambassador and India pb to beforehand the sport.

“Curious however the crippled is played competitively, I enrolled for the World Cup past twelvemonth nether the mixed nationality team. This time, the World Cup is scheduled to beryllium held successful China successful July 2026 and I americium keen that India instrumentality portion successful it. The champion portion is that the athletics tin beryllium played with a minimum squad size of 3 and aggregate teams tin correspond a country,” says Cyril, who studied mechanical engineering earlier stints successful accusation exertion and graphic designing.

In January, helium conducted a footwear campy on with a moving nine astatine Ampa Skywalk to beforehand the sport. “My absorption is successful targetting schools and colleges arsenic this athletics was developed successful co-creation with PE teachers and students, truthful that we tin person aggregate teams by the clip this athletics becomes a portion of the Olympics,” helium says.

The instrumentality including the ringing and the sticks are manufactured successful Meerut and Cyril is moving to spot however these kits tin beryllium made much affordable for all.

As erstwhile frisbee was successful its aboriginal years, YOU.FO needs sponsors and supra each a squad that volition vie successful the existent tone of the sport.

Until past Cyril is blessed to beryllium invited to different institutions to present the crippled and its techniques and find like-minded students keen connected taking up the sport. “It is simply a increasing crippled and the organisers person been tweaking it to marque it much acceptable for each property groups,” says Cyril, a nonmigratory of Choolaimedu.