Maxi basketball

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Maxi basketball describes a worldwide movement of adult basketball players who, after leaving regular game play, want to continue to be active in sports and play basketball , often until after they have left their professional life.

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Maxi basketball players are older basketball players who practice basketball according to the principles of recreational and health sports and do not take part in regular games, in Germany the seniors, from the regional leagues to the national leagues. They combine their training and play with the encounter among basketball players in a social community , also in the context of national and international tournaments lasting several days. Maxi basketball tournaments with several thousand players take place in European basketball centers, but also on other continents. Basketball training and game communities often survive well into old age and can form reliable networks in everyday personal and professional life. The number of German basketball clubs and basketball departments in sports clubs that have celebrated their 50th anniversary has risen disproportionately since the 50th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1999. Maxi basketball is a section in the 'life cycle model' of a basketball player. The role model of maxi basketball players in relation to the interactions between sport and health extends into all areas of society.

Mini basketball

For the basketball game of the children, in the club, in the youth group or in the school, mini-basketball was introduced at the beginning of the 1960s, initially regionally and gradually. This development was taken up by the internationally organized basketball sport and in 1964 led the FIBA ​​to set a special framework for mini-basketball, which since then has provided simplified rules for the game of mini-basketball players. It is played with smaller, lighter balls and ideally under lower baskets. In Germany, the former DBB national coach Yakovos Bilek (1917-2005) - a former Turkish national player and one of the two FIBA ​​referees of the basketball finals of the 1960 Summer Olympics - after taking responsibility for the senior national team in 1962, for the establishment of the mini basketball concept of FIBA ​​successfully used in the DBB area. He attached particular importance to establishing basketball as a school sport with the help of mini basketball and to attracting children to the sport of basketball for longer than their age group. Like basketball at school, mini basketball is an element of popular sport.

Maxi basketball

Since then, the preservation of health for adult humans is in the public consciousness, have movement and health significance in everyday life for them. Sports offers that appear attractive are not only accepted by former athletes . The age-appropriate offers of the sports clubs also include basketball for adult players, outside the regular game operation in the leagues, of different ages and skill levels, maxi basketball. In addition, firmly established 'traditional teams' of basketball clubs with former players in regular league games at all levels are increasingly active in German basketball, and they are often looking for match and tournament contact with partner teams of the same age throughout Europe.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the term 'maxi basketball' has been internationally established for the basketball game of adult players who, due to their age, no longer take part in the regular game operations of their associations, without finding acceptance by the professional associations around the world. The word pair 'mini basketball and maxi basketball' has since been implemented among basketball players. It makes clear that basketball players belong to age groups outside of regular game play. It also stands for the contrast between younger and older. Maxi basketball players, known abroad as "veterans" or in Germany as "oldies" , are recreational or health athletes and not competitive athletes and league players . However, depending on the sporting class and performance of the maxi basketball player, the requirements for games or tournaments of maxi basketball vary greatly. As a rule, the maxi basketball players are assigned to an age group in an orderly game operation in order to take into account the age-related performance of the players and to establish comparability. It should also be prevented that individual players with a particular age-related ambition carelessly exceed the limits of their physical performance and thus endanger themselves in a health-threatening manner.

Maxi basketball combines the lifelong game of basketball in the sporting leisure competition with the experience of camaraderie and understanding between amateur athletes, regardless of age , gender , origin , religion or status . Regular social contact with one another is important to many maxi basketball players. The separation of the basketball game for seniors from around the age of thirty-five is due to the continuous decline in motor skills. The breakdown of the muscles and the possible increase in the percentage of body fat usually lead to a loss of performance for the players on the basketball floor. Maxi basketball provides for age groups in ascending order, because strength , speed , endurance , coordination and mobility decrease with increasing age and also changes in sensory perception that can impair athletic processes during the game. Maxi basketball is also a means of slowing down the degradation and aging process . It represents a sporty anti-aging training variant that can be well suited and useful for several decades after participation in regular game operations.

Application, principles and rules of maxi basketball

Maxi basketball is played according to rules that have evolved to this day from the thirteen rules given in 1891 by the Canadian doctor and educator James Naismith for the very first basketball game. Rules for the games of maxi basketball players are tailored to the special requirements of older basketball players.

Outside the USA, basketball is generally played according to the valid FIBA ​​rules. In the national basketball federations of the five continental FIBA ​​zones, they fundamentally determine the game of maxi basketball players.

Importance of the idea of ​​fair play

Basketball players are required to have attitudes and attitudes that involve more than just following rules. It is only the special 'spirit of basketball' that makes it stand out among other team sports . For maxi basketball players, it is particularly important not to injure themselves during training and games so that they do not experience any impairment in their everyday life or their work in the work process. It is an unwritten law of togetherness among maxi basketball players to always act with respect on the basketball floor in order to endanger the physical and psychological integrity of their basketball comrades through inappropriate, motorically poorly controlled or intentionally executed actions. The requirement of appropriate restraint is based on the ' golden rule in ethics '.

The idea of fair play determines the behavior of the players in training and in play in basketball. Tricks, deception, fraud, violence etc. are inconceivable. The principle of fairness always requires that you ensure comparable conditions and opportunities, that you do not strive for a basketball success or victory at any cost, that you respect your opponent as a partner or the dignity of your basketball teammates and that you follow the spirit of the rules in a competition on the hall floor, maintain a sporty attitude at the time of victory or after a lost game, etc.

Special maxi basketball rules

The rules are mainly adapted in order to keep the physical strain of maxi basketball players in an assumed 'normal range' and to simplify the course of the game, especially in the context of maxi basketball tournaments. The game time, the number of breaks and time-outs and the number of individual fouls leading to the elimination are adapted as required, depending on the age group and the expected stress on the game day. Another goal is to keep the personnel costs for the jury low.

The following rule changes were found in the tenders for national and international maxi basketball tournaments in Europe:

• The games started with a jump ball at the beginning and after breaks. The 'changing possession' rule was not applied. It was played according to the 'classic jump ball rule'.
• The number of team fouls has not been determined.
• There was no three-point evaluation for a basket win from a distance.
• A player change could be made independently during the breaks and at any time during the ongoing game by the team not in possession of the ball directly at the center line, as long as the ball was in the half of the playing field of the team in possession.
• It was considered gross unsportsmanlike conduct if a substitute player only stayed on the field for an inappropriately short period of time (less than five minutes of playing time) without a reason for health care.
• The length of possession of the ball was not determined. If a referee found that the team in possession of the ball was playing inappropriately for time in order to gain an advantage, he could interrupt the game and arrange for a change of possession.
• Possession of the ball for more than thirty seconds was considered unfair behavior by the attacking team.
• Each maxi basketball team had a squad with at least eight healthy players who were ready to play and who all participated in the game with a reasonable personal playing time.
• If a team had no more than eight players ready to play during a tournament, players from other teams with a comparable playing strength in relation to the eliminated players completed the team.
• If there was a tie there was no extra time, games could end in a draw. If emphasis was placed on determining a winner, a structured free throw competition followed after a point was tied at the end of the game in order to bring about a decision.

Health care

Maxi basketball players take responsibility for their own health when they are active in training and play. You are not active as a maxi basketball player against the advice of your doctor. They refrain from physical exertion outside the normal range. Your body weight is in the normal range of the body mass index (BMI) so that if you are underweight or overweight, no medical treatment would be indicated or any health risk would be excluded.

Age group competitions for the elderly

Concept of the DBB

In the area of ​​the German Basketball Federation, in addition to the advertised league games for maxi basketball players at basketball district level, there are central maxi basketball competitions that have been established for many years, introduced during the terms of office of DBB presidents Hans-Joachim Höfig (†) and Anton Kartak (†) : the ' German Championships ages UE35 and Ü40 ' (since 1966) and the age group tournaments of the Federal best Games Basketball (since 1983) fünfundvierzigstes with the lower age limit age - both competitions for men and women separately. The centrally organized competitions are assigned to the Oldies division at DBB. It cannot be seen that these tournament competitions have an appropriate or significant status at the DBB. A concept, in the sense of a strategy-based orientation, for the targeted design of the maxi basketball movement, analogous to mini basketball, obviously does not exist at the DBB.

The circle of members of the 'Club of Friends of Basketball', founded in Karlsruhe in 1990, geared towards the work of the DBB Presidium, has not yet provided any impulses for the development of the maxi basketball movement.

FIBA policy

In the member associations of FIBA ​​- " Fédération Internationale de Basketball ", competitions for maxi masketball players are organized on a national level. FIBA does not organize any international competitive tournaments for this age group of maxi basketball players, nor does it have a festival character. In Europe there are regular international invitation tournaments for top maxi basketball teams, in which the veteran teams of the best club and national team teams take part and thus former 'stars' of the international basketball scene are always represented. Often the former top players are no longer active on the league stage and only appear in the stands as very special, valued guests of honor. The variant that 'traditional teams' from top European clubs or basketball associations, the club teams usually without their former 'US stars', compete against each other before official league, cup or international matches is also frequently used to promote the sport of basketball.

FIBA does not organize any events, tournaments or league competitions for maxi basketball players. There is no separate policy for maxi basketball.

FIMBA commitment

" Federación Internacional de Maxibasquetbol " (FIMBA Maxibasketball) is an association of basketball athletes based in Buenos Aires ( Argentina ), which supports and promotes the development of the global maxi basketball movement through its own event concepts, combined with a targeted marketing strategy, but also for its own Purposes. The FIMBA organizes international championships for maxi basketball players from all continents without being a recognized sports association of the Olympic movement or having national sports associations among its members. The FIMBA understands maxi basketball, also in connection with the objective of winning sponsors for its activities, as 'media & entertainment sport'. In its external communication portrayal, it presents itself as one of the main initiators and founders of the worldwide maxi basketball movement.

Organization of the alumni

Former top players, women and men, are interested in their special status for a number of reasons. The special interests of professionals have an impact on the period that begins at the time their career ends. In the vicinity of the major clubs of all leagues of professional basketball worldwide, there are associations of former top players. They do not form a community with the organized maxi basketball players because they pursue different interests.

Players the finals played in Germany in the areas of the DAR and the DBV (German Basketball Association in the former GDR ) for the championship and / or around the DBB Cup , some have won them their playoffs in games in the European Cup level while who have represented their country internationally with the national team as a squad player usually attach great importance to the fact that their achievements and successes, combined with years of hard and concentrated work in training, are perceived, respected and recognized in a historical context even after the end of their active career become.

Former professional players have special requirements that are based on their active time and often arise from relationships with their former clubs under labor law or from serious health problems due to sports injuries. In the environment of the NBA, the most important league of top basketball or the top clubs in Mediterranean Europe, there are associations of former top players to represent their own important interests. Traditional teams from top European clubs, with their 'veterans and legends', regularly compete against each other in order to relive the spirit of basketball without any competitive pressure and to emphasize the mutual play.

For example, the association of the ACB league - veterans of basketball players from ' Real Madrid Baloncesto ' ('Leyendas Blancas - Asociación de Jugadores del Real Madrid de Baloncesto'), who in their role as former top players, are not maxi basketball players, is regarded as an exemplary organization for veterans are. The veterans of the Real Madrid basketball players association support a number of social projects and award scholarships .

The 'Club of Friends of Basketball', which is active in the direct vicinity of the DBB, does not find acceptance among the former, 'homeless' top players in German basketball. Its purpose is different. The requirements of the top players in German basketball could only be met if the exclusivity is met in a community of the successful. Players who have 'already won something' like to communicate with their basketball comrades at 'eye level' and don't just want to be 'decorative accessories' for a 'camaraderie' of former officials and other former basketball players.

Veterans of the DBB

The DBB is considered to be one of the German sports federations , the majority of which 'does not know' its former national players , especially the former national players of the DBV in the former GDR. There are no statistics at the DBB. While in the classic European basketball nations the group of former championship and cup winners as well as the national players are of great and special importance for the work of the associations, the contact with the former top players is not organized by the DBB or its executive committee and is not broad groomed. There are no ' alumni events ' or organizations in German basketball which aim to maintain and maintain relationships between the former veterans of German basketball, the top players of the DBB and DBV. The potential that this group of alumni offers for basketball in Germany has always not been used. They are also largely not available for the maxi basketball movement.

The vast majority of the former successful top players of the DBB or DBV are not active as maxi basketball players and do not take part in the DBB's national best basketball games. This attitude is understandably justified by the fact that a number of players had to end their careers due to sports injuries or sports disability. Another group suffered from health impairments after their time as top players, which made it seem unreasonable to be active as a maxi basketball player. By far the largest group of non-participating former German top first division players does not want to expose themselves to the particular aggressiveness and unreasonable severity with which they are regularly encountered on the floor.

The best-known maxi basketball players from the large circle of former top players from the DBB area, who have regularly competed at the National Best Basketball Games for more than a quarter of a century, are Center Dietrich 'Didi' Keller and the two forwards Ralph Ogden and Jürgen Wohlers . Keller and Wohlers were part of the DBB squad for the 1972 Summer Olympics . Keller played for the Bundesliga clubs USC Mainz, TuS 04 Leverkusen and USC Heidelberg , Wohlers for MTV Wolfenbüttel and USC Munich . Jürgen Wohlers was the record national player of the DBB with 174 international matches until 1995 . The American Ralph Ogden, from Oldenburg TB , came straight from the NBA , from the San Francisco Warriors , to VfL Osnabrück in 1972 and then played for RuWa Dellwig in the Bundesliga for a year .

No German basketball player has yet been appointed to the circle of Hall of Fame players - FIBA Hall of Fame , Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame or Women's Basketball Hall of Fame . Detlef Schrempf is one of the nominated players on the 'FIBA Hall of Fame Candidate List', as the only German player.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  29. ↑ FIBA Asia ( Memento of the original of February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. FIBA Asia website. Retrieved May 14, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fibaasia.net
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