Tokyo 2020, discovering the 6 new disciplines and where to practice them - Lifestyle

Softball and baseball, climbing, skateboarding, karate and surfing are the new disciplines admitted to the Tokyo Olympics by the Olympic committee.

Here, curiosities and destinations from eDreams to find out more and try your hand at it.

There will be two specialties for this discipline: park and street, where the skill of the skater will be evaluated for the creation of "figures" based on technique and speed of execution. The city of Milan, the undisputed destination of fashion and luxury, hosts a lively artistic life linked to the world of the street, where this sport was born and developed. There are numerous places to practice it in its two different souls: from Parco Lambro Skate Park, free and with hips with 120 ° angles and tracks made of pleasant lines at different heights, to Lambrate station, recommended for the street thanks to its stairways. Also ideal are the Central Station, during off-peak hours, and the Bicocca university area, among benches, flat bars, walls, bleachers, which together with the Idroscalo Skate Park,dedicated and free skating park, they are perfect destinations for training.

Another brand new sport in the Olympic competitions is surfing, in the shortboard style, whose competitions will have as scenario, wind permitting, the waters of Shidashita, near Chiba, capital of the prefecture of the same name, to the southeast. of Tokyo. There are numerous bays of our local waters where you can practice this sport, but for those wishing to test themselves in the temple of surfing in Italy, a fundamental destination is Santa Marinella, a stretch of the Lazio coast, considered a real Mecca of Italian surfing. The most famous point of the coastal stretch is Banzai Beach, famous all over the world and where numerous surf schools are located and various national events take place.

Softball is one of the new entries of Tokyo 2020, along with baseball, but unlike the latter, Italy will compete with an all-female team for softball only. The story goes that the first softball match was played in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day in 1887 at the Farragut Boat Club, during the football match between Yale and Harvard Universities. When the soccer match score was announced, a Yale student threw a boxing glove at a Harvard fan, who took a cue and hit the glove. George Hancock, considered the inventor of the game, yelled "Play ball!" kicking off the game, with a balled-up boxing glove and a broomstick as a club. For those wishing to discover a sport that in Italy has a fundamentally female tradition,the right city is Chicago, the largest in Illinois, overlooking the shores of Lake Michigan, famous for the skyscrapers of the Loop, the city center.

Climbing after years of refusal has finally been admitted into the pantheon of Olympic games with three specialties: lead, speed and boulder. Having become very popular with young people in recent years, climbing is a sport that requires great muscle control and a clear mind. Among the most historically popular places to practice immersed in a breathtaking nature, there are the Verdon Gorges, an essential destination for sport climbers since the 70s, where some fundamental rules and passages of the practice of this sport are said to have been born. The particularity of the context, in addition to an incredible nature, can be noticed simply by leaning out from the Belvedere balustrade: to get to the start of the streets you have to descend from above into an impressive void.

The roundup is closed by one of the symbolic sports of Japan, admitted in 2016 among the Olympic sports and making its debut in its homeland in this year's Olympics: karate, in its Kumite and Kata disciplines. Karate-do was born on the island of Okinawa, the central hub of the ancient kingdom of Ryukyu, in Japan. In addition to discovering the history of this ancient sport, which is accompanied by a real lifestyle and which arises from the convergence of different oriental martial arts and the ban on fighting with weapons, Okinawa is a place to visit because it also houses the secret of longevity. In fact, its inhabitants, thanks to their lifestyle, a healthy diet and contact with unspoiled nature, scattered here and there with small villages of fishermen and farmers, are among the longest-lived in the world.Also noteworthy is the archipelago of the Kerama islands, famous for their beaches of white sand and crystal clear sea, just a short distance away.