walking
Walkball Soccer
Research Paper on Walking
Walkball Soccer as a Great Exercise
Mixing Fitness with the Beautiful Game of Soccer
My Name is Paulo-Juarez Pereira. Born in Brazil, I have been playing soccer since I was a child. All through high school, college and graduate school, I played in various positions, including goalie. While attending the University of San Francisco, I played in the San Francisco Soccer League. I sustained a knee injury while playing soccer when I was attending graduate school in New York State. That injury led to a knee-replacement surgery in 2005, and as soon as I had recovered, I started playing again. Many of my ideas for Walkball came to me at the time of myrecovery from surgery. I now play and coach Walkball Soccer. I havea BA in Philosophy and an MA in Linguistics. I speak Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and German, and he read French. I am a volunteer math and German tutor, an avid hiker, and I enjoy sailing in the San Francisco Bay and in the Florida Keys. I have three children and two grandchildren and live with my wife, Annie, in San Jose, California.
Initially I chose Sac State because it was convenient for me. I had recently relocated to the Sacramento area and I was excited to be back in California and to have a chance to take courses again. After enrolling at Sac State, I fell in love with the school, its campus, its academic community, and its cultural life. Coming to campus for me was something I looked forward to with great anticipation, even when my first class of the day was College Algebra at 8 a.m.!
Sac State helped me redirect my life in many ways. First, I learned enough math to become a math tutor. I'm now comfortable in tutoring math through advanced algebra and trigonometry. After learning German, I was able to travel to Germany twice, and actually talk to people.
Learning German has given me a linguistic understanding of German terms that sometimes one finds in American literary publications, such as the term schadenfreude, which refers to a kind of pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others,
and a better understanding of why my English-speaking German friends sometimes say something like, I think I speak English very good!
I have done some research over the Internet on the topic of walking as a means to achieve physical fitness, and I was surprised at the incredible amount of information that there is on the Internet about walking. You can see the results of my research here. This research is especially useful for those people who which to learn more about the great exercise that is Walkball Soccer.
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