I play a lot of different sports such as soccer, volleyball, badminton, table tennis, … but my favorite sport is soccer. This is a popular sport but still attracts players. I played soccer from a very young age. When I was a boy, I used to play soccer with my friends on the sand court near my home with our own goal. Now I often play soccer on artificial turf fields. To play soccer you need to have good physical strength. To play this sport you need two teams. We will try to get the ball into the opponent’s goal. Which team scores more than that team wins. We usually play soccer every Thursday. I play as a striker. Playing soccer helps me feel better mentally. Although we were very tired, we were all very happy. I dreamed of becoming a player for the national team. If you are a guy and you have never played soccer before, it is a pity. Let’s try this useful sport to experience what it has to offer!

I do not play many kinds of sports, but I love to go swimming. Swimming is just my hobby, but sometimes I also participate in some competitions at my school and local area. When I first went to the pool, I just simply wanted to know how to survive when we felt into water, and it gradually became my favorite thing to do in free time. It took me two weeks to finally floating and swimming for a couple of meters. Before that, I had to struggle very hard and drink a lot of water. However, once I could learn the right technique, swimming became so easy and relaxing. Besides the chance to survive, it can also have many other positive impacts on me. After swimming for about two years, I became taller than most of my friends at the same age. Besides, my muscles also be stronger and tougher, and now I can swim or run slowly for a couple of kilometers without being too tired. I usually go to the pool at the weekend, but if there is an upcoming competition, I have to practice for almost everyday. My strong point is swimming in short distance because I can swim pretty fast. Therefore, I usually sign up in the 100m and 200m categories. The time result is the one to determine the winner, and we need to train to become faster and faster after each competition. I have two bronze medals, two silver medals and one gold medals; my mother keeps them carefully in a glass cabinet, and I can say that they are my biggest pride. Swimming is not simply an activity, but it is both a surviving skill and a supporter for our health. I see many benefits of it, so I will always keep on swimming.

I love a quite strange sport for everyone, and it is ping pong. Not many people in Vietnam who are interested in ping pong, and it is also hard to find a place to actually have enough equipment to play it. Ping pong, or it also known as table tennis, consists of two or four players hitting a lightweight ball back and forth on a table. The table is divided in two halves by a net, and it marks the playing zone of each team. The basic rule for amateurs is pretty simple as players need to let the ball touch their side of the table one time before bouncing back. They then hit the ball back to their opponent’s side with a small paddle, and this time the ball also need to touch the other side of the table as well. A point is counted when a player fail to return back the ball, let it touch the net, or make it land outside of the table. Since it is played on a table, so the area is not big enough for us to wait and think about the next move. Therefore, we need to play it with fast reactions and nonstop motions. We only have one second to act the next step right after hitting the ball, and it does not take much time to complete a set. In a competition, and match usually consists of five or seven sets, and the first one to score 11 points wins a set. Many people do not take this sport serious, but I think it is a very good sport to train both of our physical and mental health as we need to be tough and have quick reactions at the same time.