About US
Streetracket Africa is concerned with the development of effective and affordable strategies that will enhance the continuation of structured organized play and sports programme activities during and after the Covid-19 pandemic in African countries.
Working with Marcel Straub, the Founder of Streetracket Concept, streetracket sport seeks to give everyone, anytime and anywhere the opportunity to be active and healthy utilizing affordable equipment and no specific courts or sporting infrastructure.
Street Racket is much more than a game. It is a multi-faceted concept to promote exercise, health, community, empowerment, and education. And it is tremendous fun. With this innovation, the sports ground comes right to everyone’s home, it requires no infrastructure or maintenance – and it is incredibly versatile and safe while being also very sustainable.
STREETRACKET CONCEPT & ITS BENEFITS
STREET RACKET CONCEPT AND ITS BENEFITS
This game and exercise collection with many helpful tips introduces the exciting and versatile world of Street Racket to all interested players and users. Anyone who plays Street Racket or enables the use of Street Racket will profit from the following positive aspects:
- Multipurpose exercise game that is great fun for everyone
- Promotion of health, motion, and team play Trains all coordinative skills / motor skills
- Turns spaces of all kinds into playgrounds and playing fields
- Creates active spaces in a matter of seconds – where people can meet and interact in healthy and social ways
- The scalable playing fields adapt to any space available (just draw them larger or smaller)
- Requires no additional infrastructure (no logistics, no maintenance costs, no authorization required)
- Promotes ambidexterity and bilateral motor skills and therefore body awareness and competence in movement
- Maintains mobility into old age
Getting Started and playing stree racket
The principle of Street Racket is based on long and controlled rallies from one player to the next, including everyone and enabling everyone to enjoy varied coordinative experiences and to make progress.
In order to maintain this central nature of the concept and also to promote the many emotional, social, and cognitive aspects associated with it, we suggest preventing “slamming the ball down” (i.e. smashing) even for any new forms of the game.
This allows the ball to be played smoothly, prolonging the active sequences, which would be interrupted and strongly reduced by “smashing” the ball, which tends to be some sort of aggressive-destructive behavior, while also reducing the number of experiences of success and therefore the players’ motivation.
The Street Racket exercise concept is easy to understand and easy to use. In order to obtain the best effects possible, however, it is strongly recommended that organizations, such as schools, companies, sports clubs or associations, have an official instructor provide a playful introduction to Street Racket.
THE NEED FOR STREET RACKET
For many vulnerable African children, the Covid pandemic has robbed them of the most important experiences of childhood and restricted their chances to learn and grow through sport and play.
Therefore, especially in these difficult times of the pandemic, exercise is perhaps more important than ever before, both physically and psychologically. Already known problems such as inactivity, obesity, or diabetes as well as the horrendous follow-up costs for the health care system are once again massively increasing, among other things because various options to be active are restricted and because mobility is fundamentally reduced.
Violence, aggression, depression, and frustration are unfortunately on the rise again. Simple, functioning instruments are needed that have an immediate and lasting effect within the private, educational, and working environment. The growth of street racket spaces will see Joburg CBD parks, empty stands, parks, and parking areas becoming sportsgrounds for the youth.
