The study, aimed at Physical Education teachers, has collected recommendations and principles for a safe return in the form of computer graphics.

The presentation has been attended by the Universitat’s researcher, Jorge Lizandra, and the secretary-general of the Federación de Enseñanza de CCOO PV, Xelo Valls.

Individual activities such as rope-jumping, frisbee or dancing, and the maximum possible attendance outdoors are recommendations for adapting the Physical Education subject to the pandemic’s situation, as opposed to football or judo. Therefore, the initiative counts on students training with their families the activities which cannot be done in class, the development of motor-social activities with safety criteria, using new technologies, fomenting activities which reduce the environmental impact, and the respect for socioeconomic, physical and sexual diversity.

Lizandra explained that computer graphics along with general rules for hygiene and distancing routines have been classified in four sections: physical condition and health, games and sport, body expression and activities adapted to the natural environment.

In the first section, rope-jumping stands out as an activity which can be trained with a high or low impact. It is equivalent to twenty minutes of continuous running and it can be accompanied by music in order to create different steps.

Among games and sports, court-divided sports such as tennis are a big bet, just like golf or petanque, popular games (pilota or sambori) and adapted, as well as invasion games with discus which do not require of physical contact.

In the body expression section, individual choreographies or dances which allow a staging by maintaining the safety distance are being considered. Running, biking and compass orientation in separated small groups are some of suggestions for the natural environment section.

The Universitat’s professor noted that physical activity is essential for socialisation and that, just like plastic and musical activities, this was another solution to the lockdown.

Computer graphics have already been distributed among all the centres and teachers of the Valencian territory in order to use them as a proposal which aims to adapt physical education to the changing conditions of COVID-19. Furthermore, depending on the variety of environments and teaching circumstances, adjusting the classes to particular conditions might be necessary.