VIDBE-Q 2025 Volume 70 Issue 4
associated with a host of concerns: Is the risk of injury too great? Can movement
be learned with a visual impairment? Do the different abilities of the students make
meaningful school sports even possible? Or is this inevitably associated with
disappointment and discrimination? This article aims to refute these doubts and
allay fears. This is especially true for school sports, where competitive and
regulated competition between students can trigger a valuable learning process that
can have a positive impact on personal development.
Fighting in Physical Education
When this article refers to ground fighting, it means the physical and
combative confrontation between two people. This definition can be further
specified. While roughhousing is a form of physical combat that is playful and fair,
athletic fighting is defined by agreed rules and rituals as well as the use of fighting
techniques.
Furthermore, the paradoxical relationship of conflict with others while
simultaneously feeling responsibility and caring for them is symptomatic of
fighting. Therefore, combatants regularly find themselves on a fine line between
responsible, cultivated, and respectful fighting and the danger of treating their
opponent purely objectively or instrumentally, or of behaving in an aggressive
manner. All tasks should therefore be designed as partner tasks that open up
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