Origins -
I think I first became aware of Walking Football one Saturday morning watching BBC Breakfast Time with Mike Bushell. A quick search reveals that its June 2012 when Mike visited Bury FC who had started their community program in April 2012. Here's the link to the BBC News page.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18380173 Sorry I can't embed the BBC site.
Bury set it up to get 50+ year olds active in the Beautiful Game again at a different pace, bringing football right back down to basics. What is apparent at this early stage is the discipline required to keep control of a two moving objects (yourself & a football) at a measured pace.
FIFA, bless them, posted their own video version of the Bury project on 16 March 2013. By then it had caught the imagination of umpteen clubs & organisations around the country (and world).
It's very noticeable here how the competitive element in all of us speeds everything up. There's a lot of running & skipping going on.....
https://youtu.be/ZC0gzBA3QpI Unfortunately FIFA don't like me embedding their videos either
I think I first became aware of Walking Football one Saturday morning watching BBC Breakfast Time with Mike Bushell. A quick search reveals that its June 2012 when Mike visited Bury FC who had started their community program in April 2012. Here's the link to the BBC News page.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18380173 Sorry I can't embed the BBC site.
Bury set it up to get 50+ year olds active in the Beautiful Game again at a different pace, bringing football right back down to basics. What is apparent at this early stage is the discipline required to keep control of a two moving objects (yourself & a football) at a measured pace.
FIFA, bless them, posted their own video version of the Bury project on 16 March 2013. By then it had caught the imagination of umpteen clubs & organisations around the country (and world).
It's very noticeable here how the competitive element in all of us speeds everything up. There's a lot of running & skipping going on.....
https://youtu.be/ZC0gzBA3QpI Unfortunately FIFA don't like me embedding their videos either
So then I guess I shelved the idea for a while....
3 August 2014 Barclays Bank showed the following advert and the light bulb moment happened. I thought that Harborne deserved its own Walking Football team. The Queen Alexandra College were building a new Sports Hall.
3 August 2014 Barclays Bank showed the following advert and the light bulb moment happened. I thought that Harborne deserved its own Walking Football team. The Queen Alexandra College were building a new Sports Hall.
Time to get sorted & started.....
