First Ever ‘Laser Run’ in Timor-Leste
PRESS RELEASE
Dili, Timor-Leste · Friday, 29 July 2016
SportImpact organized the first ever ‘Laser Shooting’ and ‘Laser Run’
in Timor-Leste, in Dili on July 16th
As part of the recent ‘Sport for Life Youth Leadership Camp’ and sport event, and with special support from the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM), SportImpact organized in Dili, Timor-Leste, for the first time ever in the country, a Laser Shooting and Laser Run (shooting + running) session.
Click here to watch the Laser Pistols in action!
The activities took place at Jardin de Borja, in Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste, during a multi-sport event including a dozen of other sports, all played non-competitively. Over 400 people took part in the event, mostly school boys and girls of ages 10-15.
Laser Shooting was a particularly huge success, with a crowd of kids queueing continuously for long hours and anxiously asking at the end when they could practice again. A couple of the best shooters were invited to try a short Laser Run, and the first ever Timorese Laser Run winner became the most frequent visitor to the shooting range during the rest of the activity.
In this first experiment, facilitators’ focus was on enforcing safety and peaceful rules, transmitting positive values associated with this safe and ecological shooting discipline, where no bullets are shot. Given the young age of many participants, they were allowed to use the laser pistols in less orthodox ways (e.g., both hands, closer to the body, etc.).
SportImpact will continue including Laser Shooting and Laser Run in future events, and is looking for local partners who may want to adopt Laser Run as part of their disciplines (e.g., the Timor-Leste Athletics Federation and/or the Timor-Leste Shooting Federation).
SportImpact appreciates the generous support from the International Modern Pentathlon Union, who offered the pair of laser pistols and targets that enabled this pilot initiative.
About SportImpact
SportImpact is a social enterprise that promotes human development through sport, with projects in Timor-Leste and Cabo Verde. SportImpact welcomes new partners and sponsors who see value in these activities and may want to share their relevant messages in workshops and events, taking advantage of dozens of young leaders and hundreds of kids having fun and being receptive to new messages and activities.
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For more information about ‘Sport for Life’ initiaves and Sportimpact: www.sportimpact.org | www.facebook.com/sportimpact.org | Annual Report
Contacts: events@sportimpact.org, Tel. +670 7801 4000 (Timor-Leste) | +238 937 6577 (Cabo Verde)
Click here to read more about the Sport for Life Youth Leadership Camp.
About the International Modern Pentathlon Union
The International Modern Pentathlon Union (or UIPM – Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne) is the international federation for the Olympic sport of Modern Pentathlon, with headquarters in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Modern Pentathlon was introduced at the 5th Olympiad in Stockholm in 1912, and includes five disciplines: fencing, swimming, horse riding, shooting and running (the last two combined into one in recent years).
For more information: www.uipmworld.org
