A guide to Figuroea

The aim of equity in sports is to encourage all people, regardless of age, gender, disability or ethnic origin to participate in and develop their potential within sport. Disputes over equity have been apparent in our society for hundreds of years, over such things as gender, religion or race.

A framework developed by Figueroa deals with equity. It consists of five levels that link together – individual, interpersonal, institutional, structural and cultural. The following paragraphs demonstrate the use of Figueroa Framework as a tool to analyse the barriers to my performance in beach volleyball and part of this involves a peer evaluation (Appendix A).

Each of these levels interacts with equity issues in various ways. These numerous levels deal with social beliefs, values, social position, power, media coverage, resources and rewards (Kirk et al, 2004). Each of the five levels mentioned above relates to the others in some way. This interaction of levels indicates th

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As a person who has played competition squash for two years as well as to hockey, soccer and karate – none of which relate very well to beach volleyball, so I have not had the opportunity to play this sport. As a student playing beach volleyball this doesn’t affect my performance on the volleyball court. My relative lack of height doesn’t affect my communication, understanding or involvement in the game – as shown in the peer evaluation (Appendix A) in which my communication, understanding and involvement shows an average to high rating.

During our various school lessons on beach volleyball I have learnt how to dig, set and spike, which led to playing as part of a team. These women were in most cases physically attractive and wearing a bikini. Whilst growing up I wasn’t able to observe any beach volleyball and consequently I haven’t aspired, or been encouraged, to play beach volleyball.

When watching Olympic beach volleyball and during my media scan (Appendix B) I have observed that stereotypical male beach volleyball players are Caucasian, tall and very athletic with well built upper bodies. A study of images showed that eighty percent of them depicted female rather male players. at we can all have an active role in creating and reinforcing inequities, as noted paragraph below about gender inequity (Kirk et al, 2004).

As they do not play beach volleyball in PNG I found this to be a barrier on a cultural level. As an individual I have only played beach volleyball informally for recreation as opposed to playing it at a competitive properly managed standard. The more beach volleyball we played the more our individual skill levels improved. The class carried out a peer evaluation (Appendix A) in which we evaluated our own and others contribution to the team. I felt that because I was not tall and did not have a well-built upper body that I would not be able to perform well. As I do not fit this stereotype I found that it lowered my confidence level.

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