All KIN ACTV Classes
All the KIN ACTV Classes
Fee for all the classes is $70, but some of them have extra fees (golf, bowling). The fees will be under courses’ descriptions.
KIN_ACTV 100 Special Topics: Rowing (Fall Only)
KIN_ACTV 100 Special Topics: Advanced Bowling (Fall and Spring)Special course fee of $49.50 for use of Zeppoz.
Recommended to take beginning and intermediate bowling first.
KIN_ACTV 100 Special Topics: Capoeira (Fall and Spring)
KIN_ACTV 106 Self Defense
Knowing how to protect yourself from a potential attacker is a skill set all of us should have in our toolbox. It is necessary to identify a dangerous situation and ward off an attacker is the biggest part of our class.
In this class you will learn the fundamentals of self-defense with a wide array of disciplines. We will practice techniques from Judo, Boxing, Gracie Jiu Jitsu, Wrestling, Muay Thai and others for a wide base of defensive skills.
KIN_ACTV 109 Beginning Golf, 110 Intermediate Golf, and 111 Advanced Golf
While the modern game of golf originated in 15th-centurey Scotland, the game’s ancient origins are unclear and much debated.
Some historians trace the sport back to the Roman game of paganica, while others cite chuiwan as the progenitor, a Chinese game played between the eighth and fourteenth centuries. Another early game that resembled modern golf was known as cambuca in England and chambot in France. The Persian game chowakan chowkan is another possible ancient origin, albeit being more polo-like. In addition, kolven was played annually in Loenen, Netherlands, beginning in 1297.
The purpose of Beginning Golf is to teach the fundamentals of the golf swing, gain a basic understanding of each club, when it should be used, and provide a regular and consistent practice time. As a beginner, if you utilize the class time we have you will see great improvement in your game.
Intermediate golf course serves as an intermediate course for the activity of golf. Students should already have a basic knowledge and skill of golf and will be building on their current skill level. Students will spend time working on all aspects of the game.
Advanced golf course serves as an advanced course for the activity of golf. Students should already have thorough knowledge and skill of golf and will be building on their current skill level through practice and live play. In addition to practice, students will spend at least four 9 hole rounds on the Palouse Ridge Golf Course. Therefore, each student must pay a total of $45.30 directly to the Palouse Ridge for their rounds. This is a course special for students enrolled in advanced golf.
KIN_ACTV 112 Beginning Weight Training and 113 Intermediate Weight Training
Weight training is a common type of strenght training for developing the strenght and size of skeletal muscles. It utilizes the force of gravity in the form of weighted bars, dumbbells or weight stacks in order to oppose the force generated by muscle through concentric or eccentric contraction. Weight training uses a variety of specialized equipment to target specific muscle groups and types of movement. It is a great preparation for many sports or just for everyday life.
Beginning Weight Training course is to learn the basics and fundamentals of weight training. It includes but is not limited to: Learning the health benefits of weight training, gaining knowledge about weight training, learning about the equipment and the purposes, setting goals and lifting with a purpose, identifying anatomy associated with lifts, and learning/applying proper technique, intensity, and rep ranges.
KIN_ACTV 115 Couch to 5k (Fall and Spring)
KIN_ACTV 118 Yoga
The practice of yoga has been thought to date back to pre-vedic Indian traditions, possibly in the Indus valley civilization around 3000 BCE. Today, the term “yoga” in the Western world often denotes a modern form of hatha yoga and yoga as exercise, consisting largely of the asanas. Outside India, it has developed into a posture-based physical fitness, stress-relief and relaxation tecnique. Traditional yoga, however, includes physical exercise, meditation, and spirituality.
This course will incorporate different aspects of yoga. Yoga is part of the hatha yoga tradition and is a vinyasa style. Yoga classes involve linking several poses together to create strength, flexibility, endurance, and balance. The goal for this class is to provide you with a brief history and overview of the yoga discipline, education about yoga appropriation, and a deeper understanding and appreciation of yoga as a lifestyle, not just a fitness choice.
KIN_ACTV 129: Conditioning Swim (Fall and Spring)
Special course fee of $60 for use of Gibb Pool.
Should know swim basics and be able to swim 2 lengths of the pool without stopping.
KIN_ACTV 130 and 131 Beginning and Intermediate Volleyball
In the winter of 1895 in Massachusetts, William G. Morgan, created a new game called Mintonette, a name derived from the game of badminton as a pastime to be played indoors and by any number of players. The game took some of its characteristics from other sports such as baseball, tennis and handball. Another indoor sport, basketball, was catching on in the area, having been invented just ten miles (sixteen kilometres) away in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, only four years before.
Beginning volleyball course is to learn the basics and fundamentals of volleyball skills and rules. It includes, but is not limited to passing and setting, serving, hitting, rotations and playing (including basic rules).
Intermediate volleyball course serves as intermediate course for the activity of volleyball. Students will be building on their current skill level through skill practice and live play above a beginning level.
KIN_ACTV 135 Beginning Fencing and 136 Intermediate Fencing
Fencing traces its roots to the development of swordsmanship for duels and self defense. Fencing is believed to have originated in Spain; some of the most significant books on fencing were written by Spanish fencers. Treatise on Arms was written by Diego de Valera between 1458 and 1471 and is one of the oldest surviving manuals on western fencing. In conquest, the Spanish forces carried fencing around the world, particularly to southern Italy. Fencing was mentioned in the play The Merry Wives of Windsor written sometime prior to 1602.
The mechanics of modern fencing originated in the 18th century in an Italian school of fencing of the Renaissance, and under their influence, were improved by the French school of fencing.
In Beginning Fencing course you will learn the basics and fundamentals of “Beginning Fencing”. It includes, but is not limited to: Basic Footwork, Basic Foil Blade Work, Priority or Right of Way, Basic Directing, and how to fence safely.
Alredy familiar with fencing? Intermediate Fencing class builds on the basic skills students have in foil fencing. This class will expand footwork, bladework, knowledge of the rules, and directing skills. New footwork and bladework skilled will be introduced. We will be learning and following all of the official rules for foil fencing when doing bouting, and learning to direct following official rules. The majority of the class will involve bouting and directing.
KIN_ACTV 137 Beginning Bowling and 139 Intermediate Bowling
The earliest known forms of bowling date back to ancient Egypt, with wall drawings depicting bowling being found in a royal Egyptian tomb dated to 5200 BC and miniature pins and balls in an Egyptian child’s grave about 5200 BC. About 2,000 years ago, in the Roman Empire, a similar game evolved between Roman legionaries entailing the tossing of stone objects as close as possible to other stone objects, which eventually evolved into Italian Bocce, or outdoor bowling. Around 400 AD, bowling began in Germany by rolling a rock into a club (kegel) representing the heathen, resulting in bowlers being called keglers.
Game, with a long tradition got its newer form that is thought nowsays. In the beginning bowling class, students will learn the basics and fundamentals of bowling, including but not limited to strategies, techniques, and scoring. This course is suitable for individuals of all fitness levels.
In the intermediate class the strategies, techniques, and scoring will be at the highet level.
EXTRA FEE: $49.50/student (the fee is for using bowling facility at Zeppos)
KIN_ACTV 140 Fly Fishing
Fly fishing is angling method that uses a light-weight lure—called an artificial fly—to catch fish. The fly is cast using a fly rod, reel, and specialized weighted line. The light weight requires casting techniques significantly different from other forms of casting. The flies may resemble natural invertebrates, baitfish, or other food organisms.
The purpose of fly fishing is to teach the fundamentals of the activity, gain a basic understanding of how to fly fish, where to fly fish, and provide a regular and consistent practice time.
KIN_ACTV 147 Basketball 3:3
Basketball 3:3 is here! One of the newest Olympic sport and according to an ESSEC Business School study commissioned by the International Olympic Committee, 3×3 is the largest urban team sport in the world.
Bring your team and take your game to the next level. In this course you will learn strategies how to play 3 on 3 and have more fun.
KIN_ACTV 150 Pickleball for Beginners (Fall and Spring)
KIN_ACTV 160 BARRE
Barre is a form of physical exercise, usually conducted in group classes in gyms or specialty studios. It is distinguished from other group fitness activities by its use of the ballet barre and its incorporation of movements derived from ballet. These classical dance movements and positions are combined with those drawn from yoga and pilates, and other equipment is sometimes used in addition to the barre, such as resistance bands, yoga straps, exercise balls, and hand weights. Barre classes typically focus on small, pulsing movements with emphasis on form, alignment and core engagement.
This course is to learn the basics and fundamentals of Barre. It includes, but is not limited to: basic of yoga, Pilates, and ballet, musicality and basic of anatomy.
KIN_ACTV 170 WOMEN’S SELF DEFENSE
According to Victims of Sexual Violence: Statistics on Rainn, about “80 percent of juvenile victims were female and 90 percent of rape victims were adult women”. In addition, women from ages 18 to 34 are highly at risk to experience sexual assault. According to historian Wendy Rouse in Her Own Hero: The Origins of Women’s Self-Defense Movement, women’s self-defense training emerged in the early twentieth century in the United States and the United Kingdom paralleling the women’s rights and suffrage movement.
This course is to learn the basics and fundamentals of Woman’s Self Defense. It includes, but is not limited to different defensing approaches.
KIN_ACTV 172 MEDITATION
Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareess, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state. Scholars have found meditation elusive to define, as practices vary both between traditions and within them.
This course is to learn the basics and fundamentals of different type of meditations.
KIN_ACTV 174 PILATES
This course offers students an experience with practicing the basics and fundamentals of Pilates. It includes, but is not limited to basic anatomy, core and body exercises, stretching, and how to move with the Pilates principals of centering, concentration, control, precision, breath, and flow that makes Pilates a fitness experience for the body and mind