{"id":12796,"date":"2019-12-20T10:57:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T10:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/?p=12796"},"modified":"2020-01-16T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T16:35:06","slug":"vx-the-best-sport-youve-never-heard-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/vx-the-best-sport-youve-never-heard-of-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VX\u2013 the best sport you\u2019ve never heard of!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12797\" src=\"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/EDUVXIMAGE-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/EDUVXIMAGE-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/EDUVXIMAGE-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/EDUVXIMAGE-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/EDUVXIMAGE-1024x584.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/EDUVXIMAGE.jpg 1081w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Amixed and inclusive sport that is also accessible to the disabled. It increases participation and gets non-sporty children involved. It\u2019s versatile, is suitable for all ages and abilities, and beginners can play at a fast pace in just ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It can be played as a team, singles or doubles, has had a massive impact in schools across the UK and is spreading rapidly internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting squarely in the National Curriculum, with discounts for education, it ticks all your PE &amp; Sport Premium boxes. VX emphasises honesty and integrity in sport. Schools use it in many ways, both in the curriculum and for afterschool. It involves a massive amount of both aerobic and anaerobic fitness,\u2013 but the youngsters don\u2019t realise how hard they are working. As Helen Mackenzie (Director of Sport for Ripon Schools) said: \u201cVX \u2013 it\u2019s got the lot!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vxinternational.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.vxinternational.com <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watchvx.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.watchvx.tv<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:upmh@vxinternational.com\"> upmh@vxinternational.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>07790 351534<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amixed and inclusive sport that is also accessible to the disabled. It increases participation and gets non-sporty children involved. It\u2019s versatile, is suitable for all ages and abilities, and beginners can play at a fast pace in just ten minutes. It can be played as a team, singles or doubles, has had a massive impact &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-newsletter","category-outdoor-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12798,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12796\/revisions\/12798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}