Kids Health Notes give-away: Match Master electronic game
August 2, 2008 by Grace Ibay
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Children do best when interaction is part of learning. When you’re trying to teach a child about the importance of nutrition and fitness, it helps to illustrate “what happens if-” and have kid experience the payoff of keeping healthy.
The David Beckham Academy has come up with a cool electronic handheld soccer game – MatchMaster – that teaches kids all about managing their health. In the virtual sports game, a player simulates proper nutrition, exercise and adequate rest to increase health and performance. The claim to fame of the MatchMaster is that it is a great soccer training aid for kids since it highlights the importance of a good diet, exercise and the need to train regularly to improve and maintain skill.
In MatchMaster, each gamer has a virtual player (that I nicknamed “Dave”) and set up a “daily routine planner” for it where I had to select at the right time food for breakfast, lunch and dinner, schedule a fitness program and sufficient sleep. After a week of trial and error in training, I was able to gain a healthy lifeline for Dave. The better I was at maintaining a healthy lifestyle (nutrition, training and sleep) through inputs in the daily routine planner, the stronger “Dave” got and the better he was at playing the interactive soccer games. One time “Dave” got injured, and that prevented me from playing in the games. Instead I was adviced to get some physio therapy, recuperate and eat better. If the objective of the game is to have kids become more conscious of their health, the food they eat and seeing the body get stronger with each week of training, then this game has accomplished its goal with my trial. With enough skill, I could even have challenged other gamers in the interactive Infrared games.
MatchMaster was launched at Walmart stores in June and has a retail price of $19.96. A sweepstakes campaign also coincides with the launch and will run through September 1, 2008 at midnight. The grand prize is a trip for ten to London to attend a David Beckham Academy Course. A total of $150,000.00 in prizes is given away. Details of the sweepstakes are available inside each package and online at the www.davidbeckhamacademy.com
Now for the give-away: I have two MatchMaster games (blue and light blue cover) as prizes, and it’s easy to join -
- Just share your thoughts in the comments: “How do you get your kids physically active?”
- One entry per person per day
- It’s open to residents of the 48 contingent US states only.
- Contest ends 12:00 midnight EST on August 17, 2008 (Sunday). Two winners will be randomly chosen and announced via blog and email the week after.
- If the winner does not reply within 3 days, he/she forfeits her winnings and an alternate winner will be chosen.
I am lucky enough that my kids enjoy physical activity. All I have to do is suggest a trip to the park and they are all ready to go!
I am very lucky to have physically active kids. They love to ride bikes, swim, play outside, Karate, soccer, jump on the trampoline, basically anything outdoors. I also like joining them on some of their activities and spend time with them while they still want me too..lol
I send them outside to play.
I take my daughter roller balding/bike riding daily!
We try to play lots of outdoor games together and we swim swim and swim!
Soccer is fun…..
They ride their bikes like crazy in the neighborhood. Good excercise
we ride bikes, play ball, soccer and swimm in the pool
If my kids were any more active I’d need to go to a rest home for a break. Honestly, soccer, swimming and baseball for one with dance, swimming and pilates for the other is all I can keep up with. They need to figure out how to keep me more active!
I let them know they have TV/video limits. If their time is up, out the door they go. Luckily, both are pretty active on their own.
My son would like this.
We do sports as a family. walk, run, swim, bike ride, roller blade:)
they like to ride my stationary bike and watch tv.
My young boys love sports so they stay active with soccer,baseball,martial arts, basketball, using their skooters, bicycling, swimming.
I try to have indoor toys that encourage physical movement. I have a long collapsible tunnel that the children crawl through, as well as a play tent and Connectables fort designing kit!
Outside we have a swing set. I also limit TV time! That helps the kids be proactive in choosing how to spend their free time!
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My son loves sports and my daughter loves to dance.
Anything outside: biking, roller blading, sports.
My two sons play sand volleyball for fun!
My son plays baseball!
I got my kids interested in gardening during the summer months. They play softball, volleyball and cheer during the school year.
Both of my children play Soccer. Last year we put a lot of money into outdoor activity items such as scooters, bikes, skateboards etc. instead of indoor items such as video games. It gets my children more involved in outdoor activities on a regular basis.
Thank you so much for offering this wonderful giveaway.
I would LOVE to win !!
Camping – we do alot of camping and hiking, our daughter loves to hike with us and explore new hiking trails
Using our local bike trail to walk, bike, roller blade!
a small pool gets them outdoors
Would like to win
And with brand new sidewalks all around our block!!!
My son would love this game even though he is grown. He played soccor all through school and this would bring back such memories
Actually, when friends are over we play badminton outdoors – funeven if you aren’t an athlete.
the kids love to go to the park near by!!!
I enroll them in sports when I can.
We go to the park and walk and play.
I purcase toys that require physical activity for outdoors.
I get my child involved in as much as possible! We get out of the house every day! We shut off the TV and go out to play. We are active in our local MOM’s club which has weekly activties for the children. He also plays soccer (twice a week) and does swim lessons (once a week). Did I mention he is 3!!!
I would like to use this for my kids
My son would play this everyday
get involved myself
Play games
I bike ride all the time w/ the kiddies:)
We love toi take walks. It gives us time to talk about anything and everything.
I chase them, they chase me, we all chase the dog who then chases us, it wears us all out.
We set aside one day a week where we all go for a hike or walk or bike ride.
Thanks
We are a soccer family. It is such a great sport.
I guess I’m always trying to get mine to settle down. They get along and have fun together and wind each other up despite all the sports we do.
We play with our kittens outside.
We go outside with them. That’s a sure fire way to get them out and moving around. Also video games are for “family nights” instead of them playing them everyday. I can’t believe parents allow their children to veg in front of the TV playing video games every day.
I bike ride w/ them or roller blade.
We are active in our local community sports teams.
I have been a soccer mom for many years. All my kids have played! Thanks for the chance to win!
I try to be active with them, we bike, go swimming, take walks in the park. Play with them
My husband and I set up an obstacle course in the yard using whatever we can find.