SIBIN MAC gave Khokhoskills.com an opportunity to speak to Ultimate Kho Kho player Sibin Mac from Kerla. He tell us the story of his life and how he fell in love with the game Kho Kho. Born on 3rd May 1996, Sibin Mac is young energetic 23 years old Kho Kho player. Sibin Mac represent Kozhikkode, Kerala and have played Natinal Championships: 52th senior national championship 2018-2019, and 30th federation cup 2018-2019.
When we asked Sibin? Why did you choose to play Kho Kho?
He smiled and started I am a person who loves running sports very much. What I learned through the Kho Kho game that it is a very intelligent, playful game. It teaches you to handle any situation, such as teamwork togetherness and leadership quality improve once you start playing it on daily basis. More over by practicing the game Kho Kho our body is able to play any other game as Kho Kho requires high endurance and stamina.
Sibin Mac started playing the game from very young age and decided to make it as career.
I started playing kho-kho since I was 12 years old. Now i’m 23 years old, and still an active player and have played for country in many championships.
On asking “What kind of preparation requires to become a national level kho kho player?” Sibin gave perfect reply.
I understand the more we involve in the game, its higher our performance level. One should train daily by either playing the game or doing workout is very much advised. With playing game every day it makes your understating of gave even better. Exercise like Slow running 30 minutes every day, and exercise, sprint, shuttle run, this will be mandate to improve endurance and stamina. In addition the encouragement of the trainer, and family members, and one of the main reason is my seniors, they are very inspiring. These helps a lot to level up of your game and thus selection chances.
Sports ministry is focusing on game to develop more fine players.
They are very helpful. At this point I would like to thank everyone again. They provide all kind of training for the team. They come forward on their own and solves the players problems from time to time. Not only this have they taken special diet care of each player by providing monitored protein foods during training period. It gives you the right ground and a good coach to improve the game and grow the players.
Kho-kho as a game is evolving in the country(people are getting excited about it).
I am very excited to know that Gov of India is focusing on game Kho Kho and trying to make it popular. Kho kho is ancient game of India and right now it is getting revamped to get the Kho Kho fans more thrill and adrenaline rush while watching the game. Although i have competed in several competitions in different games but I am very proud of kho-kho when it comes to competitions like IPL today. Game is already popular in some other countries like India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Pakistan, England, Bangladesh. It is sure to spreading in the world wide. I am very happy to be a member of this first Ultimate league of the game.
When we asked Sibin Mac “What do you want to tell youngsters that want to join the game?”
What I can tell you from my experience is that practicing kho-kho has many advantages for you but this one sport which will keep you physically fit. It helps in moral developing and like all other international games today kho-kho is emerging, so there are plenty of opportunities for the next generations. And also playing for the country is a great pride.
Sibin Mac is currently part of Ultimate Kho Kho league. It will be interesting to watch him play and cheering up for him.