Sports equipment or sporting goods include any object used for sports or exercise. Sporting goods encompass a wide range of products covering very aspect of sport activities, starting from the sportsman's dress to footwear to the game and the accessories required by the players. As sports have grown more and more competitive, the need for better sporting goods and equipment have arose. Golf clubs, baseball bats, soccer balls, hockey skates, exercise and other sporting equipment have all seen considerable changes when new technologies have been applied.
Categories of sporting goods
There are large number of sports and accordingly, each sport or game has their related sporting goods, sports equipment & sports accessories. The sporting goods and equipment can be categorized under the following heads:- Exercise: Exercise goods represent all goods or objects
used in exercise. They can be exercise balls, treadmills, weights,
bicycles, track shoes, tracksuits, jungle gyms, hydraulic equipment
or protective equipment such as a back brace.
- Footwear and apparel: Footwear and apparel include all
types of uniforms, dresses and caps of players and also the sports
shoes required in different games.
- Team Sports: Team sports cover all those sports involving
many players like cricket, hockey, basket ball, base ball, foot
ball, volley ball, water polo and many other sports. Accordingly,
the sporting goods involved in this category involve the balls, the
bats, the net, dress, pads etc.
Action Sports: This category includes the sporting goods related to cycling, in-line skating, skateboarding etc.
- Racquet Sports: Racquet sports involve any sport that is
played using a racquet or racket. Racquet sporting goods include
equipment for all racquet sports such as tennis racquets, tennis
shoes, platform tennis paddles, racquetball, squash, squash shoes
etc.
- Winter Sports: Sporting goods also cover winter sports
like skiing, skating, sleds, snow tubes, snowboarding etc.
- Water Sports: Sporting goods for water sports like
boating, swimming, scuba, water polo, water skiing, wakeboarding
etc. also involve a wide category of goods like balls, skiis,
wakeboards, swimming trunks and swimsets etc.
- Outdoor: Outdoor sports not only involve the various team
sports but also include other sports like archery, cycling, rafting,
camping, hiking, hunting etc. Here, the sporting goods are wide and
varied, including binoculars & optics, tents, ropes etc.
- Indoor & Rest Room products: The rest room sporting goods various indoor games like billiards, caroms, cards, darts, poker, table tennis etc.
Sporting Goods Resources
Olympics & Indiahttp://www.sportfocus.com/index.cfm
http://www.sports-media.org/
http://www.sportsonesource.com/index.asp
http://www.sginews.com/sginews/index.html
http://www.sportsonesource.com/index.asp
http://www.wholesalecentral.com/Sporting_Goods.html
http://www.sgma.com/
http://www.sportsequip.co.uk/
http://sporting-goods.ebay.com/