The Third Age has become a world institute

The Third Age has become a world institute. It is known and considered as an elemental rock in the human kind. The third age is a moment in the human life starting at the end of the productive time, meaning over the 65 years and goes until the 85 years. After that time the Fourth Age is being considered.
Everybody knows the expression Third Age. There are Educational Institutes and Universities with the only purpose to study, understand and help the people of that age. The main interest is to take care of them psychologically and physically preventing diseases, damages or injuries.
Many states have created Secretaries or Ministries of the Third Age. And it is right that they have it, because it is an age with needs and with a necessity of care by the public and private entities.
The age before that one, obviously is the Second Age. The age begins at the 34 or 35 years and goes until the 65 (when the third starts). In that age, the active one, the age of the productivity, of the responsibilities and the consolidation of the family and the human being, Maxibasketball is played.
Maxibasketball and second age go together. It is a special time. It is the time when the world is built, is a time to take care not only of ourselves but of our kids, our family, our friends, our business and look of our happiness. The sport makes us happy. Maxibasketball is the way to canalize our feelings giving us the possibility to share our time with the all time friend, to know new people, to travel and to show to those we love those spectacular places where the Maxibasketball tournaments are held.
The second age has a particular activity. Produces the developing of the human needs and means exactly “activity”. The opposite of the “inactivity” - the time to rest, to leave the work, to take a break-. It is the time for becoming a “veteran”, a “senior”, to show the “vintage”, to remember the “golden oldies” or even become, without never being, a “master”.
That is why the sport time of the second age is named “maxi”. Because “maxi” means “activity” not “inactivity”. Besides the meaning of the maximum, -where the word maxi comes- the last category -there are not more categories after the maximum- it replaces all the confused words that only denotes “old age” and inactivity .
Maxibasketball is active; is the place for the high performance in the second age. Maxibasketball is life, it is vital for human beings and the exact sense of the sport continuity.
“Maxi” doesn´t mean “old age”, on the contrary it means the young time of the second age. And we have the fortune and the luck to be in that age and to show that we can and we are in the best high performance time.

Carlos Del Viso
FIMBA Secretary