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This may be a shocking statement for some of you guys out there, but if you gave up your Gym-card because of the Wii, and Wii sports, well, this danish doctor got some shocking news for you. If you haven’t already seen it, the news is in danish, which my limit some of you guys from reading the actual source of this news. But the danish doctor, Vibeke Manniche, are saying:

The active computergames is of course better than the alternative, where only the fingers are in motion. Children is burning more calories[using the Wii] if the alternative was to just sit in the couch and playing, but the question is how many calories the Wii-exercise help you burn.

First, I might add that it sound a lot like Vibeke only knows that there is a Tennis game in Wii Sports, also there is plenty of test that show how many calories you burn using the different Wii games. Also I think you should focus on that it can of course not replace normal sport, but if you can just made little changes, it could help in the long run, so instead of playing a normal game maybe you choose to play Wii sport game, and at the same time you enjoy a videogame you also burning some calories. It couldn’t be that bad after all.

Also I saved the best part to last:

“On the tennisfield you learn e.g. something about the rules of the game, fairplay and gentlemanship - how to behave around other people.”

The rules of tennis. Well, the rules in Wii Sports Tennis come quiet close to the real rules of Tennis, so I don’t think that’s a problem. Fairplay and Gentlemanship, I dont belive that she has actually seen a real tennis match, people cheat when judging if a ball is in or out, I’ve seen it several times when I played the double in tennis. Gentlemanship… No need to comment on that, it just shows that there is still someone out there who believes that computergames make us all Virginia-tech/Columbine High school killers… I just hope one day that we can all jump a step up on the evolution ladder so we can have some more clever discussions instead of the normal: “OMG! New technology is bad for you… Okay?”