Arspoetic

sept 2002
Creating and maintaining the adventure park was not only to secure our livelihood but it was also our goal to popularize all close to nature sports and activities. Serpa arspoetic We want those activities based on the human body's natural features not to be extreme sports. Unfortunately in our modern society these features seem to get in the background nowadays, way back behind the screens of the virtual world. Serpa arspoetic We try in our power to change this „Non-moving" life style attitude. We believe and hope that physical strength is needed not only for „Staying in market" but also keeping our inner human values. Serpa arspoetic Instead of the fake and canned sports, to avoid side effects we offer outdoor activities far from the human civilization's "achievements"!
sept 2012
10 years ago there were only 2-3 adventure parks in the whole country. This number increased rapidly and nowadays there are more than 500 adventure parks what we can count in Hungary. All the adventure parks based on American training camps. But these rudimentary parks primary focused and tried to develop strength, physique, stamina and bravery. Later on, they turned into fun and enjoyable, not that hard “leisure parks”. All this happened because these days the people got used to wellnesses, fitnesses and they search the range of amusement parks and hypermarkets. In Balatoni bob leisure park, (which we are also member of) there is wide range of activities for example winter and summer bob track, paintball, a huge playground for children, outdoor fitness park for adults and the free viewpoint tower which gives you a beautiful outlook for the east side of the Balaton lake. We, in Serpa Adventure park instead of other adventure parks, try to keep the traditions. It means we attempt “our guests gain better physical condition than when they arrived to us” as our posy says. Very common on the adventure trails that people holds the metal wire which are not part of the activity, only provides the safety if someone loses balance. These people have got only one goal in their minds. How to complete the trail the easiest way as possible. Sometimes we make the trail harder for more skillful children but their parents remonstrate and tell them to do gawky. 80 per cent of these parents just sit all day in the car, front of the computer at work or on the sofa watching television. The only way it can change is to get people to do more physical activities for example hiking, swimming, cycling or running. The sports are not depended on money only on decisions. Because if someone wants to develop physical strength, every time needs bigger challenge than it would be comfortable.

„Anima sana in corpore sano.”

sept 2022
Everything goes its own way. What we wrote in 2012 is still true for 2022, except that the pace of physical decline has accelerated even more. Today's age groups, the same as 10 years ago, have fallen back by 1-2 sherpa obstacle course levels. In percentage terms, the rate of decline is 25-30%. The dumping of smart, or in their own language, clever devices is 'spectacularly' degrading people, both physically and mentally. We do not wish to see the same state of affairs caused by covid, war, energy shortages etc. Although, anyone who has paid any attention to the way the world moves is not surprised at this turn of events, which is not really a turn of events, but the outcome of a process that has been going on for a good hundred centuries. What has been screaming for decades that I'm here, you're running out of water, you're running out of fuel, you're running out of air, has arrived. Suddenly everyone is opening up to nature, but for the time being only in a campaign way. Comfort, the 'we deserve everything' attitude is hard to give up, and those who live off it are using every means to remain the masses, 'just' consumers! Our world is changing drastically, but let us not blame others, we are all in it up to our necks. We Serpas, we continue to try to continue our policy of 10 and 20 years ago: natural forms of movement in a natural environment. Just as before, we encourage everyone to exercise outdoors, avoiding all artificial activities that don't cost money, just attitude. We hope to report back in 10 years. Not a further deterioration, but a surprise improvement.

„The NORTHERN TRAILER, as it lives in the imagination of all free peoples, is but a narrow, hidden, elusive path to the mysterious East, but in a wider sense it is a fabled path of fame and glory, of treasure and adventure. How many men are there among us who ceaselessly seek their own Northwest Passage, and sacrifice their health, all their strength, and even their whole life in the quest! Who would dare to say that the barren but hopeful pursuits of such dreamers are less happy than the lives of the wiser and more sober, those who sit at home, yawn in safety and never risk anything. They laugh at those who seek the fabled gateway, the way out of the drabness of everyday life. They laugh at them, but their smiles seem sour.”

Kenneth Roberts

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