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It's traditionally considered the best compromise for action shots you aren't lighting with your flash, indoors. You will lose some clarity, but you'll get better stop action out of it. Might have a look for any higher-resolution high-speed stuff -- seems like I've seen some recent Fuji film that's supposed to give you lower grain at higher film speeds.
I don't know how much you actually know, since I've only read some of your threads about this, and I'm really only a moderately accomplished amateur photog myself. You may already know what I'm about to tell you, so if you do, disregard it.
The higher you can set the shutter speed, the better you can freeze motion, if that's what you want to do. A smaller aperture will give you less 'depth of field' -- if you have the aperture wide and the shutter speed low, the background (and foreground, if there is one) will be blurrier than the thing you're focused on. The faster the shutter opens and closes, the less motion the subject of the focus makes while the film is exposed. That's why higher film speeds freeze action better -- because to get enough light on 125 film in a setting like that, you have to keep the shutter open long enough for several objects to have moved significantly.
You could try 200 film first, but I've had best luck at places like hockey and night baseball games with 400. You don't control the light, at that distance; 200 is fine if you're shooting something your flash will have an effect on.
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