Sports and cultural heritage
By Martin Chew (Hong Kong, notch acrobats, herbal medicine gurus, martial artists and even Buddhism masters have been enlisted to help sharpen the competitive edge of the country's pretenders, adding a flair of the Middle Kingdom's proud heritage to its desperate chase for sporting glories.
The Chinese National Acrobatics Circus have been advising the country's national whitewater canoeing Olympic team for more than 12 months, assisting in designing a regime to help improve the paddlers' sense of equilibrium.
Wang Guiqin, a coach of diabolo players at the acrobatics troupe, reckoned it was an easy bridge to cross between tossing a Chinese yo-yo and negotiating gates against clock down rapids.
brink of capsizing or tilting out of control, acrobatics, the Chinese diabolo is made of bamboo. Cut into the ends of the bamboo toy are tiny holes, which create pipe-like sound.Chinese diabolo players often toss the device high in the air, spin a few somersaults, and then are ready to catch it again. The art involves intensive hand juggling, just like slalom canoeing, a European sport introduced to China less than a decade ago. In fact, China didn't have a national slalom canoe squad until after 1999.
Wang , once invited to lecturer the canoers, said the ingenious partnership bewteen diabolo and the canoeing first came into existence in mid 2007.
behind in training volume, or the number of the same moves repeated in each session, a result of the introduction of methods once unique to the troupe.
by Wang as involved in the new program. They powered to a ground-breaking victory at the Oceania Continental Championships heldin Australia in March, at the expense of Pavol and Peter Hochschorner from Slovakia, the twins pair which dominated C2 class in the Athens Olympics. The duo now tops China's medal hopes at the Olympic slalom tournament, which begins on next Monday (August 11)
The borrowing from China's rich folk art tradition is also reflected in the boxing ring.
Zou Shiming, the reigning light flyweight world amateur champion, practiced martial arts, or wushu, in his early teenage before being chosen for a shift to boxing by the local sports authorities in his home Guizhou province. When he met his current coach Zhang Chuanliang, a former national champion in broadsword play, a wushu discipline, 10 years ago, they decided to develop a strategy rarely seen in the sparring sport, which usually puts premium on all-out aggressiveness.
; said Chen Guorong, the deputy chairman of the Chinese Wushu Federation. Zou himself also listed his roots in wushu as a key factor to his success. it with boxing. traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, said Li Guoping, the Team China chief medical officer.
the country's ancient pharmacy plays on its Olympians' match fitness. A stress fracture found in his left foot found in Feburary cut short Yao's NBA season with Houston Rockets and once put his Olympic appearance in doubt.
style surgery but was mainly administered with herbal medicine to help speed the recovery, national teammates late last month and played his first competitive tournament last week in the Stankovic Cup in Hangzhou.
Traditional Chinese methodology not only heals physical wounds but also calms the inner demon, if the Chinese shooting team's experience is anything to go by. The state-run China Sports Daily reported that some of the country's marksmen and women were asked to practice Buddhism-style meditation to enforce concentration in a sport values most surgical precision and inner peace even under most adversary circumstances.
meant to boost the resistance to any outside distraction, with a deep sense but in the means to help athletes to train, making China five thousand years of ancient culture and modern Olympic movement formed a perfect combination. acrobats and Chinese medicine, martial arts experts and even Buddhist masters have been invited to help Chinese athletes training and improve performance, sports honor to reproduce this country has become an important way past glory.
China National Acrobatic Troupe in the past twelve months has been that China's canoeing team as a consultant, and through special training to help improve the balance canoeists. Gui Qin State Circus Diabolo project coach, he considers that this is called some of the needs. upper limb, in order to ensure there is enough explosive power to complete some required action. and canoeing at this point is identical with the diabolo, you must turn in the turbulent water flow and changes to, do not have enough upper body strength is essential impossible to complete these actions. diabolo so that will be issued when the musical sound. The sport needs a strong hand techniques, the same as canoeing. But early in the Ming Dynasty in China diabolo has emerged, and the Europeans invented the canoe project until the last century was introduced into China, China before 1999 had not even set up the national canoeing team.
Gui Qin of last year's training techniques will Diabolo canoeing team into China. Now with the acrobats, like every day a lot of basic movement training. While still slightly behind schedule, but it will definitely improve performance for their help. Rowing team players for the introduction of this unique training method is very welcome. . So far, the project team members are very welcome, and the results were pretty good. the focus of the project medal candidate points in March this year at the Oceania Championships, they broke the Slovak players in one fell swoop Hawk Shuna brothers dominance on the C2 level, she won the championship. Now they will be Shunyi Aquatic Centre usher master the challenges of the world, and strive for the Chinese team won a gold medal. Canoeing in the game will officially start on August 11.
addition to canoeing, the Chinese boxing team also to absorb the valuable experience of sports people. we all know, China is the home of martial arts, and boxing and martial arts can be said that the same strain. Zou Shiming is China's most powerful 48-kg boxer in Athens four years ago, Zou City that the loss to Cuba in the final player Varela, but he won the silver medal While this is realized the Chinese Boxing Olympic medal breakthrough. practicing martial arts came from Guizhou Zou Shiming in the home was hard training, his coach Zhang Chuanliang a decade ago is reputed national martial arts champion, is now also a lot of martial arts coach Zhang ideas instilled into him by Zou Shiming. ; Chinese Wushu Association, Vice-Chairman Guo-Rong Chen said, br> Zou Shiming own admission increase contributed to his martial arts. 13, Zou Shiming will be struck again, for China first gold medal in boxing history and struggle.
addition to athletes and coaches to take in the pilgrimage. Guoping Olympic team medical officer, says the total is now more than half of China's sports teams are hired from outside the well-known traditional Chinese medicine treatment and rehabilitation of the athletes. Li Guoping Yao also cited the example of Little Giant was found in February because of a stress fracture left foot and missed half the season, NBA games, but his injuries are also able to attend the Olympic Games for the threat. received surgical treatment of Western medicine, but his rapid recovery is mainly due to traditional Chinese medicine care. Although many people have been questioned, but he's miraculous recovery speed the body to dispel the concerns of everyone. Houston Rockets center in Washington to return to the national team late last month, and held last week in the Stankovic Cup in Hangzhou debut.
addition to these unexpected appearance of things, of five thousand years of civilization also emphasized that a psychological adjustment. shooting conditions is required for the Psychological projects is very high, according to before the time to resist all outside interference, to achieve
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