Basketball not only leads Xihaigu teenagers to strengthen their health, but also brings them more changes. Many people often gather on the pitch to practice their skills and their lifestyles become sunny and healthy.
But there is still a sense of powerlessness. Wang Lei, a 15-year-old "Internet celebrity" player with outstanding football skills, found that every weekend he still couldn't find a partner to play with, and many of his peers still held their mobile phones and did not let go, "living in the virtual world".
How to wake up more rural teenagers who are "captured" by mobile games, so that the basketball atmosphere can better infiltrate these children?
Basketball has led many young people from the liquor table to the sports field
After working part-time for 15 years, many workers have back pain and leg pain due to long-term mechanical operation. Liu Zhengzheng, a young man in Xiji County, rarely suffers from illness, and he believes that having better physical fitness is related to playing basketball, "when you encounter troubles, playing ball and sweating, your mood will be much better."
The 35-year-old South Asian soldier makes a living as a farmer and part-time worker in Xiji County, and often plays mahjong in his spare time. In the past two years, Liu Zhengzheng has brought him into the team as a substitute. Now, the South Asian soldiers have good endurance and can participate in the 40-minute game. Fu Zhiheng, 28 years old from the same village as Liu Zhengzheng, is a forklift driver who used to drink often when he was idle, but since the Spring Festival this year, he has insisted on playing ball, and he can not stay up late, go to bed early and get up early, and drink much alcohol.
Liu Zhengzheng said that in previous years, some young people in the village liked to stay up late to play mahjong and drink. A very small number of young people also participated in gambling, losing the money earned after working hard for a year, and finally their wives were separated. There are also young people who fight under the influence of alcohol, and even drunk driving. "In recent years, basketball has 'led' young people who usually love wine tables and card tables to the sports field."
Also because of playing basketball, some rural girls have also honed the quality of hard work.
"When I look for sports talents, I look at technology and psychological quality." As a coach, Shan Mingcheng, a basketball teacher at Xiji Middle School and chairman of the Xiji County Basketball Association, asked the women's basketball team members to "play basketball like boys, and fight when they should fight."
Because of poor family conditions, Yang Qiaojuan, who was specially recruited last year, saw her teammates wearing sneakers for several hundred yuan, showing an inferiority complex. Between training, Shan Mingcheng encouraged the players to "play basketball depends on the technique, and it doesn't matter how expensive the shoes are." After a period of mental adjustment, "she is now the best technical defender on the team. I have a cheerful personality and can mingle with my teammates. ”
Guo Zhiqin, a 1.6-meter-tall defender, is the shortest in the team and has average skills when he first enters the school. The team's morning training started at 6:1 a.m., and she went one hour early to practice dribbling and shooting. The least favored player has grown into the captain of the women's basketball team.
"There's a saying that 'go to the playing field and grow your brain.'" Zhong Bingshu, a professor at Capital Institute of Physical Education, said in an interview with a reporter from China Youth Daily that basketball sports have a promoting effect on the intelligence and emotional intelligence of young people.
Zhong Bingshu introduced that basketball is a whole-body exercise, which can promote brain development, promote hand-eye coordination, mutual support of various sensory organs, and mobilize hearing, touch, skin sensation, etc. The process of learning motor skills such as racketing, dribbling, and catching the ball can help establish a stable connection between brain nerves and body parts such as joint muscles.
"The promotion of emotional intelligence in basketball is reflected in interpersonal management, understanding and paying attention to others, emotional self-control, and self-motivation." Zhong Bingshu said that on the basketball court, teenagers can objectively understand themselves, calmly accept themselves, and recognize their bodies, thereby generating positive self-motivation and cultivating a tenacious spirit; Through teamwork such as passing and assisting, learn to understand others, motivate peers, influence others, strive for a win-win situation, and properly handle interpersonal relationships; Do not fight with the opponent because of fouls, do not fight with the referee because of the possible injustice of the referee, and form a way of thinking that remains calm and rational in the face of injustice, and chooses to start again in the face of setbacks; For praise and criticism, victory and defeat, stimulate the fighting spirit of not giving up and becoming more courageous in the heart.
"These young players have a lot of physical strength and willpower"
In basketball games, more and more young people in Xihaigu gradually find the gap between skills and tactics, continue to improve, and catch up with each other.
"When teenagers compete, a change in mental state can make the difference between winning or losing a game, and that momentum is important." In 2017, Li Wei, principal of the amateur sports school of the sports activity center of Yuanzhou District, Guyuan City, led the team to Xi'an to compete. In a match against Xinjiang, the opponent led by more than 30 points. Yang Qixuan, a striker who averaged more than a dozen points per game, only scored 4 points, was suppressed by the opposing players, and his mood was very low. "It was also in that competition that the team members realized that looking at the whole country, we still have a lot of technical gaps." Li Wei said.
In the amateur sports school of the sports activity center of Wonju District, the basketball team members are basically post-05s and post-10s. Li Wei said that some players with poor results in cultural classes will be criticized by parents and teachers, and there is a feeling of inferiority and depression. But he found that these players will learn playing skills and tactics through mobile phone network videos, have a wide range of knowledge, active thinking, strong self-awareness, and dare to express. "Winning awards again and again proves that these young players have a lot of physical strength and willpower."
"Basketball training sessions are relatively boring, players don't have much time to indulge in online games, and they have a lot of willpower in training with the team for a few years." In Li Wei's view, these players are malleable talents.
Yang Wenwen, who won the title of "Most Valuable Player" in the regular season of the 2022 National Men's Basketball League, suffered online violence because he missed the champion of a game. But he tried to calm down as much as possible and look for reasons from himself. "If someone likes you, someone hates you, and it's impossible to make everyone like you." The greater the ability and the more honor, the greater the pressure. ”
He only started practicing at the age of 13, and Yang Wenwen knew that his speed still had room to improve. Playing outside all year round, he used to chat with his father, brother and sister in the evening when he had free time, and greeted each day in a happy state.
Wang Lei on the court always shows a strong enterprising spirit. Seeing that some classmates did not keep up with the speed of passing and receiving the ball, he would shout "fast back to defense, fast catch, fast grab rebound" on the court, always wanting to win every opportunity to score. "Other children are not home on weekends, probably going to an Internet café. Wang Lei is not at home, he must be in the basketball hall. Father Wang Yadong said.
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Wang Lei sometimes feels a little helpless, having classmates playing ball together at school in the middle of the week, and returning home on weekends can only find a neighbor's partner as a teammate. But he "hit a wall" almost every invitation. The partners were all holding their mobile phones at home to play games without letting go, and said without squinting: "Wait until you finish playing this game." But "this game" could not end, which made Wang Lei feel very discouraged.
How to use sports to wake up more rural teenagers who are "captured" by mobile games, so that "little glasses" and "little fat dun" can grow up healthily?
In Li Wei's view, it is necessary to let teenagers run and move. First of all, to let more young people have the opportunity to contact sports, become interested in sports, sports activities and events are a good way, so that young people can cultivate the good qualities of unity and cooperation, mutual respect, hard work and optimism from basketball training and games; Secondly, the extensive support and participation of social forces will help attract more and more young people to join the sports team, hoping that a professional coaching team will come to Xihaigu to send skills to the countryside, "Xihaigu teenagers need a higher level of basketball coaching, updated technical and tactical training".
During this year's National People's Congress and National People's Congress, Zhang Yufei, a deputy to the National People's Congress and champion of the Tokyo Olympic Games, brought a proposal on "high-level athletes feeding back social sports", which coincided with Li Wei's expectations.
"Social sports and competitive sports themselves are related. Young people need to be physically fit, and excellent competitive sports athletes from national teams and provincial teams have many years of sports experience. They can teach these experiences to the children in the school so that they can exercise more professionally. Zhang Yufei suggested that "champion physical education classes" should be carried out, allowing active and retired athletes and coaches to go into schools and communities to provide professional sports guidance, share experience and strengthen teacher training; Establish a sports event system that runs through the youth stage to facilitate the selection of sports talents.
"It's normal for teenagers to play with their phones. There is a lot of useful educational content for teenagers on the mobile network. Zhong Bingshu believes that "it cannot be banned, but should be guided by the situation and give play to the beneficial role of mobile phones." ”
Zhong Bingshu said he saw a director use technology to make scenes such as basketball, dragon and lion dances into immersive sports videos. At recess, the school projects this short film onto the screen, and the children stand up and follow the screen to make movements. "Using the advantages of mobile phone networks, it is combined with the sports exercise of teenagers."
He suggested that smart sports designers can try to rely on the mobile games that teenagers like, design some mobile phone applications that combine movement and static, and "let teenagers move with the screen."
Zhong Bingshu also reminded that the education and sports department should think about what kind of cultural and sports activities rural children really need. "It is necessary to strictly implement the double reduction policy, return the time after 3:<> p.m. to children, encourage and mobilize young people to participate in cultural and sports activities, promote the all-round development of primary and secondary school students in underdeveloped areas, and use sports resources to bring them health and happiness."
China Youth Daily / China Youth Network reporter Jiao Minlong Source: China Youth Daily