The scene of the Chinese Basketball Association's small basketball media salon.
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Chinanews.com, Beijing, October 15th. With the increasing popularity of basketball and the increasing importance of the whole society on sports, more and more children are willing to go to the court and sweat, and many basketball teenagers even devote themselves to training classes and training camps. , In order to improve football skills.
But if you want to associate the majestic coaches on the court with the "grandfathers" old people, I am afraid it is more or less a bit strange.
However, at the "Chinese Basketball Association Small Basketball Media Salon" event on the 14th, Yao Ming, the chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, once again conveyed a brand new concept to the outside world-"Grandparents can also become a'coach'."
Yao Ming wittily explained the significance of promoting small basketball.
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As the main theme of this media salon, "Little Basketball", as the name suggests, "small" represents small size and young age.
Small basketball has revised the rules on the basis of adult basketball, reducing the size of the basketball, lowering the height of the basket, and reducing the scope of the field. Many specific rules have also been simplified to a minimum to lower the threshold of basketball events and adapt to children’s Actual demand.
In 2017, the Chinese Basketball Association launched the "Little Basketball Rules" for children under the age of 12, with the aim of stimulating children’s interest, providing sports opportunities for children of different ages and abilities, enriching their sports experience, and enhancing their participation The passion for basketball.
In 2019, there were 24,862 participating teams in the China Small Basketball League, with more than 180,000 participating players.
"The basketball games will positively guide the children so that they can obtain physical and mental health and future development during training. The purpose of promoting the small basketball project is to expand the children's hobbies and transfer their hobbies to Basketball comes up," Yao Ming analyzed the significance of small basketball in this way.
"We hope to expand the bottom of the basketball "pyramid" and expand the "entrance" to the basketball world, that is, to expand the basic participation population of our basketball."
In the media salon, Song Zhanjun, vice principal of Hepingli No. 1 Primary School in Dongcheng District, Beijing, and Zhang Shouwen, associate professor of the School of Preschool Education of Capital Normal University from the small basketball research team introduced the "Little Basketball Coach Instruction Manual" for 7-12 years old and Two versions for 3-6 years old.
These two instruction manuals systematically and scientifically sort out the development direction, training theory and teaching method of small basketball.
Song Zhanjun introduced the "Little Basketball Coach Instruction Manual".
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Song Zhanjun said that the Basketball Association and the small basketball research team hope that small basketball will not only strengthen the children's physical fitness and strengthen their physique, but also become a carrier of education and help the young players form the necessary character.
Zhang Shouwen also expressed a similar view: "The concept of writing the manual is based on basketball games as the carrier, based on the principle of interest, weakening basketball skills and confrontation, enhancing the fun, exploratory and educational nature, and avoiding early special training for children. ."
According to the research team, the manual draws on the experience of the FIBA, UEFA, Serbia and other countries with better development of small basketball sports in the process of writing, summarizes and summarizes the current advanced training theories and methods for children and children, and found small basketball sports. The objective law of development explains the teaching and training of small basketball from both theoretical and practical aspects.
From the interesting "small basketball game" in the book to actual combat guidance, it has strong operability and practicality.
Yao Ming gave a vivid example at the forum.
"The comic book version of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can make more people familiar with the story of the Three Kingdoms; we just want to make a comic book of small basketball manuals so that more people can understand the role of small basketball and how to teach children. Basketball, lead children into the threshold of basketball."
Data map: The launching ceremony of the 2019 China Junior Basketball League.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
The research team stated that this set of manuals can be used by small basketball coaches in schools, communities, clubs and training institutions, as well as teachers in physical education schools, undergraduates and graduate students in physical education.
Yao Ming further explained: "We hope that these two books can lower the threshold for learning basketball, help parents become children's coaches, and even allow grandparents to become coaches, further expanding the target group of small basketball." Finish)