Shen Zhen revealed that the campus basketball tournament may adjust the qualification standards of the previous “in-place, in-school, in-training.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 20th News Analysis: Can “sports and education integration” basketball go first?
Xinhua news agency reporters wang jingyu and ma bangjie
the chinese college students’ sports association and the chinese middle school students’ sports association signed the memorandum of understanding on promoting the integration and development of sports and education with the chinese basketball association in beijing on the 19th. Continue to join hands after signing the memorandum of strategic cooperation in November, 2017. Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, said: “Next, we will carry out extensive cooperation in coach training and competition system, and implement various aspects such as sports and education integration, youth sports and sports culture.” Under the background that the 13th meeting of the Central Comprehensive Deepening Reform Commission requires “deepening the integration of sports and education to promote the healthy development of teenagers”, can the basketball project become the pioneer of “The integration of sports and education?
Qualification “intercommunication” or realizable
The reporter found in the investigation of some college and middle school basketball teams that campus basketball and professional basketball, there are invisible barriers between social basketball. Worried about the loss of players, many school team coaches do not want their team members to receive training in social training institutions. They are also very alert and even disgusted with the phenomenon that professional clubs come to “dig corners. At the same time, the campus events and the U-series youth events of the Chinese Basketball Association are strictly separated in terms of competition qualifications. Once you have participated in the U-series events, you can no longer enter the campus competition system.
Yao Ming and Shen Zhen, vice chairman of the Sports Association, both said that they hoped to change this situation. Yao Ming said: “We will further negotiate the status quo and see how to plan a better state of mutual communication.”
Shen Zhen revealed that the campus basketball competition may adjust the qualification standards of the previous “in-place, in-school, in-training”, and encourage the campus team to cooperate with professional clubs to improve the level.
“In the foreseeable future, we encourage professional clubs and schools to build together. It turns out that the competition in our school system requires (contestants) to be in school (with student status), in school (in school), in training (in school team training). Violating any of them is not qualified to participate in the competition of the education system. However, in the foreseeable future, we encourage professional sports teams to make use of good venue facilities and high-level coach teams to help school sports teams provide training resources and high-level training. On the other hand, the organizers of the events in our education system can flexibly deal with the conditions of ‘being in residence, reading, and training. For example, ‘Being in training’ can be trained in school on weekdays, but on weekends and holidays, we can go to professional clubs for training and receive guidance from professional clubs, so that we can integrate a large number of high-level athlete resources.”
Since Yao Ming became the chairman of China Basketball Association, he has been paying close attention to the topic of sports and education integration. After the two sides started strategic cooperation in 2017, college students entered the stage of CBA All-Star game and gained more attention and favor in CBA draft. It is reported that the Chinese Basketball Association and the Chinese sports association are still considering a bolder attempt to explore the integration and development of the first and high school joint competitions, traditional sports schools and U Series competitions. When asked about this topic, Yao Ming did not give a specific timetable, but admitted that “this is a very important topic for us to negotiate with each other”.
Improve the level of coaches and break through the bottleneck of campus basketball competition
The reporter found in the investigation that with the development of society and parents’ general attention to education, the trend of excellent young basketball seedlings flowing to the education system is obvious. However, the level of coaches is one of the bottlenecks that restrict the improvement of competitive ability of domestic ordinary universities and junior and senior high school teams. Although in recent years, famous coaches from professional athletes such as Baijiang and Chen Lei have also been teaching in colleges and universities, however, there are still higher thresholds and more restrictions for coaches with higher basketball professional ability to go to the education system. At the same time, the coaches of the original campus system still have a lot of room for improvement in basketball major.
Yao Ming said that the training and growth of coaches are crucial.
“We hope to make the coach training system deeper through the cooperation with the sports association, including cooperation with some famous schools. This is the first item in the agreement we signed. I hope to do better training and certification of coaches, because we may care more about the growth of athletes, but where do athletes come from? We all rely on our coaches to bring them out. The growth of coaches is our top priority.”
Yao Ming also hopes to get through the system of excellent retired athletes entering the university, because this “is not only to pave the way for athletes to become coaches in the future, but more importantly, by entering the school, let them enter the society again”.
Shen Zhen also believes that the foundation of the development of a sports project is the level of coaches, while the insufficient level of basketball coaches in the education system is a relatively common consensus. Both sides are eager to build a training system for coaches and carry out certification at different levels.
He said: “The brewing stage between us and the Chinese Basketball Association is probably divided into several levels, from the low level to the fourth or even the fifth level. The training of top coaches cannot be modularized, while other levels can be modularized. The coach is not only a guide to the team, but also sports psychology and sports medicine, including team marketing, management, law, foreign language and so on, all of which should improve their comprehensive quality. After the coach system was built, we all participated in our coach training system for all the coaches of school system, club system and sports system. After the level of the coach system is improved, the level of our sports team will naturally improve.”
Share data to “predict” the future?
Another important content of the cooperation between China university and China Sports Union and China Basketball Association is the cooperation and sharing of big data platforms. In some countries and regions with relatively high basketball level, professional organizations will have a very detailed record of a player’s physical indicators and technical performance from small to large, there are also organizations to do technical and tactical analysis and ranking of players of different ages. In recent years, China has also started in this field. Yao Ming believes that the application of big data is one of the future development directions and trends of basketball.
“As far as I know, there are already social institutions doing this. I think it is very good to have such big data and ranking, but some things may not be done by ourselves by the Chinese Basketball Association. With these data, in addition to (solving) the registration qualification problem, we can track the growth of athletes for a long time, including what his/her 10-year-old status is, what is the state of being 15 years old and what will be the state of being 20 years old. Including height, weight, the most basic sports ability, the tracking of the competition he/she participated in, (these) can make us understand an athlete more clearly, to predict his/her future.”
Shen Zhen said that China Basketball Association is building its own big data platform, and school sports also has its own platform. Both sides have reached a consensus to realize data sharing. He said: “Our data will be imported into the Basketball Association’s system and become the data of a big basketball system. Now, their data is incomplete, and the basketball population they count does not include the school system. After integration, the improvement of the whole Chinese basketball will have a bottom. Our big data system is not perfect at present, and the data of events including Nike China High School League will be integrated into one platform in the future.”
Basketball first builds a template
the 13th meeting of the central comprehensive deepening reform committee held on april 27 deliberated and approved the opinions on deepening the integration of sports and education to promote the healthy development of teenagers. The meeting pointed out that to deepen the integration of sports and education and promote the healthy development of teenagers, we should establish the educational concept of health first, promote the coordinated development of teenagers’ cultural learning and physical exercise, and strengthen school physical education, improve the system of youth sports events, help students enjoy fun, strengthen physical fitness, improve personality, exercise will, and cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development of moral, intellectual and physical art and craft. The latest cooperation between China Basketball Association and China University and China Sports Association is also launched under this background.
Shen Zhen believes that the basis of cooperation between the two sides is to reach a consensus on the significance, goals and tasks of school physical education. He said: “In the past, the goals of physical education and education were different. The sports system was to win gold medals and achievements. The goals of the education system were the comprehensive development of moral, intellectual and physical art and craft and the establishment of moral and moral people. In cooperation with the Chinese Basketball Association, we first reach an agreement on goals and tasks, and develop the whole Chinese basketball from the perspective of cultivating all-quality talents, including promoting basketball culture. As for the top talent of basketball, it must be within the system of the Chinese Basketball Association, which is a natural thing.”
While Yao Ming believes that the cooperation between Chinese Basketball Association and Chinese sports association focuses on consolidating the foundation of project development.
“We often have to pursue a foundation in school. Popularization is a basic thing. If there is no popularization, there will be no improvement. We have a very clear view of the priority objectives of each stage. The younger we are, the more we need to strengthen the concept of popularization. Don’t rush to do things that are higher. Especially in schools, in addition to looking for excellent seedlings, it is more important to create a good school sports culture. Just like many literary associations and other interest associations, the development of sports associations in schools is also very important. I think the integration of sports and education is the future. We firmly agree from top to bottom that everything needs to be closely integrated with the school.”
Shen Zhen said that the Sports Association of China and China also cooperated with other sports associations such as the Chinese Badminton Association, while the cooperation with the Basketball Association has been relatively deep.
“We and the Chinese Basketball Association have reached a stage of mutual integration, that is, cooperation from bone to muscle and from the next stage to blood. The college basketball league in the 18-19 season was the first year of reform. Yao Ming gave great support in the formulation and technical aspects of the competition system. In the past year, basketball has played a particularly great role in driving and leading. We have cooperated well with China Badminton Association and Table Tennis Association. I hope to find a model to drive and lead through cooperation with the Basketball Association (integration of sports and education in other projects).” Shen Zhen said.