Why did Yao Ming, president of the Chinese Basketball Association, make free throws when he was an athlete?At the 2023 Education Symposium held here on the 14th, he shared a story from that year.
Asked how sports competitions promote the healthy development of young people, Yao Ming told the participants that in the second phase of the National Youth Basketball League held in the fall of 1996, the Shanghai youth team and the Jiangsu youth team met in the competition for the top two in the division. In the decisive moments of the game, he conceded six free throws, and in the end, Shanghai Youth lost by three points.
Yao Ming said: "[Because] I don't want this to happen again, I have the motivation to change," Yao said. ”
Later, after hard practice, Yao Ming's free throw shooting rate Xi significantly improved. During his time in the NBA, he averaged 83 free throw percentages3%。
Yang Yang, China's first gold medalist at the Winter Olympics, told everyone that she had just returned to her hometown of Qitaihe a few days ago and met her coach when she was a child. The coach told her that her ability was not very outstanding among children of her age back then, but every time she competed even if she couldn't play, he would take her there, because every time she came back from watching the competition, her skating would change.
Yang Yang said: "When I see the highest level of competition in the same age group, I will digest it into my skills, which is the importance of competition communication. ”
Another former Olympic champion, Guo Jingjing, who participated in the seminar, also shared her insights. The charm of sports, she says, is uncertainty. She is always in a pounding mood on the jumping platform, and when she sees her opponent pull off a perfect jump and the referee gives a high score, she always tries to keep her mentality intact.
No matter how difficult it is, you must persevere to the end and not give up easily. ”
Guo Jingjing also said that sports are a lot of fun, and it is not meant that everyone should become a professional athlete, but sports can teach children a lot of things beyond books, such as tenacity, confidence, teamwork, such as developing children's brains, and helping children Xi learn some important social skills.
Xi used to the beating on the sports field, it will be stronger ......It is important for society to get more people involved in sports. ”
Xing Xiangzhao, principal of Nancheng Happy Experimental School in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, said that as an educator, he often has friends who consult him on how to improve children's academic Xi performance, and the "prescription" he prescribes is to accompany children to participate in sports.
I tell them that you are not solving the problem of the child's Xi of learning, but of the motivation and mental state of the child's Xi. Parents who listen to me and spend time with their children to exercise have made a difference in their children. ”
At the seminar, more than a dozen guests, including Yao Ming, Yang Yang, Guo Jingjing and Xing Xiangzhao, discussed the educational value of sports and its impact on the all-round development of young people. In the evening, the 10 selected principals of the 4th Tsai Chongxin Principal Program were announced, including Hou Mingfei, Song Haibo, Li Qiang, Ruan Yi, Yang Zhende, Wang Changlong, Wang Junli, Liu Mingsong, Li Xuefei and Xu Yingqi, and other 10 principals who have made good achievements in the integration of sports and education and the spread of sportsmanship.
**: Xinhua News Agency