Mr. Li Yongbo, former head coach of the Chinese national badminton team, recently came to Dongguan to interact with the professional young athletes of Guangdong Century City Badminton Club and students of badminton schools, and to guide and encourage young athletes on the spot. The president and vice president of Guangdong Badminton Association and other guests participated in the activity.
At the beginning of the event, the children of Dongguan Badminton School demonstrated the rhythm of badminton, and the children were heroic, graceful and uniform, fully demonstrating the potential of this sport among the teenagers of Dongguan. Then everyone picked up the racket and successively carried out basic techniques and basic skills such as front and back footwork, half-court playing high and far balls, etc.
Then, the young athletes of the 10 to 14-year-old group of the professional team of Guangdong Century City Badminton Club brought two wonderful confrontation exhibition matches to everyone. In the competition, the young athletes quickly entered the state of competition, with agile pace, skillful tactics, and moves in the struggle to fight.
After the debriefing performance, Li Yongbo commented on the children of the badminton special sports class and the young athletes of the club's professional team. He praised the wonderful performances of the children in the badminton special sports class, and hoped that the children could insist on practicing badminton skills and strive to become real badminton reserve talents in the Guangdong Century City Badminton Club, a national badminton reserve talent base, and win glory for the country when they grow up.
Subsequently, Li Yongbo commented on the confrontation competition of the professional team's young athletes, and picked up the badminton racket and badminton on the spot, and gave on-site teaching and technical guidance on the technical problems of the professional team's young athletes.
It is understood that during Li Yongbo's coaching career, the Chinese badminton team has won a total of 92 world championships such as 18 Olympic gold medals, 44 world championships, 5 Thomas Cup champions, etc., and has trained a group of world-class badminton players such as Lin Dan. Guangdong Century City Badminton Club, as a national badminton team training base and a national badminton reserve talent base, has also hosted major events sponsored by the Chinese Badminton Association, the Provincial Sports Bureau, the Provincial Department of Education and other units for many times, accumulating rich experience in event hosting and youth badminton training, providing inexhaustible power for the excavation and training of Guangdong and national badminton reserve talents.
Written by: Nandu reporter Han Chengliang