The scene of the strategic cooperation ceremony.
Since breakdancing officially entered the Olympic Games, hip-hop is no longer just a street culture, and more and more people have accepted its label of "competitive sports". When the "double reduction" policy landed, street dance was naturally one of the beneficiaries.
On December 16th, Shanghai DanceSport Association and sports and sports and leisure brand Skechers Skechers officially reached a "strategic partnership for street dance projects". At the same time, a "Future Plan for Chinese Youth Street Dance" on cultivating and selecting reserve talents for Olympic breakdancing projects was also officially launched.
Three years later, the Paris Olympics in France will produce the first breakdancing gold medal in history, and Chinese hip-hop dancers have long set their sights on this event, and more importantly, the Paris Olympics are just the beginning of the integration of hip-hop into the Olympics.
In the talent competition for a long time in the future, Chinese break dance does not want to be left behind.
Mao Yanjing, principal of Meiyuan Primary School in Pudong New Area, Shanghai.
With the help of social resources, Shanghai launched the "Youth Street Dance Program"
In the development of any competitive sport, youth training is the foundation and cornerstone. When break dancing becomes an Olympic sport, it naturally follows the same rules.
Then, whether the youth training system of street dance and the talent training and selection mode are mature and perfect is related to the future development of this project in China.
This is also why when the "Future Plan for Chinese Youth Street Dance" was officially announced, it quickly caused a hot discussion in social networks and street dance circles.
In this plan, Shanghai Pudong New Area Meiyuan Primary School and Shanghai Sports Technical School will become the first batch of pilot schools of the "Youth Street Dance Program". The two schools officially introduced "street dance special courses" and "street dance interest classes" to encourage students to actively participate.
"The Shanghai Sports Sport Association has only been exposed to street dance in recent years." Zhang Ming, executive vice president of the Shanghai Sports And Dance Sports Association, said in an interview.
Xu Zhaojiong (left), marketing director of Skechers Sports, and Jiang Xian, president of the Shanghai Dance Sport Sports Association, pose for a group photo.
As an official competition project that has only officially entered the National Games and the Olympic Games in recent years, the cultivation of reserve talents in street dance and the promotion of youth street dance sports are a big topic, and although the plan has been launched, there are still many details that need to be improved.
"We also need to establish different levels of street dance teaching materials and develop standards for technical types, so that we can have a grip." Then it is divided into horizontal levels and gradually promoted. ”
According to Vice President Zhang Ming, many teenagers nowadays have great enthusiasm and interest in street dance, but the system training that is really suitable for teenagers still needs to be standardized by the management department and the association.
It is precisely for this reason that the Shanghai DanceSport Association chose to reach a "strategic partnership for street dance projects" with Skechers. "We want to use the support and help of social enterprises."
In the view of Vice President Zhang Ming, Skechers, who has been deeply involved in street dance sports for decades, not only has the experience of successfully holding international street dance events, but also has a youth training program, and even a group of street dance champions can train teachers and young students, "These resources are helpful to the sports dance sports association to carry out and develop street dance projects." ”
Wang Wenlu (left), champion of the street dance event at the National Games, and Jiang Chengji, a famous Chinese swimmer, world champion and secretary of the Shanghai Youth Training and Management Center, took a group photo.
Standing on the Olympic podium? Chinese street dance strives for talent thickness
Although there are still many specific work to be implemented in the future, Shanghai can take the lead in launching the "Future Plan for Chinese Youth Street Dance" precisely because it has accumulated a lot of advanced experience in the competitive level of break dance.
From the 2nd Youth Games to the 14th National Games, Shanghai has achieved excellent results in breakdancing. Especially at the just-concluded National Games, when some provinces and cities did not have professional coaches or even temporary patchwork team members, Shanghai has set up a professional team of three coaches and a team doctor, and systematically closed the training for 5 months.
Zheng Guowei and Xu Kunwei, two of the coaches of the Shanghai Street Dance Team, told the surging news reporter, "According to our current training and the integrity of the athletes' movements, we have the opportunity to impact the olympic podium." ”
But the Paris Olympics is just the beginning, how to quickly become a powerhouse in breakdancing after the Paris Olympics, the youth training system behind the "China Youth Street Dance Future Plan" is particularly important.
As the champion of the Breakdancing event at the National Games and a member of the Skechers All Star team, Wang Wenlu is confident that this program will help the development of youth hip-hop.
"The street dance of Chinese teenagers will be very powerful in the future, in the past, our generation of dancing began at the age of 16 or 17, and no one taught it, and now the children may be able to learn what we have for four or five years in a year or two, and their practice will be more focused than ours, without thinking too much about life problems." 」
Today, in addition to the title of National Games champion, Wang Wenlu also has the identity of "Youth Street Dance Ambassador", he said in an interview that he will also go to the campus to explain the skills of street dance to more teenagers and pass on the spirit of street dance. In addition, he may also participate in the training of street dance teachers on campus.
"In fact, hip-hop is not only breakdancing, but also many different dances. This program is not just about training breakdancing, but only in the process of training all dance genres, selecting young talents for breakdance. In the view of Vice President Zhang Ming, the talent competition of street dance should be all-round, so as to adapt to the future development of street dance projects in the Olympic Games.
Xu Zhijiong, marketing director of Skechers Sports, also said, "We will take Shanghai as the foundation, cover key cities across the country, go to the campus, pass on the spirit of street dance, interpret the core of street dance, and provide professional and scientific training guidance and diversified practice stage for youth street dance sports." ”