The picture shows Xi'an frisbee enthusiasts practicing. Photo by Zhang Yichen
China News Network Xi'an, May 2 Title: Niche Sports "Play" into Public Life: Generation Z "Moves" in the Name of Social Networking
China News Network reporter Zhang Yichen
"Frisbee combines sportiness, sociality, and trend attributes, and because of this, the sport is rapidly expanding among the peers around you." Xi'an "post-95" frisbee enthusiast Zhang Bo frankly said, "Recently, playing frisbee is very 'addictive'. ”
Recently, under the pursuit of fashion and trend-leading "Generation Z" group, the once niche sport - frisbee, quietly "out of the circle" has become the new favorite of urban youth, and there are many people on social platforms who post "frisbee".
The picture shows Xi'an frisbee enthusiasts practicing. Photo by Zhang Yichen
"The sport combines touchdown scoring from rugby, central footing technique in basketball and running awareness of football. At the same time, frisbee rules do not allow physical contact between players, which also makes it possible for men and women to compete in the same field. Ge Xin, deputy captain of the Xi'an branch of the Faster-than-Light Frisbee Club, told China News Network that two to three Frisbee activities are organized every week, and the number of participants each time is about 40 people.
"Frisbee has a strong spread among young people in Xi'an, and my teammates include musicians, designers, media people, baristas and other people from all walks of life." Wang Jiayuan, who has been "aged for half a year" in the team, is already a "veteran", she said, as far as the frisbee movement is concerned, Xi'an had a very professional team ten years ago, but they did not "go out of the circle". In the current wave of Frisbee boom, due to the injection of social attributes, it has become an emerging project that attracts the attention of young people.
With the opening of the "May Day" holiday, outdoor sports in the city have heated up. On a sports field in the southern suburbs of Xi'an, more than a dozen frisbee enthusiasts competed, only to see Wang Jiayuan nimbly pass the frisbee to her teammates in the face of defenders, and her teammates in the scoring area took off and grabbed the frisbee, and the cheers and cheers on the field and off the field were endless.
The picture shows Xi'an Frisbee enthusiasts playing a game. Photo by Zhang Yichen
"Every time I catch the frisbee, I actually receive the trust of my teammates, a sense of connection between people." Wang Jiayuan said bluntly.
In the same way that frisbee avoids "physical contact", a "non-collision" sport, flag football, has begun to become the "favorite" of many "Z generations".
Xi'an boy Li Zhou just founded a waist flag rugby club this year, and the current customer base is close to 1,000 people. "Flag football has developed rapidly in China, especially in the north, Shanghai and Guangzhou." Li Zhou said.
"The sport is very social because it focuses on team spirit, especially communication between people." Li Zhou said that for those who participate in the movement, no matter what industry they come from and what kind of social role they play, they need to have the qualities of bravery, unity and discipline at this time, which will have a positive impact on life while strengthening their bodies and tempering their will.
Some platforms released data showing that during the 2022 Qingming holiday, frisbee-related searches increased by about 24 times over the same period last year. Search for emerging sports such as waist flag football has also risen rapidly. In addition, the topic of "waist flag rugby" on Weibo was read more than 2.3 million times.
The picture shows Xi'an Frisbee enthusiasts playing a game. Photo by Zhang Yichen
"Green grass with blue skies, young people running passionately on the field, sweating... This scene has greatly increased the 'film production rate', and the circle of friends released has attracted more attention than usual. "Otaku" Li Yuxiao said the "truth" of his participation in waist flag football.
Sun Jinyuan, a teacher of the Physical Education Department of Xi'an Medical College, said that the "label" of strong socialization, weak confrontation and low threshold has made the "niche" sports enter the public life, and young people have paid more attention to the sociality and fun in sports, burning calories in the name of socialization, which has become the original intention of many young people to "move", and also highlights the increasingly diversified ways of sports and fitness. (End)