Qilu Network on September 5, sponsored by the China Sports Management Center for the Disabled, Shandong Provincial Disabled Persons' Federation and other units to undertake the "I and wheelchair basketball" promotion and popularization activities into Jinan today, to encourage the disabled to go out of the house, participate in sports, improve physical and mental health.
On the basketball court of the Shandong Rehabilitation Research Center, Xu Yuansheng, the head coach of the Chinese wheelchair basketball team, is giving detailed guidance to the students of the special education major of Shandong Sports College, stealing, passing, these ordinary basketball games, on this basketball court, relying on the wheelchair under the body. Gong Yuan, a student of the 2017 special education class of Shandong Sports College, said: "I think that whether it is the acceleration stop, including the friction of the opponent, as well as the center of gravity, if you are not careful, it is easy to overturn. If I can have more opportunities to learn these things in the future, I want to go to the society to help more disabled people to contact this national movement. ”
The next 1-week wheelchair basketball training session will be held, in which coaches and disabled athletes will demonstrate the basic skills of wheelchair basketball, special wheelchair handling skills, body use and protection, etc., and will also organize disabled athletes to conduct 5-on-5 matches. The reporter learned from Xu Yuansheng, the head coach of the Chinese wheelchair basketball team, that their original intention was to hope that more disabled people could bravely go out of their homes and go out of the community to participate in this project. In international competitions, this project is the most watchable of all the projects.
In order to help disabled friends overcome the sports obstacles caused by physical disabilities, Rio Paralympic champion "Blade Warrior" Popov also came to Jinan today to demonstrate to friends with lower limb disabilities how to use special sports prosthetics for walking, running, playing ball, and training for 3 days.
Rio Paralympic champion "Blade Warrior" Popov told reporters that he hopes to tell his disabled friends around him through such activities that they can feel more happiness through sports like normal people, not that this can not be done, that can not be done.
In this activity, the Shandong Rehabilitation Research Center was also identified as a recommended site for the selection of disabled athletes in China, and will continue to provide disabled sports training guidance for disabled friends in the province in the future.