Liang Boxi's Growing Experience

I used to learn swimming. I graduated from high school at the age of 16, and joined the Guangzhou Junior Swimming Team at the age of 1952, becoming the record holder of the 50m freestyle in Guangzhou. There happened to be a classmate who liked diving, but was afraid to take part in the competition, so he was recommended to accompany him. Without a coach, he taught himself temporarily. As a result, he won the third place in swimming and the first place in diving. It was an accident, but it got out of control.

1954 Central South Sports Team established diving team, and Liang Boxi was absorbed. 65438-0955 won the first national diving competition in Shanghai. By 1965, Liang Boxi was already the champion of the national diving competition and the platform springboard of the first National Games.

Liang Boxi admitted that diving had just started in China and there were no teachers, so he taught himself the diving rules in FINA textbooks. This situation also has the big environment at that time. With the entry of Taiwan Province Province into FINA, the mainland withdrew at 1956. FINA stipulated that member countries could not compete with non-member countries, so China was completely isolated. If you want to master the international advanced diving technology, you can only rely on yourself.

By 1956, there is no indoor swimming pool in Guangzhou. Although it is in the south, we can't do outdoor sports for three months in a year, so we can only do physical exercise. Liang Boxi is clever and willing to use his head. He watched acrobatic performances from 65438 to 0957, and the trampoline program inspired him a lot. Except for the bow, the action design of the program is similar to that of a somersault. So he did it himself, dug a hole in the clearing and used a fishing net as a bed. When there were no springs, he went to the factory to make bomb nets. After doing this, the Guangdong team made faster progress than other teams with indoor swimming pools.

1963 emerging power international diving competition, Liang Boxi won the springboard diving championship. It is characterized by graceful posture in the air and fast rolling speed.

1969, the national diving team was established, and Liang Boxi became the first coach of the founding team. From 198 1, he became the head coach. It was also in this year that the first world champion was cultivated. That year, China won three firsts in four events. Under the guidance of Liang Boxi, he has successively trained world diving masters such as Chen, Tong Hui, Shi Meiqin, Tan Liangde. In the early 1980s, Hong Kong newspapers called him "the father of diving in China". 1978 and198/kloc-0 were awarded the medal of honor for sports by the state sports commission in. 1979 was rated as a national coach, and in the same year he became the vice chairman of China Swimming Association. He is the first China director of FINA Diving Technical Committee. From 65438 to 0986, due to family reasons, Liang Boxi immigrated to Canada with his family and became the coach of Vancouver diving team the following year. When he first joined, the diving club was of medium level, and under his training, it was among the best in Canada. Since then, this sports team has made rapid progress. Three years later, more than half of the members of the Canadian national diving team came from this club, and Liang Boxi naturally became the head coach of the Canadian national diving team, thus becoming the first person in the world to be the head coach of two national diving teams at the same time.

In the past three years, under the careful training of Liang Boxi, six students have been sent to the diving team of American universities, and all of them have won full scholarships. One of the students entered Princeton University, and I got all-round development. At the same time, I am proud of my alma mater.

Among the Canadian athletes trained by Liang Boxi, some are outstanding, such as BlytheHartley from Beiwen. When she arrived at Vancouver diving club at the age of 65,438+02, she could not dive. She only practiced gymnastics for one year and became the world champion in 2006, with 5438+0.

Liang Boxi said that among his Canadian students, most people only regard diving as a physical exercise, not a competition. It is through this kind of club training that we can establish interpersonal relationships with each other, learn how to make friends and prepare for the society. These foreign students will go to all walks of life in the future, some will become lawyers and some will become doctors.

In sharp contrast to table tennis in Canada, there are not many Chinese diving in Vancouver, and diving is as strong as table tennis in the mainland. Liang Boxi explained that diving is more intense and difficult than table tennis, and the training cost is also high, which is difficult for ordinary families to afford, while wealthy families are unwilling to let their children suffer. In late May 2008, the Sichuan diving team arrived in Vancouver. Due to the earthquake, in order to ensure the safety of athletes, the Sichuan diving team based in Chengdu once stopped training. During this visit to Wenzhou, the team participated in the BCSummerProvincials competition held from May 23rd to 25th.

Liang Boxi, former head coach of China National Diving Team who lives and works in Vancouver, played a major role in the rise of Sichuan Diving Team. Although he has left the post of head coach for many years, he has been paying close attention to the development of diving in China and has made many achievements and outstanding performances for top athletes. Liang Botao believes that the Sichuan diving team has a long history and has always been quite strong, and it should be in the top five in the national diving field. The Sichuan earthquake forced the normal diving training to be interrupted. Liang Boxi said that he knew that the training ground was often disturbed by aftershocks and was very worried about the Sichuan team. This time, it can help the Sichuan team to come to Vancouver, resume a certain degree of training, and prepare for the follow-up Olympic training, which makes him feel gratified and can be regarded as a kind of support for the people in the disaster area.

After the Sichuan diving team reached the temperature, Liang Boxi not only took care of the whole process, but also encouraged the public to watch the game at the competition venue through the media to cheer for the young athletes from the earthquake-stricken areas. When ordinary players are training, Liang Boxi will also observe and put forward pertinent opinions in time. He spoke highly of the excellent performance of the four Sichuan athletes who participated in this competition, which was highly plastic. In August, 2008, Liang Botao will go to Hongkong to comment on Beijing Olympic diving on local wireless TV. For this Olympic diving event, Liang Boxi has high hopes for the China team. He thinks that the right time, the right place and the right people should be beneficial to the China team as a whole, but it puts great pressure on the athletes and needs to be adjusted.

Guo Jingjing, Tian Liang and other coaches are all students of Liang Boxi, so Mr. Liang knows the diving situation in China like the back of his hand. He said that at present, China has advantages in eight events, but it is not easy to win six because of fierce competition and improvisation.

Now Canadian diving poses a strong challenge to China. China diving team leader Zhou admitted after the Mexican series in May that Canadian diving prodigy Hadley was one of the potential opponents. Because of his overseas coaching experience, Liang Boxi gained a new perspective in comparing Chinese and Canadian sports. In addition, he participated in competitions all over the world and mastered the development trend of world sports. It is in this macro background that he proposed to reflect on the sports system in China.

Liang Botao believes that as far as sports are concerned, unlike China, China is a national system, and the state covers everything from food and medical care to dormitories to transportation expenses. Athletes are professional. They train at least 8 hours a day and don't study very much. Canada is an amateur team, and the athletes are basically at their own expense. The state does not care, and the training of athletes does not delay learning. Liang Boxi said that the students he teaches now leave school at 2: 30 in the afternoon and come to the club for training for three hours at 3: 30.

Regarding the existing sports mode in China, Liang Boxi said that we should look at it historically. In 1950s and 1960s, China was still very backward in the world, and many countries did not understand China. At that time, China couldn't produce anything, so sports became a way to expand its influence, such as ping-pong diplomacy. At that time, although China was poor, it still allocated funds to train top athletes, and the hard indicator to test its performance was to win the world championship. From leaders to the people, they are happy to raise the national flag and play the national anthem. Liang Botao said that this passion of "enhancing China's prestige" is understandable, but the problem is that it has sacrificed the health of most people, especially teenagers. The professional training base has a large and beautiful swimming pool, which ordinary people can't go to; National sports funds are spent on professional teams and rarely allocated to ordinary schools. The school sports ground is also very poor, and thousands of students do not have a decent stadium. Although the top players have taken gold and silver, the physical fitness of the whole people can't go up, not as good as Europe and America, and far worse than Korea and Japan. The rates of myopia, obesity and stunting are high.

Liang Botao especially quoted Mao Zedong's famous saying "developing sports and strengthening people's physique", which he thought was very good, but unfortunately it was not implemented. Now China has been reforming and opening up for many years, and its economy has advanced by leaps and bounds, so it is no longer necessary to rely on sports. China will take the Canadian road sooner or later, and there will be obvious changes after the Beijing Olympic Games. The funds for professional teams will not be so much, but they will lean towards schools and move closer to the national movement. .

Liang Boxi, who has been engaged in professional sports for many years, believes that although sports teams have made achievements, most of them are not optimistic, and there is only one champion. However, from a few to thousands of players, the best years of young people have been given to sports, locked in training centers all day, isolated from society, and even stepping into society are at a loss, and it is not easy to change careers in the future. After all, the demand for coaches is limited. In the past, it was relatively easy to distribute rice uniformly from the same pot. Now many departments are struggling, and the country cannot keep it for life. Therefore, from a professional point of view, it is imperative to deepen sports reform. The name Liang Boxi may be unknown to most people in Shunde. In fact, he is an out-and-out Shunde person. He used to be the head coach of the new China diving team and trained the first diving world champion in China. After that, the meritorious diving coach from China went to Canada, where he started the second spring of his career. At that time, Mr. Liang was also one of the China coaches who went out to coach earlier.

Since then, with the opening of the country, sports exchanges between China and foreign countries have become more and more frequent, and there are more and more excellent coaches from China, especially in those advantageous events, such as gymnastics, table tennis, diving and badminton. Some China coaches have made pioneering contributions to these projects in their homeland. Tong Hui is known as the father of Australian diving, Lang Ping brought the American women's volleyball team back to the top ranks, and Chen Wen will lead the once unknown British diving team to the Beijing Olympic Games ... The list can go on and on.

Participating in the Olympic Games is the dream of every athlete and every coach. When these "overseas coaches" wear the uniforms of other countries to "kill" Beijing, what kind of mood should they have? How to face it? In a foreign country, these outstanding China people have worked hard for the Olympic dream, and now they have returned to their motherland to take part in competitions and the Olympic Games. They should be proud. I remember a coach from China who coached badminton in Korea once said that no matter which country he played for, there was no doubt about his feelings for his motherland. This is probably the voice of those "overseas coaches".

When one day, whether in the Bird's Nest or the Water Cube, whether in Shanghai or Qingdao, if a China man with yellow skin and black eyes leads a foreign team into the stadium, please stand up and give them the warmest applause. Because the significance of these "overseas coaches" behaviors has gone far beyond the level of pure competitive sports, their success every time is the success of China people and China sports. They deserve our respect.