bladerunner
Banned Idiot
China is really good at diving, they should be able to figure out soccer soon enough.
(Sorry had to say it)
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Attitude to Sports In China
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bladerunner
Banned Idiot
I don't know what to make of it
Quickie
Colonel
China is really good at diving, they should be able to figure out soccer soon enough.
(Sorry had to say it
Lol, now I get it. Besides that, some drama acting skill would help a lot. Just ask Ronaldo...
bladerunner
Banned Idiot
oh now I do ....... thats so funny...:rofl:
Propagandalass
New Member
Thats choreographed Wushu in th video, we have this in Taiwan also. It is not "fighting", more a choreographed display like gymnastics and stuff. Even if it looks like a "staged fight" you need speed and reflexes and the accuracy of the moves and performance are judged
I have a theory that chinese think football is the American type so the 'linemen' and 'linebackers' will tackle you. With Kung Fu. XD
China at the World Championships in football were major failure. China is not much of a football Nation, more a Ping-Pong one. It might have cultural or genetic backgrounds that certain Nations excel at certain sports better than others.
But there are also exceptions:
-The Softball Gold went to America in every Olympic tournamet without exception ever since it became an Olympic discipline. But in Beijing, the last Olympic event that will host softball as olympic discipline, Japan broke America's dominance and took the final olympic gold.
-Hurdles, a sport dominated by black people and never really suited Asians (face it, they are genetically more suit for it, we're worst in that matter). But one day an Asian man was among the runners, he seemed out of place but took olympic Gold, World Champion title and broke the World Record. that man was Liu Xiang (the man that China wept about not being able to join Beijing olympics), thats why we Asians view him highly, because he shows anything is possible!
Nonono, Chinese women in football/'what americans call soccer' just beat up their adversaries. Probably with wushu. It happens more likely if they are facing Japanese.
I have a theory that chinese think football is the American type so the 'linemen' and 'linebackers' will tackle you. With Kung Fu. XD
China at the World Championships in football were major failure. China is not much of a football Nation, more a Ping-Pong one. It might have cultural or genetic backgrounds that certain Nations excel at certain sports better than others.
But there are also exceptions:
-The Softball Gold went to America in every Olympic tournamet without exception ever since it became an Olympic discipline. But in Beijing, the last Olympic event that will host softball as olympic discipline, Japan broke America's dominance and took the final olympic gold.
-Hurdles, a sport dominated by black people and never really suited Asians (face it, they are genetically more suit for it, we're worst in that matter). But one day an Asian man was among the runners, he seemed out of place but took olympic Gold, World Champion title and broke the World Record. that man was Liu Xiang (the man that China wept about not being able to join Beijing olympics), thats why we Asians view him highly, because he shows anything is possible!
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bladerunner
Banned Idiot
And there you have it, anything is possible, its just the matter of application.
China should be able to play soccer well, as they are not handicapped by build or size when you compare Chinese soccer players with the rest.
As sportsmen I think they tend to shy away from the hard in your face physical contact aspect,rather than a genetic disposition to playing the sport. (that's certainly a weak point in the Chinese men's basketball team)
It may be one more inclined towards culture, where technical and skill is admired more.
Koreans and Japanese seem to enjoy the hard contact sports a lot more, eg. Rugby Union sometimes referred to as a sport for boofheads by critics of the sport. (that is all brawn and no brains) Both countries are avid participants in this Western Sport and they will never win against top countries because they lack the right physique, but that has never stopped a country like Japan which has participated in the sport for over 80yrs, and hopes to host the World Cup in the sport.. It also spends millions having foreign players in their home teams to help build up the skill level.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
How China has become a golfer's paradise
Cori Brett, Special to The Chronicle
Friday, June 5, 2009
Call me a heretic, but I'd rather take a golf vacation to China than Scotland or Ireland any day. I'd head not for St. Andrews and the Old Course but for Shenzhen and Mission Hills Golf Club, with its 12 (!) golf courses.
Mission Hills (no relation to the Palm Springs country club where LPGA winners jump into the lake) is like a city within a city, covering 4,500 acres, about five times the size of Central Park. Designated a "special economic zone" by the Chinese government in the late 1970s, Shenzhen is dense with high-tech companies, multistory shopping centers and factories that produce everything from surfboards to golf clubs, much of it for export to the United States.
Mission Hills opened its first golf course in 1995, designed by Jack Nicklaus to host the World Cup, and had expanded to 12 by its 12th anniversary. The Guinness Book of World Records ranks Mission Hills as the largest golf club in the world.
The intimidating Olazabal Course, home of the Omega Mission Hills World Cup through 2018, runs through untouched jungle, steep mountains and deep ravines, with more than 160 bunkers. Yes, golfers know Jose Maria Olazabal is one of the game's great sand players, but did he really have to put 24 bunkers on the 15th hole? The narrow 18th fairway borders a large lake and is presided over by a huge white marble statue, some 90 feet high, of Guan Yin, goddess of mercy. I was ready to place an offering if it would help my game.
Clusters of foursomes are visible on near and far courses, the caddies' bright red uniforms and crisp white brimmed helmets in stark contrast to the green fairways. The caddie corps consists of close to 3,000 young women, who speak limited English but are fluent in golf-speak. Every golfer is assigned one. They drive carts, spot balls, rake bunkers, mark balls on the greens, read putts and can accurately club you after three holes. You want green tees, pink tees, long tees, short tees? SPF 10 or SPF 30? Sure.
Mission Hills' golf courses bear the first or last name of the famous players and golf architects who designed them, i.e. Annika, Duval, Leadbetter, Vijay, Els, Ozaki, Norman. Courses by Nick Faldo, Pete Dye, Olazabal and China's Zhang Lian Wei, plus Nicklaus' World Cup Course, complete the dozen. Schmidt-Curley Design (of Scottsdale, Ariz.) was the golf course architect on 10 of the 12 courses.
Why 12? It's an important number in China, symbolizing 12 years in the Chinese horoscope and the completion of a cycle.
The courses are generally in excellent condition - a cart-path-only restriction helps. Various warm weather grasses are used, similar to golf courses in the southeastern United States.
Golfers set forth out of three clubhouses, the largest being Dongguan Clubhouse at 680,000 square feet. That's bigger than the average Costco, and it's the largest clubhouse in the world. Carts line up at staging areas under signs for the various courses, smiling caddies waiting alongside. Golfers have no excuse for arriving late to their tee times. The shuttle system that runs around the property is always on schedule.
Sore back, pulled a muscle, jet lag? The clubhouse spas will be your salvation. I was submerged in a candlenut milk bath, bundled into a fresh papaya body wrap and vigorously massaged by two therapists working in unison. That wasn't even the best part. At Dongguan Clubhouse, a softly lit tunnel lined in shimmering gold webbing led to the elegant Forest Springs Spa and to my favorite treatment, Foot Reflexology. It lasted two blissful hours and included Thai massage techniques of pulling and stretching. Facials and massages were mostly well under $100.
The balmy evenings inspire participation in night golf. Thirty-six holes are equipped with floodlights. No glow-in-the-dark golf balls here; it's as brightly lit as a night baseball game at Boston's Fenway Park. Bright red hibiscus and clusters of pink bougainvillea flowers blossom all over Mission Hills. Rich tropical foliage flourishes in the humid climate.
Golf continues to thrive in China, while declining elsewhere. According to Mission Hills Executive Director Tenniel Chu, "20 years ago, China had some 100,000 golfers and no more than half a dozen courses. Today there are more than 300 courses and 3 million golfers in China, with the golfing population growing at a rate of up to 50 percent annually."
When Dr. David Chu founded Mission Hills, he anticipated the lifestyle demands of a growing affluent class and intended to establish China as the future center of golf. That probably seemed pretty far-fetched at the time. As Chu says about the 1995 World Cup, "Kids played in bunkers, people ran onto the fairways to take golf balls as souvenirs, and spectators wore dressy clothes and high heels." It was the first time many Chinese had ever seen golf.
Hosting the 2008 Beijing Olympics catapulted China onto the center stage of global sports events, and now Mission Hills is an avid partner in the worldwide effort to get golf into the 2016 Olympics.
Mission Hills is both a country club, with more than 10,000 members, and a destination resort. Three golf academies serve all those golfers, including schools from world-renowned instructors David Leadbetter and Cindy Reid. She left her position as director of instruction at TPC Sawgrass after 17 years to set up her own teaching academy at Mission Hills, an impressive, 30,000-square-foot learning center with eight hitting bays and state-of-the-art technology. She describes her students as "so excited about this new sport of golf."
Reid's biggest challenge has been teaching golf through a translator.
If you go
Mission Hills is just an hour's drive outside of Hong Kong. Green fees start at about $110 weekdays. Room rates depend on your choice of accommodations - $182 to $5,420 a night. Golf packages that include room, breakfast and a round of golf start around $263 a night. 86 755 2802 0888 Ext. 33810, [email protected].
Remember, a U.S. citizen needs a visa to travel from Hong Kong into mainland China.
Cori Brett is a golf and travel writer living in Scottsdale, Ariz. E-mail comments about this story to [email protected].
Cori Brett, Special to The Chronicle
Friday, June 5, 2009
Call me a heretic, but I'd rather take a golf vacation to China than Scotland or Ireland any day. I'd head not for St. Andrews and the Old Course but for Shenzhen and Mission Hills Golf Club, with its 12 (!) golf courses.
Mission Hills (no relation to the Palm Springs country club where LPGA winners jump into the lake) is like a city within a city, covering 4,500 acres, about five times the size of Central Park. Designated a "special economic zone" by the Chinese government in the late 1970s, Shenzhen is dense with high-tech companies, multistory shopping centers and factories that produce everything from surfboards to golf clubs, much of it for export to the United States.
Mission Hills opened its first golf course in 1995, designed by Jack Nicklaus to host the World Cup, and had expanded to 12 by its 12th anniversary. The Guinness Book of World Records ranks Mission Hills as the largest golf club in the world.
The intimidating Olazabal Course, home of the Omega Mission Hills World Cup through 2018, runs through untouched jungle, steep mountains and deep ravines, with more than 160 bunkers. Yes, golfers know Jose Maria Olazabal is one of the game's great sand players, but did he really have to put 24 bunkers on the 15th hole? The narrow 18th fairway borders a large lake and is presided over by a huge white marble statue, some 90 feet high, of Guan Yin, goddess of mercy. I was ready to place an offering if it would help my game.
Clusters of foursomes are visible on near and far courses, the caddies' bright red uniforms and crisp white brimmed helmets in stark contrast to the green fairways. The caddie corps consists of close to 3,000 young women, who speak limited English but are fluent in golf-speak. Every golfer is assigned one. They drive carts, spot balls, rake bunkers, mark balls on the greens, read putts and can accurately club you after three holes. You want green tees, pink tees, long tees, short tees? SPF 10 or SPF 30? Sure.
Mission Hills' golf courses bear the first or last name of the famous players and golf architects who designed them, i.e. Annika, Duval, Leadbetter, Vijay, Els, Ozaki, Norman. Courses by Nick Faldo, Pete Dye, Olazabal and China's Zhang Lian Wei, plus Nicklaus' World Cup Course, complete the dozen. Schmidt-Curley Design (of Scottsdale, Ariz.) was the golf course architect on 10 of the 12 courses.
Why 12? It's an important number in China, symbolizing 12 years in the Chinese horoscope and the completion of a cycle.
The courses are generally in excellent condition - a cart-path-only restriction helps. Various warm weather grasses are used, similar to golf courses in the southeastern United States.
Golfers set forth out of three clubhouses, the largest being Dongguan Clubhouse at 680,000 square feet. That's bigger than the average Costco, and it's the largest clubhouse in the world. Carts line up at staging areas under signs for the various courses, smiling caddies waiting alongside. Golfers have no excuse for arriving late to their tee times. The shuttle system that runs around the property is always on schedule.
Sore back, pulled a muscle, jet lag? The clubhouse spas will be your salvation. I was submerged in a candlenut milk bath, bundled into a fresh papaya body wrap and vigorously massaged by two therapists working in unison. That wasn't even the best part. At Dongguan Clubhouse, a softly lit tunnel lined in shimmering gold webbing led to the elegant Forest Springs Spa and to my favorite treatment, Foot Reflexology. It lasted two blissful hours and included Thai massage techniques of pulling and stretching. Facials and massages were mostly well under $100.
The balmy evenings inspire participation in night golf. Thirty-six holes are equipped with floodlights. No glow-in-the-dark golf balls here; it's as brightly lit as a night baseball game at Boston's Fenway Park. Bright red hibiscus and clusters of pink bougainvillea flowers blossom all over Mission Hills. Rich tropical foliage flourishes in the humid climate.
Golf continues to thrive in China, while declining elsewhere. According to Mission Hills Executive Director Tenniel Chu, "20 years ago, China had some 100,000 golfers and no more than half a dozen courses. Today there are more than 300 courses and 3 million golfers in China, with the golfing population growing at a rate of up to 50 percent annually."
When Dr. David Chu founded Mission Hills, he anticipated the lifestyle demands of a growing affluent class and intended to establish China as the future center of golf. That probably seemed pretty far-fetched at the time. As Chu says about the 1995 World Cup, "Kids played in bunkers, people ran onto the fairways to take golf balls as souvenirs, and spectators wore dressy clothes and high heels." It was the first time many Chinese had ever seen golf.
Hosting the 2008 Beijing Olympics catapulted China onto the center stage of global sports events, and now Mission Hills is an avid partner in the worldwide effort to get golf into the 2016 Olympics.
Mission Hills is both a country club, with more than 10,000 members, and a destination resort. Three golf academies serve all those golfers, including schools from world-renowned instructors David Leadbetter and Cindy Reid. She left her position as director of instruction at TPC Sawgrass after 17 years to set up her own teaching academy at Mission Hills, an impressive, 30,000-square-foot learning center with eight hitting bays and state-of-the-art technology. She describes her students as "so excited about this new sport of golf."
Reid's biggest challenge has been teaching golf through a translator.
If you go
Mission Hills is just an hour's drive outside of Hong Kong. Green fees start at about $110 weekdays. Room rates depend on your choice of accommodations - $182 to $5,420 a night. Golf packages that include room, breakfast and a round of golf start around $263 a night. 86 755 2802 0888 Ext. 33810, [email protected].
Remember, a U.S. citizen needs a visa to travel from Hong Kong into mainland China.
Cori Brett is a golf and travel writer living in Scottsdale, Ariz. E-mail comments about this story to [email protected].
bladerunner
Banned Idiot
Surely its rather frivolous introducing golf to a country where land is such a premium, and only an activity where only a very few can participate
not sure abt first part but yeah ,it is shocking to me too.
