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2018-02-26
The Social Sports Instructor Walking towards the World Stage——About Lv Shirong , the station master of the Longtan Health Qigong coaching station in Chongwen District, Beijing

Working hard in the development of the station

Lv Shirong has always had a passion for sports. She has been learning Health Qigong, including Yi Jin Jing, Wu Qin Xi, Liu Zi Jue and Ba Duan Jin, by herself ever since 2006. Through practicing hard according to the video materials on Health Qigong, and pondering and experiencing during the practice process, she has deepened her understanding of the basic theories and technical essentials of Health Qigong day by day, and has gradually experienced the profound connotation of Health Qigong. At the same time, her movements in the exercises become more and more accurate and standard, too.

While constantly improving her technical level of Health Qigong, she has paid great attention to the teaching and management work of the coaching station, too. She always patiently and carefully explains to the students of the station about the technical movement essentials, common mistakes, and correction methods of Health Qigong. And she also standardizes every movement and corrects every error according to the practice requirements, infecting every member in the station with her passion for excellence. With the increasing technical level of the members in the station and the extending of the influence of Health Qigong, the size of the station is also becoming larger and larger, developing into the current size of 200 members from the initial 20 or 30 members.

In October 2006, Lv Shirong participated in the teaching assistant work of Wu Qin Xi training class during the First International Health Qigong Demonstration Contest through the recommendation of Beijing Health Qigong Management Office. While serving as a teaching assistant, she got the personal guidance from Professor Yu dinghai and successfully accomplished her tasks required for a teaching assistant.

As a coach, Lv Shirong is well aware that, not only should she make efforts to practice Health Qigong herself, but also she should, may be more important, organize and instruct the students to practice Health Qigong. She is just such a good coach and good teacher who can not only teach by verbal instruction, but also by personal examples. In March 2007, she selected 10 students who are nice both in appearance and temperament from the station for special training just one month before the Beijing Second Health Qigong Demonstration Contest. Since the training time was limited, the technical level of the students was quite different from each other, and plus the relative old age of the students, the training was indeed confronted with various kinds of difficulties. In order to improve the technical level of the participating students, she insisted in training with the students and made great efforts to overcome the various difficulties. And as a result, the participating students ultimately won the first place in Wu Qin Xi of Health Qigong in the final contest.


Demonstrating elegant demeanor in Greeting Olympic Games activities

The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games was a major event that attracted worldwide attention. It also created favorable conditions and granted broad development space for the flourishing development of amateur sports activities, especially Health Qigong. Lv Shirong was much concerned about the Olympics and Health Qigong. She successfully organized and led the Health Qigong team of Chongwen District to demonstrate flowery elegant demeanor in the Greeting Olympic Games activities.

On August 8, 2007, she took part in the organization of the one-year countdown large-scale performance for greeting Olympic Games, which was held in the China Millennium Monument. The demonstration of Health Qigong•Wu Qin Xi performance performed by 200 Health Qigong enthusiasts of Chongwen District and instructed by her received high praise from the leaders at various levels. On April 20, 2008, she participated in the organization of the large-scale Health Qigong performance of the “2008 Good Luck Beijing” Track and Field Test Event held in the National Stadium Bird's Nest.

In April 2008, the Sports Bureau of Chongwen District undertook the task of Health Qigong•Wu Qin Xi performance which was to be demonstrated in the 100-day countdown large-scale performance for greeting Olympic Games held in the Birds’ Nest on April 30. And soon, the leaders of the Sports Bureau of Chongwen District assigned the organization and teaching work to Lv Shirong. After receiving the appointment, she immediately devoted herself into the organization and training of the performance. There was only one faith in her mind, namely “we must let Health Qigong demonstrate unparalleled brilliance on the stage of greeting Olympic Games”. During the training, we can always found her busy and laborious figure.

In the 100-day countdown large-scale performance, the Health Qigong performance performed by Lv Shirong and her team achieved a great success, adding luster and honor to the Beijing Olympic Games.


Creating Brilliance in large contests

In June 2009, the “Mengniu Cup” Third National Health Qigong Contest was to be held in Wuhan. Beijing Health Qigong Office assigned the task for participating in this contest to Lv Shirong and her students. In the past, Beijing had always got unsatisfactory results in the event. In order to fight an overturn battle, she formulated strict organizational disciplines and comprehensive training plans. Every day, she organized and led the team members to train from 7:00 to 11:00 in the morning and from 2:00 to 6:00 in the afternoon. After two months of hard training, they overcame a lot of difficulties and injuries and finally achieved standardized technical movements and uniform performance. Confronted with serious challenge from the representative teams of other provinces and cities, they showed a very high level of confidence, and won two second prizes in this contest. It can not to be said to be a miracle for a team with average age reaching 56 and members coming from the same Health Qigong station.

Two months later, the First National Elderly Sports Meeting—— Contest on the Health Qigong event was held in Qinhuangdao. This contest was extraordinary significant. Since the age of Lv Shirong can not reach the participation standard of the elderly, she could only take part in the contest as a coach, but rather as a competition member. In the past, whether in contests or performances, Lv Shirong was always responsible for leading the performance in the site; therefore, the team members were to some extent dependent on her in the mastering of rhythm. However, she could not lead the performance in the site in the contest, which created some effect on the confidence of the team members. Aiming at the problem, she timely transformed the training focus from the previous correction of technical movements to the understanding of music and mastering of rhythm. After a period of training, the team members got their confidence back again. And finally, the results of the contest turned out to be that the Beijing team won two golden medals in the team event of Health Qigong•Wu Qin Xi and the Health Qigong•Ba Duan Jin, as well as four golden medals in individual events. The leaders of the Beijing Sports Bureau also paid great attention to the contest. They specially spared time to come to the competition field to cheer for the team members. In the meanwhile, on the day they returned Beijing, the other students of the station who did not participate in the contest carried banners and held flowers in the platform of Beijing station to welcome their station master and team members back. The team members hugged each other and greeted each other. Many of them shed tears of excitement. It was Lv Shirong who made a common Health Qigong become a warm and harmonious collective where the students care for each other and help each other.

In recent years, Lv Shirong and her team members have participated in many domestic and international Health Qigong contests. They have gained excellent achievements, creating one brilliant success after another. On May 18, 2007, they won the collective first prize of Wu Qin Xi in the Beijing Second Health Qigong Demonstration Contest on behalf of Chongwen District. In June 2009, Lv Shirong led 9 students of the coaching station to participate in the “Mengniu Cup” Third National Health Qigong Contest on behalf of Beijing, and won the third place in Health Qigong • Ba Duan Jin and the fifth place in Health Qigong •Wu Qin Xi. On August 10, 2009, Lv Shirong was elected to the national team to participated in the Third international Health Qigong Contest, and won the collective first prize in Health Qigong•Yi Jin Jing. In September 2009, Lv Shirong led 8 students of the coaching station to participate in the Health Qigong Event Demonstration Contest of the First National Elderly Sports Meeting on behalf of Beijing. They won two golden medals in the team event of Health Qigong•Wu Qin Xi and the Health Qigong•Ba Duan Jin, as well as four golden medals in individual events. On December 23, 2009, they took part in the Asia International Health Qigong Invitational Tournament which was held in Hongkong on behalf of the country. In the contest, they won two first prizes in the team event of Health Qigong•Yi Jin Jing and Health Qigong•Wu Qin Xi, and at the same time won two first prizes in the individual event of Health Qigong•Yi Jin Jing and Health Qigong•Liu Zi Jue.


Reaching new heights in the overseas promotion

Through persistent efforts, Lv Shirong has grown to an excellent Health Qigong coach from an ordinary Health Qigong enthusiast. She not only creates excellent achievements in the domestic large-scale activities, but also goes abroad on a regular basis through the appointment of the Health Qigong Management Center of the State Sports General Administration. She has walked onto the world stage to promote and popularize Chinese Health Qigong to the foreign friends.  

In December 2007, appointed by the Health Qigong Management Center of the State Sports General Administration, Lv Shirong received the foreign Health Qigong enthusiast and coach of national judo team of Netherlands. She taught him two exercises of Health Qigong, namely Wu Qin Xi and Ba Duan Jin. And in February 2008 and October 2008, she received two Greek enthusiasts, Peter and Marlene. She taught them four exercises of Health Qigong and coached them to pass the Dan grading examination ( the third Dan).

When receiving foreign Health Qigong enthusiasts and carrying out overseas Health Qigong teaching and coaching tasks, she always adopts a combination of teaching methods for the language problem, including using body language, simulating mistaken movements and using simple English expressions. First of all, she will always lead them to practice for several times and then let them finish the exercises independently. Observe their movements to see whether there are any mistakes. And then simulate their mistaken movements and let them watch aside, and say no at the same time; and next, demonstrate the correct movement again and say OK at the same time. In this way, they will get easily understood.

In the overseas Health Qigong teaching and coaching, Lv Shirong also pays attention to adopt different teaching methods for different kinds of students. For instance, she adopts the method of “less talk, more demonstration and more practice for new students, so that they can learn to master the technical essentials of the exercises as soon as possible. In addition, in the teaching process, she always tries her best to presents accurate demonstration, clear explanation and patient coaching to the students, so that the students can correctly master the technical essentials of the exercises by learning once.

Lv Shirong always puts all her heart to teach the students in the countries she has visited. She treats every one with sincerity, and tried to let these Health Qigong enthusiasts understand the essence of the Chinese Health Qigong in a short time and improve the technical level of exercises and fitness effect. While promoting the Chinese Health Qigong in the world, she also made many foreign friends, making positive contribution to the propagation of excellent Chinese traditional culture and promotion of the friendship between Chinese people and people all over the world.

(Social sports management center of Chongwen District, Beijing)

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