The
achievements of Nam Phong’s sports delegation demonstrate the strong physical
training and sports movement here. The movement focuses on residential areas
with students and young people playing a key role to encourage others such as
the elderly, farmers and women to join in. It is in response to a campaign in
which all people are called to follow late President Ho Chi Minh’s physical
training example.
Aside from modern sports
such as table tennis and badminton, many folk sports like stick pushing,
crossbow shooting and tug of war have also been promoted.
Members of the taiji club
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To encourage locals to play
sports, the Nam Phong communal People’s Committee devised a communication plan
to raise public awareness of the benefits of sports. At hamlet meetings, the
head of each hamlet disseminated training schedules and physical training and
sports information to residents.
At present, more than 78
percent of the commune’s population regularly do physical training and play
sports. All 10 hamlets have volleyball clubs while there are also eight
football clubs and one taiji club in Nam Phong. They train every morning and
afternoon at their hamlets’ cultural centres. Many hamlets such as Mac, Ong 1,
Ong 2 and Nam Thai have a tradition of physical training and playing sports.
Meanwhile, a number of families also have many generations, from grandparents
to grandchildren, joining physical training and playing sports such as the
families of Bui Van Truong in Khuan hamlet, Bui Van Thien in Ong 1 hamlet, and
Dinh Duc Dong in Ong 2 hamlet.
Bui Van Truong, a resident
in Khuan hamlet, said: "I play volleyball at the hamlet’s cultural centre every
day and feel much more relaxed and healthy. With better health, I also work
better. Physical training, alongside working and studying, has created a joyful
and healthy atmosphere in the commune while strengthening local solidarity.”
Last spring, Nam Phong was
one of the first communes to organise a communal Games in Cao Phong district.
The event drew more than 400 athletes competing in five sports: football,
volleyball, "bong chuyen hoi” (a type of volleyball using soft plastic ball),
stick pushing and tug of war. This was a big festival of local residents,
attracting more than 3,000 spectators.
Bui Viet Hoa said the
commune will push ahead with communications to raise public awareness of the
benefits of regularly doing physical training and playing sports. It will also
repair training grounds in hamlets and organise sports activities, facilitating
people’s participation in sports.
Thu Thuy
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