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Alumni Popularize Takraw

There were some alumni coming back to Xisong to popularize takraw today.  They are in senior high school and college now.  Due to their enthusiasm for takraw, they came to teach students at Xisong about it.  They used to play shuttleball when they were in elementary school, however, they thought shuttleball was only local inside Taipei City so they played takraw instead afterward.   They spent their own money and went to Thailand to learn takraw.  I think they must have a hard time doing that.

They demonstrated the movements step by step.  After every demonstration, they let the students practice.  Their demonstration such as “bicycle kick” or “header” impressed the students very much.  They had lots of patience in teaching and correcting the students, therefore the students learned it quite well.

 I guess Takraw has more potential than shuttleball since it is popular in Thailand and it is one of Asian Games’ items.  The shuttleball invented by Master Min-shou Li has been only played inside Taipei City so far.  Most of time when people talk about shuttleball, it refers to the shuttleball played in the international games.  I think we should popularize our shuttleball in Taiwan first, and then spread it around the world.

It is a good idea to have the alumni coming back to teach our students.  I believe when these students graduate, they will come back to teach the students then.