Shaolin Monastery wants to mix Chinese kongfu into football training
Chinatopixstaffwriter | | Aug 11, 2013 02:31 PM EDT |
Recently, an idea of mixing Chinese kongfu into football training becomes into a prevalent topic among China.
On Aug 6th, we interviewed the capital of Songshan Shaolin Monastery. He said, Chinese football coaches have had a research meeting in Fengdeng on Aug 2nd and he expressed his idea to all the football coaches. He thinks Chinese kongfu and football will be an awesome combination. Some skills such as kicking the legs and way to run can help football players to improve their balance. He believes those skills can help Chinese football players.
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He also mentioned that they did a lot of technical research about the combination of kongfu and football and took an action on it. In Oct. 2010, they had their teenager football team and also set up a football school with Henan Jianye Inc. This project started on Feb 26th and they have invested 2 billion Yuan in it. Now they have a football school, a stadium and two gyms.
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