Repeat your feat in Pahang, Lee tells wushu team
Repeat your feat in Pahang, Lee tells wushu team
by Ting Ting Hee, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on March 21, 2014, Friday
KUCHING:
Assistant Sports Minister Datuk Lee Kim Shin has challenged the state’s
wushu exponents bound for Sukma XVII wushu competition in Perlis from
June 2-4 to repeat their feat in the Pahang Sukma two years ago when
they emerged overall champions in the sport.
“We did very well at Pahang Sukma two years ago to emerge the overall champions and I hope all of you can go all out to capture gold medals and maintain our status as the wushu powerhouse in Malaysia,” he told the exponents while visiting them during a training session at MSNS wushu elite centre at Kota Sentosa Sports Centre on Wednesday night.
“Apart from the preparing yourselves physically, you must also be mentally prepared to face the challenges from your opponents whom I believe will be mostly national exponents who are more experienced, better trained and have the advantage of undergoing overseas training stint,” he said.
Lee advised them not to fear their opponents as proven in past games, national exponents could also be beaten because wushu is a subjective sport and points awarded also depended very much on not making too many errors while executing the taolu routines.
“You must also take good care of you health and train hard under your capable coach from China,” he told the state exponents.
Lee also reminded them that their good performance would not go unrewarded as each gold that the exponent wins will entitle him/her to a cash incentive of RM5,000 and RM7,000 for the second gold won.
Meanwhile, Wushu Federation of Sarawak (WFS) deputy president James Ting said the state exponents were all set for the challenge come June.
“Our centralised training is carried out throughout the year and with the arrival of the new China coach Yang Nian Wu, our training programme is well on track,” he said.
Ting said in preparing for Sukma, talented exponents were scouted from Kuching, Sibu and Miri and those from outstation were transferred to Kuching for centralised training.
“We have a better training venue now at Kota Sentosa Sports Centre since last September, which offers a better training environment for the exponents,” he added.
Also present were WFS secretary William Kong, MSNS Centre of Excellence for Wushu, Kuching coach Ling Ung Hee and MSNS wushu coordinator Thomas Chia.
“We did very well at Pahang Sukma two years ago to emerge the overall champions and I hope all of you can go all out to capture gold medals and maintain our status as the wushu powerhouse in Malaysia,” he told the exponents while visiting them during a training session at MSNS wushu elite centre at Kota Sentosa Sports Centre on Wednesday night.
“Apart from the preparing yourselves physically, you must also be mentally prepared to face the challenges from your opponents whom I believe will be mostly national exponents who are more experienced, better trained and have the advantage of undergoing overseas training stint,” he said.
Lee advised them not to fear their opponents as proven in past games, national exponents could also be beaten because wushu is a subjective sport and points awarded also depended very much on not making too many errors while executing the taolu routines.
“You must also take good care of you health and train hard under your capable coach from China,” he told the state exponents.
Lee also reminded them that their good performance would not go unrewarded as each gold that the exponent wins will entitle him/her to a cash incentive of RM5,000 and RM7,000 for the second gold won.
Meanwhile, Wushu Federation of Sarawak (WFS) deputy president James Ting said the state exponents were all set for the challenge come June.
“Our centralised training is carried out throughout the year and with the arrival of the new China coach Yang Nian Wu, our training programme is well on track,” he said.
Ting said in preparing for Sukma, talented exponents were scouted from Kuching, Sibu and Miri and those from outstation were transferred to Kuching for centralised training.
“We have a better training venue now at Kota Sentosa Sports Centre since last September, which offers a better training environment for the exponents,” he added.
Also present were WFS secretary William Kong, MSNS Centre of Excellence for Wushu, Kuching coach Ling Ung Hee and MSNS wushu coordinator Thomas Chia.
Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2014/03/21/repeat-your-feat-in-pahang-lee-tells-wushu-team/#ixzz2xEV4AwYP
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