Working Meeting of Technical Backbone Team of Walking Special Committee of China Elderly People's Association Held

The technical backbone team working meeting of the Walking Committee of the China Association for the Elderly was held in Weihai, Shandong Province, from May 13 to 15, 2021. Sheng Zhiguo, Executive Vice Chairman of China Association for the Elderly, Director of Walking Special Committee, and Yang Liqiang, Deputy Director attended the meeting. Huang Tengda, Yao Xinxin, Song Wenquan, Wang Lin, Zhang Haitao, Zhao Renhui, Wang Yadong, Bai Yuling, Chen Jian, Sun Huaen, Li Binghong and Huang Ying also attended the meeting.

Sheng Zhiguo first announced the organization adjustment of the Walking Committee: the name of the Walking Promotion Committee of the China Elderly People's Association was changed to the Walking Committee of the China Elderly People's Association; Huang Tengda and Song Wenquan were added as Deputy Secretaries General of the Special Committee; Yang Liqiang, Deputy Director of the Special Committee, assisted Director Sheng Zhiguo in taking charge of the overall work of the Special Committee; Huang Tengda, Yao Xinxin and Song Wenquan, the three deputy secretaries general, are responsible for the specific work. Huang Tengda gave priority to the above communication, coordination and communication, Yao Xinxin focused on training, and Song Wenquan focused on promotion. According to the division of labor, cooperate with each other and work together.

The meeting held a heated discussion on how to accelerate the development of walking with stick. It was agreed that both popularization and improvement should be paid equal attention to, and improvement should be achieved by successfully running walking competitions with sticks and giving full play to the role of competitions in stimulating the development of sports. Popularization is to expand the number of people who take part in walking, increase grassroots training, activate social competitions and activities, and promote them with the help of social sports instructors and other training systems, so as to explore a new mode of combining walking with sports tourism.

Sheng Zhiguo pointed out that the norms and standards of refereeing are directly related to the development direction of the project, and we should pay attention to the principles. We should not only "guide the execution of arbitration", but also "practice the execution of arbitration". The so-called guiding judgment is to pay attention to the purpose and purpose of project development, and test the participants' application of the stick holding technology core. The core skill of walking with a staff is to mobilize the whole body to participate and improve the fitness efficiency of walking with the help of the staff. For example, the "field relay project" focuses on testing the fitness and stability of technology. Practical judgment refers to the combination of the standard movements of holding the staff with the actual application in the project setting and judgment, and the objective conditions and fitness of the participants' skills. For example, the "outdoor crossing project" is the practical application of stick holding in outdoor sports. Measures should be taken in accordance with the requirements of the Competition Rules and when carrying out the judgment. It is necessary not only to improve the standard level of carrying out the judgment, but also to combine the actual fitness function of stick holding in outdoor sports. Through standardized and objective judgment, we can achieve the goal of promoting and popularizing scientific fitness service.

The purpose of the elderly sports and fitness exchange is to weaken the championship, ensure safety, focus on participation, focus on communication, focus on friendship, and focus on happiness. But since it is an event, there must be competition, so must fitness exchange activities, which is the spirit and charm of sports. Providing a fair and just service platform for events and activities is the key to the success of the exchange activities of walking events, and also the key to the sustainable development of the project.

Sheng Zhiguo said that in order to run the fourth National Health Care Association for the Elderly next year, it can be said that this year is a year of preparation and reform practice. In addition to the three national trainings and two national exchange activities sponsored by the China Association for the Elderly and Human Beings, small trainings and competitions should be held in various places. Through practice, the project settings, methods of judgment and standards of punishment should be adjusted and improved to meet the needs of project development. Efforts should be made to achieve "reasonable project settings, proper enforcement and supervision, and unified punishment standards", and solve the existing problems of "rules are clear, understanding is different, and punishment is inconsistent".

On the issue of popularization, Sheng Zhiguo said that this project is a project with great development potential and is the most social project. This requires the vitality of the event organization. This vitality is to find the society and the market, encourage social participation and enterprise participation, encourage the people to consciously spend on fitness, and save for health. We should gradually make the competition system flexible and effectively expand the platform for mass participation.

For how to understand and grasp the development direction of walking with a stick, Sheng Zhiguo emphasized that first, we should adhere to the scientific fitness skills of popularization projects; Second, efforts should be made to expand the population involved in the project; The third is to actively expand the leisure and fitness lifestyle of the project.

The event planning, organizing personnel and technical backbones should pay attention to the relationship between the dilution of the championship, gold medal and the improvement of the competitive level of the event, and the connection between the practical application of skills and the event inspection; In the event organization, we should properly handle the connection between "competition" and "tour" activities.