《網球教練》__ 陳柏齡 (71)

《網球教練》

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再過了一陣子,我路經後山公園的網球場,見到老趙在教球。我停車看看, 老趙把一部職業教練裝球的手推車,放在場中央, 裡面放滿了黃澄澄的網球。 

東北話教授,他耐心地餵球
眼睛看著球!
拉後時放鬆!
側身!
碎步!
“follow through!”
好傢伙!老趙把我所教的全用上,就連那句英文也用上了。

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可以贏而不贏!輸了比賽 贏來全球掌聲

Sportsmanship
西班牙運動員艾文‧費南德茲‧安納亞(Ivan Fernandez Anaya)在日前輸掉一場長跑比賽,卻贏得整個世界的掌聲。

就在領先的肯亞運動員阿貝爾‧穆太(Abel Mutai)誤以為抵達終點,而在終點前十公尺停下腳步時,迎頭追上的安納亞選擇提醒並指引穆太跑到終點,最後輸掉這場比賽。 Continue reading

The table tennis life of Lim Ming CHUI (1965)

Wong Hung-sum, Chui Lim-ming, Ho Hou-chi

I have been playing table tennis (tt) since I was five for almost 60 yrs. I was introduced to tt from my brother, Lim Kwok Chui. At WYK, I learned and competed with other school team players such as Cheung Kwok-Kwong, Joseph Pang, Andrew Zee, Clement Yu, etc and was able to represent WYK and won a few titles including the HKSSA Table Tennis Champion A Grade boys 1964-65 with John Wong Hung Sum and Anthony Ho Hou Chi.

With the sound foundation at tt I bestowed and developed in WYK, I was able to further my progress in tt by learning from other champions and constantly polish my tt fundamentals via physical training, practice as well as applying physics principles (such as mechanics, spring system, motion equations, etc). As a result, I was and continue to be able to win hundreds of tt tourneys as well as coaching many students, including my son Chi-Sun Chui (who won two silver medals in the Pan-American games for USA) and my daughter Jane Chui (who was four-time USA Intercollegiate Women’s singles Champion, she was also the alternate Olympian in 1996 and the 2010 US Open Sand Paper Champion); also Eric and Scot Boggan, Joe Eng who became World Team players for USA Continue reading

The Sporting Life at WYK__Wong Hak Kwong

An Interview with Eddie H. K. Wong

Eddie H. K. Wong (1961 to 1968) was active in track and field, football and other sports at WYK.  He was recently interviewed by Tim Kwan (1961 to 1969) on his track and field experience at WYK.

1.  Eddie, which were your events at track and field?
I mostly ran 100, 200 meters and 4 x 100 relay, but also did triple jump at our school’s track meet because we were required to have both track and field in the three events we participated.  I guess it was meant to encourage us to try both.

2.  How did you get started?
I think I inherited my love for sports from my father.  As a little boy he often took me and my brothers to see a football game.  The stadium was always packed and I was thrilled at seeing the players in colorful jerseys running around in the green field.  I started to read about the game on newspapers and then I got interested and read the whole sports page, enjoying the analyses and the stories of the players and their achievements.
On entering Wah Yan and like everyone else, I spent a lot of time after school playing football in the sand field, and on the way I often noticed the school’s track team practicing in the grass field.  They looked so smart in their green track suit that I wished I could be like them one day. Continue reading

兒子,網球,與我__Don Chen

小兒子Adam七歲跟我上網球場.  那時候他人細拍大,在球場揮拍走動,天真活潑,每次看到他把球碰在拍中央,擊出一記好球,我就會激動高喊 “good shot”。

我雖非伯樂, 但早就看出Adam運動基因雖有,但并不是上乘之选,因為他的腳步不夠快,反應也一般.  腳步和反應是天生的,不管後天如何訓練,都不能有多大改進。

我喜愛運動,尤其愛網球。在我一生中, 網球是唯一能拿出來獻醜而不失禮的强項。

父親當然希望兒子踏着自己的脚印.  跟着父親學球吧, 我不能幫助你英文和數理化,唯一能教的是網球。

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