Live Bar, September 22 news in today’s radio program, basketball commentator Yang Yi talked about the current situation of Chinese campus basketball.
Yang Yi said: There are many people doing basketball training now, and there are many children participating in basketball training, but among the total number of people practicing basketball, I am not exaggerating to say that more than 90% are under 12 years old. In those training camps you see, 9 out of 10 children are practicing children, and 30 children are practicing in a venue, all of whom are children. For example, 100 children who practice basketball usually participate in basketball training. In the junior high school stage, at the age of 12 to 15, there may be 10 more to continue training. When it reaches the age range of 15 to 18, there may be only one of the 10 left. The actual proportion is much smaller than what I said.
This reason is very simple, because parents in primary school just let their children cultivate their interests, which is just fun. When the children run, jump, and shoot fengshui ball shots, their parents are very happy when they look at them, there won’t be too much purpose. But when you are over 12 years old, you are faced with high school entrance examination. You have to squeeze time out from the obviously aggravated schoolwork to practice the ball. At this stage, only those children or parents who are particularly persistent can stick to it, I think children really like it and practice it well. Let’s practice it again. By the age of 15 or above, if the child is still practicing the ball, then the parent is very purposeful. I practice this ball at least to help my child go to college. If I can’t help him go to college, then let’s not practice it.
Nike League, a national high school student League, has 6,000 children this year, including both men and women. So you can think about how many children are in high school nationwide, and that’s all for playing basketball. It will be slightly higher than this number, because some schools have teams but do not have funds to participate in high tolerance, but this number will not be too high, and the scale of high tolerance this year is already very large. So let’s calculate the proportion of players over the age of 15. There are only these children in the country. This is the situation of the education system.