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Discover the most popular sports at NSYSU!

(Provided by the Si-Wan College)
Surely there are some sport courses you want to try out at NSYSU, but their striking popularity turns registration into a lottery! To promote the educative value of sport, the Center for Physical and Health Education, Si-Wan College, prepared an exhibition in the second week of November presenting different sports popular at NSYSU. You could take a photo with the complete equipment for three sports: archery, sailing/windsurfing and scuba diving in front of the Administration Building. The event included interactive activities and attracted many students and teachers. The students would stop and crave to register for the courses from the word go!

Director of the Center for Physical and Health Education Kai-Yang Lo said, that the theme of these physical education courses and highlight physical education exhibition was “a lifetime sport experience”. The exhibition presented the basics, course plan and environment of three sports and let the participants try out a recurve bow, step on a sailing boat and a windsurfing board, try on heavy scuba diving equipment, and participate in interactive experience activities. Students who didn’t get to register, could have a try and have fun!

Chung-Pien Hsiao from the Department of Photonics tried scuba diving equipment on and said: “It’s much heavier than I thought!”. However, the weight of the equipment will be felt differently in water. Hsiao expressed his interest for learning to dive. Tzu-Wei Fu, also from the Department of Photonics, considers sailing to be the most difficult of the three sports, however admits it’s challenging and fun! Tai-Ying Chou, who had previously tried sailing, got totally addicted to compound bow archery from the first time he tried it. He admitted that sailing experience at sea cannot be of much use in archery, however it is of some help as for concentration. Having hit the red target two out of three times gave Chou a sense of achievement: he admitted he would try archery again if given the opportunity in the future.

Kai-Yang Lo stated, that “education on body” and “education through body” are essential parts of modern physical education. These two elements are complementary and form a core value of academic courses. This exhibition, besides explaining the importance of physical education for lifecycle, also emphasized the unique geographical position of NSYSU in between mountains and the sea, thanks to which the University can offer a variety of water and mountain sports. The University will offer more courses in water sports in the future, as well as promote interdisciplinary curricula.

(Edited by Public Affairs Division)
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