From White to Black – the BailongBall Grading System

Um die BailongBall-Formen (Taolu) zu standardisieren und um ihre Verbreitung zu fördern, haben Spezialisten verschiedener Sportorganisationen unter anderem wie der Sport Universität Peking (北体大), des chinesischen Seniorensportverbands (老体协) ein System von Sportgraden – das Duanwei-System – entwickelt, das dem des Wushu ähnelt.

BailongBall Forms – an Example, Part 5

In this series of blogs, we introduce you to BailongBall Forms. After having launched respective series on the disciplines of Multiplay and Freestyle, this series covering the discipline Forms, aims to complete your picture of our sport. The series breaks down a particular BailongBall Form into several parts. In each part, we show you round about two elements. At the end of the last part, you will have covered the Form and you will pick up tips and tricks while progressing from one part to the next.

Experiences with the Online BailongBall Junior Trainer Program

We started with the following plan: Half the time we train via web conference and the other half traditionally, on site.

So on October 26, 2020, we started our first web conference based training session and shimmied from one pandemic social distancing ruling to the next. Bottom line: the entire Junior Trainer training took place via Zoom.

This required a lot of flexibility from the trainers Susanne Ritz, Mike Ritz and Shannon Ritz as well as from us, but this also had advantages, as we were able to schedule appointments at relatively short notice. We had different time windows, ranging from one hour to 4 hours, including breaks.

Online Training and Exam – Congratulations to the 2 New Trainers

Start October last year – the goal: to become a certified BailongBall Junior Trainer. The plan was a mix of online training and on-site training weekends. The idea was to have regular online sessions that would simplify training schedules for both trainers and trainees and eliminate the need for repeated long trips to the training site. However, the pandemic had its own plans and the training weekends were repeatedly postponed and eventually cancelled altogether. The training was done completely online, as was the exam.

Finger Skills for Freestyle – Part 1

Freestyle is versatile and embodies the dancing of BailongBall. Flowing, circular, swinging, dynamic movements, full of rhythm. Movements that flow through the whole body – spreading all the way to the fingers. There, the racket continues the movements of the body, often in the form of circles.

In our series “Freestyle Elements”, you got a little insight into what is possible when the racket “is spun”. In parts 1, 2 and 3 you could see how Irina combines variations of racket spinning, with different body movements and sequences.

Maybe you wonder how the racket can spin so elegantly, so smoothly and yet quickly, and still not lose contact with the ball? How do you practice something like that? For example, how does Irina manage to “wrap” the racquet around the ball so elegantly (the so-called “scroll”) as in the video of the third part of the “Freestyle Elements” series?

In our small two-part series on “Finger Skills for Freestyle”, we would like to show you a few exercises that help developing the necessary finger skills. In this first part we will practice with the small racquet, the Bailo. In the second part we will switch to the larger racquet.

BailongBall Forms – an Example, Part 4

In this series of blogs, we introduce you to BailongBall Forms. After having launched respective series on the disciplines of Multiplay and Freestyle, this series covering the discipline Forms, aims to complete your picture of our sport. The series breaks down a particular BailongBall Form into several parts. In each part, we show you round about two elements. At the end of the last part, you will have covered the Form and you will pick up tips and tricks while progressing from one part to the next.

In unserem ersten Teil der Serie haben wir erklärt, was Formen von den anderen BailongBall Disziplinen unterscheidet. Von der vorgestellten Form haben wir dann das einleitende Element, sowie ein zweites Element, „den Spiegel“, vorgestellt. Im zweiten Teil haben wir die Elemente drei und vier behandelt – die horizontale Drehung und die Wolkenhände. Der dritte Teil behandelt eine Variante des Richtungswechsels, sowie die „dynamische 8“. Wie in den ersten drei Teilen, werden wir auch diesmal wieder zwei Elemente vorstellen. Auch dieses Mal beginnen wir genau an der Stelle, bei der wir im letzten Teil aufgehört haben.

BailongBall Forms – an Example, Part 3

In this series of blogs, we introduce you to BailongBall Forms. After having launched respective series on the disciplines of Multiplay and Freestyle, this series covering the discipline Forms, aims to complete your picture of our sport. The series breaks down a particular BailongBall Form into several parts. In each part, we show you round about two elements. At the end of the last part, you will have covered the Form and you will pick up tips and tricks while progressing from one part to the next.

How to become a certified TBBA Junior Trainer – the solo techniques (1/3)

Möchtest Du Dein BailongBall-Spiel nicht nur verbessern, sondern Dein Erlerntes auch mit Anderen teilen? Denkst Du darüber nach eine Gruppe von BailongBall Spielern auf/auszubauen oder gar Trainer zu werden? Dann hast Du bestimmt viele Fragen: Wie lange dauert eine Trainer-Ausbildung, welche Inhalte hat sie und wo wird sie angeboten? Gibt es eine Prüfung und wenn ja was genau wird geprüft, von wem und wie? Gibt es verschiedene Arten von Trainern bzw. Level und wenn ja, welche und was zeichnet sie aus? Wofür steht eine TBBA Zertifizierung eigentlich? …
In dieser Serie von Blogbeiträgen möchten wir Dir Antworten auf die vielen Fragen zu den TBBA Trainer Zertifizierungen geben und Dich ermutigen, den nächsten Schritt in Deinem BailongBall Spiel zu gehen.

BailongBall Forms – an Example, Part 2

In unserem ersten Teil der Serie haben wir erklärt, was Formen unterscheidet von den anderen BailongBall Disziplinen. Von der vorgestellten Form haben wir dann das einleitende Element, sowie ein zweites Element, den Spiegel, vorgestellt. Wie auch im ersten Teil, werden wir wieder zwei Elemente vorstellen. Sie führen genau an der Stelle fort, bei der wir den ersten Teil beendet haben – die kleine „Vorschau“, mit der wir den Beitrag beendet hatten.

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