As a home of sport, Nantong trained many athletes and Olympic Games champions. In Nantong public sports are popular, there’re many stadium for people to play soccer, basketball, swim, tennis etc. I’d like to introduce two sports around me.
1. Piazza dance
In recent years, piazza dance is very popular. At beginning it was liked and only danced in neighborhood unit by China Dama (middle-aged women) for health and fun, later it is developed to public piazza. That’s why it is called piazza dance and now it is even developed to overseas. From downtown to countryside, after supper around 7 pm, you may find Dama dancing happily almost at every piazza. The dance is very simple and the music is also popular, now the piazza is not only liked by Dama but also accepted by younger women and even a few men. But for those people who live around the piazza, they are annoyed with the noisy music caused by loudspeaker. Even extreme confliction between Dama and residents happened sometimes. But how smart the Dama are! The earphone now is introduced to Dama and it is instead of loudspeaker. In Nantong, piazza dance competition is held in summer. Total 120 teams joined this competition and 34 teams reached finals. This activity makes piazza more popular and gives chance for Dama to show on the stage formally.
2. Badminton
Badminton is a kind of welcome sport for Chinese. Some people play it in stadium and some play at walking area near own house. Besides good for health, it is helpful for coordinating and response ability. Many kids learn badminton skills in club. In PTM there is an informal team which is organized by some badminton fans. They play twice a week and their skill become higher and higher. In GOTO cup badminton competition held in Shanghai in this Apr., 2 members got 2nd award. Last year PTM ESH held badminton completion on 3rd Family Safety Day. Many families joined it and had fun. But the champion was our employee’s husband. So PTM badminton fan should try to improve skill.
