Khanh Hoa Provincial Department of Culture and Sports is cooperating with the associations of tradition martial art and vovinam in the province, and Khanh Hoa Radio and Television (KTV) to broadcast martial arts lessons on KTV. The martial art program aims to teach and help people, especially school students to improve physical and spiritual health as well as to learn more about the quintessence of Vietnamese martial arts.
Khanh Hoa Provincial Department of Culture and Sports is cooperating with the associations of tradition martial art and vovinam in the province, and Khanh Hoa Radio and Television (KTV) to broadcast martial arts lessons on KTV. The martial art program aims to teach and help people, especially school students to improve physical and spiritual health as well as to learn more about the quintessence of Vietnamese martial arts.
A recent martial art lesson was filmed at Bach Dang Park (Nha Trang City). The lesson was instructed by Master Trinh Kien Cuong and performed by the martial art practitioners of Hoang Kim Long Traditional Martial Art Club. In this lesson, master Cuong taught ten self-defense moves and techniques, aiming to teach high school students self-defense skills and help them improve their health and avoid school violence. Master Cuong said that this martial art teaching program presents an opportunity to widely promote the quintessence of Vietnam’s martial arts. Through the broadcast lessons, not only can school students practice traditional martial arts but also people who love Vietnamese martial arts can practice at home.
The martial art teaching program on KTV this time includes traditional martial art and vovinam. Each lesson is 15 minute long. The lessons are broadcast two times per week from October to December, 2021. The traditional martial art lessons are aired on Wednesday and Saturday; vovinam lessons are broadcast on Tuesday and Friday. In each lesson, the instructors teach basic techniques, demonstration, and self-defense.
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This year, sports activities in general and traditional martial art activities in particular have been halted due to COVID-19 pandemic. Under this circumstance, it is good that the province’s sports sector cooperates with KTV to broadcast martial art teaching program, said Ly Hoang Tuan, Grandmaster and Chairman of Khanh Hoa Provincial Traditional Martial Art Association. Tuan hopes that there will be more martial art teaching broadcasts so that Vietnamese martial art lovers can practice. According to Tuan, although the traditional martial art activities in Khanh Hoa are being halted, the movement of traditional martial art has been maintained and strongly developed. Nha Trang City, Dien Khanh District, and Ninh Hoa Town are the three outstanding localities in the province with strong martial art movement and hundreds of practitioners.
Reportedly, most sports activities are gradually resuming with safe adaption to the pandemic prevention and control. However, sports activities for teenagers have still been postponed. Therefore, martial art teaching program should be maintained to help teenagers improve physical fitness and learn to protect themselves.
Before COVID-19 outbreak, Nguyen Thi My (Phuoc Hai Ward) took her child to the provincial Children’s House to learn traditional martial art three times per week. They couldn’t go outside during the break. Now, since the martial art teaching program has been broadcast on KTV, her child has pleasurably practice along the lessons.
An Nhien
Translated by H.N
