The above goal is considered modest, because for a long time, pencak silat has been a "gold mine" of Vietnamese sports . Most recently, at the 31st SEA Games, the Vietnamese pencak silat team led the delegation with 6 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 5 bronze medals. It is known that, like many other martial arts at the 32nd SEA Games, pencak silat has had many events that were Vietnam's strengths cut. In addition, the host country Cambodia has set a rule limiting the number of events each country participates in to 70% (except for the host country, which is 100%), forcing the team's coaching staff to calculate carefully.
For example, the current SEA Games champion in the women's 75kg category, Quàng Thị Thu Nghĩa, had to move down to compete in the 70kg category; high-class fighters such as Nguyễn Duy Tuyến ( world champion in the men's 85kg category), Lê Văn Toàn ( world champion in the 95kg category) also had to change their weight class at the 32nd SEA Games... In addition, the Vietnamese pencak silat team is also missing two key fighters, Trần Đình Nam and Nguyễn Văn Trí, due to injury. Not only that, at the 32nd SEA Games, pencak silat will apply the new scoring and scoring format of the World Pencak Silat Federation, forcing fighters and coaches to race against time to update.
Faced with these difficulties, how does the Vietnamese Pencak Silat Team demonstrate its spirit and practice? Speaking to us, Head Coach Nguyen Van Hung said: “We divide the training cycle into 3 phases: First, we focus on athletes building physical strength and toning muscles so that when they enter professional training, injuries will be limited. Next, we practice collisions to increase endurance. Phase 3 is to train athletes with exercises, putting the exercises into actual competitions. In particular, the coaching staff will organize internal practice competitions, inviting some units to practice to help athletes practice their skills and experience.”
The change in weight class has left boxers facing the problem of losing weight or gaining weight. Being forced to lose 5kg to participate in the 32nd SEA Games has left Quàng Thị Thu Nghĩa exhausted, but the boxer born in 1999 is determined: “I will do my best to defend my gold medal”. Meanwhile, world champion Nguyễn Duy Tuyến is worried, we only have less than a year to prepare and adapt to the new rules.
The General Department of Sports and Physical Training has just approved a plan to send the Vietnamese Pencak Silat Team to Indonesia (the homeland of Pencak Silat) for training in April to help athletes improve their skills and prepare for the 32nd SEA Games and the 19th Asian Games. Mr. Hoang Quoc Vinh, Director of the Department of High Performance Sports 1 ( General Department of Sports and Physical Training ), confided: "The Vietnamese Pencak Silat Team has a generation of quality fighters, but in the long term, the issue of youth training and talent selection needs to be carefully and methodically calculated. In the coming time, we will coordinate with the education and training sector to organize more grassroots tournaments and select pencak silat talents from schools."
TAM NINH
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