Shanghai pays attention to cultivating high-level sports practitioners who know how to use AED and can carry big sandbags
A basketball player suddenly fell to the ground and fainted while resting after exercising. His breathing and heart stopped. His condition was very critical. The staff used the "life-saving tool" AED installed in the venue to rescue the golfer in time, and the golfer finally saved the day. This is a thrilling scene that happened at Yang High School Roadhouse in Locke Park last October.
With the increasing enthusiasm of citizens to participate in sports, the professional skills requirements for practitioners in the sports industry are also getting higher and higher. Recently, the 10th Shanghai Sports Industry Vocational Skills Competition in 2023 was held at the Pudong Swimming Pool. A total of 108 athletes from 27 sports teams in the city staged a professional skills competition.
This year's competition is jointly organized by the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau and the Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau for the first time. While rewarding individuals and groups, qualified players who win the first place in the individual competition can apply to the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau. The social security department will give priority to recommend applications for the "Shanghai Highly Skilled Talent Selection and Commendation Project".
As a municipal-level industry vocational skills competition, the competition event of this competition is fitness guidance. Participants come from five professional fields: swimming, rock climbing, skiing, diving, and fitness coaching. The content of the competition refers to the national professional skills standards for social sports instructors and is divided into two modules: job knowledge and job skills. Among them, job knowledge covers professional ethics, public theoretical knowledge, special sports knowledge, exercise physiology, sports anatomy, sports nutrition, healthy physical fitness, etc.; job skills include comprehensive physical fitness, safety protection skills, and teaching guidance capabilities.
The contestants are undergoing the "CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation" assessment.
The competition focuses on the test of sports safety protection and sports first aid capabilities. Participants need to complete the two technologies of "CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation" and "AED automatic external defibrillation" in sports first aid on site. The final round focuses on testing the vocational skills talents' mastery of national occupational standards and regulations, on-site teaching guidance ability and practical application ability.
Yin Molin, winner of the National May 1st Labor Medal and first place in the swimming lifesaving event of the National Sports Industry Skills Competition, has served as a referee for the Shanghai Sports Industry Vocational Skills Competition for two consecutive years. He told reporters, "The content of the competition is based on the national professional skill standards for social sports instructors, so it is quite difficult. Not only must you have good physical fitness, but you must also be proficient in knowledge, safety protection, and course explanations. Only in this way can we truly better serve the public fitness healthy."
Including tests in many aspects such as strength, speed, endurance and flexibility, the competition is both interesting and challenging, and the atmosphere on the scene is extremely lively. Sandbag passing not only tests the player's strength, but also tests the player's speed. Some players move two sandbags at once and return quickly over the pole. Liu Yang, who finally won the first place in the men's group, had amazing arm strength. He picked up 5 sandbags with both hands, held another sandbag in his mouth, and transported 6 sandbags totaling 120 kilograms to the pole in one breath, winning applause from the crowd.
It is understood that the contestants all have national professional qualifications or professional qualifications for social sports instructors, and some are college students. East China Normal University formed a team to compete this time. Shen Yu, a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in social sports guidance and management, was the most popular. Although the fitness industry has experienced some difficulties this year, Shen Yu said, "Working in sports-related jobs is still my first choice. I also hope that more people can engage in the sports and fitness industry to help the public improve their physical fitness. , get a healthy body.”
Yan Zhong, director of the Shanghai Sports Development Service Center, said that he hopes that through the holding of the competition, he hopes to build a sports talent exchange platform, select and cultivate multi-project, high-level vocational skills talents, encourage more sports youths to embark on the path of skills development, and promote Shanghai The city's sports industry has developed rapidly and comprehensively.
