Investigation And Countermeasures On The Community Sports Dance In Wuhan

Sports Dance is a kind of activity blending sport with art which includes the advantages of music, dance, clothing and physical integration. It is of great value in physical exercise and physical recreation and has been popular among the people. Located in the middle-lower reaches of Yangtze River, Wuhan is one of the largest cities in central China. Sports dance was deeply loved by citizen from Wuhan, and soon take root in the communities. There are still some problems with the rapid development of Sports Dance in Wuhan city even its good situation.According to the National Health Plan (2011-2015), it is required to develop people's body-building in national scale and sports dance in Wuhan. This paper investigates the current status of sports dance in seven main districts of Wuhan City. Methods including literature research, interview, investigation and statistical information analysis were used to study the improvement measures and the major factors affect the development of sports dance in Wuhan.The survey result of physical fitness items indicates community residents presents obvious feature between different ages. Most teenagers will play ball games, adults prefer to oxygen movements, while residents from 41 to 50 years old primarily like to play chess and card; Most of community residents know some theoretical knowledge about sports dancing; Most residents master dance theoretical knowledge are people who are at least graduated from undergraduate program or above; Along with age is growing, more community residents choose sports dance, teenagers choose sports dance in order to make friends, while the middle-aged and old hope that enhances own artistic culture through sports dancing and excise their bodies for health; Community residents learn sports dancing mainly from their neighborhood, the next by multimedia, such as network and television; community residents usually play sports dance in the park and squares, only 30.7% chooses to play sport dances in the ballrooms and charged sports places. Location facilities influence sports dancing mostly, the other less important influencing factor are organization, management, burden of society and plan.It is identified that the major factors affect the development of sports dance in Wuhan includes shortage of teachers, incomplete field and equipment, lack of propagation, block of traditional though, bad organization, and poor method of developing. To fix on it, some improvement measures are proposed including that to improve the social instructor system, favorable workplace, and creative atmosphere, to strengthen on the research of sports dance, optimize teaching content, to enrich teaching methods, to stimulate people's interest, to build more sports dance clubs, to build relevant institutions network.