Research On The Development Status And Prospects Of American Flag Football Movement In Domestic

American Flag football is derived from the United States National Football League (NFL) extension of a popular sport of rugby, which is named by the athletes to wear waist flag. American Flag football game using the basic rules and techniques, but the game does not permit holding and pushing others, as long as the defending team pull down the flag of the offensive player with the ball, the attack will be stopped. So it is a safe and non-collision movement. The relatively mild sport, which is designed to let more people participate in the game, and that can brings us passion and happiness. In2003, the American flag football was introduced into China in succession. Which is developed one by one cites throughout the training and matches, and be loved by the majority of young people. As the promotion project of the American football, which contains a kind of American sports culture and thinking, we have stressed personal courageous tenacity, and focus on team coordination and cooperation, not only reduces the risk of movement and the economic threshold, but also increased movement fitness and entertainment.This paper uses the research methods with the literature review, questionnaires, expert interviews, statistics and logic analysis, which attempts to do an investigation and study on envelopment status quo of the American flag football movement in China. And we also analysis the factors affecting the domestic development and development direction of the American flag football, also we explore the prospects for development in China. The conclusions we can elicited as follows:1. Over the past decade, American flag football to promote and carry out focused on the campus, which has been extended to more than ten provinces and cities nationwide, and more than500secondary schools, tens of universities, tens of thousands of students to participate in the American Flag football movement. City League and National League is carried out continuously, Chinese student representative team even played in the2004to2007flag football World Cup, and it made history over the fifth best result. 2.At present,American flag football is carried out hotly in colleges and universities. There are44universities participated in,the"College Bowl"flag football league which are from Beijing,Shanghai and Guangzhou. But the people of the community know little about American flag football. That because of the impact of the differences between eastern and western sports cultures in the traditional concept and ignorance of American flag football.So it resulting in the American flag football in social mass base is weak. Therefore,the sport is carried out slowly in China.3.The main.factors.of the impact of the Ameri can.flag football development in China are the concept of physical differences,the popularization of the market and with the help of government and.policy orientation. And if the American flag footbal l can be combined with school Sports,fitness and professional sports,it will bebetter prospects for development.At the same time,as the game’s global development and7people system football project"in the01ympic Games",flag football in China has a broad market and good development prospect.