A STRONG devotion to the Chinese national sport of wushu won Hui Chung Sing Memorial School the Outstanding SportDesign Project championship organised by Hong Kong Sports Development Board.
Entitled ''Guidance and Counselling Through Wushu'', the project was the brainchild of teachers Ng Chang-kwong and Tsui Mei-wah, who now have a chance to study junior sports activities overseas.
The competition is one of five major activities of the Hongkong Telecom Go!Sport Programme - a three-year project aimed at providing more opportunities for primary and secondary students to engage in sports after school hours.
Mr Ng said: ''During the six months of our wushu project, we succeeded in helping the participants realise that it takes patience and not extraordinary talent to learn and polish wushu skills.'' He stressed that a good foundation for participants, with the right posture and gestures was what the project had tried to achieve.
The other four activities of the Go!Sport project are EasySport, SportCaptain, SportCamp/SportClinic and SportSpeak.
The board's Sports Development Manager Cindy Leung Wan-yin described EasySport as a programme in which ''participation rather than the search of special sports talent is the ultimate goal''.