Comparative Research On The Current Development Situation Of Chinese Mainland And Hong Kong Squash Teams

Integrated cooperation among administrative departments, club managers,coaches, athletes and assistants is fundamental to the systematic management andsustainable development of sports teams. Good team building and management canfacilitate the coordination between various parties to work together efficiently andeffectively. The Chinese Squash Team, being the only team that has a relativelysystematic management system in mainland China, its functional design has alreadypossessed every element required by a professional competing sports team. Be that asit may, when comparing the Chinese Squash Team to the Hong Kong Team, there isstill a huge difference in different aspects, such as developing status, planning orcoaches, athletes, reserves, supporting staffs, etc. In order to attain outstanding results,the Chinese Squash Team must develop into a systematic and good competing teamby improving its construction in every aspect. This report is produced to compare andanalyze the team building methodology of the Chinese Squash Team with the one ofthe Hong Kong Squash Team through literature, expert interviews, mathematicalstatistics, logical analysis, in order to supply the Chinese Squash Team with a reliablescientific and evidence-based development model on team building. The writer’sanalysis can be summarized as the followings:1. Because the number of squash stadiums events is small, it restricts the popularity ofsquash in mainland China. That is not enough for increasing the influence of squash.On the contrary, Hong Kong has a big number of squash stadiums, high level andamounts of competitions. It has great impact of the development of squash.2. Owing to the lack of active squash athletes, unreasonable echelon settingsinsufficient trainings and athletic grade system, this in turn undermined thepopularization and development of squash in China. However, Hong Kong SquashTeam has a rounded echelon settings and good combination of sport and education. Itsecures the athletes in the way of studying, recruitment and so on.3. There are only two squash reserve base in China. It shows obvious fault effect incultivating young talented players. At the same time, the picking age of the players ishigher. That should block them to receive new technique. Hong Kong has a moresystematic and logical model of nurturing the potentials. Despite the Chinese SquashTeam has hired overseas professional elite coaches and organized different outtrainings, the amount of training time is far from sufficient, deterring the developmentof the elites sport.4. The Chinese squash coaches are falling behind in terms of the number of membersand their training time. Their monotonous and less innovative training approacheshas caused unsatisfactory training outcomes There are only20Chinese mainlandcoaches in level1. However, Hong Kong have a number of coaches from level1to3.5. The Chinese Squash Team lacks a comprehensive supporting system. Its financefully relies on support from country, and has no marketing income. The team has nopermanent sports science, nutrition and medicine supporting staffs to cater for theneeds of athletes. The Hong Kong Squash team has a comprehensive supportingsystem. Their fund has many resources other than administrated finance. It hassufficient supporting scientific staffs, which fulfill the need of training andcompetition.