INTHISISSUE 窑ASFAAWorkPlanfor20083 窑GreetingMessage4 窑The10thASFAACongress5 窑Mr.FengJianzhongVisitedGermanyandFrance6 窑The4thBusanTAFISAWorldSportForALLGames8 窑The3rdTAFISALeadershipCourseinChineseMacau 13 窑NationwideFitnessActivitiesCelebratingthe100-dayCountdowntotheOlympics15 窑150,000ChildrenAcrossAustraliaGetPhysicallyActiveintheAASCProgram18 窑NewGameGetsNewZealandKidsMoreActive19 窑Nation-wideMovementLaunchedtoGetSingAporeanstoEnjoySportsinAllWays 20 窑Over1,200TurnUpforOlympicDayRunattheDoha'sAspireZone22 窑TraditionalChineseSports23 窑ASFAAChronology27 窑ASFAABoardofDirectors28 2 ASFAAWorkPlanfor2008 I.10thASFAACongress ProvideassistancetotheBusanOrganizingCommitteeinpreparationfortheASFAA Congress,theGeneralAssembly,andtheBoardMeetingheldinSeptember,2008,in Busan,Korea. II.RevisionoftheConstitution CompletethefinalrevisionoftheConstitutiononthebasisofproposalsfromthePres- identandmemberorganizations.OnceapprovedattheASFAAGeneralAssembly,the revisedConstitutionwillbeissued. III.Activities 1.ActivelypromoteChallengeDay. 2.ActivelypromoteWorldWalkingDay. 3.Participateinthe4thTAFISAWorldFestivalofTraditionalSports. IV.PublicityWork 1.MaintainandupdateASFAAofficialwebsite. 2.EditandpublishASFAANewsletter. 3.EditandpublishASFAAJournalin2008. V.Exchanges 1.StrengthenthecontactwiththeNational(orRegional)OlympicCommitteesand governmentsportsorganizations,andrecruitnewmembers. 2.FurtherenhancethecooperationwithTAFISA. 3 GreetingMessage he4thBusanTAFISAWorldSportforAllGamesaswellasthe T 10thASFAACongressandthe6thIOCWorldForumon Sports,EducationandCulturewillbeheldinBusaninSeptem- ber-October,2008.Onthisoccasion,Iwouldlike,onbehalfof theASFAA,toexpressourwarmcongratulationsonthecon- veningoftheseevents. Withthe2008OlympicGamesheldinBeijing,theSportforAll GameswillbeanothersportgalaheldinAsiathisyear.Itwill Mr.FengJianzhong beaplatformtoshowcasethevarioustraditionalsportsinAsia PresidentofASFAA andfurtherstrengthentheexchangesinthefieldoftraditional sportsamongdifferentcountriesandregions. Duringthe4thBusanTAFISAWorldSportforAllGames,the10thASFAACongressandthe6th IOCWorldForumonSports,EducationandCulturewillalsobeheld,withtheparticipationof morethan1,000delegatesfrom150countriesandregions.Theywillsharetheirideasandex- changetheirviewsonthephysicaleducationalandsportculture.Theaboveeventswillhelp enhancetheunderstandingandfriendshipamongpeopleallovertheworld,especiallyin theAsiaandOceaniaregion.OnbehalfoftheASFAA,Iwouldliketoexpressourwarmwel- cometoallthedelegatescomingafartoBusanfortheASFAACongressandsharewithus yourvaluablecommentsonthedevelopmentofsportsforallintheAsiaandOceaniaregion. OneWorld,OneDream.Peoplesharethecommonidealandunitetogetherundertheban- nerofsport.Thisyear,AsiawillseethehappygatheringoftheOlympiccommunityinBeijing andtheexcitingget-togetherofsportforallfamilyinBusan.Itissuchagreathonorforus,as Asianpeople,tosharethehonorofhostingthesetwogreatevents. Finally,pleaseallowme,onbehalfoftheASFAAtoexpressoursinceregratitudetotheOrga- nizersandpeopleinBusanwhomakegreateffortstostagetheseeventssuccessfully. LookingforwardtoseeingyouinBusan! Mr.FengJianzhong PresidentofASFAA 4 The10thASFAACongress Summary Period:Sep.28~Oct.1[4days] Place:Busan,RepublicofKorea Sponsor:ASFAA(AsianiaSportForAllAssociation) Organizer:The4thBusanTAFISAWorldSportForAllGamesOrganizingCommittee MainTheme -Health,Education,AndCultureThroughPhysicalActivityandGames SubThemes -Childhood&Adolescence -WorkCulture&Ethics -SeniorCitizens -HealthyandOrganizedEnvironmentoftheCity -Nutrition,GamesandNextGeneration Program 9.28(Sun) 9.29(Mon) 9.30(Tue) 10.1(Wed) 窑AcademicSessions 窑Registration 窑GeneralAssembly 窑BoardMeeting 窑AcademicSessions 窑WatchtheTreX-Games 窑Departure 窑OpeningCeremony 窑WatchtheTreX-Games 窑BoardMeeting 窑WelcomeDinne 窑FarewellDinner Venue 5 Mr.FengJianzhong VisitedGermanyandFrance AttheinvitationofTAFISA,ASFAAPresidentFengJianzhongandhisdelegationvisitedTAFISAheadquartersinGermany,and werepresentattheTAFISABoardMeetinginFrancefromMay25thtoJune2nd,2008. I.TheVisittoTAFISAHeadquarters Mr.FengJianzhongvisitedTAFISAheadquartersonMay26th.HemetwithMr.WolfgangBaumann,SecretaryGeneralofTAFISA, andMr.BrianDixon,TreasurerofTAFISA.Mr.BaumanngaveabriefintroductionofTAFISAandtheyexchangedopinionsaboutthe cooperationandcommunicationbetweenTAFISAandASFAA. Mr.BaumannsaidthatTAFISAhasapermanentheadquarterwithafull-timeSecretaryGeneralinFrankfurtsince2006.TAFISAis growingconstantlywiththefollowingthreeaspectsinthepasttwoyears. 1.RecruitingMoreMembers SincetheArgentinaCongressinOctober,2007,TAFISAhasrecruited38newmembersandreceived15membershipapplications. Atpresent,TAFISAhasatotalof210memberorganizationsfrom125countries/regions. 2.EstablishingContactwithInternationalSports,CultureandScienceOrganizations TAFISAhassignedacooperationagreementwithIOC.AsanIOCrecognizedinternationalsportsorganization,TAFISAhasactively promoteditscooperationwithotherinternationalsports,cultureandhealthorganizations.Ithasestablishedthemechanismofregular communicationandcoordinationwithIOC,UNESCOandWHO. 3.ActivelyOrganizingVariousEvents TheregularprogramsofTAFISAincludeInternationalChallengeDay,WorldWalkingDay,andFestivalofTraditionalSports.TAFISA haslaunchedaCertifiedLeadershipCoursesincelastyearandregularlyholdsCertifiedLeadershipCoursesworldwide.OnJan. 23rd,2008,the3rdTAFISACertifiedLeadershipCoursewasheldinChineseMacau.ThenextCertifiedLeadershipCourseswillbe heldinSouthAfricaandTanzania.TAFISAhasplannedtopromotetheprogramofActiveCitiesoftheWorldinnearfuturetocarry outtheappraisalforthecities,communitiesandcollegesactivelypromotingsportforall. DuringhisvisitinGermany,Mr.FengJianzhongmetwithMr.MichaelVesper,DirectorGeneralofGermanOlympicSportFedera- tion.Mr.VesperexpressedhiswarmwelcometotheChinesedelegation,andexpressedsympathytoWenchuanearthquakevictims onbehalfofMr.ThomasBach,PresidentofGermanOlympicSportFederation.Heappreciatedtheeffortsmadeinthepreparation forthe2008BeijingOlympicGames,especiallyintheOlympicvenueconstruction. 6 OnMay27th,Mr.FengJianzhongmetwithMr.WaltherTroger,ChairmanoftheIOCSportforAllCommission.Mr.Walthermadean introductionaboutthedevelopmentofsportforallinGermany.Thereare90,000publicclubsinGermany,with1/3ofthepopulation astheirmembers.Theyusesportfacilitiesincommunitiesandcitiesataverylowcostorforfree.Besides,therearemanynon-pub- licclubsinGermanywhichmakefitnessprogrammesfortargetgroups. Mr.FengJianzhongalsomadeanintroductionaboutthedevelopmentofsportforallinChina.TheBeijingOlympicGamesen- hancedChinesepeople'senthusiasminsportforall.Moreover,ChinesesportsorganizationsdevelopedtheprogramofSportforAll GoesHandinHandwiththeOlympicGamesandheldmorethan70nationwideeventseveryyear. II.TheVisittoFrance 1.AttendingtheTAFISABoardMeeting AttheinvitationofTAFISA,Mr.FengJianzhongwaspresentattheTAFISABoardMeeting,andmadeanintroductionaboutsportfor allinAsian-OceaniaRegionaswellasthedevelopmentofASFAA.Inhisspeech,hestressedthefollowingcharacteristicsofsport forallinAsian-OceaniaRegion:moreactivitiesandmoreparticipants;thecoordinateddevelopmentbetweentheOlympicGames andsportforall;moreattentiontosportforallpaidbymoregovernmentdepartmentsandnon-governmentorganizationswiththe rapiddevelopmentofeconomyandpeople'slivingstandards. Mr.JoelRaynaud,PresidentofESFAN,andMr.RodolfoValgoni,PresidentofPanAmericanSportforAllAssociationrespectively madeanintroductionaboutsportforallintheirregions.ESFANwasfoundedinNovember,2005andhad26memberorganizations. PanAmericanSportforAllAssociationwasfoundedinArgentinaonSeptember27th,2007andhad14memberorganizations.To attractmoremembers,PanAmericanSportforAllAssociationhasplannedtoestablishthedatabaseofsportforallorganizations, andregularlyholdworkshopsandevents. 2.OrganizinganInformalMeeting Amongtotally12ASFAAboardmembers,halfofthemarealsoTAFISAboardmembers.DuringhisstayfortheTAFISABoard Meeting,Mr.FengJianzhonghostedaninformalASFAAmeetingstodiscussaboutthechangesofthestatuteandtheelections,with thepresenceofMr.SarjitSingh,VicePresident,Mr.BrianDixon,SecretaryGeneral,Mr.HerzelHagay,Dr.ThomasTaChou Huang,Mr.LiuGuoyong,andofficialsfromBusanOrganizingCommitteeofASFAACongress. 7 The4thBusanTAFISAWorld SportForALLGames 26.Sep~02.Oct.2008 Summary 窑TitleThe4thBusanTAFISAWorldSportforAllGames 窑ThemeHarmonyinTraditionandFutureforWorldPeaceandProsperity 窑PeriodSeptember26toOctober2,2008(7days) 窑PlaceBusan,RepublicofKorea 窑EstimatedParticipants -ParticipatingCountries/Regions:100 -Players窑Officials:10,000(4,000fromoverseas,6,000domestic) -Spectators:3Millionlocalcitizensandguests Emblem/Mascot 窑SymbolMarks Symbolizestheimagesofthebird(crane)'swing,alsothisbirdisthesymbolofgoodhealthand longlife.Itis,therefore,expressingthetraditionandthefutureharmonywithunionofhuman throughtheTreX-Games.5fromthecenteristhesymbolizingandindicatingthepeaceofhand whichisextendingthemessageofthepeacefromsportscityofBusan. 窑 EmblemConcept -Theimageofthebird'swingisthesymbolofgoodhealthandlonglife. -Thepeacehandextendsthemessageofpeace -Theoneunitedhumanharmonywiththetraditionandthefuture. -Thesportsparadigmshowustheunificationthroughthetraditionandthefuture. 8 窑The5Colourfulstrokes Thesymbolof5oceans,6continentsandvariouskindsofhappinesstogetherwithfestival Balckthespritofsports,specificityoffestival Yellowthemessageofthepublicprosperityandworldwidehope Redthedecisionandthepassionreborntotheglobalfestival Greensymbolofglobalequality&combinations Bluesestablishingthereliabilityofthefestivalandinitiatingforcombiningthetradition andthefuture 窑Mascotmeaning Harmonizedwithnaturalbeautyandartputintotheimage&motionsofthecraneswithelegant andtraditionalrhythm,uniquetraditionaldancewithrhythmicalmovementsofthebird.Theshape