Taiji Bailong Ball  sinds 2005 in NL.

Taiji Bailong Ball is a sport that has been invented on the end of 1991 by Sport Prof. Bai Rong from China. In China it is known as Taiji Rouli Qui. In China it is common that sport students getting next to all kind of sport teaching also Tai Chi Yuan.

He has been teaching all kinds of sports. As teacher from boxing he was concerned about the health of his pupils. During boxing his pupils damaged their face and body. Prof. Bai Rong has been struggling to find a way to prevent his pupils from damaging their face and there body with inventing a new inside for a boxing glove. Here he found a bag with some water inside to absorb the kick. As he tried a bag with a bit of water inside it fell on the floor. Prof.Bai Rong first putted it in a washing-bowl for feet. And started to through it into the air. Then like the Chinese using a Wok for cooking, into a Wok and playing from Wok to Wok. And saw that you only could catch the water bag and use circle movements to direct it to the other. Like wise the movements that he learned at the sport school by his Tai chi yuan lessens. Completly different than tennis or badminton. Although they use almost the same equipment. Later he took a badminton racket frame and putted leather around it (to keep the water bag into the frame) and finally it resulted in a racket with rubber (later synthetic rubber) and a ball partly filled with sand.

For me the name racket is not a name that I would use for it. It has a function of catching. So’ A Catcher’ would be more appropriate. So that it can be called "A Taiji Bailong Ball Catcher". So you Catching Taiji Bailong Ball.

In his time of developing the play he saw that the movements were similar on that what he learned by Tai Chi Yuan. The way of moving were unending in spiral and round forms. Like the human design is made up out of spirals. Or if you look in the micro or macro cosmos it all goes into spirals. In the meetings I had with Prof. Bai Rong in China and also in Europe it has been a gift to see how he works. It is not only the ball and the racket it is somehow more than that. Everyone can move. It is why you move that is important. When you see a Dao person do his movements or you look on the television in the West it is different. In the West many focus on the outside. In the East it is looking more to the inside of things. Chinese people are known from acupuncture and like the yellow emperor who had many doctors. They could stay with him as long they self not got ill. Then he trusted them. In China the study of nature in the past is from essential important. You can learn from nature the way to go on.  Once a man said nature does not lie man can lie. And it made me see that a Westerner looks different to things than someone who comes out of the East. Why did it started it in China and not in Europe?

Together it developed and it resulted into an official sport in China in 1994.

Prof. Bai Rong was looking how it could further developed in Europe. And found in 2004 contact with Chinese people in Germany who wanted to help him to pass it on. For this the name Taiji Bailong Ball came into existence. The name is close to the name of the Professor Bai Rong. The Prof. did not wanted to use his own name and it was agreed together with Prof. Bai Rong to make from it Taiji Bailong Ball. The translation for Taiji Bailong Ball in English is Taiji White Dragon. White is in China the Colour for the West. The Dragon represents the Chinese Nation.  What the East misses lives in the West and what the West misses lives in the East. It is the way to work together which comes from balance and gifted by nature.

Next to it the first group European people went to China in 2005 to become the first certificated Taiji Bailong Ball trainers in Europe. All taught by Prof.Bai Rong. Since then in more Countries people have been visiting China and visited the parks were people next to Tai Chi Chuan, Qi Gong and other sports also were playing Taiji Rouli qui or Taiji Rouli Ball or Rouli Ball (Taiji Bailong Ball). Now in more countries around the world the play is growing.

During my first meeting with the Prof. Bai Rong and that was in end 2004 in Weilburg, Germany. This was during a health congress. He gave the first lessons to me and I have been trying myself. In 2005 Jonn van Schoot went for the first time in his life to China. And he met various people. Also people who did Dao movements and I was amazed. Also on the airplane people took good care of their body and did health movements to be fit during the long flight. Also in the parks not only lie down but also preventing to become ill movements.

The part what kind of theory Prof. Bai Rong has with this new way of moving is on a natural way.