Competitive, Leisure, Health and Fun

In March 1990, I found a hillside in Nei-Shuang-Hsi and re-constructed it as the Grand Garden. After uprooting the weeds of the hill, I found lots of terraced fields that can develop as an outdoor exercise place. It flashed through my mind that I could make good use of this garden by designing it as a ball-playing ground, so I decided to turn these terraces into fairways. And moreover I invented a ball set accordingly. With 2 years of experiments and adjustments, the woodball set including a mallet,a ball, and a gate were completed. This ball-playing game is now named as Woodball.


Many friends who came over to play this new sport had showed a fairly high interest and were particularly curious about the origin of its county, and which motivated and encouraged me to set my mind on promoting Woodball as a new sport event internationally. In September 1993, the Chinese Taipei Woodball Association (CTWA) was established. With supports from many teachers and friends, we were not only actively engaged in promotion of Woodball sport in Taiwan, in fact, we have expanded this new sport to many countries. Since 1994, the Woodball teams have traveled to Canada, Europe, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and United States made friends with people from various countries and moreover, Woodball associations were established in respective countries. In 1999 Asian Woodball Federation, European Woodball Federation and International Woodball Federation were formed to govern the national associations at the continental and international stage.

In September 1999, the meeting of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) held in Kuwait has officially accepted and recognized Woodball as a new sport event. In January 2002, the Executive Committee meeting of International University Sports Federation (FISU) held in Italy had given permission to the Chinese Taipei University Sports Federation (CTUSF) to host the 1st World University Woodball Championship 2004. Furthermore, in June 2002, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has rewarded a trophy entitled ‘Sport and Well-being’ award to International Woodball Federation.(IWbF).

All of those achievements indicated that Woodball sport could bring those who involved a healthy and happy life, most importantly; it was proved again that there can be high qualitative sport invented in Asian countries and we are able to contribute to the World Sports.