JOHOR BARU: SPORTS and recreational enthusiasts will soon have a place they can visit if they want to learn taekwando, silat or lion dance.
Pulai member of parliament Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed plans to open the Tan Sri Mohamed Rahmat Complex in Tampoi for the public to learn traditional martial arts and lion dance said his special officer Goh Teck Kuan.
Nur Jazlan is the son of the late Umno veteran and former Information Minister Tan Sri Mohamed Rahmat, who owned the complex.
“We are in the process of looking for coaches.
“We not only want to have such classes, but we hope to get people of all races to sign up for lessons.
“We want the Chinese to learn the silat and the Indians to learn lion dance and so on.
“We feel that this would strengthen bonds in the community,” Goh said.
Goh said Nur Jazlan was supportive of sports and cultural activities and believed youths should have more opportunities to do so instead of idling their time away.
The plans for such classes to be held at the complex was timely as sports enthusiasts in the state had recently complained of a lack of venues to conduct activities.
Goh said this at a send-off ceremony for the Nam Wah Kangkar Pulai lion dance troupe, which will be representing Malaysia in Bali, Indonesia next week.
The ceremony was held at the SRJK (Cina) Pulai in Kangkar Pulai here on Sunday.
The troupe will compete in the third Asia Lion Dance Championship from Saturday to Oct 16.
The Nam Wah Kangkar Pulai troupe has more than 50 members, including non-Chinese.
However, only eight members of the troupe led by Datuk Ong Chi Kin would be going for the championship.
From left: Gan Tek Hing, Kew Yin Min and Lee Song Twee.
JOHOR BARU: A send-off ceremony was held on Sunday for the award-winning Nam Wah Kangkar Pulai lion dance troupe which flew to Bali to represent the country in the Third Asia Lion Dance Championship.
About 100 people, including Kangkar Pulai village head Lee Song Twee and former village head Kew Yin Min, turned up at SRJK (Cina) Pulai in Kangkar Pulai to show their support for the eight-member troupe.
The championship will take place from Saturday to Oct 16.
Troupe chairman Yong Yii Yaak said their biggest rival would be from China.
The inaugural championship was hosted in Johor Baru two years ago while last year's event took place in Jakarta, Indonesia.
On both occasions, the Nam Wah Kangkar Pulai lion dance troupe emerged in the top three spot. By Chuah Bee Kim
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