BauBau Chung is a social worker from Hong Kong who currently teaches positive sex education to youth in our city, with a focus on women and girls. BauBau is passionate about gender-related issues and sees teaching sex education as an important way to empower girls and women to understand our bodies and our minds, and by doing so, have more control over our bodies and our minds; and importantly, to learn to acknowledge, accept and love ourselves.
BauBau is currently rehabilitating her knee after having surgery in She started playing again in for her work agency when she discovered it was a good way to relieve the stress and busyness of being a social worker, and the emphasis was on HAPPY basketball. Plus it was a way for her to practice her team working skills and to build camaraderie with her colleagues and peers outside of the work context. Despite having played basketball for many years her true love was dance, but an injury suffered from playing basketball hindered her dancing abilities.
Can you share your story of how you got injured, why you needed surgery and what impact has injury and surgery had on you? I would describe myself as a non-competitive team-sport player. I like the teamwork, the collaboration, the feeling of getting through high and low as a team.
So I stayed on the basketball team for 8 years. My injury was pretty much related to the non-competitive character of mine. I was playing the position as Center in the team, players are always those who are tall, bigger in size, able to jump high so as to get the rebound and there are always body collision among players.
I am not physically strong enough and mentally aggressive enough in defense to protect myself in such situation. I lost balance and fell down. I could feel the twist inside my knee and it was really painful. That was the first year that I played basketball and because I was still very young, I could tolerate the pain and I thought my body was just adjusted to the injury and was not painful after months.
