Combining the features of golf and croquet, woodball is a graceful, interesting public sports activity which highlights the great importance of etiquette.  Although it was just invented in 1990 by Mr. Weng Ming-Hui, woodball has been promoted to be one of the international sports under the collaboration and efforts of many enthusiastic advocates.  It also took two years of continuous trial and error to design a set of handy and useful tools.  With a mallet in hand, people can easily enjoy the fun of swinging and pulling the ball over the grass. Hopefully, with everyone’s efforts, woodball will keep developing and become a popular modern sport of all ages!

　　Upon receiving the notice of the official document, the director of computer center came to our class, where the students are computer science majors, and discussed with some classmates about Cyber Fair.  The first challenge wee met was to find the diligent, responsible, and active teammates to form the team, and we finally chose six members according to the required skills and abilities for the project, each of whom is really interested in the research project with great passion.

　　We spent quite a while thinking about the topic but didn’t find any suitable one.  Inspired by the outstanding competition results of our school woodball team and the fact that Taiwan is the origin of this sport, the director of computer center and us decided to choose “Woodball” as our subject of the project.

　　In order to keep the project progressing, we scheduled weekly meeting hours to work on it.  It is unavoidable, however, that our project was delayed by school intensive quizzes and exams or some academic events, and we could only try to catch up in the following week.  We had little problem in teamwork and collaboration since each of our teammates was chosen for his or her specific skill and therefore knew exactly which part of the project to be responsible for.

　　As for data collection and interview, since there was only little and incomplete woodball information on the Internet, we had to collect data from Journal of Woodball or from the interviews with experts, primarily from the later.  Through the interview, we could acquire more information and more in-depth understanding, and we also tried to search on the Web to make our data collection more complete.  With the aid of our director and coach, we finally got into contact with ex-president and ex-executive officer of Woodball Association, both of whom were really nice and happy to have an interview with us.  We did learn a lot from them!

　　Through working on the project, we had our impression totally changed on woodball and learned a lot about the history of this sport.  During the interview, it’s fun for us to try playing woodball for the first time.  But it does take long-term training and practice to be a good player.  We especially admire one of our teammates, Shu-Chen Shen, who is currently on the school woodball team and has had outstanding performance in the national and international competitions.  We are glad that we discover such a good sport from the world of sport!