No, that was the team that initially recruited me and I turned them down. They have some very strong guys though. I was told by a co-worker they have nice facilities. But the coaches tend to sit in front of monitors watching a lot of athletes lift and sending instructions from there.
Besides the UFC girl. I mostly worked with figure skating ice dance, hockey, and triathlon at the Olympic level. Then tons of athletes at the youth level or jr Olympic level.
China's system has changed even while I was there. But it's traditionally been poor kids who play sports. The Olympic teams pull kids away from the families fairly young and give them housing, food, and some money to train. So they tend to be not well educated since they aren't really in school and only play the one sport every day. Often sports federations are run by the military, although that has mostly gone away recently. So a lot of the athletes we're actually in the military and their duty was to train for a sport.
Only recently would an affluent parent even think to have their kid play a sport. Basically kids traditionally are studying non stop to pass the college entrance exam that determines your entire future. After that you go to whatever college you go into. Then you can start having hobbies and free time to do stuff if you can squeeze it in when not working. Work tends to be 9am-9pm 6 days a week for a lot of people.
I was hired privately to train rich kids who planned to go to school overseas and wanted them to fit in and be able to play sports. They were the least coordinated unathletic kids I have ever seen.
