呂伊婷

English

Lui Yi-ting is a Hong Kong female skateboarder and coach. She started skateboarding at the age of fifteen and has been skating for more than a decade. She recalls being inspired to try the sport after watching the character Conan skateboard in the anime Detective Conan; she later joined the Hong Kong skateboarding team and made her mark in local competitions, winning the best newcomer award for women at the 2015 X-Venture skateboarding competition. She went on to become a full-time skateboard coach, coaching the Hong Kong skateboarding team and teaching skateboarding classes in secondary schools, balancing competition and teaching. Skateboarding has been an official Asian Games sport since Jakarta 2018. At the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games, Hong Kong fielded four skateboarders - Luk Chun-yin, Lee Ka-lung, Yu Long and Lui Yi-ting - its largest contingent to date; she was the territory's only female skateboarder, competing in the street event and making her Games debut. She said the scale of the event and the athletes' village were an eye-opener, and admitted her skills were not yet a match for other countries' skaters but that she would give her best and perform the tricks she wanted to do. She has also noted that when teaching in schools, the very image of skateboarding being cool was enough to attract many students to try it, and that classes were better received than she expected; she hopes students will be willing to try and unafraid of falling, and believes teaching and demonstrations can introduce more people to skateboarding and help rejuvenate the sport in Hong Kong.