(Department of Physical Education,Hubei Institute for Nationalities,Enshi 445000,China) Abstract: The author innovated on traditional national sports event “Top” in the following ways: 1) playground: change the division of the spinning and releasing area as well as the attacking area by integrating both areas into one; 2) equipment: add a 0.5-1.5 meters long top rope; 3) techniques and tactics: change the traditional techniques of “smashing”, “suspending” and “poking” into “bumping” and “jerking”, and add the technique of “whipping”; 4) competition rule: change the original rule of “the offense player scores while the defense player does not score” into “both offense and defense players score”, and revealed the following findings: 1) the total game time is nearly dou-bled; 2) the net game time for the players is more than 3 times the original time; 3) the game density is increased from the original 24.45% to 43.59%; 4)the game intensity is increased from 87.52 times/point to 116.83 times/point. Key words: Top; folk sports; competition rule |