Eighty coaches invited for a refresher course
Eighty coaches invited for a refresher course
JAKARTA (JP): Eighty coaches from 29 sports organizations are
expected to join the refresher course that is to be staged by the
National Sports Council (KONI) as a way of improving their skills
in grooming athletes prior to the 2001 Southeast Asian (SEA)
Games.
The course organizing committee chairman, Gandring
Soegiantoro, told reporters on Wednesday that the coaches would
be given instructions on how to plan a training program and to
review it.
"We assume that the coaches are still doing their jobs even if
there is no sports event. So we will only brief them about the
most important matters," he said.
The course will take place in Cipayung in the Puncak area of
West Java, from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1.
Gandring said that the course was being held following KONI's
finding that national coaches had contributed to Indonesia's poor
showing in the 1999 SEA Games in Brunei Darussalam.
Indonesia failed to repeat its success in the 1997 Games where
it claimed the overall title. It only finished third after
Malaysia and archrival Thailand in 1999.
"The coaches are only one of the reasons why we failed in
1999. Our coaches still have many shortcomings. KONI didn't hold
this type of course after the 1997 SEA Games because we felt we
had been very successful in the biennial event."
"Unfortunately, our coaches do not cultivate reading and
writing habits. They are not accustomed to recording their past
experiences. So they normally envision the training program in
their minds, but the human mind has only a limited capacity to
remember," he explained.
Gandring said that sports organizations had submitted 143
names to attend the course, but that it was up to KONI to make
the final decision.
"The training program's chief of technical affairs J.E.W.
Gosal knows the needs of every sports organization and which
kinds of coaches they require. Pak Gosal helped us decide on the
participants."
The Badminton Association of Indonesia (PBSI) and the Soccer
Association of Indonesia (PSSI) have yet to submit the names of
their SEA Games coaches for the course.
Gandring said that the course materials included exercises on
how to arrange a training program combined with information on
areas such as sports medicine, psychology and nutrition.
"If an athlete is injured during practice, the coach should
realize that the injury is the result of certain factors such as
the unpreparedness of the athlete to commence the training or the
fact that the athlete could not cope with the training load. In
this case, a coach needs a little knowledge of sports medicine
and its latest techniques," he said. (ivy)