The Guyana Table Tennis Association in collaboration with the International Table Tennis Federation will be hosting an ITTF level one Table Tennis Coaches’ certification training programme starting tomorrow and will run until Saturday at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.
The ITTF will also conduct a High performance training camp for Cadet and Junior Players from May 20 to 25th at the same venue. The programmes will be conducted by Oscar Roitman of Argentina who brings a wealth of experience to the sessions. Roitman has conducted several clinics and has functioned as National Coach Director of Youth Olympic Games 2018 Table Tennis programme as well as Head Coach of the Argentina Junior programme. The sessions will serve off tomorrow morning from 09:00 hours and will run until 16:00 hours each day.
ITTF coach’s certification is an international and globally recognized certification programme aimed at arming coaches with the correct fundamentals, techniques, methodologies philosophy and skills for orienting student athletes to the game of table tennis at the beginners intermediate and advance levels. The course is a thirty (30) hours programme with an optional Para component of an additional six (6) hours. The para component exposes participating coaches to the methods of working with `differently abled’ athletes
“The GTTA views coaching as a critical and pivotal pillar upon which the sport must be built in order to improve the technical and tactical capacity of our players and by extension the structural foundations of the game development. There needs to be higher levels of accredited coaches.”
