Thursday June 28, 2007

Training ends for our swim coaches

A group of coaches and teachers, including one from Lae, are undertaking an Australian Green Licence course conducted at Ela Murray International School in Port Moresby. The course started on Monday and will end today.
The course is conducted by Paul Bruce who brings a wealth of experience in coaching, programme development and club management and administration both in Australia and Canada.
The group of coaches and teachers are Roel Paje, Doris Mileng, Tony Sari, Joe Meauri from Boroko Swim Club, Andrew Jubilee, Sue Babao from Boroko East International School, Lambert Vure, Albert Vigil from Lae Swim Club, Wape Zilling, Marge Yukil, Vera Akung, Vali Gora, Oveti Meaporo, Esther Uradok from The Ela Murray International School, Ray Keura from Gordons International School, Simon Kore from Carol's Pre School, Damon Maskelyne from BASC, Carmen Kolta, Nathan Amp'aoi, Adam Amp'aoi,
BASC Swimmers, Henrietta Ampa'oi from Papua New Guinea Swimming Inc and Liz Wells co-ordinator, Papua New Guinea Swimming Inc.
The major reason for conducting such course is to upgrade the level of coaching in the country to a recognised standard in the Oceania region that will allow our coaches to develop our athletes in proper stroke technique, through planned training phases to get the best out of them and in later years perform in the international arena.
Coaching is a transfer of knowledge from the experienced to the inexperienced, resulting in improved skill and physical development.
A young swimmer's level of acquisition of skill and his/her improvement of physical fitness is dependent on talent, frequency and duration of exposure to the activity, and the quality of instruction.
Paul Bruce, Sport Development co-ordinator for Swimming Australia Limited, is educating our coaches and teachers on becoming effective swimming coaches, identifying the key elements of effective technique in the four competitive strokes, the basic mechanics of swimming including basic workout design, starts and turns and racing strategies, skills and drills in all strokes, importance of warm-ups and swim downs.
The green licence coaching course being held over this week at Ela Murray International School represents the initial stage of the formal education process for a swimming coach.
Participating in the course the new coach will begin to acquire the knowledge and skills to transform the unskilled into the skilful, the physically unfit into the fit, and foster a sense of achievement and well being in all those who come under his/her tutorage.
PNGSI acknowledges with appreciation the funding support received by FINA to enable the course to go ahead in Port Moresby.
"Our goal is to provide our swimmers with the best coaching available; we need to educate our coaches providing them with the latest and best information available. The FINA coaching course is providing the ideal opportunity for all to improve in coaching theory and skills," said Elizabeth Wells.

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