Another successful Basic Table tennis Coaching Course was conducted by the Guyana Table Tennis Association in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Department of Culture Youth and Sports, Department of Allied
National Table Tennis Coach, Linden Johnson (extreme left) with participants at the Port Mourant Training Centre
Arts in Berbice last Thursday and Friday.
The six hour training session was conducted at the Port Mourant Training Centre, Berbice which was easily the most accessible venue for the 14 teachers who participated in the programme.
The programme of theory and practical was conducted by national Table tennis Coach, Linden Johnson with the majority of the teachers assigned to primary schools in region six.
Johnson indicated to Guyana Times Sport that the programme was a bit of a challenge as most of the teachers were first timers but they gradually developed an understanding of the sport and hoped that the knowledge could be transcended to the students since it is the main objective of the programme to have the students benefit through the reintroduction of table tennis into schools.
The Programme provided the teachers with the ability to be self-supportive and develop a coaching and administering perspective. To add to the promotion of the sport each participant received table tennis rackets and six tennis balls to which can be used in the schools.
Johnson further explained that the programme was not the first but the third, having successfully completed the inaugural training in Essequibo, then moved to Bartica where 15 teachers trained and then to Linden having 18 participants.
The coaching course, however, does not end there but will be hoping to continue its next stint in Georgetown later in the year.
