Martin Adomeit holds TT coaching clinic
Former national coach of Germany, Luxumberg, Belgium and Nigeria, Martin Adomeit held coaching clinics in Table Tennis in Sri Lanka from October 28 to November 20. Adomeit conducted clinics in most of the cities of the island for coaches and players.
Sri Lanka was lucky to get the services of this highly recognised coach due to Maxwell de Silva, Secretary General, National Olympic Committee who held discussions with German Olympic Committee resulting in obtaining the services of Adomeit to educate our coaches and players.
The training was mainly focused on coaches and players education. The expert concentrated more on giving his experience and knowledge to develop the ability to think power and use of new techniques to improve the skills and knowledge of coaches and players.
The German conducted clinics in Colombo. Seenigama, Ambalangoda, Kegalle and Kandy with tremendous success as the participants gained a lot new ideas. The players especially benefited from the sessions as the training provided with them with self development on how they could improve when competing internationally and how they have to face each competitor of varied skills and techniques.
The main discussion by coaches with the expert was on how to develop the players to achieve good standards with less resources, facilities, sponsorship and grants. The programme started in Colombo on October 29 and concluded on November 8. The agenda for each day being coaches education in the morning and players education in the evening. During the players education, the foreign coach permitted the encouraged the coaches to work with them.
National pool training session was held on November 3, 4 and 6 at the S. Thomas' Indoor Stadium where it was allowed all coaches to be present at the venue as both the players and coaches had gained tremendous knowledge.
On the last day of the German expert in
Sri Lanka he held fruitful discussions with all the coaches of the country regarding his experience during the last three and half a week's stay in Sri Lanka and made following observations:
The high standard of of the Junior Players, the lack of sufficient clubs for continuous practice, and the draw back of players in physical fitness as most players not concentrating on physical fitness, service and service returns of poor standard as most of the international players use flick and do necessary strokes, but the Lankans still do the push.
He was highly impressed with the standard and the improvements of the girl players. The German coach requested the coaches to get together and prepare a table tennis structure in Sri Lanka and requested the coaches to practice the better players together all the time. Motivated coaches to have a goal or goals in order to succeed when taking up the job and requested to conduct many tournaments and Team Championships.