These are 20,000 licensees that Honoré Zolobé, the president of the Ivorian badminton federation and his teams hope to pick up in schools over the next three or four years. A big challenge, one of the pillars of which is the training of teachers. And FIBAD is well aware of this. She who initiated on October 30 and 31 the first training session for the benefit of teachers for Shuttle Time in hall 2 of the Treichville sports hall.
Second most practiced discipline in the world, first sport in France and present in the French baccalaureate, badminton takes one more step every day to impose itself in Côte d’Ivoire. And the anthology of internships for several years illustrates very well the desire of the Steering Committee to take another step. This weekend, the twenty teachers from several cities in Côte d’Ivoire were introduced to the practice of badminton with theoretical and practical lessons given by expert Richard Kouakou and his teams.
« With the international federation, we aim to make badminton a school sport. It is in this logic that we organized this course to have a maximum of teachers with the educational background necessary to train great competitors and great champions in our establishments. In a nutshell, we want to train as many teachers as possible for as many athletes as possible. », entrusts us the trainer Richard Kouakou, the national trainer. ” We can say that to date, the results are positive. We think we are bringing it all together to take it to the next level “, indicated Honoré Zolobé, the president of FIBAD in his assessment of the Shuttle Time before continuing with his objectives. “In 3 or 4 years, we want to have 20,000 licensees. School is the cradle of knowledge. Badminton, which is a discipline with very advanced academic virtue, should not go unnoticed. So we intend to gather as many graduates as possible. »
The pedagogy of the different strikes, namely forecourt, mid-court and baseline, the movements, the phases of strikes, the game at the net, the strike at the net and the design of the lesson sheet without forgetting those of the courses, the tactics in singles and doubles and many other aspects were distilled to trainees in theoretical and practical courses. The trainees have signed a commitment to teach the courses in their different schools. The federation for its part, will ensure the follow-up of applicants. A presentation of certificates of participation to the trainees sanctioned these 48 hours of training.
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