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Table Tennis Association holds successful coaching clinic in Berbice
By Samuel Whyte
The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) in collaboration with the Berbice Table Tennis sub-association successfully held a one-day Coaching Clinic in Berbice on Saturday at the Port Mourant Training Centre.
The Clinic was organised by Berbicians, Floyd Conway and Levi Nedd with the sessions beginning at 12:00hrs and ending at 16:00hrs.
The Clinic, which is the first of a series of such sessions that will be held in Berbice, was conducted by National Coach, Linden Johnson with GTTA President Godfrey Munroe also in attendance.
The participants involved in the session take time out for a photo.
Some 21 persons participated. The sessions are all part of the GTTA aim to spread the game countrywide. Berbice has taken the initiative and is making full use of the GTTA programme.
The sessions were mostly for school children.
It is part of a holistic effort to revive the game in the Ancient County and prepare prospective players for future tournaments.
The beginners were taught the basics of the game, which included fitness drills, forehand and backhand skills and the multi-ball drill among others.
Munroe has thrown his full weight behind the expansion and developmental programme.
Conway told the players that they should make use of the opportunity and learn as much as possible, because when he was a school boy there was no such things as Coaching Clinics.
He said that he had to learn the game the hard way, by battling on his own.
Nedd, who is a senior member of the Port Mourant Training Centre, did the honours of welcoming the officials and participants to the venue especially those who traveled from Georgetown, including the coaches.
He was so impressed with the turnout that he made a request to the GTTA for a follow up Clinic, which should be held before the GTTA National Table Tennis Championships in March.
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