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Teachers can now conduct proper volleyball training
International Federation of Volleyball instructor Dr. Christian Kroger said the teachers who attended his six-day training course are now equipped with the right knowledge that they can pass on to their students.
Dr. Christian Kroger, left, gives out instructions to the participants in one of the practical sessions of his six-day teachers training course last week at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium. (Jon Perez)
Kroger, who was on island for almost a week, said he has achieved his goal of teaching the three basic elements of his program to the participants.
The program’s main objective is to teach the foundation of the sport that would aid the participants on the proper way of playing volleyball.
“All participants have achieved the main focus of the program. That is ball coordination, development of skills, and different types of games that the kids would love to do,” said Kroger, who left Saipan last Thursday.
He added that he had a lot of fun in conducting the training course, which is part of FIVB’s Volleyball Cooperation Program.
“The interest was there from all the participants. There is interaction and high engagement from them. They are all eager to learn and 80 percent of them passed the course,” said Kroger, who handed out 18 certificates.
“They learned the methodical approach enough to increase the abilities and skills of their students who are interested to learn volleyball.”
Though one-third of those who passed have no experience in playing volleyball, Kroger believes he relayed the main focus of the program.
“They understood that the games have lots of variations. They could use these variations to make the game more exciting and fun to the kids. Not always the usual set-spike plays,” said Kroger.
He added that he even taught one-on-one and two-on-two plays in small courts. “There must be player movement and enough ball contact, remember you are allowed three touches. Don’t get used to standing and waiting.”
Kroger, who is also a professor at Kiel University’s Institute of Sports Science in Germany, will next visit Beijing for his Ball School Foundation that promotes different ball sports to kids.
Vanuatu, Nauru, the Solomon Islands, and the CNMI are the island nations he visited in Oceania.
His instructional manual that he developed for FIVB has also been translated to different languages like Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish, and Portuguese.
