TENNIS CONFERENCE IN TRINIDAD

A regional conference is currently taking place in this country for coaches to improve standard.  Our cameras were at the session and here's more...

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00:00A Regional Coaches Conference is in progress at the National Racket Centre in Takarigua.

00:06It's therefore expected that the Tennis Association of Trinidad and Tobago will have a major role

00:09to play and that includes Kyle Hannes who is the Head of Coaching and Development attached

00:14to the association.

00:16So this is the regional, the International Tennis Federation Regional Coaches Conference.

00:21So every two years the International Tennis Federation hosts a Regional Coaches Conference

00:27to create an opportunity for coaches to really be exposed to the latest information in coach

00:33education so they can really take the sport and their craft to a different level.

00:38It's important to move with the times since changes are taking place the world over.

00:42Hannes says this conference is important as it's going to benefit the coaches from this

00:47part of the world.

00:48So really this has a lot of benefits, networking, but more so being exposed to the latest information

00:58about sports science, coach education, methodologies, that is the real essence, bringing coaches

01:05together to network and share information is the real essence of this and the real benefit

01:11of this conference.

01:13It's been often said, the more the merrier.

01:16Such applies to the conference as Hannes has been pleased with the turnout.

01:19This is the largest turnout that we have had for a very long time.

01:23We have 126 participants at this conference from 16 nations.

01:28So we have persons from Barbados, from Suriname, from Bermuda, from St Vincent, we have a lot

01:35of and also of course from Trinidad and Tobago.

01:39The three day conference started Friday and ends on Sunday.

01:42Ben Odenaar, ONU TV6 Sport.