| Fadhil Yunus |
EIGHTEEN participants are on a six-day Badminton World Federation (BWF) Level 1 Coaching Education course held in cooperation between the Brunei National Badminton Association (BNBA) and the Department of Co-curriculum Education and the Department of Youth and Sports at the Multi-Purpose Hall of the Hassanal Bolkiah National Sports Complex.
Md Andy Ardiansyah, Badminton Asia Development Officer and BWF Level 1 Tutor and Mohd Zuno Kartono bin Haji Ali, Assistant Secretary General of BNBA and BWF Level 1 Tutor are conducting the course, which ends on May 12.
The participants comprises representatives from government departments, the Royal Brunei Police Force and the Royal Brunei Armed Forces as well as five from neighbouring countries including two from Miri, two from Labuan and one from Beaufort.
The main purpose of the course and to become a certified coach at a basic level is to gain an understanding on how to teach basic or foundation in badminton which will significantly aid students to be good players at senior level equipped with good skills and footwork.
“This is one of the development programmes in badminton in Asia and one of the countries that we are focussing on is Brunei Darussalam whereby we need to provide development programmes such as what we are doing now which is the Coaching Education course,” said Mohd Andy Ardiansyah in an interview with the Bulletin.
The first two days of the course covers theory with a small part of practical aspect and the next three days involve practical sessions whereby each coach will be tasked to provide a lesson or microteaching to other coaches who act as players in a visualisation scenario.
Microteaching refers to providing an opportunity for coaches to devise a training programme whereby other coaches take the role of players.
Each group has eight members whereby one coach will be given a situation with seven players and they are given a duration of 30 minutes before rotating to a new coach.
“This is the biggest part of assessment in this course and Zuno and I as tutors will observe and assess how deep the understanding and knowledge on the procedure of feeding skills, communication with players and providing different types of training.”
The participants will be given a final feedback on the final day of the course whereby both he and Zuno will conduct individual interviews.
“We will give feedback such as what their weakness or strengths may be. If we want to find perhaps what we haven’t observed in a certain area, we will ask questions to see if they can answer or they can understand.”
The course contains three essential components namely the role and responsibility as a coach, what to coach and how to coach.
The second component on what to coach refers to anything what a coach needs to provide training to the students who are still at the basic level, highlighting five main areas such as technique, physical, tactic, lifestyle and psychology.
The third component on how to coach refers to the approach to train and deliver for instance if the coach knows the technique to be trained. This could vary to multi-feeding or feeding shuttlecocks while the coach can also choose stroke training or simple rally.
Since the BWF Level 1 Coaching Education was first launched as a pilot project in 2011 in Malaysia, the course has been developed in Asian countries which necessitate the development of badminton.
Currently, there is also Level 2 but Ardiansyah said that it requires a higher level and it is only conducted in Malaysia at present whereby this is done by invitation.
He said that the criteria to attend Level 2 requires participants to pass Level 1 and must have a background as a coach who gains experience with a minimum of more than two years.
Plans of formulating a Level 3 as a pilot project are in the pipeline this year which will be at an even higher level.
This year marks the third time that Ardiansyah has conducted the BWF Level 1 course in Brunei following his visits in 2014 and 2015.
Ardiansyah said that individuals will be given either a pass, ‘professional pass’ or fail at the end of the course and successful participants who complete the course with a pass mark will provide coaching both locally and internationally.
When an individual passes the course, it means the person is already certified whereas a professional pass refers that an individual passes the course but still need to meet certain conditions to be certified as a BWF Level 1 coach. Meanwhile, if an individual fails, the person would have to repeat the course.
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