Participation Program shines highlight on Oceania

Desk tennis in Oceania is on the rise in 2023 following a rise in participation by Member Associations within the lead as much as native and regional occasions. Thrilling new alternatives lay forward in October as extra MA’s plan actions underneath the ITTF Participation Program. By means of August and September ITTF Participation Program On-line Companies have been held on an ongoing foundation with 3 MAs.

New Caledonia took half in a web based distant coaching camp performed by ITTF Participation Officer Trevor Hirth, concentrating on nationwide PTT athletes in preparation for the Oceania Para Championship & Pacific Video games developing in November. Following on from a PTT Coaching Camp in 2022, PTT integration is a excessive precedence for the affiliation and is being led by coach Cathy Gauthier. In attendance have been 4 male and 4 feminine gamers. An additional PTT coaching camp can be held in November as a nationwide exercise supported by the Participation Program.

PTT Head Coach Ms. Cathy Gauthier: “The distant coaching camp was an awesome alternative to study from ITTF Professional Trevor Hirth, taking his expertise in PTT to develop our group for the Oceania Para Championship and Pacific Video games. We want to construct on the inclusive tradition in our affiliation and study new abilities for coaches and athletes collectively”

New Zealand, apart from specializing in upskilling nationwide youth group coaches with partaking Coach-The-Coach on-line periods, has additionally held a preparation coaching camp in Auckland that includes 9 ladies and 11 males for the Oceania Senior & Youth Championship.

Throughout the coaching camp, every member chosen for the group was offered with the nationwide group jersey. Males’s senior group consultant Alfred De La Pena highlighted the transformative adjustments made in TTNZ not too long ago throughout his shifting presentation speech. Take a look at TTNZ’s Facebook to watch it.

Papua New Guinea is finishing on-line companies geared toward growing their nationwide construction, whereas additionally selling desk tennis in new areas. PNG can be holding an inclusive coaching camp for PTT athletes and youth gamers from provincial areas later this month.

2 Member Associations have additionally performed their very own Nationwide Initiatives to be supported financially by the ITTF Participation Program. 

Fiji had a really profitable inclusive Nationwide Championships along with choice trials for Pacific Video games groups that includes 11 males and seven ladies. Promotion of desk tennis was additionally current on the sports activities pageant throughout Olympic Day. Fiji TTA has a excessive concentrate on inclusion with many PTT athletes participating within the championships in addition to members from the deaf neighborhood.

Samoa has held an 8-day nationwide coaching camp in Apia supporting athletes from outer villages throughout August. The group hopes to be aggressive on the Pacific Video games later this 12 months held within the Solomons Islands throughout November. Nationwide Staff members may also journey overseas to take up some coaching alternatives main as much as the Pacific Video games.

Profitable On-site actions have not too long ago been accomplished in Tonga and Cook dinner Islands.

Jessica MacAskill (NZL) performed an ITTF PTT Degree 1 Teaching Course and Coaching Camp in Nuku’alofa,  Tonga within the lead as much as the 2023 Nationwide Championship in July. The course was supported by ITTF Growth’s Participation Program, with extra monetary assist being supplied by Tonga Desk Tennis Federation to allow 3 Para growth officers and neighborhood coaches to journey to a central location and attend. The main target was to upskill coaches who will help of their native communities and colleges. There have been 15 contributors in attendance with 6 of these being females and 4 people figuring out as having a incapacity. The native growth officers and Nationwide gamers amongst the group helped the much less skilled to rapidly acquire some newfound abilities to go on to the following technology of younger Tongan gamers.

“Though I attempt to educate a method in my neighborhood, I now have much more data to enhance the expertise for our children. It is necessary for me to see and study new methods of teaching and study from others on this group. This course has helped us to do that.” – Course participant – Tokomea

In Rarotonga, Cook dinner Islands, ITTF Participation Officer Trevor Hirth was in a position to conduct a DMA Exercise specializing in youth growth and getting desk tennis energetic in colleges. President Tearoa Iorangi has now established a everlasting house for Desk Tennis at APII Arorangi faculty with 4 tables at the moment and being expanded to six with minor renovations.

Constructive periods have been held at Apii Arorangi and Apii Nikau colleges in addition to nightly periods centered on harnessing the expertise youth growth. It was nice to see a good mixture of 25 boys and 24 women complete within the coaching periods. Additional work can be finished with the help of the Nationwide Olympic Committee to establish potential coaches and attain out to extra colleges to introduce desk tennis.

“Cook dinner Islands is now energetic once more taking part in Desk Tennis. It’s nice to now have a house for normal coaching so the youth might be developed”, mentioned Cook dinner Islands TTA President Tearoa Iorangi

Cook dinner Islands Desk Tennis hopes to have interaction with outer island communities to assist develop participation numbers for the bi-annual 2024 Cook dinner Islands Video games to over 200, one thing that was beforehand achieved earlier than the pandemic.

Arising in 2023 additional on-site actions can be held in Papeete, Tahiti –  the place Nicolas Guigon (FRA) will conduct a Hopes Week & Problem geared toward offering alternatives to gamers from outer islands.

Trevor Hirth has launched into a Micronesia tour that can run by October, starting with a DMA Exercise in Marshall Islands, adopted by one other DMA Exercise in Guam, and ending in Palau with an Inclusive Coaching Camp. These growth actions will assist the sub-region growth forward of the 2024 Micronesia Video games to be held within the Marshall Islands.