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Jul 06, 2023

Taekwondo: KCCN donates sports kits, equipment to schools, clubs, trains coaches [PICTURES]

August 30, 2023Ikenna Okonkwo Sports0 As part of it’s annual contribution to the growth and development of grassroots Taekwondo sport in Nigeria, the Korean Cultural Centre in Nigeria (KCCN) has

August 30, 2023Ikenna Okonkwo Sports0

As part of it’s annual contribution to the growth and development of grassroots Taekwondo sport in Nigeria, the Korean Cultural Centre in Nigeria (KCCN) has donated training kits and equipment to schools and clubs.

The measure, according to the centre was part of efforts geared towards addressing lack of facilities at the grassroots.

More than seven different equipment encased in different boxes were given out to schools and clubs in Abuja.

The equipment include protective gears, hand guard, shin guard, head guards, uniforms and other training facilities which will aide flexibility training and stretches.

The year’s donation is targeted at those that are yet to benefit from the KCCN programme in Nigeria.

Speaking to journalists in Abuja, Director of KCCN Kim Chang-Ki said the aim was to promote Korean culture in Nigeria especially in the area of taekwondo, and hopes that the sport will develop in Nigeria.

“I want to promote Korean culture in Nigeria, especially taekwondo Ketua and Kepong, so I hope that Nigeria taekwondo will continue to develop with this program,” he said.

The event was a joint programme that also incorporated the third edition of the annual Taekwondo coaches seminar.

It had well over 25 institutions registered to participate and 60 coaches from across the country were in attendance in this year’s edition of the seminar.

Among the institutions represented are the Nigerian Army, Navy, DSS, Civil Defense, Police, as well as universities, with each of the institutions having a minimum of four persons in attendance.

With the Theme Tagged ‘Technological Innovation and Improvisation Strategies In Nigeria Taekwondo Coaching System’, the program served as ‘Train the Trainer’, as every knowledge acquired from the seminar will be pass down to those at the lower cadres, with different resource persons speaking on the topic of leadership.

Also speaking, Gbolahan Ogunmuyiwa, the head of the Taekwondo department at KCCN said the aim of the programme was to foster peace and to ensure that everyone in the taekwondo family in Nigeria is on the same page.

He noted that they are new innovations that comes up everyday which is important for everyone to be in tune with, particularly as it concerned acquiring new skills which will help in improving the general knowledge of the sport in Nigeria.

“The primary aim is to foster unity and to bring everybody to thesame page as regards the best practices when it comes to taekwondo in the global sphere.

“The cases when Nigeria Taekwondo coaches seminar is a yearly event that has come to stay, it is an annual event that is always done to bring everybody in Nigeria Taekwondo community together.

“Taekwondo is a very dynamic sport, every year new things comes up, here at the Korean cultural center we are privilege to have some information that might not be too common outside there, and that’s why we establish the championship every year for this purpose,” he said.

The training event was put together by KCCN Abuja, in conjunction with the Nigeria Taekwondo Federation (NTF).