IKF Level IV “High Performance Coach” Course great success

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The IKF Master Coach Clinic in Dordrecht, The Netherlands was very intense. The 12 participants and 7 the tutors worked hard during 5 days. The agenda covered many topics relevant for the “High Performance Coach” working in the area of topkorfball.

The participants arrived Tuesday 27 August from 9 countries.  The longest trips were made by Inglish Huang from Chinese Taipei and Warman Cheng from HongKong. But attendants from Russia, Germany, Belgium, England, Czech Republic, Catalonia, and Portugal contributed as well.

Sunday 1 September this part of the course came to an end. In the next few months the attendants will work at home on their ‘homework’. The reactions from attendants were positive; “this adds to my coach qualities”, “excellent to communicate with coaches from other countries”, good to learn from very experienced international coaches”, good to discover the facilities of software to analyse korfball matches”.

Project manager Ben Crum was very satisfied and tired after five heavy days.

Frans Walvis, IKF Senior Vice-President, was present on the last day to express the great value of this course in the light of the IKF strategy; 6 countries should compete for the highest places in the IKF elite events. Walvis mentioned to the participants: “Have a safe journey home and spread the word that this course is a valuable asset in further developing your coach abilities and will help you to improve the level of play in your home country. Tell other countries as well that this course is available”. Of course Walvis took the opportunity to thank project manager Ben Crum, the KNKV and Albert Vidanya from the IKF for their great efforts in this success.

Year of Youth Africa Zone VI U19 korfballevent

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From Tuesday 24 September till Sunday 29 September the big African Year of Youth Festival will be held in Harare, Zimbabwe.

It is the first time ever there is an IKF Africa continental event where all Zone VI countries will participate.

Coach and referee clinics will be conducted. Further there is a tournament for representing U19 teams of Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Malawi, Botswana and Mozambique.

All countries are preparing their teams to be able to get a good result.

As side event a korfball tournament for primary schools of Harare will be held.

This primary school event is sponsored by the Swan Fund.

Clinics and tournament at KK Nitra (Slovakia)

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Last 10th until 15th  July 2013 Daniel DE RUDDER ( IKF Instructor) and Miguel WENSMA ( IKF  referee) conducted very successful workshops in Nitra (Slovakia).

This Korfball event was financially supported by Bloso, Ministry of Sport, Flanders and executed according to a program composed coaching and referee workshops, outdoor tournament and beach-tournament organized by host club KK Nitra.

Very intensive programs were run during days Thursday 11th  and Friday 12th July , instructors developed series of playing concepts and tactical sessions from 10’ until 17’ h. During the evening training sessions and practice game sessions were hosted from 18’30 to 20’30 h.

Saturday 13th was the time to host the Out-door tournament at Municipal Sports Complex with 10 participating teams coming from, Belgium (ATBS, Floriant Merelbeke) , Hungary, Serbia (Beoagrad ) and Slovakia (Priviedza and Nitra). During the tournament the referees were followed up and coaches received proper evaluation and feed back by IKF instructors.

On Sunday 14th a number of 15 teams participated in the Beach-Korfball Tournament hosted in a great sports outdoor facility, where KK Nitra became champion of the tournament in an excellent atmosphere. That was the conclusion of a very intensive but successful program of workshops and matches during 4 days, joining different European teams in the excellent facilities provided by host club KK Nitra.

The innovative first IKF Asian University Korfball Championship

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Dr Jan Fransoo, IKF President, stated: “With ten teams from five countries in the very first event, this promises the concrete innovation of a very long and growing series of University Events in Asia. I am hopeful that this may eventually lead to the inclusion of korfball on the program of the Universiade World Student Games 2017 in Taipei. I would like to thank NTUE, and in particular its President, Professor Shin-Jen Chang, for the continued support provided to the Asian korfball community over many years. Congratulations to Professor Chang for being the first host in this important event.”

The innovative IKF Asia University Korfball Championship (AUKC) held in Taipei from 14 to 18 August 2013 was successfully co-organized by IKF Asia, Chinese Taipei Korfball Association and National Taipei University of Education (NTUE). This event was the first official tournament of IKF Asia since she has been established in 2011. The goals of 1st AUKC are to stimulate the development of university korfball in Asia to result in the inclusion of korfball in the competition program of 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei. The participation of ten teams from China, Hong Kong, Korea, Macau, and Chinese Taipei let IKF Asia take an inspiring step closer to the goals.

The local organizing committee provided live web-broadcast throughout whole the tournament and the films can be reviewed on http://irobot.ntue.edu.tw/ELectronics/101/2/GP4/2013AsianUnivKorfballCham/Asian_Univ._Korfball_Cham._2013_ya_zhou_da_xue_he_qiu_sai.html

After 33 intense korfball matches the ranking is:

1.

 National Taipei University of Education (TPE)

2.

 Tianjin University of Science and Technology (CHN)

3.

 National Taiwan Normal University (TPE)

4.

 Zhengzhou University (CHN)

5.

 Shih Chien University (TPE)

6.

 Southwest University (CHN)

7.

 Hong Kong (HKG)

8.

 University of Macau (MAC)

9.

 Seoul National University of Education (KOR)

10.

 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKG)

 

The IKF Level IV “High Performance Coach” course is ready to start 27th August

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Everything is ready for the start of first edition of for IKF Level IV “High Performance Coach” course during the week from  27th August to 1st September 2013. The city of Dordrecht and the great accommodation of DeetosSnel will host the first stage of a course that will be developed during the period August – December 2013.

During this first stage attendants will receive the instruction designed by Program Manager Mr Ben Crum. The “korfball guru” has designed a program of topics that will be developed by the best assortment of tutors and coaches possible, in order to implement the theory contained at his last “IKF Guide to korfball coaching” successful book.

Coaches and tutors appointed to run the different topics will be from in and out the korfball sphere. As korfball instructors, some names appointed to run the different topics are:

–       Jan Sjouke van den Bos (Coach Dutch National team 1999-2013)
–       Gert-Jan Kraaijeveld (Assistant Coach Dutch National team 2009-2013)
–       Wim Scholtmeijer (Coach Dutch National U21/U23 team period 2010-2013 and new Coach senior National Team)
–       Daniel de Rudder (Coach Belgium National team 1984 -1990 and Coach of National Teams of South-Africa, Poland and Turkey in different periods) and
–       Wim Bakker (Coach at Koog Zaandijk. Dutch Indoor Champion 2008, 2010 and IKF Europa Cup Champion 2009)

At the same time, there are other non-korfball lecturers involved to support the program of the IKF Level IV “High Performance Coach” course; tutors Raymond Verheijen and Peter Beek, are expected to deliver and outside vision about their main topics respectively: “Sport physiology and Physical Conditioning” and “Neurology and motor learning”.

Tutor Raymond Verheijen is well known in the football world as a founder of UK Football Academy and Dutch Football Academy, but also as assistant coach and physical trainer specialist performing in National Teams of The Netherlands, South-Korea, Russia or Wales but also at club level with Glasgow Rangers, Barcelona or Chelsea.

On the other hand, Peter Beek is developing a long career already as researcher in “Neurology and motor learning”. He is professor in “human movement sciences” at Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, VU University Amsterdam

In order to follow this program starting next 27th August, KNKV TOP 6 Program supports the scholarship entry fee of a number of coaches who have been appointed by the different national organizations according to the terms of the TOP 6 Program:

  Country Attendants M/F National Team Current league team/Country
1 ENG Dave Buckland M Head Coach Seniors   England Tornadoes  /ENG
2 GER Detlef Dulfer M Coach U16 Germany Albatros / GER
3 CZE Ivo Kracik M Head Coach Seniors   Czech Republic Ceske Bujedovice /   CZE
4 CAT Rosendo Garcia M Coach U23 Catalonia CEVG / CAT
5 CAT David Rua M Coach U19 Catalonia CK Montcada / CAT
6 RUS Sergey Nizovsky M Head Coach Seniors   Russia
7 HK Warman Cheng M Head Coach Hong-Kong
8 POR Joana Faria F Coach U19 Portugal  Benfica 2nd   Div/POR
9 TAI Inglish Huang M Head Coach Nat. Team   Chinese Taipei
10 POR Jorge Alves M Head Coach Seniors   Brazil
11 CZE David Schwarz M Coach Czech Republic   Academy Korfball School Decin   / CZE

After the Stage 1 will be celebrated during last week of August , attendants will follow Stage 2 of 15 weeks of on-line lessons during the period September – December 2013, and finally the learning program will finish with Stage 3 during next Challenge Tournament in Rotterdam.

Geoffrey Picqueur Awarded the IKF Pin of Merit

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Belgian International Referee Geoffrey Picqueur has been awarded the IKF Pin of Merit to mark his contribution as an IKF International Referee over a period of more than eight years. The presentation was made by IKF President Jan Fransoo on the occasion of Geoffrey’s last international match on the final day of the World Games in Cali.

The Netherlands Retain World Games Crown

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The Netherlands retained their World Games crown but did not find it as easy as they may have hoped. The Belgians would not surrender without a fight and it was only in the closing stages of the first half that the Dutch really put their mark on the match, finally leading at half time 13 -7.
This Belgian side showed in the second half why it is considered to be one of the better sides of recent years as they tried to fight back. In fact they drew the second half twelve goals each finally losing 25 – 19.
Shortly before the end two Dutch players – Barry Schep and Rick Voorneveld – were honoured as they were substituted as both were retiring from international korfball after long and distinguished careers.
The bronze medal game between Portugal and Chinese Taipei proved to be a very tense affair in the end. At first it did not look that way as the Chinese opened up a six goal lead after 15 minutes but Portugal hit back and within six minutes of the second half had clawed their way back to level. Taipei went ahead again by two but the Portuguese halved this lead before we entered the most tense stage of the match, especially for the Chinese Taipei coach who was forced to watch the match from the tribune after her yellow card the day before). Both teams missed chances and failed to score for over five minutes. Eventually the Chinese scored the important goal that meant the teams changed ends and from then on they were not threatened, finishing up winning the bronze medal with an 18-14 victory (h/t 10-7).
The match for 5th place was played between Great Britain and Russia. In the first half the Russians three times took the lead before Great Britain opened a four goal gap, narrowed to two by half time (9-7). Within five minutes of the second half the scores were level but the British team carried on playing their methodical korfball, gradually opening up and, unlike in their opening game against the Czechs, keeping it to eventually take 5th place with a 19-14 score line.
The game for 7th place was a surprising high scoring game and also very exciting. After the Czechs opening a two goal lead Germany hit back and opened up leads of their own, only for the Czechs to get back to level. Germany just edged ahead by half time (13-12). In the second half the Germans tried to open a decisive gap but by the 42nd minute the Czechs not only got level but went ahead themselves. The game became level again and with first one team and then the other leading at times we got to the last two minutes with the scores level. The final 60 seconds the Czechs scored the vital goal and when a German player made a very heavy foul, giving away a penalty, the victory for the Czech Republic was assured despite one more goal from Germany (26-27 in favour of the Czech Republic).
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WG Semi-Finals Day

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Great Britain – Germany 16–15 (10-11)

If ever there was a close game then this was it! Both teams put in much effort to save their reputation of progressing nations. Once again the sports venue was very crowded. It proved that korfball is appreciated in Cali.

In the second half Great Britain managed to extend their half time lead to 3 but it was soon countered and with 6 minutes left Germany held a two goal lead. Britain then scored three in a row only for Germany to equalise with 2 minutes to go. A nearly sold out Coliseo witnessed the most thrilling final stage of the game with a goal for Great Briatin seconds before the final whistle.

Czech Republic – Russia 21–28 (12-15)

Another thriller was displayed before the eyes of the President of the World Games Association, Ron Froehlich. That was until 10 minutes in the second half when Russia took a 12-18 lead. The Czech Republic struggled to stay in the game but successful Russian long range shots took away all hope. Dmitri Kazachkov will especially remember this day having scored ten times.

Belgium – Portugal 29–9 (16-6)

First semi final: – The Belgians were eager to win with a big score and Portugal was focusing on the bronze for the next day. There is little Portugal could do to keep their opponents from a making a high score. Enthusiasm was not enough in this case.

Early in the second half Belgium made some substitutions but the shooting stayed accurate. Overall not really enough excitement for the crowd.

The Netherlands – Chinese Taipei 40–14 (18-4)

The second semi final brought no surprise. Dutch supremacy against a lot of goodwill and effort of Chinese Taipei! As a result the match was far from a thriller. Everyone went home with the hope of more balanced games on the final day.
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World Games Day 3

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Chinese Taipei – Russia 24-20 (15-9)

After the deception of the day before Chinese Taipei started without much conviction allowing Russia to take the lead. But with clear instructions from the coach the team soon set things right to obtain a comfortable position at the break.

It was a similar game after the break with Taipei assuring the goal difference and Russian eagerly trying to close the gap. At the end everybody was happy with the score of a rather predictable result.

The Netherlands – Czech Republic 42-19 (15-10)

Sometimes when teams play The Netherlands they show too much respect but the Czechs started the game trying to keep the gap as close as possible and they pretty well succeeded in this mission. That was, of course, until the Dutch machine became fully operational.

In the second half, with a big crowd to entertain, the Dutch team showed that korfball players are highly skilled athletes. In a thrilling atmosphere the lack of struggle for victory was highly compensated by the technical moves of the competitors. Excellent entertainment and a record aggregate score (61 goals) in a World Games korfball match surpassing the 58 scored in yesterday’s Dutch match.

Great Britain – Portugal 17–20 (8-8)

Much emotion in this game. Both teams knew they had to win to preserve their chances for the semis. Portugal put all its efforts in quick but nervous physical play. It was countered by slower actions as a result of the more tactical plan of Great Britain.

Misunderstandings, bad passing, bad shots and exceeding the shot clock time were typical occurrences for the start of the second half. Portugal then managed to create a small lead for which there was no answer in a first stage. England somewhat unlucky missed a few good chances that could have kept them hope. Portugal missed a penalty that could have been decisive and this gave confidence to the opponents. An atypical situation, a shot without any chance on a rebound, went in for the Portugal to win this exciting match.

Belgium – Germany 33-7 (20-4)

Germany did not field their best team so Belgium did not have a hard time to set things in the right direction from the start. The second half continued in a similar vein.

This was an attractive match for Belgian supporters and addicts of statistics.
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