11/6/2009       

Part of a new joint initiative between the International Table Tennis Federation and the Latin American Table Tennis Union, a successful ITTF/PTT Level One Course came to a conclusion in the Dominican Republic on Thursday 5th November 2009.

Organised under the auspices of the ITTF Development Programme, the course was led by El Salvador’s Carlos Esnard and is one of seven such course which will benefit table tennis in Latin America.

Seven such courses form the programme for Level One and a further three for Level Two.

Distribution of Courses
In the Caribbean the Level One scheme comprises two courses in English and one in Spanish, two courses in Central America and two in South America.

Meanwhile, for Level Two, there will one in each of the regions in which Latin American table tennis is organised; therefore the Caribbean, Central America and South America will each stage one ITTF Level Two Course in the programme.

Full Range of Activities
In the Dominican Republic the full range of activities were covered for coaches to be able to conduct coaching at a basic level plus the rules of table tennis were explained in detail as was the organisation of tournaments.

The Para Table Tennis part of the course