For the first time in CISS basketball history
an international seminar/coaches clinic carried out in basketball.
Most probably this is also the first time anyhow in any deaf sport.
The seminar/coaches clinic was arranged in Beijing, China
10-13 December 2002 with participation of 6 deaf basketball
countries from China 5, Japan 3, Chinese Taipei 3, Australia 3,
New Zealand 2 and Hong Kong 3. Conductor of the seminar/clinic
were Kjell Gunna, Sweden CISS-TD in Basketball, together with
assistant Christian Boklund also Sweden.
FIBA has contributed with 75% of travel fares and 100% of accommodation
expenses for all participants. The clinic is a co-operation arrangement
between the CISS, the FIBA and the APDSC whose President Mr. Kuo-Tung
Chow were sending out the invitations and made the practical arrangements.
With this outcome of the first seminar/clinic there will be more
seminars/clinics to be arranged in South-America, Africa and Europe
in future.
These seminar/clinics are meant for deaf people interested in
coaching deaf basketball teams, starting new teams and in development
of deaf basketball in their respective country. Among other things
they are also supposed to learn how to co-operate with their National
Hearing Basketball Associations and thus obtain help in different
ways to develop deaf basketball.
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