To prepare following the Islamic Solidarity Games (ISG) in Palembang, 22 September – 1 October, the Board of Indonesian Taekwondo Association (PBTI) keep conducting various preparation to improve their athletes’s performances.
Not only exercising, PBTI also inflating their athletes by giving an impulse motivation. It looked yesterday on the exercise in the afternoon in Cibubur, Jakarta. Bambang Wijanarko, the coach, never stop boosting the athletes by giving spirit on the exercise.
Some athletes who follows the exercise was so vigorous and heed the instruction by the coach. Repeatedly, Bambang Wijanarko often giving an assertion not to hesitate while kicking the opponent so hard.
“Now the exercise has been proposed in stage how the readiness of the athletes to get a gold medal. It means they given so much input and motivation, so they will ready on the match”, Bambang said in the middle of the exercise.
He explained that is important to support the athletes performance in Palembang later.
“Usually nearer the time, the spirit of the athletes are easy to slack, so we keep inflating them by doing exercise in the morning and in the afternoon. We give them an occasional mativation to maintained their good habits which they already have until the match”, he added.
Nevertheless, he admitted that the technical obstacle and non-technical always around, along their way preparing themselves.
“Usually technical stuff during the exercise, for example when the blocks are not intact, the kick also still not accurate, it should be corrected,” he explained.
“Because at this time, the rule on this championship is different. The athletes must use a body protector, the assure the accuracy of the kick is right or no. In the past was not like that, the score taken by a little kick. So this is what we ripen”, he added.
On the other side, to host this event into its own advantage. “This could be our opportunity to rake in medals (gold) as much as possible. But i think from the all aspects, we should prepare the athletes and the coaches as well. That is the first one. The second one is we need support from the local community because the game is in Palembang, so it will become spirit for the athletes while they are on the match”, he explained
More than that, a target also proclaimed as motivation remain in the game. “Is useless working without target. So either we host or not, the target is a must,” he closed the interview. (Adr)