The Johor Muay Thai Association invited the Deputy Director of Sports Innovation and Technology Centre (SITC), Dr. Hadafi Fitri Latip to give a talk in “Kursus Asas Kejurulatihan Sukan Muay Thai Peringkat Negeri Johor Kali ke VI” located at the Sports Youth Complex, Larkin, on 15 February 2020.
A total of 30 participants were involved in this course which consisted of coaches, athletes and sport enthusiasts from the state of Johor. Dr. Hadafi delivered the talk on how to take a basic sport course before attending sport science courses. The trainers need to know the basic of sports that they involved. In addition, he presented coaching philosophy to participants to understand the responsibility of coaches.
In this talk, Dr. Hadafi also shared about some characteristics that coach should has, to be a good coach as well as physical training, common injury in Muay Thai and nutrition intake. Hopefully, the participants might get the benefit from this talk and apply all the knowledge to their athletes or clubs.