"I can say with confidence that these coaches from across India are now empowered with greater high performance awareness and this will start reflecting in their coaching soon," said Ikram, who conducted the course with FIH Grade 1 coach Siegfried Aikman during the second Hockey India Junior Men National Championship which ended here yesterday.
For the first time in Indian hockey's history, coaches from the country did an online analysis of the men's final of London Olympics between Germany and the Netherlands.
The course conductors gave the coaches, divided into 10 groups, a variety of technical and tactical tasks to analyse the high performance aspects of this game.
"There were a number of High Performance aspects that came to light as the coaches sat down to analyse Germany and the Netherlands," said Ikram, who is also the Coaching and High Performance Manager of International Hockey Federation (FIH).
"I am sure that they will bring all these learnings into practice when they return to coaching players and teams. I am glad that Hockey India has taken this initiative to conduct a course for coaches."
One of the most important feature of this course was online interaction.
During the week-long program, the 42 participants watched matches of the Junior National Championship and did analysis of those games.
Former internationals including Baljeet Saini, Mohammed Riaz, BJ Kariappa, Rajesh Chauhan, Surinder Kaur, Sandeep Kaur, Helen Mary, Satnam Kaur, Sandeep Sangwan, Sumrai Tete and Anurag Raghuvanshi were among the participants.
