Taekwondo Seminar’ll Assist Athletes To Improve – Technical Director

The Technical Director, Nigeria Taekwondo Federation, Osita Egwim, has said the ongoing International Poomsae Seminar and Dan Grading at the Indoor Sports Hall, National Stadium, Lagos has helped tremendously in improving the country’s taekwondo practitioners’ knowledge of the sport.
The seminar commenced on Thursday morning with global taekwondo practitioners in attendance. The Poomsae ended on Friday, with Dan Grading scheduled for Saturday (today) and Sunday.
Over 100 taekwondo athletes were taught about striking poses, stances, proper form, rules of taekwondo and defence stances.
Egwim said the seminar would help in taekwondo development in Nigeria.
“It’s going to help mend a lot of issues and it’s going to help solidify our Poomsae. Bringing people from outside to come and help us do it means that some are seeing what we haven’t seen before,” Egwim told Tidesports source.
”Definitely the participants are improving, practice makes perfect, the more you do it, the more you get better. They made some mistakes on Thursday, but today (Friday), they didn’t make as many.”
Chairman, Lagos State Taekwondo Association, Jimi Ogunowon, said the training was organised to help the athletes with the sport’s fundamentals.