Visions Gymnastics coaches Kevin Basson and Nkululeko Ndlovu took three gymnasts to Japan recently. The purpose of the 12-day trip for young gymnasts Riccardo Colandrea, Luke David, and Siphamandla Eugene Ngcobo was to train twice a day and improve their abilities. They stayed at the Ajinamoto Athletes Village and trained at the National Training Centre, where the London Olympics Japanese head coach, Yasunori Tachibana, personally spent the 12 days training, coaching and teaching the gymnasts and coaches new skills and methods of teaching in order to improve South African gymnastics. There is an on-going arrangement with the Japanese federation to bring gymnasts over for training until 2020, when South Africa hopes to have a gymnast qualify for and compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Training camps will now be held in South Africa, in order to pass down the knowledge and methods they learned to the rest of the gymnasts back home.
All the boys made tremendous improvements and learned a few new skills, which is what the group was hoping for, so the trip was a huge success. The gymnasts are now motivated to keep pushing harder then ever before.
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