Damascus-SANA
A new start to activate the Muay Thai game was started by the Kickboxing Federation through the training and arbitration course that started yesterday in Al-Fayha Sports City in Damascus, under the supervision of a group of game experts.
The ancient Thai game, which returned this year to the family of the Kickboxing Federation, is witnessing a remarkable turnout because of its great importance, especially among young people, where it combines skill, strength and focus. The course came to translate the passion of coaches and players to learn more of the arts of this sport.
The head of the Kickboxing Federation, Muhammad Khreis, explained in a statement to SANA’s sports representative that this course comes as a first step to advance Muay Thai in Syria by informing its cadres of everything related to arbitration and training as a first stage, especially that these two aspects are in continuous development, adding that the Federation has formed sub-committees for the game In the governorates, work will be done to develop programs to expand the spread of this sport and to form a strong base of different age groups.
Khreis pointed out that this course comes within the qualification courses launched by the federation since the beginning of the year, and will be followed by other specialized courses to develop the level of the cadres of this sport and thus move the players to better technical and physical levels to work later on preparing the national teams.
In turn, the lecturer Moataz Obeid stated that the course deals with the general and private preparation of players, the preparation of the teams, the modern techniques and techniques used in the science of training and the basic types of Muay Thai, as well as the methods and terminology of arbitration. The game is to receive the basics of the course, and then the course axes are followed up “online” for three months.
The lecturer Hossam Menna indicated that the number of the game’s cadres and practitioners is good, but the level we aspire to still needs to be developed, so the training courses were launched in the first stage, indicating that Muay Thai is a sport that has been practiced for many years in Syria, and the Corona pandemic has affected it as well as other sports.
Syrian national team player Yamen Hujeira, silver medalist of Muay Thai in the 2018 World Open Martial Arts Championship in Thailand, drew attention to the high level of the lecturers in the course for their great international experience in this game.
A number of students expressed their happiness with conducting this course for the great benefit and the qualitative leap that they will achieve with their trainees in the coming period, expressing their willingness to conduct more qualifying courses to reach the distinguished level that fans of this sport aspire to.
Mohammed Al-Rahil