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It has been some time since we put pen to paper or text to screen on coaching subjects. Around twelve months ago, a group of people sat around a table and decided to the disbanding of a national coaching committee. The coaching committee had been in operation since the mid 70’s with great success in the introduction of the coaching syllabus throughout Australia and I believe it was one of the first sports to adopt a structured coach accreditation programme through the Institute of Sport in Australia.

It saddened me somewhat seeing it just thrown in the bin after all these years having served on the committee for the betterment of coaching and development throughout Australia. However, I did agree that there needed “change” and expected the people who decided to disband this committee, would in fact, have a system to take its place prior to its decision.

This has not been forthcoming for nearly 12 months and has left many “coaches” wondering, what is happening? Some may interject and say “it’s business as usual”, but there has been no information forthcoming from any governing body as to its so called “review” outcomes and what will occur in the future.

All this change is for the aim of an Olympic medal in 2032. There seemed to me, a failure of priority here as the Olympic hopefuls are catered for in the form of a National coach through a different organisation? The national coaching committee’s roll was to implement sound knowledge through coach education and accreditation to develop new and somewhat developed athletes within their clubs, State and Territories. From there, the national coach, in liaison with our national body, would put forward athletes to join the squad, from which selection is made for overseas development and possible Olympic selection.

To completely disband a committee and have no strategic plan to take its place prior to this decision, seems to be a backward step? If a new committee is to be formed, it will take several years to discuss and plan for a strategy to improve what has already been in place.

Many problems have risen over the years with some States/Territories “doing their own thing”. The national committee had in place, documents to follow for accreditation, yet some went along a different path to suit themselves. The sport seemed to develop more ego’s than competent athletes. People only around to “feather their own nest”, rather than looking to how they can develop our sport and people within “our sport”.

No matter what the coaching committee put forward in the past, there has always been some people who disagreed, yet those same people never put their hands up and stated they have the answer or offered any help in the development of our sport. I hope that some resolution to this dilemma is acted upon sooner than later.

We wish to thank all the people who have used our websites and programmes to gain information to make themselves better pistol shooters. I feel it is time for a big holiday and a rethink of our next adventure.

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