The former British international thrower now accompanies the athletes at Qatar Aspira Academy, and here explains its approach, its influences, and why it is to build a path.
Zeyn Dukemine is an international international international index of the former UK and Northern Ireland, which specializes in the shot and discus. He competed for Jersey for four consecutive Cooperies in Glasgow 2014 at the top of the eighth (Discus).
33-year-old coach, European bronze medalist Lawrence Oloye and many Paralympic Games Medalist Dan, aimed at Athletes, World Cup, and Olympic Games. Working next to the program is the head coach of Ivica Jakeljic, the champion of the former Olympic, world and European hammer and the record holder Anita Ulodarch.
How did you enter coaching?
I wanted to train from young age. Jersey was my first throw coach from New Zealand, and he returned there when we were quite young. My mother ended to qualify for a coaching to train us to train, but I will help the other threshooters about 15 years old and I enjoyed it. I think I have tasted quite well in my career because of it.
My exercise sat down in one place when I went to university (St. Mary University, London). I was more focused on my own training and I didn’t train anyone than my sister.
After graduating, I moved to a lopboro. At that moment, I was still fully focused on making the Rio Olympics, and I was looking for a job to help me provide financial support from the World Class Fulfillment Program (WCPP). On the track, several people suggested that I have to do a certain coaching coach because it looked market for it. I started training for the University of Loffboro and immediately after that I started my coaching company.
My company left quite quickly. I knew the level of commitment that required to be a full-time coach, and I knew that it would be harmful to my training, so I realized that I enjoyed it.
When I think I probably throw the coach in the UK to stimulate content on Instagram, and it really exploded. I was very lucky in this sense, I realized that I could get financially with online programming, and as a athlete with my reputation and other athletes in Great Britain I was able to develop a good training group soon.
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Who is your biggest coaching effect?
I met the coach John Hills when he was on holiday. He had a typical coach’s thinking, so even when he was on vacation, he would go down on the path and take a few sessions. He obviously had no idea that I would continue to do anything. I was just a little 12-year-old session who dropped a discus, but I could train her.
Hovhannes still had my greatest influence and biggest mentor. I think as a athlete when you spend a lot of time around someone you take a lot of qualities. John has a very unique way to work hard to work hard, and he was able to compress to the athletes who should never be near to that level. He did it on a consistent basis, and he still does.
There are many things that John did what I am applying today, especially when I work with development athletes, for example, knowing when they should be. Technically and software wise I learned a lot from him, but I think learning how to behave with athletes and how to drive in the right time, I was the biggest.
I spent a lot of time for Shauni team and Swedish coach Vetelin Hafstonson for training camps (Former Olympic champion and crown world champion Daniel Stahl).
I have learned a lot from Teche, because he had a slightly approaching approach to John, but Shaun had a completely different effect. There was a small coaching element, but it was more likely to be a professional, and he asked everything I knew what it means to be athlete. Some people invaded Shauni because he had an opinion and wanted people to do well. If he doesn’t think someone was doing what was the best for them, he didn’t restrain him, he will just say them. Not everyone appreciates it, but for me it was something I always liked. If he doesn’t think that I made smart decisions he immediately pulled me. He always asked. “Why?” Even IF The Point Was Irrelevant, The Fact You Had to Think About What You Were Doing That I Do To I’m Writing to Change Someone’s Technique I Have To Truly Understand why I’m doing something, not just going with the flow and hoping it works.
I recently worked with Ivica Jakeljic obviously. He has been in Doha for ten years, and he is the main guy of the program. He is completely similar to John’s how he approaches the sports factors, but technically does it differently, especially with a hammer and the events I have not left here.
What is your coaching style?
It is important to train a person and not the event, and that’s the way we try to do here. Everyone’s plan is different based on who they are and what they answer their body. You just can’t put people in boxes. It tries to take them on the road that is right for them, unlike, trying to press them on the set program or the track that you have previously taken athletes.
What we do at Aspira Academy is actually very clear. We have a strong talent ID program, we have a very simple philosophy of how we develop athletes at the age of 12-18 and stay it. We have basic principles: throwing, raising, athleticism, gymnastics and allow the program to run its course.
If you take a athlete from point A to point B, there is a pretty good opportunity to be at a high level until you recruit right.
How would you describe the current state of arrows in the UK?
It is very similar to British athletics as a whole, it’s a little mess.
What we do in Qatar is not a rocket science, but we can’t do that in the UK. We hope that it gathers, we cut and change the plans every few years, and we don’t get anywhere.
The reality is before I was moving here (in 2019), maybe there were two other guys about my age who trained at a decent level. We probably need to support this stage to connect the gap through the same generation. I was offered a very small package with British athletics as a consultant, but when I told them I was looking to move to Qatar, they wish me success. They didn’t even try to keep me, and that said it all for me.
The Hammer Circle of the Hammer Circle is working hard to bring people together in the UK, but with other events, every time something starts to gain momentum. As long as you do not have a decent number of full-time coaches, they are encouraged to pass CPD (continuous professional development) and themselves, we are never going to reach a place, that’s the end.
Every time you get Freak Attreet, who will come out of nowhere, but you can’t even start talking about athletics structure and athletes without a coaching structure. The fact is that good athletes who come to the UK right now, they can have supporting families and coach, which once fits well, but often comes to success or system.
There are many talented athletes who fall next to the road and we no longer see them. It’s a shame, unfortunately.
Do you balance a full-time workplace, deporting to coaching athletic athletes? What are the main challenges you face?
Remote control is not the same no matter what anyone says.
If you see someone before workout, you can say they’re having a bad day. You can talk to them and they can still have a good opportunity to have a proper training session. If you have a 30-minute window to increase, and they rush in a bad mood, that session ends before even starting.
Inter-sectional relationships are never the same worker online, and I really fight with it. Although I had a good relationship with my athletes before I came out of here, it’s hard to maintain, because everyone wants more.
Lawrence is a relatively low service guy, so he is quite easy to work away. The challenge is when you have athletes who are slightly more emotional. It can be very difficult.
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