Today is the start of our training clinic in Mandeville. Mandeville is a city about 89 km away from Kingston which is about an hour's drive. We began our drive to Mandeville around 1pm after enjoying some absolutely to die for stew peas by Ms. Lorna. The drive was nice and the beginning part of it reminded me of driving in Toronto with the highway, as we got off the highway, the road was much more narrower.
We did three sessions today. We met up with Howard Ranger (aka Ranger), who is the Jamaican National Coach for the Junior Team and he runs many of the coaching programs in Mandeville. Ranger helped us in setting up all of our training clinics in Mandeville. We started at Bishop Gibson High School, which is an all girl school. We did a two hour session there with 12 girls. Then we had a quick dinner break at a local restaurant where we enjoyed oxtail, tripe and beans, and baked chicken. Then we were off to North Caribbean University (NCU) for our evening sessions. We ran two sessions, 6-8pm and 8-10pm. The NCU's gymnatorium is a 5 court facility with wooden floor. We had close to 40 people come out for one of the session and sometimes as the session went on, we noticed the group was getting larger in number as more people dropped by and joined in. It was great to see so many people interested in the sport.
Tomorrow we start again at 9am at NCU. We want to thank the Baileys of Mandeville for taking us in tonight and giving us a place to stay so we don't have to drive back to Kingston and back in the morning. Thank you for sharing your beautiful home with us and also Sean Wilson, who came out to NCU to personally escort us to the Baileys at such late hours. We really appreciate the hospitality shown to us by the people in Mandeville!
Tip of day: Proper warm up and cool down are necessary for injury prevention!
We did three sessions today. We met up with Howard Ranger (aka Ranger), who is the Jamaican National Coach for the Junior Team and he runs many of the coaching programs in Mandeville. Ranger helped us in setting up all of our training clinics in Mandeville. We started at Bishop Gibson High School, which is an all girl school. We did a two hour session there with 12 girls. Then we had a quick dinner break at a local restaurant where we enjoyed oxtail, tripe and beans, and baked chicken. Then we were off to North Caribbean University (NCU) for our evening sessions. We ran two sessions, 6-8pm and 8-10pm. The NCU's gymnatorium is a 5 court facility with wooden floor. We had close to 40 people come out for one of the session and sometimes as the session went on, we noticed the group was getting larger in number as more people dropped by and joined in. It was great to see so many people interested in the sport.
Tomorrow we start again at 9am at NCU. We want to thank the Baileys of Mandeville for taking us in tonight and giving us a place to stay so we don't have to drive back to Kingston and back in the morning. Thank you for sharing your beautiful home with us and also Sean Wilson, who came out to NCU to personally escort us to the Baileys at such late hours. We really appreciate the hospitality shown to us by the people in Mandeville!
Tip of day: Proper warm up and cool down are necessary for injury prevention!
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