Yasunori Tochibana’ course in Georgia

At the beginning of the year, the President of the UGGF Mr. Lashkhi had addressed to the Presindent of the FIG Mr.Watanabe with a kind request to organize a course for the Georgian coaches. Mr. Watanabe redirected this request to the Gymnastics Association of Japan, and they sent to Georgia an expert coach Mr. Yasunori Tochibana.

Mr. Yasunori Tachibana currently working as a full-time coach of Japan Olympic Committee and also, Gymnastics Multi-Support Committee Chairman. He has the FIG Coach’s brevet. He was the Japanese Artistic Gymnastics Head coach at the 2012 Olympic games.
During the visit, Yasunori Tachibana personally spent 7 days training, coaching and teaching the coaches and gymnasts of Georgia the new skills, methods in order to improve and develop Georgian gymnastics. The course had attended not just an Artistic gymnastics coaches but Trampoline and Acrobatics coaches and gymnasts as well, and also, coaches arrived from the regions.

The United Georgian Gymnastics Federation would like to thank Mr. Yasunori Tachibana for his course and for his kind attention and help.

Also, we would like to thank for help which we had received regarding to this course:

the President of the FIG Mr. Watanabe, the Gymnastics Association of Japan, and two Japanese interpreters: Marian Beridze and Niko Lezhava.

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