A special training session for training Goal Keepers began. The training began from Monday at Shivpuri.
On the initiative by Minister of Sports and Youth Welfare Yashodhara Raje Scindia, the special training of goalkeeper began in Shivpuri which will conclude on February 20.
In the training camp, Asian Gold Medalist and Hockey Goalkeeping Specialist Mr. Baljit Singh Saini is training 24 boys and girls goalkeepers of different districts of the state.
At the training camp, hockey Olympians, Arjun and Dronacharya Awardee, Madhya Pradesh Men's Hockey Academy chief trainer Rajinder Singh and NIS coaches Bittu Sigroha, Lalit Sharma, Umesh Chandra and Geeta Lakhera will also guide the players.
In the six-day special training organized at the initiative of Sports Minister, 11 boys and 13 girls goalkeeper players of Gwalior, Bhopal, Ujjain, Jabalpur, Indore, Hoshangabad, Seoni, Mandsaur and Shivpuri districts are learning the skills of goalkeeping from hockey goalkeeping expert Baljit Singh Saini.
On the second day of training Baljit Singh Saini gave few tips to the goalkeeper players. He told them the basic knowledge of how to be a good goalkeeper.
He told the players to be focussed with mind, be comfortable in the kit during running and keying, have equal concentration required during training and match.
Goalkeeper should know about penalty corner, penalty stroke to make correct movement during attack.
He said that continuous practice of three types of training including cooling down required.