SERVILE PHYSICAL TRAINING

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28434, 14 November 1957, Page 22

SERVILE PHYSICAL TRAINING

Advanced Course At Wigram

Fourteen Armed Services physical training instructors this week began a four weeks advanced course of training at the R.N.Z.A.F. Station, Wigram. This is the first time an advanced course has been held in New Zealand and the next course will not be until 1959. The men, two Navy, six Army, and six Air Force, are being instructed by Flight Lieutenant P. F. Robertson and Sergeant L. J. Rcstall, of Wigram. All the men have attended other courses for a comprehensive grounding in the art of instructing physical training and sport. They have to complete five courses to gain advancement to a high grade physical training instructor and for some of them this will complete their required number of courses. Mostly Theory Majority of* the training is theory and any practical work is kept to the minimum. “This is a short intensive course with theory to finish off all the practical work of the other courses,” said Flight Lieutenant Robertson. Discussions are held between the men and they learn of the methods of training used in the other services. Combined courses are combining the knowledge of the separate services into greater knowledge for all service instruci In the earlier courses the mon ■gained a fundamental knowledge of the rules and coaching of all major games and the emphasis was more on the men becoming as good instructors as expert exponents of sports. This time they are learning how the physical training they teach helps their trainees.