jan.mynarik said:
Hello Ben!
At first, I totally agree with you and Bandor on the account of better use of modern technologies and social networks.
Fortunately, there is this new Youtube & SportAccord project that should bring concentrated korfball content to internet multimedia (without Youtube 10 minutes limit for normal channels). I also hope that IKF starts soon with Facebook and Twitter ... we use Facebook and like it very much in the Czech Republic.
With that comes the most important thing - a content! With good-quality content we can build a product "korfball". When you have a good "product", you can get fans! To succeed in spreading korfball, we don't have to get only new players and clubs. We can also try to get more fans!
This approach (get fans) is working very well, look at freestyle motocross or Red Bull Air Race. When we have fans, we will also have many people who will want to play korfball as well. We need to create a "hype"!
Ask any korfball player or fan: "What korfball matches would you like to see the most?"
World Championship? European Championship? Europa Cup? Korfball tournament on World Games?
No! I want to go to Rotterdam and see Dutch Korfballeague's finals in Ahoy! Or simply Korfballeague! Does it mean that international tournaments, and korfball there, are bad? No, not at all.
But korfball in Korfballeague is simply better! It is probably the same as NBA is for basketball, NHL for ice-hockey and Premier League for football - it is normal!
And here comes the creation of a good "product". For me as a fan, it would be mix of Dutch Korfballeague together with Belgian finals (and maybe finals of other countries), also final day of World and European Championship and final day of Europa Cup. And Dutch and Belgian leagues are already more or less "products", and that it means less work.
Korfball in most countries is a small sport with very small power (and not enough money) to get korfball regularly to media and especially TV.
We have better chance if we cooperate and create one product that will be on internet and maybe in other international media (Eurosport?). To this strong product with growing audience in participating countries you can local content (finals, league, cup) in a much easier way because korfball will be already somehow established.If we have this product, it should be easily accessible to national associations.
It means prepared for translation, e.g. with subtitles in English. And it also means cheap, we need to get the product for low price. Give the product for free to televisions and many national sport channels will broadcast it.
And once product is in media, you can get sponsors.
In my opinion, IKF should embrace this approach and help with creating such product. There is no reason for IKF being strictly international. We all want to spread korfball and thus we need to show the best korfball!Of course, I would like to discuss this idea with IKF and other countries, I just wrote it here earlier because I think it should be part of this discussion. It is also one of things
I would like to talk about with KNKV and others on Euro TOP4 in Eindhoven, where I am coming together with Czech national team.
Regards!
Jan--
15 januari 2010 16:58
Showing posts with label Czech Republic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Czech Republic. Show all posts
7/17/09
World Games 2009, 1st day
17 July
The program started with the match Czech Republic - Australia.
This match was played very enthusiastic, with a lot of energy (Brad Marks was an example in that aspect). This was also the reason why the match was sometimes a bit rough.
Both teams had 1 (Dennis Gilles) or 2 players (Roman Veznik and Martina Bouman) who have some experience in the Dutch competition. For me it was not surprising that The Czech team played better korfball than the Aussies. Every time you see in international tournaments that Australia has insufficient knowledge and experience of modern korfball.
The main problem of the Australian team is tactics. They seem to have no idea that tempo and timing of passing are very important in the cooperation to a goal. Very often they pass the ball too fast. They don't use the passing as a mean for communication. The ball is just going from spot to spot instead from position to position: The timing of a pass has to do with an objective: the player who gets the ball should be free and should go for a final action like a shot.
The balance in the line up of Australia was no good. Dennis Gilles (Bear, 3/10) and Megan O'keefe (Panther 3/14) played their roles in the first attack fairly good. The second attack operated badly. Many passes went wrong. So did the building up and the duels. Luke Rosie as a Tiger, (0/7) and Lia Matthews (0/10) showed that they are not good enough for the international level. Australia needs more international competition. If they continue in this way they play korfball good enough for fun but not for international top level. They need young athletes.
Another problem with the Australian team is that I cannot discover real fresh athletes in their team. We all know that other (team)sports in Australia are very strong. Maybe Australian korfball has stopped developing? Whatever?The reality is that Australia has lost the connection to the European countries. This is very disappointing!
The Czech team had a better balance in the line up. Both sections of the Czech could score.
Jacob Blaha was in the first attack the Tiger (4 goals out of 22 attempts). He was very solidly supported by Roman Veznik, who played around the post as Bear.
In the second attack it was Jiri Jezek (in the Bear position) who was very important. In the beginning of the match he tried to win the duels against Dennis Gilles in the center role. Later he discovered that it was more smart to play as a tiger against Dennis. Dennis is a good center defender around the post but when he plays as guard he cannot find the balance between risk and control. He is much to focused on interception. Jiri Jezek killed him easily from half distance and took care of 7 goals. (7/27)
A few years ago the Czech were very promising. But I didn't see any developments to a higher level either.
In both teams the male players were dominant. It should be a challenge for the female players of these countries (may be in all the korfball countries) to show more ambitions in developing their korfball skills. Most of the female players play like old fashioned house mothers. Korfball is basically a mixed sport in which the roles can be divided equally. It is time that the roles of the female players become decisive for the result of korfball matches.
The program started with the match Czech Republic - Australia.
This match was played very enthusiastic, with a lot of energy (Brad Marks was an example in that aspect). This was also the reason why the match was sometimes a bit rough.
Both teams had 1 (Dennis Gilles) or 2 players (Roman Veznik and Martina Bouman) who have some experience in the Dutch competition. For me it was not surprising that The Czech team played better korfball than the Aussies. Every time you see in international tournaments that Australia has insufficient knowledge and experience of modern korfball.
The main problem of the Australian team is tactics. They seem to have no idea that tempo and timing of passing are very important in the cooperation to a goal. Very often they pass the ball too fast. They don't use the passing as a mean for communication. The ball is just going from spot to spot instead from position to position: The timing of a pass has to do with an objective: the player who gets the ball should be free and should go for a final action like a shot.
The balance in the line up of Australia was no good. Dennis Gilles (Bear, 3/10) and Megan O'keefe (Panther 3/14) played their roles in the first attack fairly good. The second attack operated badly. Many passes went wrong. So did the building up and the duels. Luke Rosie as a Tiger, (0/7) and Lia Matthews (0/10) showed that they are not good enough for the international level. Australia needs more international competition. If they continue in this way they play korfball good enough for fun but not for international top level. They need young athletes.
Another problem with the Australian team is that I cannot discover real fresh athletes in their team. We all know that other (team)sports in Australia are very strong. Maybe Australian korfball has stopped developing? Whatever?The reality is that Australia has lost the connection to the European countries. This is very disappointing!
The Czech team had a better balance in the line up. Both sections of the Czech could score.
Jacob Blaha was in the first attack the Tiger (4 goals out of 22 attempts). He was very solidly supported by Roman Veznik, who played around the post as Bear.
In the second attack it was Jiri Jezek (in the Bear position) who was very important. In the beginning of the match he tried to win the duels against Dennis Gilles in the center role. Later he discovered that it was more smart to play as a tiger against Dennis. Dennis is a good center defender around the post but when he plays as guard he cannot find the balance between risk and control. He is much to focused on interception. Jiri Jezek killed him easily from half distance and took care of 7 goals. (7/27)
A few years ago the Czech were very promising. But I didn't see any developments to a higher level either.
In both teams the male players were dominant. It should be a challenge for the female players of these countries (may be in all the korfball countries) to show more ambitions in developing their korfball skills. Most of the female players play like old fashioned house mothers. Korfball is basically a mixed sport in which the roles can be divided equally. It is time that the roles of the female players become decisive for the result of korfball matches.
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