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News Items
Coaching and Officiating Issues
It is important to clarify the coaching and National Coaching Accreditation
Scheme (NCAS) and the officiating and National Officiating Accreditation
Scheme (NOAS) status of Taekwondo Australia coaches and officials and
the status of the courses conducted by TA. The current situation is outlined
below.
As a result of the loss of Australian Sports Commission (ASC) recognition
on 23 November 2007, TA is not currently eligible to participate in the
National Coaching Accreditation Scheme or the National Officiating Accreditation
Scheme. TA cannot currently offer NCAS or NOAS accreditation courses.
TA is able to and currently offers ‘in-house’ accreditation
courses. The in-house coaching course uses the same syllabus that was
approved by the ASC for us to facilitate NCAS accreditations, when we
were eligible to facilitate NCAS courses. Referee courses utilise a syllabus
that was submitted to the ASC but did not achieve approval prior to de-recognition.
Accreditations offered under the ‘in-house’ scheme will be valid
for 4 years but will not be recognised as NCAS/NOAS accreditations.
When TA regains recognition with the ASC any recognition of prior learning
for courses undertaken during the current circumstances will be reviewed
based on ASC requirements at that time.
TA is currently working with the ASC to clarify the accreditation status
of coaches who had been accredited prior to the Commission’s decision
and some cards may need to be re-issued. Any coach whose accreditation
is affected by this and needs a new card will be advised individually
by letter shortly. In addition, TA has been informed by the ASC that all
previous NOAS accreditations for TA officials have now expired. Having
noted that, TA referee in-house accreditations that were issued by certificate
remain valid as TA accreditations (not NOAS) to the date appearing on
certificates and referees should renew those qualifications through TA
in-house courses in the usual
timely manner.
For further information on coaching or officiating accreditation issues
please contact state co-ordinators.
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New WTF Competition Rules
The WTF has recently approved amendments to the competition
rules. The two immediate amendments had been implemented
from the April 2005 World championships – see articles
7 and 15. This will be implemented immediately in Australia.
These immediate amendments include reducing all black belt matches
to 2 minute durations for each round and the inclusion of the
sudden death 4th round in the event of a tied score at the end
of normal regulation match time. The tie score is the
net total score after deduction of points.
WTF will implement Article 12.3.2 later and this will be advised
later. The other amendments (articles 3, 4, 13, 16, 22
and 24) will be implemented from next year. WTF will do
that from May 2006 at the World Cup in Colorado Springs USA,
unless advised otherwise. Implementation in Australia
will be advised later.
The main reason for these rule amendments is to introduce rules
to enable our sport to make taekwondo competition more exciting
and faster pace. Here is the summary document comparing
the old versus the new amended rules. If you have any
queries, please contact your state referee director or email
the National Referee Chairman on kimseng@iprimus.com.au
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