HEADING EAST
Marc Dellenbach was the French Olympic team coach from 2004-2016, and is now the national junior head coach of Germany. Early in 2019 he took a German junior team to train in Korea, one of many visits he has made over the years. Here he shares his thoughts on the Korean school system - and what we can learn from it.
At the beginning of March, six archers and two coaches from the German youth national team were lucky enough to go to Korea. Over a week they shared training with youth archers (15-18 years old) in the heart of the youth Korean system; a sport-specialist middle and high school in Daejeon, 150km south of Seoul.
The first time I was in South Korea was in 2003. At that time I wanted to understand why the Koreans were so strong over the previous 20 years. 16 years after that, nearly nothing has changed and
