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When opening meetings, the heads of sport schools summarised the former season and announced plans for a period ahead.

Director of the Academy, Evgeny Yurievich Rychkov, told parents of Ak Bars Specialized Sports School of Olympic Reserve for Children and Youth and Dinamo Sports School for Children and Youth directly the results of the Academy activity in the 2017-2018 season. His addressing involved items concerning arrangement of summer training camp, teaching aids development and implementation, coaching and instructional staff selection and coaches development program working out, as well as arrangement of Players Development Centre under the guidance of Igor Vladimirovich Zakharkin:

-In the former season we went to considerable lengths and have no plans to stop there. Overriding priority for us is a quality of our trainees conditioning. For this purpose we engage in our team such specialists as Vyacheslav Bykov, former Head Coach of the Russian National Ice Hockey Team, who became an advisor of Players Development Centre from this season. We work with Andrei Zyuzin , formerly well-known NHL defenseman, ex-coach for Salavat Yulayev Ufa. Vladimir Yurzinov held several master classes for coaching and teaching staff of the Academy... By means of regular increase of the level of hockey players training we insure demand for the Academy's alumni in professional clubs.

Apart from strategic plans of the Academy development, issues concerning health and psychological support of young hockey players have also been risen on meetings. Anastasia Aleksandrovna Marochkina, Sports Medicine Physician of the Centre of Medical and Biological Support of the Academy, appealed to parents for paying more attention to the children's health:

- Trained child offsets impact of the external environment more easily. But parents should not forget that hockey is a great load onto a growing body. That is why sports activities both at the beginning and after diseases and traumas should be commenced only after doctor's permission. Such permission is oftentimes formal, that subsequently leads to chronic diseases of children... Teach your child to pay attention to his/her health. Do not ignore your child's complains of bad feeling. Your prompt response may have affect not only on child's success in sport, but on the whole his future life.

Sports Medicine Physician of the Academy Niyaz Minkhatovich Bikchurin has raised a number of questions of both medical and social importance. They were related to anti-dote and anti-drug support of young hockey players:

- It is important for us to put it on notice of parents, coaches and trainees, that impunity of doping in kids sport is an illusion. Uncontrolled administration of proteins and hormones may have the most adverse effect on the health of a young sportsman. There are known cases that a child began taking medication by himself, under the influence of elder friends and counting himself as old enough for such decision making. It is important not to loose parental control in this case. It hardly needs saying that situation when a parent makes decision about administration of hormones or dietary supplements is absolutely unacceptable. Even for the best of reasons, for example if a parent tends to transfer his child to the first five-man line. In these cases it is necessary to understand that uncontrolled interference in the process of physical development of a child may lead to the most negative consequences.

The Director of the Centre of Psychological Support, Educational Psychologist Dmitri Lvovich Zaparin was introduced to the parents of hockey players of Kazan and Almetyevsk. In his speech he made a special focus on qualitative interaction between coaches and parents.

- Success of a child and the whole team largely depends on the extent of correctness of relationships between parents and a coach… You should not criticize a coach in the presence of a child. Under no circumstance you should try to take on the role of a coach yourself. Hockey is a team sport where namely a coach is responsible for the final result. Only he may decide which tasks should be set for one or another trainee in the course of a training or a game. Then even if it feels like a coach is not enough attentive to your child, please settle a problem on an individual basis by means of building a constructive dialogue.

Big attention during the meetings was paid to answering the questions of the parents of young hockey players. The most topical problems brought up by the participants of meetings were: provision to teams of necessary training time on the rink and off the rink; arrangement of kids teams trips to tournaments; further prospects for trainees of JHL age category.

The dialogue between parents and staff of the Academy will continue in the very near future. As early as in the second fortnight of November within the walls of the Academy representatives of parents' committees will gather together for a detailed discussion in a roundtable format of topical issues concerning activity of sports schools for children and youth.

We kindly ask those parents, who wish to get competent answer or prompt assistance of the Academy specialists during the Roundtable, to send your questions in advance to e-mail: info@akbars.academy