Yongin Samsung Life Bloomings will hold the "2024 Dreams Come True Camp" at the Samsung Training Center in Yongin from the 8th to the 10th. This camp is where the Bloomings players engage in joint training with elite high school basketball players and experience mentoring. The camp, which started in 2017, marks the fifth anniversary this year. For promising players, they can spend time together with professional players and nurture their growth.
On the second day, on the morning of the 9th, "skill training with Hoopcity" was conducted under the leadership of skill trainer Ok Bum-joon. Ha Sang-yoon, the head coach of Samsung Life Insurance, also appeared on the scene. Ha is experiencing "Dream Camp" for two consecutive years since last year when he was a coach. Ha gave positive assessments to the event as he could have rare experiences.
Coach Ha Sang-yoon said, "I hold this event every year, and I think it is very positive. Whether athletes perform skills or train with professional players, it is important, but I think they have learned skills personally. However, I rarely have experience like this when exercising and eating with players. When I saw players as idols when I was young come to Korea for a match, I had fun watching them play, and I thought I should be more motivated. When I saw them yesterday, they were so happy to exercise and eat with me, that I thought the camp should continue in the future. I think if there are more events like this, young players will be able to gain more strength in their sports."
As Ha said, prospective players can be motivated to grow up by being able to spend time with professional players. Ha also recalled that his seniors' words when he was dreaming of becoming a basketball player helped him greatly. 메이저사이트
Coach Ha emphasized, "I used to use the gym sometimes when I had basketball competitions because I was in the countryside before. Then, great players like Coach Lee Chung-hee sometimes say a word, and one word such as 'I'll be a good player' helps a lot. It could change his or her basketball life. I think it can be a great motivation."
Professional players can also have a unique experience as mentors who attract mentees. It is also a time to reminisce about many past memories.
"Players can also remember the past while watching the students, and learn by training with young players," Ha said. "I think they must learn something from watching them make their own efforts. I think it will bring back a lot of memories from my childhood and be a good memory for our players as well."
In addition, he said, "Thank you for creating such an event in the club. I think these players will become professional players later on and the club will continue this camp with a good purpose. I personally hope that there will be many other events other than our team camp, so we can instill more hope in young players."
Finally, when asked to leave advice to promising players, Ha encouraged the players, saying, "I've been a professional player and I'm a coach now, but I had a childhood. You must be thinking of becoming a professional player and a national team member by doing it with your sisters and receiving positive energy. No matter what anyone says, you should do it because you like basketball, and if you don't set a long goal and step by step in setting one by one, I think those players can become professional players in a few years, and if they can, I hope that it will be a memory and a better stimulus to develop into good players."