#Webinar

Webinar Schedule on UWW Event Management

By United World Wrestling Press

In November 2020, the United World Wrestling IT Department will hold a training series about its On Venue Result Management System, called "Arena."

Arena is used to help organize wrestling competitions with computed aided technology by automating the whole competition event lifecycle from the registrations through weigh-in, fights and final reports. Everything is running on computers and supporting the most recent rules. And more ...

The training is designed for new users, who would like to learn how to use Arena and implement this infrastructure in their country, but for existing Arena users may benefit as well by learning advanced techniques.

More about Arena @ arena.uww.io and arena.unitedworldwrestling.org.

Details of the webinars
 
Time: 14:00 - Zurich | 08:00 - New York (Check your local time)
Language: English
Subject level: from Beginner to Advanced
 
Meeting platform: Microsoft Teams
Join: click on the upcoming "Join from here" link below,
or visit https://unitedworldwrestling.org/webinars

Week #1

Chapter 1-2 – Overview & Install
10-Nov-2020 (Tue)
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  • High level overview on Arena features, infrastructure and components
  • How to install Arena, Scoreboard, LGTV applications
  • Hardware/software requirements

Chapter 3 – Running events
11-Nov-2020 (Wed)
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  • Introducing Arena interfaces (admin, referee, onvenue, etc)
  • Going through a complete event lifecycle

Week #2

Chapter 4 – Arena advanced features – Part I
17-Nov-2020 (Tue)
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  • Person management, how to import people
  • Blockchain drawing
  • Referee management

Chapter 4 – Arena advanced features – Part II
18-Nov-2020 (Wed)
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  • Synchronization
  • Administrative operation (upgrades, beta testing, customize setup, flags)
  • Non-Olympic style support

Week #3

Chapter 5 – Companion applications
24-Nov-2020 (Tue)
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  • How to use Scoreboard (UWWtiming)
  • How to use LGTV application

Chapter 6 –REST API for developers
25-Nov-2020 (Wed)
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  • How to integrate external applications with Arena via REST API


 

Development

Successful Level 1 Coaching Course held in Bulgaria

By United World Wrestling Press

PAZARDZHIK, Bulgaria (November 6) – The Bulgarian Wrestling Federation organized a Level 1 Coaching course to help improve and provide training for their coaches.  This 5-day course was held in conjunction with Olympic Solidarity, Bulgarian Olympic Committee and United World Wrestling. 

The Level 1 course was led by UWW Certified Educator Mr. Georgi Sredkov (BUL).

The course was held from 15-20 October and was attended by 40 coaches and 6 athletes. “I point to my many years of experience to emphasize that, from a professional point of view, the seminar held by G. Sredkov was indeed at a very high professional level, with enormous benefit for all participants and especially for young coaches. The selection of the topics and issues in the sport of wrestling, the arrangement of the topics and the inclusion of free discussions submitted by the participants, greatly increases the quality and effect of this seminar.” said Mr. Georgi Kalchev (European Champion and World Medalist). 

This course focuses on the foundational skills to be a great coach.  The topics included: key factor analysis, introducing new techniques, communication skills, improving coaching skills, risk management and safety, and athlete safeguarding.  The participants learned and practiced their skills through theoretical and practical evaluations throughout the course. “Thanks to Georgi Sredkov for the seminar. Everything he offered us in the seminar was completely useful and beneficial.” said Emil Budinov (Olympic Coach).

Additional Comments from Participants

My participation was extremely useful for me as a coach. We exchanged experiences and I learned new practices with which I can upgrade my coaching activity.” – Miroslav Geshev (European Medalist and National Coach)

“I am personally very pleased that I had the opportunity to attend this seminar. I managed to learn many interesting things that will be useful for the development of our wrestling.” – Georgi Dumkov (Club Coach)

“Thanks for the fruitful seminar, especially the way of presentation. Special thanks to Georgi Sredkov - 5-day seminar full of content, excellently structured - balance between theory and practice.” – Vasil Popov (European Champion)