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Former India Captain Bharat Chetri believes that younger players in the country need to learn the right techniques of the sport at an early age, and must also rectify/ upgrade any basic techniques that they might have learned while growing up. "I think as a former player, you understand how important it is to have the right technique to be able to be successful in this sport. I was a Goalkeeper and it was really important for us to have learned the basics to excel. However, for us, all the right things came at a later stage as we grew more experienced and played around the world, but the advantage for the younger generation here in the country is that they have the facilities and the level of Coaching available to them now," said Chetri.

The Indian Men's Hockey Team must treat the next one year as a countdown to the Olympic Games in Tokyo feels former India drag flick specialist VR Raghunath who laid emphasis on importance of having the right mind set in their approach. "I think the team must take this period as a one year countdown, and forget everything that's happened in the last 6-8 months. It is time to start afresh," stated the former defender who was part of some of India's finest victories including the 2014 Asian Games Gold Medal and FIH Champions Trophy Silver Medal in 2016. 

While former Indian Hockey defender Vickram Kanth's first love is to play hockey, which he continues to actively pursue at the domestic level, he enjoys doubling up as a mentor when he sees a youngster repeat the same mistakes he and his compatriots would make in their formative years. "As an Ex-SAI trainee, whenever I find an opportunity to guide young players I do it. I enjoy playing mentor, correcting young players and teach them the right technique we learnt in the due course of our international career. The intention is to ensure these youngsters don't repeat the same mistakes we did which was corrected only when we moved into the national program," opines Kanth, who played for India as defender from 2007 to 2014.

After the successful completion of the AHF Online Education Workshops exclusively for the Hockey India Coaches and Technical Officials last month, the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) will organize another set of workshops in the month of August. A group of 15-35 (approximately) Coaches and Technical Officials will be attending a total of five AHF Online Education Workshops.