Emanuel Digamon of Zamboanga Sibugay and his son, Ralph, a silver medalist of Palarong Pambansa 2023 in Marikina Metropolis. | CDN Digital photograph / Josh Almonte
CEBU CITY, Philippines – For Emanuel Digamon, his incapacity won’t ever be a hindrance to his want to show student-athletes learn how to play desk tennis.
Digamon of Zamboanga Sibugay has been on a wheelchair for 4 years now.
He’s now not in a position to transfer each his arms and his decrease extremities following an accident that occurred on December 2019.
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However for so long as he is ready to discuss and provides directions to his trainees, Digamon mentioned he’ll proceed to show desk tennis.
“By tutorial, pinapalaro ko yung bata. Dun ko nalang binibigay lahat ng time ko para could libangan naman ko,” Digamo mentioned.
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Palarong Pambansa
Digamon is a part of the delegation from Zamboang Sibugay in Palarong Pambasa 2024 that’s presently held in Cebu Metropolis.
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Though he’s now not formally a part of the area’s teaching workforce, he continues to supply knowledgeable advise to their student-athletes. He’s additionally serving to his spouse, Marjory, coach the ladies’s desk tennis workforce of the Santa Clara Elementary Faculty, representing Area 9 within the Palaro.
Marjory began teaching their college’s ladies’s desk tennis workforce in Palarong Pambansa 2023.
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Unmindful of the inconvenience that he needed to endure, Digamon travelled to Cebu to be with the student-athletes who can be competing within the Palaro’s desk tennis video games that can be held on the Cebu Technological College Predominant Campus beginning on Thursday, July 11.
Love for desk tennis
Digamon was a desk tennis coach for Area 9 or the Zamboang Peninsula for a minimum of 10 years, since 2009. Throughout mentioned interval, he was in a position to be a part of 5 nationwide meets.
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He was additionally instrumental in producing winners for the area.
Among the many student-athletes that he positioned below his care was his eldest daughter, Emery Religion, who clinched a bronze in Palarong Pambansa 2013 that was held in Dumaguete Metropolis.
Emery is a 7-peat Palarong Pambansa contender and is presently a varsity participant on the College of Santo Tomas.
In the meantime, his second daughter, Novy Mae, additionally participated within the Palaro seven occasions and is now a desk tennis varsity participant on the San Beda College.
His son, Ralph, who has joined the Palaro 5 occasions, snatched the silver medal in Palarong Pambansa 2023 that was held in Marikina Metropolis.
Unlucky incident
However regardless of all his achievements in teaching desk tennis, Digamon realized that life isn’t just about reaping success.
On December 2019, he figured in an accident that modified his life without end.
Digamon recalled that he was on a subject journey with some student-athletes to have a good time, after they dominated the Regional Athletic Meet, when the hanging bridge in Naga city in Zamboanga Sibugay collapsed.
“Nauna ang ulo ko, ang nilaglagan ko bato yun kaya nagkaroon ako ng cervical spinal damage,” he mentioned.
Digamon mentioned that he had been on a wheelchair for the reason that time that he left the hospital the place he was handled for his accidents.
Nonetheless, he felt fortunate that he was alive. He was additionally relieved to study that the student-athletes who had been with him in the course of the subject journey had been secure.
Verbal teaching
When he was totally recovered from the accident, Digamon returned to sharing his data on desk tennis.
And since he’s now not in a position to transfer round, he now makes use of ‘verbal teaching’ in his trainings.
“Di tayo mawalan ng pag asa kahit sa ano mang karamdaman, kalagayan. We all the time suppose constructive to encourage different individual, particularly those that are ready and [are] able to coaching different athletes,” he added.
Surprisingly, his trainees grew in quantity. A few of their neighbors even began to coach with him.
For Digamon, God gave him a mission in alternate for his second life. And that’s to proceed to share his data in desk tennis to aspiring student-athletes.
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