It is not very often country athletes get to learn from Olympic medallists but that's exactly what was on offer at Pioneer Park at the weekend as former Australian hockey goalkeeper Nathan Burgers hosted a training clinic.

Burgers, who won bronze with the Kookaburras at London 2012, hosted a two-day seminar for local goalkeepers and said he had enjoyed his time in Dubbo and was thoroughly impressed by the talents he saw.

"It's been great and I find with the two-day clinics they start a bit unsure but as it goes on and by the end of the second day they've really improved and you can see a huge difference in their ability," he said.

"The support we get and the talent we see every time we come out to a place like this is incredible and it feels good to put something back into these communities."

Burgers' goalkeeping clinics are part of fellow Australian stars Jamie Dwyer and Mark Knowles' coaching organisation, 1 and 9 Coaching, and he said developing players in country areas was something they took very seriously.

"Our philosophy is we want to get out to as many regional centres as possible and pass on some really good knowledge to kids in these areas," he said.

"Particularly in our sport, it's very important because in the last few Olympics a lot of the players are from the country, whether it's country Queensland or country Western Australia, they seem to be the players who play at the top. But its also about getting kids to play sport and being fit, active and healthy."

Players were put through their paces in a number of drills and games over the course of the weekend and Burgers, who has family in Tamworth, said he would like to return to help out as much as he could while going on to say seeing young players improve in front of his eyes was something special.

"That's why I enjoy it and hopefully one day in maybe three or four Olympics time one of these goalkeepers, maybe from Dubbo, is the goalkeeper at the Olympics and that would be the cherry on top of the cake for me," he said.