Transcript Sports Coaching

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Understand the roles, responsibilities and
skills of sports coaches
Understand the techniques used by coaches
to improve the performance of athletes
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Be able to plan a sports coaching session
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Be able to deliver a sports coaching session
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Produce a coaching handbook
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Plan a coaching session
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Deliver a coaching session
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Evaluated your performance as a coach
You will need to look at
 Roles
 Responsibilities
 Skills
 Techniques
You will need to describe and explain these,
you will also need to provide examples and
discussion about each.
Learner task (s)
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Identify individuals who you deem to be leaders or who
posses leadership qualities
Provide explanation and justification to why you see these
individuals as leaders. Comment on the qualities,
characteristics, traits you feel they have
Identify any key adjectives that you would associate with
coaching
Discuss as a group the qualities for both a leader and a
coach – are there any differences or similarities?
Are these
examples of
good leaders?
Why?
COACHES
Brendan Rogers–
Liverpool Manager
Peter Moores –
England Head Cricket
coach
Freddie Roach
– Boxing
Coach
Louis Van GaalManchester Utd
Manager
Jose Maurinho –
Chelsea manager
Mark Sampson –
England Women's
Head Coach
Personal Coaches??
Research task
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In small groups identify key words that you would associate
with a coach to create your own definition. Discuss and
compare the definitions within the group.
“It was found that, fundamentally, coaching is a
means of bringing about individual performance
improvement so that each individual might move
towards his or her full potential.”
“In sports, a coach is a person involved in the
direction, instruction and training of the
operations of a sports team or of individual
sportspeople.”
OR
“It
was found that, fundamentally,
coaching is a means of bringing about
individual performance improvement so
that each individual might move towards
his or her full potential.”
Definition of Sports Coaching
What is Sports Coaching?
‘Sports coaching develops people through
improving their performance’
1996
National Coaching Foundation
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Draw around one of your peers on flip chart
paper and build what you would perceive as a
sports coach. This could include their primary
roles, responsibilities and skills. Use words
that are put in a suitable position on the
outline to demonstrate this.
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Working in small groups you are required to choose a sports
coach of your choice.
Create a small report which justifies why you feel they are a
good coach focusing on their strengths, achievements,
abilities, roles techniques etc...
You must provide examples to justify your argument and be
able to pose questions to the opposition surrounding their
views on their chosen coach.
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An American Coach in London - Comedy
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A Sports Coach needs to understand that there are
many different roles, at varying levels they may
need to undertake, to assist the development of
the athlete and team.
In groups write down….
1. What might some of these roles be? e.g.
educator/teacher.
2. What this means and why it is important
3. Paint a picture with words; describe the
relevant features of the role
4. Say “how, why and when” the role would be
used
5. Give an example or build a scenario
6. Why might taking on the role help develop or
improve an athlete or team?
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Innovator
Friend
Manager
Role Model
Educator
Advisor
Mentor
“ A Coach needs to have a
range of different hats for
their various roles that are
require”
Innovator
• Creative
• Exciting
• Challenging
• Developmental
Friend - Critical
• Analyze
• Observe
• Feedback
• Fault-Finder
• Feedback
Motivator
• Encouragement
• Positive Feedback
• Drive
• Inspiration
Educator
• Knowledgeable
• Insightful
• Experienced – (Journeyman)
• Qualified
• Support
• Encouragement
Role Model
• Representative
• Effective
• Advocate
• Champion
• Promoter
• Fan
Trainer / Manager
• Preparation
• Planning
• Coaching – (Terminology)
• Organisation
• Fitness / Strength / Plyometric
• Relationships
Responsibilities of a Sports Coach
A particular burden of obligation upon one who
is responsible: the responsibilities of authority.
Oxford Dictionary
(we could change the word ‘authority’ to Sports
Coach)
Student Task
In small groups discuss and list the
Responsibilities of a Sports Coach, when
producing your list consider the definition
of Responsibility.
Responsibilities of a Sports Coach
• Legal Obligations
• Child Protection www.thecpsu.org.uk
• Professional Conduct www.sportscoachuk.org
• Duty of Care
• Health & Safety
• Knowledge of the Coaching Environment
• Equal Opportunities www.eoc.org.uk
Legislation
• HASAWA 1974
• The Children’s Act 2004
• The Disability Discrimination Act 2005
www.drc-gb.org.uk
• The Equality Act 2010
• The Racial Discrimination Act 1974
• Safety at Sports Grounds Act 1975
Child Protection
• Harassment & abuse often go unreported for a
wide variety of reasons.
• Some abuse that is identified may not be
recognised as sports-related
• There are no generally accepted professional
definitions of what constitutes harassment or
abuse in sport
Summary
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Sports Coaching is Made Up of Roles.
There are many Roles dependent on the
Sport, The Level, and the Coaching
Situation.
Sports Coaches have many Responsibilities.
Communication: A way to exchange information
How many different types of
communication can you think of?
What types of communication are there?
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Who might a sports coach need to communicate with?
Athletes, parents, teachers, other coaches, spectators,
managers, first aid, physio, media, public, officials, other staff.
Verbal
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Keep language simple
Appropriate / relevant - Ensure you know
your audience
Provide information
Check understanding – Questioning
techniques
Non-Verbal
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Body language – conscious or unconscious
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Positive and negative body language – examples of
these?
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What exampled of non-verbal communication do
sports coaches use?
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Benitez Non Verbal example
Demonstrations & hand signals to show correct
technique, direct and provide instruction
A coach also needs to know communication is
a two way skill.
Listening and receiving information is
extremely important.
Listening skills:
Eye contact, concentrate, don’t interrupt, ask
questions
Do you know any sports
coaches that are good
communicators?
Why?
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Why is it important to be organised?
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What does a sports coach need to organise?
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Is this different at varying levels of coaching
and for different groups?
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Issues and problems can arise at any time, a
coach needs to know how to manage and
deal with these.
Ability to adapt is key
You are coaching a tennis session
for 20 10-12 year olds, you arrive
to find that the tennis courts are
double booked but you can have
the squash courts. What do you do?
You are coaching a rugby
session for a good standard
team. The session is planned
well. The players are unable to
perform the skills properly.
What do you do?
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Working in small
groups describe the
roles, responsibilities
and skills of your
elected coach form the
quiz below
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Compare and contrast the roles,
responsibilities and skills of successful
coaches
Use a Venn diagram and the hand out to
support
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A range of techniques are used by sports
coaches to analyse the performance of their
athletes
Discuss what you feel
are the reasoning for
analysing performance?
What can they provide?
Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher
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Provides feedback to both the athlete and the coaches
Strengths that the athletes posses can be identified
Developmental points can be identified
Targets and goals can be set
Training programs and/or drills can be designed to develop individual
players and teams
Identify what
techniques are used
by coaches to
improve the
performance of their
athletes?
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Observation analysis
Performance profiling
Fitness assessment
Goal setting
Simulation
Modelling
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Adapting practices to
meet individual needs
Designing effective
practice sessions
Effective
demonstration
Technical instruction
Developing performer
coaching diaries
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Important to note that the profiling
process requires the input and feedback of
both the athlete and the coach
Discuss what you feel performance
profiling is and what is its purpose?
“provides the coach and athlete with a visual
display of the areas of importance that
support a top performance and where their
assessment of their current position is in
relation to this”
Task
- What type of areas could you consider when
analysing the performance of an athlete?
PHYSICAL/PHYSIOLOGICAL
PSYCHOLOGICAL
TECHNICAL
TACTICAL
- Discuss the above categories suggesting what
attributes could fall into each
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Power
Co-ordination
Balance
Reaction time
Speed
Muscular Strength
Any component of
fitness…
Physical
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Motivation
Arousal
Confidence
Aggression…
Psychological
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Formations
Spatial awareness
Movement
Set plays…
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Tactical
Passing
Shooting
Dribbling
Shooting
Footwork
Tackling
Heading…
Technical
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Grip on the racquet
Stance
Ball toss
Racquet contact
Follow through
TENNIS – Skill of Serving
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Organisation
Breaking up play
Tackling
Passing
Heading
FOOTBALL – Central
midfield player