I have helped out with a round of squad selection trials over the autumn. An interesting exercise, and I hope to work with the squads in the New Year. As someone who, in a previous working life, was a certified 30 wpm typist, I have been helping to type up the hand-written coaching notes after …
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UNCRC & sports coaching — more than “safeguarding”
I had heard of a “rights-based approach” to coaching children, but not understood how this extends beyond keeping them safe from harm, important as this is. So I was very interested to find out more about this approach, and how rights-based coaching relates to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), as …
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A typology of coaching — what is coaching? (4)
I have just completed a fascinating online course from the Open University, hosted by Future Learn — Sports Performance: Different Approaches to Sports Coaching. Highly recommended for all coaches. It got me thinking (again) about a definition of what coaching actually is. Both a philosophical and practical enquiry, from which a typology of coaching has …
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The Teesra 