Day 1
This course is an introduction to coaching skills, with a major emphasis on the “how to” skills rather than the “what” skills. The coaching skills are identified as:
- Instruction, Explanation and Demonstration
- Observation and Analysis
- Feedback
The fundamental idea of the course, the reason why it has been developed, is to give coaches new to athletics an experience of coaching skills and the body's energy systems through practical experience using some of the events as follows:
Via Sprints, Hurdles and Running Drills
- New coaches look at the skill of demonstrating and instructing the other members of the course who act as athletes. This gives everyone the perspective of both being a coach and being coached. The role of the tutor is to facilitate this and to deal with the attendees questions as they apply this learning to their coaching situation.
Via Race Walking
- The understanding of the bodies energy system is explored via a sustained (Aerobic) activity. In a very enjoyable session the skill factors of the event are developed together with the effects of both fatigue and competition. Role of the coach as an observer who will potentially feedback on loss of skills because of concentration losses through fatigue and excitement (through the competitive situation)
Via Horizontal Jumps
- Coaches look at the event to identify from analysis the potential improvement required. Via an analysis of the athlete and event identify the worth of their potential solutions.
Via Throws (Normally Shot and/or Javelin)
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Coaches explore the value of athlete feedback from a complex event when seeing everything in a short time becomes more pressured.
The course has several classroom sessions in between theses sessions to consider these issues: Role of a coach, athlete centred coaching, fitness and performance factors, the styles of coaching and finally the responsibilities and insurance cover of the level 1 coach.
Each attendee will receive a complete manual of the course and following on from the course they will be entered onto the UK Athletics Coach database. A Coach pass and licence will be produced and will be sent out to the coach usually within 8 weeks of the course. As soon as the course has been completed the coach is qualified and insured to coach under the supervision of a coach qualified at Level 2 or higher.
The course is a full day from 9.00 to 17.00hrs.
The current cost of this course is £60.00
Minimun number for the coures to go ahead is 15.
Minimum age of participants / coaches is 16.
