Sports Coaching

1. Sports Coaching Techniques to improve performance

2. Learning aims • Identify techniques used to improve performance • State and explain how they work (function) and how they can be used to improve performance

3. Coaches in all sports have a number of techniques at their disposal that they can use to improve the performance of their athletes. • Techniques are very important to understand in sport performance. Firstly they give a measure on which athletes can be assessed to their current ability level, helping coaches to plan their sessions. • If techniques to improve performance are used between and during sessions too such as goal setting it can make the delivery of a session more effective.

5. Video analysis • Video gives the person who watches it an objective record of a performance. • The greatest benefit of video is the playback feature, including slow motion, which can be used to demonstrate skill execution, tactical efficiency, or a more general generic performance evaluation. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGzy9i309kA&safe=active • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBaDDC6ca08&safe=active

6. Coach review • Coach review • You can also get a great deal of information from an interview. You could ask a performer about what they consider to be their strengths and weaknesses, or you could ask them about what tactics they might use against a particular opponents.

7. How does this relate to your assignment • Describe (P3) and explain (M3) three different techniques (e.g. performance profiling, goal setting, SMART etc) that are used by sports coaches to improve the performance of athletes • Evaluate (D2) the selected techniques that you have identified in the first part of your presentation

8. You now need to collate the information and start putting it together in a PowerPoint Presentation • A check list will be given out in next lesson • Start creating a list of what you think you will need to include • You will need to look at both assignments.