1. Coaching

2. Coaching
A coach is a tutor who gives private or specialised teaching to a person or a team of people.
What sorts of coaches are there?
What makes a good coach?
What makes a bad coach?
Where else, other than sports are there coaches or coaching figures?

3. Coaching Styles There are 3 main types of coaches:
Authoritarian (dictator)
These types of coaches make all of the decisions without any input from the players
What is an advantage? What is a disadvantage?
Co-operative
These types of coaches have the players sharing in the decision making process. The coach guides the players.
Casual
These types of coaches basically let the players run the program.

4. How to be an effective coach
Make sure that the drills are relevant to the sport
Deliver clear instructions
Provide feedback

5. Relevant Drills
As a coach there are three questions that need to be asked when making a drill for your player or team to participate in. If you can answer yes to all three of these questions then your drill is relevant to your sport.
Does the drill work the same muscles that are needed in a game?
Is the intensity in your drill similar to the game?
Are the skills that are necessary to play the game being developed, or trained, in the drill?

6. Delivering Instructions
Use clear and easy to understand language
Use a maximum of 3 teaching cues
Eg. Throwing a tennis ball
Point your non-throwing arm to the target
As you throw the tennis ball brush your ear
Follow through
It usually helps to show the whole skill first, then break it down into the teaching cues to show part, then demonstrate the whole skill again. (whole-part-whole method)

7. Feedback
Feedback is information that a teacher or coach gives to their student or player that can help them improve their performance.
When giving feedback you need to be aware of your player’s feelings so it is good to mix the good feedback in with some helpful feedback.
i.e. “That was a pretty good throw, but next time step forward on your opposite foot.”

8. Feedback Feedback can be given at the end of a performance or skill.
“The only thing that you need to work on next time is that you bend your knees a little before you release the ball”.
Or it can be given during a performance or skill,
“Ok, move more to the right now to catch the ball.”

9. Feedback Feedback should be specific and precise.
Your player is not going to learn anything if you just tell them, “That was good”. They will learn more from you saying “That was good. You really followed through with your throwing arm, and you remembered to step forward on your opposite leg”. But you need to remember that if you give them too much information they will forget most of it.