Coaching Skills
As a coach you will need to develop many and varied skills. They may include:
* Communicating effectively with your players
* Providing sound feedback to players
* Understand ways people learn skills
* Understand basic training principles
* Understand different coaching styles
* Understand different needs developing and growing
children (See Juniors)
* Assist your players regarding safety aspects and
reducing injury risks
* Design drills to assist players to develop new game
skills
* Be aware of over-training causes and symptoms
* Be able to design and prepare programs to meet team and
individual training needs
* Advise players food and water needs
* Know about your player's energy systems
* Advise recovery, relaxation and imagery skills
* Provide advice on use of legal nutritional supplements
* Assess and evaluate player's performance
Coaching Roles
* As an Advisor - Advising players on the training to be conducted
* As an Assessor - Assessing players performance in training and competition
* As a Counsellor - Resolving personal or intra-group emotional problems
* As a Demonstrator
- Demonstrate skills you require them to perform
* As a Friend - Over time a relationship is developed, where as well as providing
coaching advice you also become a friend, with whom players can discuss
problems and share successes
* As a Facilitator - Doing all that you can to assist players achieve their overall
objectives
* As a Statistician - Gathering data of national and local results and updating processes with
current or innovative training techniques through attendance at seminars
and courses
* As a Knowledge Bank - A coach will often be asked questions on related
sporting activities or issues including those on diet, sports injuries and
even topics unrelated to Touch
* As an Teacher - Teaching players on individual, sub-unit and team Touch skills
* As a Mentor - As a coach you have to
monitor player health and safety at training and provide support at all
times
* As a Motivator - Maintain the motivation of all players for the duration of the
competition
* As an Organiser and Planner -
Preparation of training plans for individual players and for the team
* As a Supporter - Providing support to the beginners as well as to the star player, in all
that they do
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