Beyond Sports Coaching
Published on 8. February 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-4729-0550-5 (ISBN)
Description
Want to know how to be a top sports coach? Need advice on how to identify talent and get the best performance from an athlete or team? Want advice on how to improve you coaching or help mentor other coaches?
Written by one of the world's top coaches and coach mentors, Frank W. Dick OBE, this book is the essential practical handbook for anyone coaching or hoping to coach sports teams and athletes. It provides a breakdown of all types of coaching positions there are, from practitioners to performance directors to teachers, including their roles, responsibilities and challenges as coaches.
Suitable for coaches at any stage in their career, the book covers the key aspects of sports coaching, including: coaching principles, skills and styles, strategy, and development and education, and coaching standards.
Based on the wealth of coaching experience Frank Dick has accrued over 25 years at the highest levels of international sport, each chapter ends with a section on practical coaching tips to make you the best coach you can be in whatever sport you coach.
Containing everything you need to know about coaching sports, this book is the Bible of Coaching!
Written by one of the world's top coaches and coach mentors, Frank W. Dick OBE, this book is the essential practical handbook for anyone coaching or hoping to coach sports teams and athletes. It provides a breakdown of all types of coaching positions there are, from practitioners to performance directors to teachers, including their roles, responsibilities and challenges as coaches.
Suitable for coaches at any stage in their career, the book covers the key aspects of sports coaching, including: coaching principles, skills and styles, strategy, and development and education, and coaching standards.
Based on the wealth of coaching experience Frank Dick has accrued over 25 years at the highest levels of international sport, each chapter ends with a section on practical coaching tips to make you the best coach you can be in whatever sport you coach.
Containing everything you need to know about coaching sports, this book is the Bible of Coaching!
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Approx 10-20 b&w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-0550-5 (9781472905505)
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Person
As one of the country's best and most consistently inspiring motivational speakers, Frank W. Dick OBE is the current President of the European Athletics Coaches Association, Member of the IAAF Coaches Commission, as well as Chair (and architect) of the IAAF Academy.
From 1979 to 1994 he was the British Athletics Federation's Director of Coaching, where he was widely acknowledged as and remains one of the outstanding sports coaches and coach mentors in the world. With a history of sporting excellence through coaching some of the best talent, he has coached tennis star Boris Becker, German figure skater Katarina Witt, golfer Justin Rose and racing driver Gerhard Berger and is now a motivational speaker. He is the author of Sports Training Principles 6th Edition.
From 1979 to 1994 he was the British Athletics Federation's Director of Coaching, where he was widely acknowledged as and remains one of the outstanding sports coaches and coach mentors in the world. With a history of sporting excellence through coaching some of the best talent, he has coached tennis star Boris Becker, German figure skater Katarina Witt, golfer Justin Rose and racing driver Gerhard Berger and is now a motivational speaker. He is the author of Sports Training Principles 6th Edition.
Content
1. Introduction \ 2. Coaches' Culture \ 3. Athlete Development \ 4. Coach development \ 5. Effective Coaching \ 6. Technical Aspects \ 7. Coaching Skills, Styles, Systems, structures\ 8. Synthesis \ 9. Leadership \ 10. Judgement \ 11. Setting Sights (Own) \ 12. Strategy and Tactics (Plan) \ 13. Talent Action Plan (Do) \ 14. Learn Faster Than the Opposition (Review) \ 15. Coach education and Certification (Education) \ 16. Coaches association (Development) \17. Coaches' Professional Regulations (Standards) \ 18. Coaches' Representation (Representation) \ 19. Conclusion