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Prepared & Presented by Ian Patience

Making the Difference

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Coaching

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Overview

You as a Coach Learning Styles Skills Model What is a great coaching session Coaching Juniors/Youth

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Aims of the today

• To give an overview of best

practice in coaching

• To introduce new/updated

RYA coaching methods

• For you to take one thing

away that helps you with your coaching

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You As A Coach

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• Boat and crew
• Bird with a worm

(x2)

• Magnifying glass
• Books
• Frog
• Pot and ladle
• Man eating a

burger

• Magician with a

rabbit

• Duck hitting a

computer

• Cat with a bee

How Many Do You Remember

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Coaching Fundamentals

• Planning & Preparation
• Motivation
• Communication
• Leadership
• Knowledge of the sport
• Safety
• Optimising learning
• Variety

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5 Essentials of Coaching

• Plan
• Do
• Review
• Inspire/motivate
• Safety

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How to be a great coach

• Optimising Learning

– Bite sized chunks – Meaningful – Focused – Feedback – Variety & Fun Lighting the spark!

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Coaches teach best when they:

• Include variety & fun in everything
• Create bite size chunks
• Provide focus to all training and racing, directed by the sailor

(whenever possible)

• Provide feedback (verbal, video, outcome)
• Provide best practice in the form of video clips etc
• Coach with a variety of styles and formats e.g. verbal, articles,

diagrams, videos. Make sure you relate this to the sailors’ styles.

• Avoid talking too much
• Minimise your debriefs to focus on the “nuggets”. People rarely take

away more than 3 things per session/weekend so make sure they are important ones.

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Sailors learn best when:

• They understand how they learn effectively. Get the

sailors to recognise how they learn best.

• They feel confident to express their thoughts and

ideas.

• They are allowed to experiment and play
• The lessons relate to things they already know.
• They are allowed to make mistakes and to

experience success (both are needed to learn).

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Learning Styles

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Learning styles

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Learning styles

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Learning Styles VARK

• Visual

– video – pictures – diagrams

• Audio

– key words – phrases

• Reading
• Kinaesthetics

– emotions – video – imagery – the feel – demonstrations

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The Skills Model

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What is Skill & Technique?

• Technique:

– The physical movements that make up a manoeuvre.

• Skill:

– The ability to perform a technique appropriate to the conditions, at will and consistently while under pressure. Right skill, right time

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Coaching Model

Conscious incompetence Unconscious incompetence

Coaching

Developing the sailor’s own analysis

Instructing

Creating the building blocks

Unconscious Competence Conscious competence

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Skills Model

Automatic Stage Diversion Stage Shaping Stage Component Stage

Technique Phase Skill Phase

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• A New Skill

– Technique – Skill – Juggling

• Balls
• Knives
• Sticks on fire

Skills Model

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Developing Skill and Technique

Skill Phase Technique Phase

Automatic Stage

Creating consistency

• f the skill under

pressure

Diversion Stage

Switching attention away from the technique to external factors

Key Guidelines

• Try to focus externally
• r away from the

technique e.g. tactics, wind, waves

• Don’t tweak techniques
• r skills

Key Guidelines

• Minimise verbal instructions
• Create exercises that give

non-verbal feedback

• Ask sailor first before

providing positive feedback

• Encourage experimentation
• Focused training

Component Stage

Identify & developing the components and routines

Shaping Stage

Getting the components to work together. Creating a feel, rhythm and flow to the whole technique

Skill Technique

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What Is A Great Coaching Session

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What is a great coaching session?

• Planning & Preparation

– “Falling to plan is planning to fail”

• Briefings

– Creating the learning environment

• On the water exercises

– When choosing an exercise the coach must decide what skill is being developed and how that exercise will provide feedback to the sailor.

• Feedback

– The essential factor for learning – Feedback = Information on the sailor’s performance

• Debrief

– Create an action plan to develop technique or skill

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Verbal feedback – telling is not coaching!

The RYA Traffic Light

Shaping the verbal feedback ASK Question – e.g. What did you notice?

When, where and how much? Get them to be specific

Discuss Your comments on their judgements

and performance. Positive feedback

Solve Information on how to improve

(Action plan/goal setting/focus)

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Coaching Junior/Youth Sailors

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Coaching Junior/Youth sailors

• Fun Fun Fun!

– Keep the exercises short – Don’t expect juniors to remember a long list of

• instructions. Expect to explain each exercise as

you reach it – Try to carry a stock of sweets – when they come to collect these you can give out further plans & advice

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Coaching Junior/Youth sailors

• Talking the talk

– Communication between adults and children is a black art – don’t try to sound groovy for the sake

• f it

– Use names – get them to write down their names

• n the back of their buoyancy aid with duct tape

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Coaching Junior/Youth sailors

• Briefings

– Always better in small groups to reduce distraction from within the group – Use video and projector to show selected clips and videos

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Coaching Junior/Youth sailors

• The call of nature

– Keep sessions afloat fairly short – juniors need to fuel up on drinks and food much more often than adults – Many are also very shy about bodily functions. For longer sessions afloat organise toileting facilities – a mother ship or fast RIB ashore – Beware hypothermia – it strikes quickly in a sailor with a small body-mass

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Coaching Junior/Youth sailors

• Top tips

– Keep sessions short – Use digital video, but edit film before de-briefs – Do not show any favouritism – Encourage competition but don’t put those off at the back – Youngsters enjoy one-to-one with their coach. Work on the sailor-coach relationships. Have an individual chat with each sailor every time

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Coaching Junior/Youth sailors

• Top tips

– E-mail to emphasise points from the day/weekend and send out training notes – Few juniors are interested in physical training. Emphasise that in heavy weather the fittest do best in the last race – Carry a large bag of sweets