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Making the Difference Prepared & Presented by Ian Patience

Coaching Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

Overview � You as a Coach � Learning Styles � Skills Model � What is a great coaching session � Coaching Juniors/Youth Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

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 Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

You As A Coach Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

How Many Do You Remember • Boat and crew • Man eating a burger • Bird with a worm (x2) • Magician with a rabbit • Magnifying glass • Duck hitting a • Books computer • Frog • Cat with a bee • Pot and ladle Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

Coaching Fundamentals • Planning & Preparation • Motivation • Communication • Leadership • Knowledge of the sport • Safety • Optimising learning • Variety Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

5 Essentials of Coaching • Plan • Do • Review • Inspire/motivate • Safety Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

How to be a great coach • Optimising Learning – Bite sized chunks – Meaningful – Focused – Feedback – Variety & Fun Lighting the spark! Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

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. Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

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). Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

Learning Styles Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

Learning styles Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

Learning styles Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

Learning Styles VARK • Reading • Visual – video • Kinaesthetics – pictures – emotions – diagrams – video – imagery • Audio – the feel – key words – demonstrations – phrases Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

The Skills Model Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

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 Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

Coaching Model Unconscious Competence Coaching Developing the Conscious competence sailor’s own analysis Conscious incompetence Instructing Creating the building blocks Unconscious incompetence Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

Skills Model Automatic Stage Skill Phase Diversion Stage Shaping Stage Technique Phase Component Stage Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

Skills Model • A New Skill – Technique – Skill – Juggling • Balls • Knives • Sticks on fire Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

Developing Skill and Technique Automatic Stage Key Guidelines Creating consistency of the skill under • Try to focus externally pressure or away from the technique e.g. tactics, Skill Phase wind, waves Diversion Stage • Don’t tweak techniques Switching attention or skills Skill away from the technique to external factors Key Guidelines Shaping Stage • Minimise verbal instructions Getting the components to Technique work together. Creating a • Create exercises that give feel, rhythm and flow to non-verbal feedback Technique the whole technique • Ask sailor first before Phase providing positive feedback Component Stage • Encourage experimentation Identify & developing the • Focused training components and routines Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

What Is A Great Coaching Session Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

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 Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

Verbal feedback – telling is not coaching! The RYA Traffic Light Shaping the verbal feedback Question – e.g. What did you notice? ASK When, where and how much? Get them to be specific Your comments on their judgements Discuss and performance. Positive feedback Information on how to improve Solve (Action plan/goal setting/focus) Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

Coaching Junior/Youth Sailors Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

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 Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

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 of it – Use names – get them to write down their names on the back of their buoyancy aid with duct tape Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

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 Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

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 Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

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 Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

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 Protecting your Rights, Promoting your Interests

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