Jonathan Coachman

The coach utilises the command, submissive and co-operative coaching styles across the three sporting levels, 10-11 year old children, U20s local club team and NZ Olympic athletes. The command style is strongly focused on coaches who like to “make all the decisions” and the “role of the athlete is to respond to the coach’s commands” (Martens, 2004, p. 30). With this coaching style it is portrayed to be one sided, the coach tells the athlete what to do, where to be, and how to do it so there’s no…

The thought entered my mind and it was at that moment I knew I had to do it. I was just so mad at him, no one can treat my friends like that. I was not even sure if I could pressure myself into doing this, but somehow I knew what I had to do. About a year ago a new kid joined my baseball team. His name was Blake. Within a few weeks Blake and I became great friends. We would hang out after games and go bike riding after school, we did a lot together. A few weeks later we were doing drills. Coach…

I am a leader in many areas of life whether that's the classroom, clubs, or at home but the place where I show the most leadership is the sports field. Of the two sports seasons so far this year I have been on Junior Varsity and Varsity for both of them and during Track in the spring there is only Junior Varsity and Varsity, no Freshman teams. During the final day of volleyball tryouts we had a "conditioning day" where we would rotate through stations with a different exercise routine at each…

Bill Belichick has stated that building a championship team and players is based not only on value and principles, but having a passion for participation and eagerness to perform (Hughes). This example proves that surrounding each other in a comfortable scenario and environment that you will constantly be in will better increase your will to play and your involvement on the team. Coaches play one of the biggest roles in your experience in sports, whether you are in club or school sport, or even…

Small decisions can majorly impact your life. Small decisions like how you decided to do your hair will not impact your life as much as some other small decisions. For example, whom you sit with at lunch or what group of friends you hang out with can majorly impact how others think of you and what you will be like in the future. One small decision I made in the past involved having a goal for baseball. My goal was to hit the ball more than it hit me. It was the top of the 5th inning, the other…

(No refusal of call) This story takes place in the Beautiful city of Pittsburgh where leaves glide through the breeze, birds chirp at the crack of dawn and where people walked the streets. Lived a kid named cody who goes to the new middle school North Pitt to start off his 8th grade year. Cody was getting ready for school like how he does every morning. Get dressed eat breakfast brush his teeth and get on the bus. On his way to school he was thinking I can't wait today is soccer sign-ups. When…

The documentary China Blue made me more aware of the child labour conditions in China and opened my eyes to the conditions of a denim factory. We always hear about the conditions of child labour, how they are horrible, abusive, disgusting… yet I have never actually seen these conditions, nor have I ever actively looked into these conditions. This being said, these conditions just always seemed so abstract and conventional. To be honest, I have never given much thought to the living conditions…

Age-Appropriate Coaching: A Dance Perspective. There are many factors to keep in mind when coaching any type of sport. A specific factor that absolutely must be adhered to is age, which influences many performance capabilities both physically and psychologically (Crocker, 2011). In consequence, all coaches must adjust their instruction in order to maximize success of athletes. I have had the opportunity to work with youth from ages three to fifteen in a dance setting, which, after many failures,…

Each hour, every day, kids are told by the media that they should care about their appearance. What they wear, how they act, and most importantly, their weight, according to all those ads, is of the utmost significance. And although schools and parents try to counter the media, attempting to teach kids how to look past their image, some can’t. Growing up, I had heard from school that I shouldn’t care too much about how I looked, but I did. I was so self-conscious all the time; whenever I ate too…

Behind the glamorous of successful people, they ever had a story from the beginning that they had failure to get into a success. They start from “Zero” to “Hero”. Now as the time going many young people want to reach success in their youth. Unfortunately, some young people did not consider how hard it could be to achieve success. They sometimes think successful person is success because of their luck. And sometimes when the young people meet failure in their way to success, they become…