Coach

As a coach in the sport of basketball, my role into instructing technical, tactical, physiological, and mental skills are very straightforward. Firstly, in basketball, 3 specific technical skills I coach are discrete skills, serial skills, and continuous skills. For Example, as a discrete skill in basketball, I would teach a player how to rotate the basketball off of his hand. Also, and example of how I would teach serial skills in basketball would be a sequence of standard ball handling…

There’s nothing easy about being a coach. Coaches have to learn to be patient , handle stress, be a teacher and friend on and off the court, ignore criticism, and a lot more.Coaching is releasing a person’s potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them. Coaches stress too much over being the best coach and having the best team that they let little things like criticism get to their head. No matter how great a coach is or how great they want to…

father was the coach of the varsity basketball team. Dean Smith graduated and went to the University of Kansas and majored in mathematics, but still played sports such as varsity baseball, varsity basketball, and freshman baseball. Dean Smith was not just a respected Coach by other players and coaches, but he was a hero to almost every person who played for him or knew him. Dean Smith became the head coach of UNC in 1961. (Dean Smith Biography) The moment he was head coach he…

student-athletes. As a coach, you must know what your principles, core values, and beliefs are. Then, as a coach, you must actively show those traits. The team will generally mimic how the coach acts and how they conduct themselves. That is also relative to the respective age group that you are involved with. So for a coach to know where he/she stands and portray those traits actively to his/her player's shows he believes in what he is coaching. In my experience, if a coach does not have…

the term ‘coaching philosophy’ and outline why it is important to reflect on your personal philosophy when working as a coach. “A coaching philosophy is a personal statement that is based on the values and beliefs that direct one’s coaching” (Kidman and Hanrahan 1997: 32) Coaching philosophy is having your attitude and your own persona that acts as a guideline in how you coach and how your session is presented. This is key and central in how that coach’s team performs in practice or…

your first basketball game and you’re so excited to play and beat the opposing team, but before the game is over you realize you never played once. You start to question yourself: “Did I do something wrong?” “Does coach hate me?” “Is this how it's going to be all season?” You ask the coach what you did wrong and the coaches response is: “You aren’t good.” There should be stricter rules on how coaches treat their players because many coaches do believe that sports are more about winning than…

The second level credential that an individual coach can achieve is the PCC. A PCC level credential is for a ‘proven’ coach that has over 125 hours of training and exceeds 750 hours of experience coaching. A professional has to have a minimum of twenty-five clients and pass an oral and written exam. Lastly, individual coaches that are considered ‘experts’ can receive a MCC level certification by having over 200 hours of training completed and 2,500 hours of experience in the field. When someone…

Coach Karla in Mesquite is not only an amazing coach, but her fun, outgoing, bubbly personality lights up the gym whenever she is here! Karla has only been with ASI for a little over nine months, and is already a certified coach in Tiny Tots, Kidz Gym, Girls Gymnastics, Birthday Parties, and other Fun Products. Her Favorite to coach would have to be Tiny Tots, Karla is amazing when it comes to working with the babies in the Gym! In her short time of Coaching she has already made an impact in so…

concept to figure out what works and what doesn’t in order to get the most out of their players. Coaches have a core set of principles that they take with them to every program they coach at. The players must learn those rules and stick to them in order to strive within the program. The coaching philosophy that the coach chooses to implement at the beginning of their career will define every way in which the team will function…

As an illustration, responsibilities that a great coach needs to accomplish planning are planning the year’s plan which includes pre-and post-season conditions, practice structures, including planning for hypothetical situations like weather and improvements from prior seasons, planning games, basic first…