There are many aspects to the sport of wrestling, and coaching the sport successfully can be very challenging. Dan Gable, one of the best wrestlers and wrestling coaches of all time, wrote a book about all the things it takes to be a successful coach. According to Gable, the first step to being successful is defining your wrestling philosophy, or who you are as a coach. Part of Gable’s philosophy was to set high standards and strive to reach them. Another part of his philosophy was that champions are not always the guys that win the most matches. True champions are the guys that work there hardest to be the best that they can possibly be. Dan Gable knew his philosophy and stayed true to it, which is just one of the many reasons he was so successful.
Bud Caldwell’s Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself,” is written by Bud Caldwell, an orphan in Flint, Michigan. He makes these rules as he learns that he has to do something in order to achieve what he needs. Bud Caldwell has gone through challenges since the age of 6, and tries to survive in a world that discriminates and treats the orphans unfairly. In this book, he remains to live and survive by using the rules he has made. Bud’s rules especially #118, 3, and 8 shows that he used his rules to survive.
When reading this book, a new coach can take away many pointers from Coach Wooden. They can learn the importance of being a coach and learn how to be successful as well as many other things. It also makes you think about the reason you wanted to be a coach and the people that influenced you the most. He talks about the value of honesty, patience, faithfulness, and having work ethic. Those are just some things that we may overlook as a coach. Also in telling his life stories and stories from coaching, it shows you some of the things you will be dealing with in the coaching
In order to see outcomes in this area of improvement, we as coaches must re-evaluate not only our athletes, but, in addition, our coaching styles. Of course, we all want to tell ourselves that we are great coaches and it's the athletes who are not following direction...
Coaching is an integral part of helping achieve one’s maximum abilities. Dr. Gawande (2013) explains that, “Coaches are not teachers, but they teach. They’re not your boss—in professional tennis, golf, and skating, the athlete hires and fires the coach—but they can be bossy” (p. 3). It is difficult to say what is the exact function of a coach, however, they help bring forth another point of view different from our own and they also help bring about the right mindset in order to subdue a weakness.
Every coach is different with their methods, but they do have similar things they love about coaching. According to Brainy Quote, Vince Lombardi once said, “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” That quote shows what Mather loves to see when coaching volleyball. His favorite part of coaching is watching people fight hard to reach their goals. Athletes who love their sport should be committed, and work hard at it. Having good sportsmanship for the
Iowa Wrestling, a documentary directed by Michael Smith and narrated by Dylan McDermott, is produced by ESPN. It was televised in 2003 on ESPN The Season, a series that reveals the rigidity, torment, and triumph of the nation's highest demanding sport groups. The film primarily focuses on a story about the Hawkeye's Men of The Mat, an élite group of wrestlers from the University of Iowa under the leadership of Jim Zalesky, the head coach and the promising new successor of former legend, Dan Gable. In the story, the team faces multiple obstructions and challenges that continuously attempt to run them down their darkest fear: losing. As seen throughout the film, the team pushes beyond their physical and mental limits in order to avoid meeting that fear. By all means, how they train their minds and bodies are unthinkable. It is quite frightening. For the Hawkeyes, wrestling is not a sport, nor even an intense competitive activity; it is war. Iowa Wrestling is nominated as one of the greatest sport documentaries of all-time because of its insightfulness. It goes in deep depths to analyze truly how intense wrestling can be, especially in the University of Iowa. However, the film is also intentionally persuasive, using means of cinema verité, or persuasive filming, to convey the message efficiently. The film is no jubilant one; it is powerful yet poignant. It appeals to the viewers with ethos, logos, and pathos, and can be shown thro...
Professional wrestling is, and will always be, one the premier social, entertaining spectacles in our society. The masked-luchadore, the 500 pound hairball, even the beautiful valets at ringside. The glitz, the glamour, and the spotlight. Every man that steps in the ring knows their duty; to perform in front of capacity crowds while enveloping each fan in the stands with a passion and characteristic of self-worth. The reassurance that even in a world where entropy seems destined to live, the good shall always prevail. The actors and playwrights in the drama explode through the camera using various different techniques or styles, which present each as having a "unique" quality to them. These artistic styles can be classified into one of the following categories: Technical, Lucha Libre or High-Flying, and Ground Grappling.
A proper coaching philosophy contains principles which improve character development, teach step by step tactical and technical skills, form proper progressive physical training regimens, and carefully utilize team management to handle and control problems with administrative issues. A coach with a sound philosophy should mold a team with strong cohesion, and he should treat players not only as teammates, but as family and friends who are encouraged to develop communication and lifelong learning of skills through positive support and role modeling from the coach (Mergelsberg, 14-15). The philosophy should also contain written documents of implemented strategies and techniques, so that the coach will know what to improve upon season by season
“Never give up.” That's what John Cena says. This is not just words he uses, but words he chooses to live his life by. People can say something as much as they want, but living by them is a completely different thing. John Cena is an inspiration for many reasons. A few reasons that make him so admirable are that he fought and struggled to make it to where he is now even if people didn't always believe in him, he works with Make-A-Wish Foundation and has granted the most wishes as well as partnered with Susan G. Komen, and he's had to fight back from so many injuries to keep doing what he loves to do.
Gracie’s choice tells the the story of a young teen who had to fight for the custody of her four younger siblings. Gracie faces a legal system that ignores the obvious evidence that she is capable of raising her younger siblings but because of her age the system automatically tells her no. From the moment I watched this movie on Lifetime it inspired my life tremendously. This movie doesn’t relate to me but it relates to people who have an importance in my life. Gracie’s Choice displays struggle, independence, and determination. It is a prime example as to what it means to growing up before your time.
As a coach you do fail sometimes and that's what is difficult but Michael Jordan once said, “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeeded.” I believe that this goes for coaching as well because you are going to fail over and over again and you will soon see that those failures are actually your accomplishments. No one said life was easy but coaching can be easy and it’s a way to connect with players and others and bring out the best in people and show that people can work together and accomplish many things no matter how difficult or hard it is and it can be fun and thrilling at the same
Any type of sporting coach could use individualized consideration factor of Bass’ Transformational Leadership Theory. While they need the team to work together to achieve a win, they also look at each individual player to help them get better and set higher goals for themselves.
Coaching, however challenging, is a great way to influence the lives of others while also building their character. For as long as there have been sports, there have been people teaching the sport to the players and making them better at it. Coaches must have certain qualities in order to obtain success. One must also look at a coach’s motivation for his job, his passion for what he does, his methods for coaching, and how he became a coach in order to fully understand him. There are many questions someone may want to ask a coach about his profession if they are interested in coaching. Some questions would include: Why did he choose this as a profession? How did he get into coaching? What does one have to do to get a job as a coach? How does a coach become successful? I aim to answer all of these questions and more in my paper.
In today’s society being a coach can be extremely complicated especially compared to earlier years. Coaching requires not only many technical and personal skills but also has to include positive psychology that will affect all athletes regardless of gender, age, and race. After reading various articles this leads me to the question, what is a coach? How do coaches differ from one another? In addition are we forgetting the importance of not only coaching but the sports psychology aspect of coaching overall? Regardless of what you may have read or heard I believe not only do all coaches have their own coaching style but every coaching technique and style is different. Coaching styles and positive psychology are two techniques that can provide
When discussing structuralism, I find that it takes a realistic viewpoint of how the world is represented, as we essentially are awash in concepts and signs via the structures of communication and language. In this week's readings I found more depth to the ideas behind structuralism that my previous exposures, especially when looking to Roland Barthes' "The World of Wrestling" from his collection Mythologies. "The World of Wrestling" provided ample insight into how the structuralist idea of difference plays into deriving meaning (or meanings) from literature in innumerable ways, especially in how the reception of specific mythemes and signifiers evoke structurally conditioned responses from the public.