History Of Sports Coaching

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What Is Sports Coaching?
Introduction
This assignment will detail how coaching policy and practice have evolved over the years. It will include comparing and contrasting the history of coaching, National Governing Bodies of sport and how this has affected contemporary coaching practice. Furthering this, it will include the types of policies that have been introduced over the years and how they have influenced my practice. Firstly, a brief discussion of my current understanding of what constitutes sports coaching will be included to provide context for the piece.
What is Sports Coaching?
‘A coach should be a counsellor, scientist, motivator, friend and teacher’ (Lyle, 2002: 59). The coach therefore could be conceived as one of the most important people in the athlete’s life. However this is rather a broad concept for just one person, is a coach really capable of covering all these roles. Motivating, friendship and teaching are possibly the three most important parts of being a coach; they help build a key relationship between the coach and athlete. A coach is a friend as well as an enemy. The coach is there to push the athlete to their max potential being the enemy, but during this process they are there to motivate the athlete; this is the case in a sports such as athletics. Athletics is such an individual sports that sometimes it is hard to find motivation; this is when one would look to a coach. Understanding the dynamic and complex psychological processes of motivation is critical to comprehending human behaviour, especially in sport (Roberts, 2001). Research has found that the best coaches are more than likely to make good teachers. This is because the attributes of them are very similar and the skill and kno...

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...this day it is still questioned by some. As we can see throughout history sports has slowly worked its way to one of the governments priority as, this is clear as we have succeed at winning the bid for London 2012, and this win played a huge part in what is happening in today’s coaching community . Sports Coach UK has stepped up to create this coaching ‘legacy’, and as Driscoll (2014) said London 2012 was so successful because of the emphasis on the coaches and the inspiration they’ve had. The idea of the UKCC and UKCF have now been created to help grass roots coaching, however there are issues with these as they are not clear on how to be accessed and so maybe be looked over by certain coaches. We have also seen that media has pointed out that coaching is a major part in today’s sports system, and with past major events having focusing on coaches more than normal

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