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Sports coaching is as dependent on utilising good teaching and social practices as it is about expertise in sport skills and tactics. Quality sports coaches commonly engage in practices usually associated with teaching such as reflection, feedback and instructional methods. However, many do so ...

Sports coaching is as dependent on utilising good teaching and social practices as it is about expertise in sport skills and tactics. Quality sports coaches commonly engage in practices usually associated with teaching such as reflection, feedback and instructional methods. However, many do so implicitly and without fully understanding the complex interplay between coach, player, content and social context. Understanding Sports Coaching provides an innovative introduction to the theory and practice of sports coaching, highlighting the social, cultural and pedagogical concepts underpinning good practice. It also includes practical exercises to highlight issues faced by sports coaches. This book aims to deepen coaches' understanding of the coaching process in order to systematically develop coaching programmes that will get the very best out of athletes. It explores many aspects of coaching practice including: * athlete motivation * viewing the athlete as a learner * instructional methods * coaches' content knowledge * reflection * coaching philosophy and ethics. This is essential reading for students of sports coaching and for professional coaches looking to develop their skills.

'The art of coaching is recognising the situation, recognising the people and responding to the people you are working with... that's the big thing, to handle people'. Steve Harrison, Coach, Middlesborough Football Club. Responding to the fast growing subject in academic sports departments, this ...

'The art of coaching is recognising the situation, recognising the people and responding to the people you are working with... that's the big thing, to handle people'. Steve Harrison, Coach, Middlesborough Football Club. Responding to the fast growing subject in academic sports departments, this groundbreaking new coaching studies text offers a view that focuses the coach as a person and the coaching practice as a complex social encounter. Unlike existing titles in the field which look at coaching as a science, this book examines the personalities, histories, relationships and individual styles of eight coaches at the top of their profession. One-to-one interviews with some of the best-known and respected elite sports coaches include Steve Harrison, Hope Powell and Graham Taylor from football; Ian McGeechan and Bob Dwyer from rugby; Di Bass from swimming; Lois Muir from netball; and Peter Stanley from athletics; and form the basis for subsequent exploration of four key themes in sports coaching: * coaching pedagogy * the coach's role * the coach's interaction with athletes * the coach's power. This text will be of significant interest to students of coaching science and sports science, and will appeal to the considerable body of amateur sports coaches with an interest in the styles of those at the top.