What to consider when coaching children in the age of 7 to 17 : a practical guidebook
Taferner, Georg Franz (2012)
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Taferner, Georg Franz
HAAGA-HELIA ammattikorkeakoulu
2012
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201205117744
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201205117744
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Around the world people of all ages participate in different type of leisure sport, single sport, events or team sport. Usually children start in the age of four to six to get interested in sport. Once interested, they join a sports team, club or organization, where they learn the chosen sport from the very beginning.
Very often parents or former athletes, who just quit their active career, but still want to stay with the sport, work as coaches, especially in lower level clubs. Most of the time, both types of coaches have two things in common: They love the sport and have more or less an idea on training the needed skills. What all of them usually miss, is the understanding on how to coach, handle and guide young people.
I have been coaching for twelve years and wherever I worked I recognized the same problems over and over again. The board mostly complains’, that they can’t recruit enough children for their youth teams or the children quit playing after a few years or at a certain age. Coaches on the other hand complain that players don’t show up for practice or that it gets more and more difficult to deal with the behavior of the kids.
So the purpose of the guidebook is to give youth coaches a guideline on how to coach children in team sports and to open up their mind. Then it takes more to be a coach than just putting drills on a board or yelling at someone for a mistake or having kids run lines if they don’t behave in a certain way. The guidebook I created is no training guide! Even if I am from the field of ice hockey, the booklet I created is to provide help to youth coaches, no matter what team sport they are coaching..
Very often parents or former athletes, who just quit their active career, but still want to stay with the sport, work as coaches, especially in lower level clubs. Most of the time, both types of coaches have two things in common: They love the sport and have more or less an idea on training the needed skills. What all of them usually miss, is the understanding on how to coach, handle and guide young people.
I have been coaching for twelve years and wherever I worked I recognized the same problems over and over again. The board mostly complains’, that they can’t recruit enough children for their youth teams or the children quit playing after a few years or at a certain age. Coaches on the other hand complain that players don’t show up for practice or that it gets more and more difficult to deal with the behavior of the kids.
So the purpose of the guidebook is to give youth coaches a guideline on how to coach children in team sports and to open up their mind. Then it takes more to be a coach than just putting drills on a board or yelling at someone for a mistake or having kids run lines if they don’t behave in a certain way. The guidebook I created is no training guide! Even if I am from the field of ice hockey, the booklet I created is to provide help to youth coaches, no matter what team sport they are coaching..