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Coaching


Overview

� You as a Coach� Learning Styles� Skills Model� What is a great coaching session� Coaching Juniors/Youth


Aims of the today

• To give an overview of best practice in coaching

• To introduce new/updated RYA coaching methods

• For you to take one thing away that helps you with your coaching


You As A Coach


• Boat and crew• Bird with a worm

(x2)• Magnifying glass• Books• Frog• Pot and ladle

• Man eating a burger

• Magician with a rabbit

• Duck hitting a computer

• Cat with a bee

How Many Do You Remember


Coaching Fundamentals

• Planning & Preparation• Motivation• Communication• Leadership• Knowledge of the sport• Safety• Optimising learning• Variety


5 Essentials of Coaching

• Plan• Do• Review • Inspire/motivate• Safety


How to be a great coach

• Optimising Learning– Bite sized chunks– Meaningful– Focused– Feedback– Variety & Fun

Lighting the spark!


Coaches teach best when they:

• Include variety & fun in everything

• Create bite size chunks

• Provide focus to all training and racing, directed by the sailor (whenever possible)

• Provide feedback (verbal, video, outcome)

• Provide best practice in the form of video clips etc

• Coach with a variety of styles and formats e.g. verbal, articles, diagrams, videos. Make sure you relate this to the sailors’ styles.

• Avoid talking too much

• Minimise your debriefs to focus on the “nuggets”. People rarely take away more than 3 things per session/weekend so make sure they are important ones.


Sailors learn best when:

• They understand how they learn effectively. Get the sailors to recognise how they learn best.

• They feel confident to express their thoughts and ideas.

• They are allowed to experiment and play• The lessons relate to things they already know.• They are allowed to make mistakes and to

experience success (both are needed to learn).


Learning Styles


Learning styles


Learning Styles VARK

• Visual – video – pictures – diagrams

• Audio– key words – phrases

• Reading

• Kinaesthetics– emotions – video– imagery – the feel – demonstrations


The Skills Model


What is Skill & Technique?

• Technique:– The physical movements that make up a

manoeuvre.

• Skill:– The ability to perform a technique appropriate

to the conditions, at will and consistently while under pressure. Right skill, right time


Coaching Model

Conscious incompetence

Unconscious incompetence

CoachingDeveloping the

sailor’s own analysis

InstructingCreating the building

blocks

Unconscious Competence

Conscious competence


Skills Model

Automatic Stage

Diversion Stage

Shaping Stage

Component StageTechnique Phase

Skill Phase


• A New Skill– Technique– Skill

– Juggling • Balls• Knives• Sticks on fire

Skills Model


Developing Skill and Technique

Skill Phase

TechniquePhase

Automatic StageCreating consistency of the skill under pressure

Diversion StageSwitching attention away from the technique to external factors

Key Guidelines• Try to focus externally or away from the technique e.g. tactics, wind, waves

• Don’t tweak techniques or skills

Key Guidelines•Minimise verbal instructions

• Create exercises that give non-verbal feedback

• Ask sailor first before providing positive feedback

• Encourage experimentation

• Focused training

Component StageIdentify & developing the components and routines

Shaping StageGetting the components to work together. Creating a feel, rhythm and flow to the whole technique

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What Is A Great Coaching Session


What is a great coaching session?

• Planning & Preparation– “Falling to plan is planning to fail”

• Briefings– Creating the learning environment

• On the water exercises– When choosing an exercise the coach must decide what skill is being

developed and how that exercise will provide feedback to the sailor.

• Feedback – The essential factor for learning– Feedback = Information on the sailor’s performance

• Debrief– Create an action plan to develop technique or skill


Verbal feedback – telling is not coaching!

The RYA Traffic LightShaping the verbal feedback

ASKQuestion – e.g. What did you notice? When, where and how much? Get them to be specific

Discuss Your comments on their judgements and performance. Positive feedback

Solve Information on how to improve (Action plan/goal setting/focus)


Coaching Junior/Youth Sailors


Coaching Junior/Youth sailors

• Fun Fun Fun!– Keep the exercises short– Don’t expect juniors to remember a long list of

instructions. Expect to explain each exercise as you reach it

– Try to carry a stock of sweets – when they come to collect these you can give out further plans & advice



• Talking the talk– Communication between adults and children is a

black art – don’t try to sound groovy for the sake of it

– Use names – get them to write down their names on the back of their buoyancy aid with duct tape



• Briefings– Always better in small groups to reduce

distraction from within the group– Use video and projector to show selected clips

and videos



• The call of nature– Keep sessions afloat fairly short – juniors need to

fuel up on drinks and food much more often than adults

– Many are also very shy about bodily functions. For longer sessions afloat organise toileting facilities – a mother ship or fast RIB ashore

– Beware hypothermia – it strikes quickly in a sailor with a small body-mass



• Top tips– Keep sessions short– Use digital video, but edit film before de-briefs– Do not show any favouritism– Encourage competition but don’t put those off at

the back– Youngsters enjoy one-to-one with their coach.

Work on the sailor-coach relationships. Have an individual chat with each sailor every time



• Top tips– E-mail to emphasise points from the

day/weekend and send out training notes– Few juniors are interested in physical training.

Emphasise that in heavy weather the fittest do best in the last race

– Carry a large bag of sweets

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