C4AC #3 – Never stop learning
Post on: Saturday, April 10th, 2010 at 11:26 pmCategory: comments 4 a cause, Dragon Boat | Tags:
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There are a lot of coaches out there in the dragon boating world and elsewhere, who don’t think its important to fall up and take the courses to become a better coach/athlete. I’m sorry but how can someone call themselves a coach and expect to be paid big bucks if they barely have two years of experience being in that sport before becoming a coach? Then again even with my 16 years of experience I wouldn’t call myself an expert, just someone who knows a lot who paddles and coaches newbies… I wish my coaching was a paying gig but seeing everyone smile after practice is my award.
Whenever there is a coaching clinic/conference happening I always try and take it. I find them to be a great way to improve myself as a paddler and as a coach, there might be a drill or way someone explains something and you find it works plus who wouldn’t want to have more resources then they know what to do with them.
Anyways, I should really head to bed, today was a very long day and I have another day of a coaching conference to go to tomorrow.
If you were getting coached by someone who would you rather be coached by? Someone who’s coached for 3 years and been an athlete for 2 or someone who’s coached for 3 and had 7 years of being an athlete?
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I really don’t know anything about sports and stuff, but I think everyone would rather have the coach that was an athlete for 7 years
If I was into sports (heh), I’d want someone who had the experience of playing rather than the experience of only coaching. That being said, the only athletic-ish things that I have ever done competitively was track (elementary school, sprinting <- I wasn't very good, haha) and badminton (high school). I don't really even recall who the track and field coach was, but it was a teacher who taught gym… And that's about it. For badminton though, it was someone who had played on the national level and loved doing drills and getting all the fundamentals and basics done… The only reason why I could manage to win in a round of badminton with only serving
I would definitely think that more experience is better however it always depends. Where did they play? Are they a nice person? A team player? There are always factors that can make one candidate more qualified than another.
Neither. <.< Coaches scare me.
I found that I became a better player (both in soccer and softball) when I began to coach – likely a combination of getting to see the game from a different point of view and taking courses to ensure I had the skill set providing me more knowledge, me thinks.
And come to think of it, it also helped that I was a registered official in both sports.
I think we’re on to something here…
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