Six Areas Of Coaching

Question 1

Name the six areas of coaching

Answer 1

Instruction 
Seeing 
Correcting 
Group Management 
Presence and attitude
Demonstration

Question 2

Teaching

Answer 2

Ability to effectively articulate and instruct the mechanics of each movement

Focus on major POP before subtle
Change instruction based on needs of athlete
Different cues visual verbal tactile
Understand progression
Reduce and simplify
Focus on the one thing the athlete needs right now

Question 3

Seeing

Answer 3

Discern good movement from poor movement and discern gross and subtle faults in motion or static

Static not moving starting receiving finishing
Dynamic moving between end range of motion at high speed full hip knee initiation early press
Profile view is typically best
Increase in difficulty as fast and subtle
Seeing everything is seeing nothing

Question 4

Correcting

Answer 4

Ability to facilitate better mechanics for the athlete using verbal visual and tactile cues must triage and understand the relationship between faults.
Short specific actionable cue. Do not just id fault add body part and direction
Know multiple corrections for same fault
Triage. Choose to ignore some
Better better but not yet
Praise effort
Don’t keep using cues that don’t work

Question 5

Group Management

Answer 5

Micro and macro organization of time space equipment athletes to optimize flow
Schedule
Space equipment layout reduce logistics time to maximize instruction
How and what to teach suggest using same cadence athlete on same time?
Only ready for 10 plus athletes if coaching two years or more
Do an honest assessment post class
Talk to good movers about subtle cues.

Question 6

Presence and attitude

Answer 6

Crate a positive and engaging learning environment with empathy to establish rapport

Know your clients. Be genuine
Be authentic self. Room for all personality

Question 7

Demonstration

Answer 7

Provide athletes with an accurate example of movement using self or others

Visual aid use to enhance coaching PoP and RoM explain corrections

Credibility hold self to same standards be a laboratory

Be good at technique. Follow program. High intensity. Don’t rep shave. Full RoM. Support.