Challenger Coaching session

Challenger weekend coaching assessment

As part of the weekend a coaching assessment took place for the directors to see each coaches coaching style and to make sure we fit in with their way of coaching. Pre selected coaching topics were given out and I had to come up with a session on dribbling. For this session I had to come up with a warm up, unopposed games and opposed games. My session went as follows:

Warm up: each participant has a ball and dribbles round the grid set up focusing on the two coaching points which are keeping close control of the ball and keeping your head up rather than rooted on the ball.

I had then planned two unopposed games, the first one had five gates in a grid and the aim of the game was to dribble the ball through the gates whilst focusing on the two coaching points from the warm up.

 

 

 

The second unopposed game was the same as the first one but this time included a new coaching point which was acceleration. Whenever someone goes through a gate they must accelerate out as if they were running past a player. 

The opposed game then focused on all three coaching points of close control, keeping your head up and acceleration. For this game, the gates were taken out and defenders were put in. The defenders are there to put the participants dribbling with the ball under pressure and think about keeping control on the ball whilst accelerating past the defender.

After the session was complete the director watching over me talked to me regarding how I coached the session. He said that the content was great and I went over the correct coaching points but he found I was too stationary for the majority of the time I was coaching. Once he has said this I understood what he was saying. Normally when I am coaching, I coach adults therefore rarely have to get involved in the sessions unless things go wrong. Therefore when I am conducting my regular coaching sessions I am just stood on the side observing. I need to understand that when coaching children I need to be involved and enthusiastic, therefore not just stood observing. Now that I know I am stationary I can now work on improving this matter and becoming more involved with my sessions.