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What is the roll of a sport coach?

Well what do you think? Ask 5 sport coaches and you will get 5 different answers. Of course all sport coaches aspire to increase athletic abilities and sport skills. But there is much more to sport coaching. Many people remember a coach that gave them much more than fitness and sport skills – he gave them some tools for life. Do you agree?

I stumbled upon the below video in you tube – I think that it is worth watching!

Sport Coaching skills for life

As a sport coach you can (probably have to) develop other skills than just sporting and athletic skills. Every athlete experience:

• Fear from judgment
• Fear of getting hurt
• Fear of forgetting – sequences or instruction
• Self doubt
• Over or under excitement
• Need to prove his capabilities to others
• Too much stress
• Loosing Concentration
• Well… I think that once he got some of his experience of working via the difficulties in life and in sport he can share this experience with his athletes.
• Once the coach shares his experience he can now – prompts the athlete to speak about what he feels. This is ½ way to success!
• Once your trainee agree to speak – guide him to recognizing the issues. It can be fear, anxiety, over excitement and many other reasons. After recognize the problem you are nearly there
• Once you know what you deal with – search for a creative way to deal with it. Don’t press to hard! Find a clever way to deal with it. I am sure you can – you can read below my personal example.

How can the coach help?

Well… I think that once he got some of his experience of working via the difficulties in life and in sport he can share this experience with his athletes.

• Once the coach shares his experience he can now – prompts the athlete to speak about what he feels. This is ½ way to success!
• Once your trainee agree to speak – guide him to recognizing the issues. It can be fear, anxiety, over excitement and many other reasons. After recognize the problem you are nearly there
• Once you know what you deal with – search for a creative way to deal with it. Don’t press to hard! Find a clever way to deal with it. I am sure you can – you can read below my personal example.

Did it work for me?

Well the short answer yes –it did work! It requires thinking and concentrating your mental efforts – but when in works it’s great. Well…I teach riding horses my self – and just last week one of my riders nearly fell off. It was a windy day, something spooked the horse and the horse suddenly went into a brisk canter. Well… luckily the rider did not fall off – but she defiantly got very frightened! She wanted to get off the horse or at least just stay in walk. Every thought about trotting (this is when the horse is running – not cantering) was accepted with a curt nod of No. This is one of basic things that we get in life – having to deal with our fears. So… I told her about things in life that were scary for me and how I overcome them. She agreed to tell me about things that were scary for her and that she managed to overcome (she was scared of flying). After talking she managed to relax (just a bit) and I asked her if she thinks that her fear from falling off is similar to her fear from flying. Well in the next lessons we concentrated on falling off! We learned how to fall off in a slow controlled way – safely off course! Well she did not stop riding – and she is starting now to overcome her fear (it takes time). So I can call it one of my small success stories…

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