Improved coaching pedagogy:

 

   My coaching pedagogy has certainly evolved over the last year, as I have learned to critique others coaching performance , finding faults and failures, whilst understanding what I would change, why I would change it and how; this could be in terms of coaching styles, methods or interventions and progressions.

      A predominant situation where this became evident was during the martial arts session, when the instructors where taking the session they asked myself and my peers, when should you stop a session after false practise to which I stated, “ straight away” yet I was informed I was wrong much to my dismay; as I felt that I was right, the instructors stated that the participants should be left alone even after false practise in order to self-discover the correct protocol; yet although this can sometimes work as the procedure can often allow the skill to be prevalent long term , I believe in this scenario due to the potential danger of the sport that they should be corrected immediately in order to prevent injury to the participant and their fellow peers.

Whilst I believe that eradicating false movements immediately will prevent false practise and thus allow safe effective practise. It’s harder to eradicate false practise due to pre-conceived movements and thoughts, than correcting incorrect movements immediately and thus progress.  It’s easier to work with a blank canvas than a tainted one.

This provided me with a feeling of accomplishment as no longer was I reliant on other people’s opinions, I had my own philosophies about coaching and felt I could critic experienced coaches and have confidence and knowledge/understanding to back up my opinion.