Adventure Sports Coaching

by Matt Berry (Editor), Chris Hodgson (Editor)

Overview

Coaching adventure sports has been largely neglected in the adventure studies literature. This is the first book to link contemporary sports coaching science with adventure sports practice. It examines the unique set of challenges faced by adventure sports coaches, such as the natural environment and the requirement to train athletes to levels of high performance outside traditional structures of competition.

Written by an international team of authors with wide experience of coaching, teaching, researching and high performance participation in adventure sports, this book is invaluable reading for any student or practitioner with an interest in outdoor education or sports coaching.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415746021
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/27/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Matt Berry, MA (Ed), is a senior lecturer at the University of Chichester, teaching on adventure education and physical education programmes. Matt is an active adventure sports coach in a variety of sports, with a specialist interest in white water kayaking.

Chris Hodgson, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the University of Chichester, teaching on adventure education and physical education programmes. Chris is qualified as a coach in skiing, paddle sport, mountaineering and windsurfing. His area of research interest is human performance and environmental stress.

Jane Lomax, PhD, is a BASES Accredited Sports Science support worker in Sport and Exercise Psychology and Pedagogy. She is a UKCC Level 3 Netball coach, and her Netball coaching experience includes England and British University, National Talent League, Superleague A/C, Performance development and grassroots levels and UK Armed Forces.

Table of Contents

Introduction  1. Conceptualising the Adventure Sports Coach  2. Understanding the Role of Pedagogy in Adventure Sports Coaching  3. Observing and Analysing Performance in Adventure Sports  4. Theories of Motor Learning and their Implications for the Adventure Sports Coach  5. Setting the Scene: A Framework for Coaching Practice in Adventure Sports  6. Coaching Tools for Adventure Sports  7. Coaching the Advanced Performer  8. Planning for Progression  9. Tactics: The Missing Link in Performance  10. Training Principles for Adventure Sports  11. Using Mental Skills in Your Adventure Coaching  12. Risk Management  13. Professionalism and the Adventure Sports Coach