coachmccormick
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Re:Coaching Education - 2006/11/22 11:12
Have you used Intelligym?
I'm in a position to mentor youth coaches in our club, one big reason for taking my job, and it's not working. And, everytime I try to demand something of the coaches-like showing up for a coaches' meeting or starting all practices with a dynamic warmup-the chairman of the club says I am asking too much of the coaches.
I worked with an u-20 player who started on the u-18 Irish National Team and he struggled to do any two-ball drills. I have been to u-15 to u-20 practices and there is very little skill work (if any). We do more skill work at our SuperLeague training sessions than at our youth practices, which is completely backward (and we still do not do as much as I would like).
But, these coaches are so resistant to change and seem unwilling to have someone assist or share information with them.
I gave my book to the youth coaches. I have heard through other people that one or two keep saying how the book is great and they think I'm a genius and so forth. Then you watch the practice they run, and not one single element from the book; not one principle, not one drill even.
So, I agree. The mentality of coaches has to change before any type of coaches education sets a true change in coaching in motion. Coaches need to embrace a new way of thinking or the ideas in the book, and other similar thinking, will be ignored for the status quo, whether it is in Ireland or the USA.
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