Coaching Absolute Beginners
Overall aims & focus:
To make coaches aware how it feels to be a beginner, to consider ways to provide an environment to support this and to provide practical ideas and key areas upon which to focus activity.
Target audience:
Level 1 coaches (aiming towards Level 2) & Level 2 coaches
Learning Outcomes:
- Create a supportive learning environment
- Provide a range of feeding opportunities
- Use and adapt activities to develop FUNdamental movement skills
- Practically facilitate use of rackets and modified equipment in a way that encourages grip changes
Key content linked to outcomes:
- Create a supportive learning environment
- FUN!
- Praise process and effort ahead of outcome
- Encourage sharing of ideas between participants
- Precise, specific praise linked to key C.P.s
- Use players to demonstrate, create ideas and UNLOCK levels
- Provide a range of feeding opportunities
- Varied equipment.
- Static/suspended shuttles.
- Rolling, bobbling bouncing. Above and below eye line.
- Flat hand/racket feeds – looping hand/racket feeds
- Use and adapt activities to develop FUNdamental movement skills
- Explore Create Development FUNS cards.
- Modify to a badminton context
- Chasse, lunging, jumping, and throwing
- Practically facilitate use of rackets and modified equipment in a way that encourages grip changes
- Balancing, passing, tipping shuttles on/between rackets
- Races, fun game activities.
- Keepy Uppy – unlock then create own levels
Assessment method:
Attendance Only
Delivery method:
3 hour practical workshop
Prices:
Non Coaching Register member - £40
Badminton England Coaching Register member - £30