ATTRIBUTES OF A SUCCESSFUL COACH

Experience and Knowledge

Knowledge of the game is very important. You don’t need to be a great player to be a great coach. It has been proved that some of the best coaches in the game have not necessarily been the best players. John Madden, the celebrated NFL coach never played a single game of professional football; Sven Goran Eriksson was not a great soccer player and John Buchanan had not played more than 7 first class matches. What all these people have in common is an in depth knowledge an understanding of the game. They all have this ability to observe and absorb. Recognize, Analyze and Strategize, and this things come with experience. They did not become a top coach overnight, but spent years in the sidelines before they moved into coaching a top team.

The coach need to recognize the team’s strengths and weaknesses and work on them, just as he works on the individual’s strengths and weaknesses. Modern coaching has also involved the use of technology to capture ball by ball data and digital video to study these attributes and the coach shouldn’t shun away from them.

No matter how good a coach is, sometimes they do need assistance and they have to acknowledge and act on it. You may need a specialist coach to help in a certain aspect of the game and the coach shouldn’t let ego get in the way of  several assistant coaches. You have a defensive coach, an offensive coach and a special teams coach. Even the quarterback and wide receiver have their own special coaches.

Excellent Communication Skills

The coach needs to communicate with his players effectively. This not only means how to articulate what he expects of his players and explain what they need to do, but to also listen to them and act as their counsel. This is an area where a foreign coach many have problems with Malaysian players in general.

Good communication with the player alone is not enough. The coach also needs to establish a good communication and rapport with all parties that involve directly with their sports. More than anyone else, the coach should know what kind of information shouldn’t leave the dressing room. A coach’s unhappiness over the selection and his personal opinion of some players is certainly not one that should leave the confines of the dressing room.

Enjoy the Confidence of The Players

The players need to recognize that the coach is working for the greater good of the team and the advice he gives is for the improvement of the individual player. The recognition comes with trust and trust is gained by winning games and getting the right result. If the team isn’t winning, then the coach needs to instill team spirit and self belief so that they can start winning. Trust creates a sense of community and makes it easier for people to work together.

It takes a lot more to gain someone’s trust than to loose it. If Greg Chappell had expressed his opinion to the players directly behind closed doors, he would have still had the trust of his players, but by taking it directly into the media, he has made the coach-player relationship vary fragile.

A Clear and Target

A coach should be able to create a strong vision. He should be able to set clear goals for the team and individual players. The coach should also be flexible. He should be flexible enough to try something else. The modern coach has to have the ability to think outside the box. He shouldn’t be afraid to rock the boat if that is what it takes to get it to an even keel.

1. Respectful
2. Patient
3. Assertive
4. Supportive
5. Enthusiastic

PROCESS of COACHING and DEVELOPING A COACHING PHILOSOPHY

PROCESS of COACHING

•  Data collection

       Gather information fo decision making planning, provide feedback and to   

       monitor progress.

•  Diagnosis

        To check weaknesses and find remedies to improve training program.

• Prescribed plan of action

       Draw up plan an effective training program to achieve specific targets.

• Implementation

       Execute prescribed program.

• Evaluation

       Evaluate athlete’s development, achievement and program 

       implementation.

  DEVELOPING A COACHING PHILOSOPHY

• In developing a formal philosophy the coach can consider three key components to his or her best ability. These three components are :

• Knowing yourself, your strengths, weakness and areas requiring improvement.

• Knowing what you are up against and the obstacles you may encounter.

• Understanding your athletes, their personalities, abilities, goals, and why they are in your sport.

• A coaching philosophy can help one to be a better coach. To improve coach/hlete’s satisfaction and achieve batter results.

Know Yourself

It takes honest assessment to admit to having weaknesses but we all have them. We just do not want them to interfere with good coaching judgment. By focusing on your strengths you will be able to identify consistent ways to coach that utilize those strengths. Are you a good teacher, or motivator, or academic, or communicator or a former athlete? Are you dynamic, or easy going, or hardnosed or open and friendly? Use your strengths to your advantage. By taking time to make a serious assessment of your strengths and weaknesses and recognizing your morals, values and beliefs you are better able to adapt your own style to the athletes being coached. In addition, you will answer the important questions on why you are a coach, how you actually deliver as a coach and what objectives you are trying to accomplish. Self-knowledge leads to self-confidence and you want to exude what you believe in. One other point to consider here is – how do others perceive you?

Know what you are up against – your coaching context

As important as it is to understand what makes you tick, it is equally important to understand the confines of your coaching context. By this, I mean: A good understanding of the age, gender and training level of the athletes you coach. How much time you and your athletes have available to train and compete? What is your development program based upon and how far can you take it by enhancing and incorporating other aspects such as sport psychology, nutrition education or sophisticated technique analysis? What funding, facilities, services and equipment are at your disposal? In addition, what are your short medium and long term goals for your athletes? There could be other restrictions that will affect your coaching delivery. These include laws or policies of save practices, club or school rules of behavior, competition with other sports, school pressures and outside activities, parental interference, or performance standards to qualify for teams and competitions. Knowing what you are up against enables you to tailor your annual training program to be specific needs of the athletes you have under your charge. By understanding the outside influences that will affect your program, you can incorporate those that are good practice. Such as policies on safety and behavior, adapt to others that restrict your ability to be the ‘do it all coach’ such as lack of funds, equipment or services, and minimize negative obstacles that will affect you personally or an athlete on your team or your team in general. Dealing with parents can be a stressful situation and a clear philosophy on how you will deal with an irate parent will minimize or avoid the knee jerk reaction that often makes matters worse. By adapting your coaching philosophy to reflect the coaching situation you are dealing with you become more effective and productive and you minimize obstacles and other difficulties.

Understand your athletes, their personalities, abilities, goal and why they are in your sport

Communication is a vital aspect in coach/athlete relationships. It is very important to talk to your athletes individually to determine what their values and beliefs are, what their goals are and why they are participating. Without this knowledge, you might be delivering a coaching bag of buah durian to athletes wanting a bag of buah rambutan. The program just will not work properly. As a coach, you are a powerful role model and can have a tremendous influence on your athlete if you and your athletes are on the same page. Take the time to get to know each of your athletes just as if you examined your own values, beliefs and habits. Once you know and understand each of your athletes, their strengths, weaknesses abilities and skills, then I suggest you develop an approach to coaching them. Will you focus on the stars? Will you treat everyone equal in terms of your attention and help? Perhaps the teamwork approach will work for you. A coach’s belief and experience  will ultimately assist the coach to form his opinion and his experience in respect to the National Sports Policy. A coaches philosophy is what the coach believes, how he forms his opinions and what he expects. Therefore his philosophy is shown in his actions, behavior, speech and lifestyles in sports, in short.

WHAT IS COACHING?

Term

The term coach is sometimes equivalent in USA usage to the term manager in other English-speaking countries in reference to the director of a sporting team, particularly with regard to Association Football. Additionally, the director of the operation of a team in baseball, a sport far more popular in the USA than in any other English-speaking country, is also properly referred to as a manager, particularly in the context of a team of adults, as opposed to youths.The title Coach is also one of respect of affection, often replacing the first name much like Doctor to become Coach Smith. Former players will still address their instructor as Coach, even if both the player and coach him or himself have long retired or graduated on.The term coach has been application of sport, tactic and strategies during the game or contest itself, and usually entails substitution of players and other such actions as needed. Most coaches are former participants in the sports in which they are involved, and those who are not have usually had extensive training in the sport in question.

In Game

Coaching entails the application of sport tactics and strategies during the game or contest itself, and usually entails substitution of players and other such actions as needed. Most coaches are former participants in the sports in which they are involved, and those who are not have usually had extensive in the sport in question.

Managing

In some professional sports operations the head coach also serves as general manager, the team executive responsible for acquiring the rights to palyers and negotiating their contracts, generally in recent years with their agents, and for trading or dismissing players, but these roles have been increasingly likely to be seen as separate functions fulfilled by separate persons in more recent years, although many coach or general managers still exist.

Training

Many coaches, usually those of school-sponsored sports teams, also bear the responsibility of teaching the skills, rules and tactic involved in a particular sport to its players. This can be accomplished individually, by team, by division (ex. Defensive coaching, offensive coaching, etc) or by position (ex. Receiver coach, quarterback coach, goalkeeper coach, etc) were applicable. Under these system in which duties are divided, there is necessarily a head coach who oversees all other coaches as a supervisor.

Coaching Staff

A coach, particularly in a major operation, is traditionally aided in his efforts by one or more assistant coaches known as the coaching staff.

Many times, in major team sports the principal coach (usually referred to as the head coach) has little to do with the development of details such as techniques of play or placement of players on the playing surface, leaving this to assistants while concentrating on larger issues.

Training

Coaching techniques and philosophies are often taught by prominent coaches to youth and high school coaches at events referred to as coaching clinics where literature supports the increase of specific, positive feedback in order to achieve optimal effects of coaching. The classic practice consists of the on-courts demonstrations and walkthroughs to learn the plays and strategies. Other applications are used to create a more effective learning environment that will reach all the athletes. Coaching philosophies are passed along from one generation of coaches to another through these events, and of course the tendency of assistant coaches serving under a successful head coach being the most likely to be given an opportunity to become head coaches in their own right. Importance of a proper coaching.

CONCEPT SPORT

Play        –    spontaneous, voluntary, simple, no rules, no age limit.

Games  –    formal, organized, skills, strategies and luck involved, specific to a culture.

Sports  –     Highly organized, has rules, competitive, designed to produce a winner, 

                      involved skills, physical and mental preparation.

Reasons for participation

Individual

Cultural demand

Social

Health and fitness

Recreation

Competition

Aggression theory

Visibility

Joy theory

Acculturation

Material

Pursuit of excellence

Nation

Politic

Propaganda

International relations

Education

Health

Economics

Recreation

Militarism

Reasons for increased awareness in sports

Fitness and lifestyle

Women emancipation

Increased Youth Programs

Sponsorship

Common links between nations not found in religion and politics

Proliferation of activities

Interaction

Concept of Sport Science

Definition of sport science

Sport science is a discipline that studies the application of scientific principles and techniques with the aim of improving sporting performance. Human movement is a related scientific discipline that studies human movement in all contexts including that of sport. The discipline of Sports Science is also known as “Exercise Science” and “Exercise Physiology”.

Concept of science in sport

The study of sports science traditionally incorporates areas of physiology, psychology, motor control and biomechanics but also includes other topics such as nutrition and diet, sports technology, anthropometry kinanthropometry and performance analysis.

Sports scientists and performance consultants are growing in demand and employment numbers, with the ever-increasing focus within the sporting world on achieving the best result possible. Through the study of science and sport, researchers have developed a greater understanding on how the human body reacts to exercise, training, different environments and many other stimuli.

FALSAFAH SUKAN : Konsep Sukan

Definitions of sport, play and game

• Play – spontaneous, voluntary, simple, no rules, no age limit.
• Games – formal, organized, skills, strategies and luck involved, specific to a culture.
• Sports – highly organized, has rules, competitive, designed to produce a winner, involved skills, physical and mental preparation.

Reasons for Participation

Individual

• Cultural demand
• Social
• Helth and fitness
• Recreatition
• Competition
• Aggression theory
• Visibility
• Joy theory
• Acculturation
• Material
• Pursuit of  excellence

Nation

• Politic
• Propaganda
• International relations
• Education
• Helth
• Economics
• Recreation
• Militarism

Reasons for Increased Awareness in Sports

• Fitness and lifestyle
• Women emancipation
• Increased Youth Programs
• Sponsorship
• Common links between nations not found in religion and politics
• Proliferation of activities
• Interaction

Concept of Sport Science

Definition of sport sport science:

• Sport science is a discipline that studies the application of scientific principles and techniques with the aim of improving sporting performance. Human movement is a related scientific discipline that studies human movement in all contexts including that of sport. The discipline of Sports Science is also known as “Exercise Science” and “Exercise Physiology”

Concept of Sciencein Sport

• The study of sports science traditionally incorporates areas of physiology, psychology, motor control and biomechanics but also includes other topic such as nutrition and diet, sports technology, anthropometry kinanthropometry and performance analysis.

• Sports scientists an performance consultants are growing in demand and employment numbers, with the ever-increasing focus within are sporting world on archieving the best results possible. Through the study of science and sport, researchers have developed a greater understanding on how the human body reacts to exercise, training, different environments and many other stimuli.