Physical Language And Your Sport {PLAYS}

The fundamental development process of coaching movement skills and sport skills, being aware with the components in your sports environment and the tools.

Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of man made rules, customs and fundamental laws, often engaged in competitively. Object to establish and maintain a competitive positive safe environment that allows the athlete to maximize their growth. To that we recognize that all members of the athletic community are to be treated with respect.

Environment

On ground

In water

On snow

On ice

Standing

Sitting

In the air

Tools/Equipment

Balls

Sticks

Bat

Protective gear (knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, hand, head)

Gloves

Gun

Bow

Reel

Car's

Horses

Skates

Shoes/Spikes

Boot
ViPR

Sneakers

Boards

Bikes

Hurdles

Discus

Poll

Weights

Components

Gravity

Mass

Time

Space

Momentum

Position

Speed

Awareness

Spatial

Body

Directional

Natural skills learned 

Roll, Crawl, Balance, Pull, Push, Squat, Stand, Walk, Run, Jump, Skip, Jerk,Shuffle, Step, Hit, Check, Shoot, Pass, Skate, Ski, Swim, Surf, Slide,Paddle, Row, Cycle, Throw, Strike, Catch, Dive, Ride, Drive, Climb, Kick, Punch, Swing, Lift

Leadership

"Quality leadership means knowing when it's time to guide your athletes and when it's time to allow your athletes to guide you"

Coaching and Performance Indicators

Basic guidelines to achieve the goal.

Skill Sets

• Recognize the unique physiological demands of your sport(s)
• Recognize the individual athlete and position
• Understand the 24 hour rule
• Identify key growth and development markers during adolescence
• Develop a season long training program
• Understand the importance of pre and post game warm up's and cool down
• Identify the critical training factors related to injury prevention
• Provide a safe environment
• Minimize the chance of injury
• Optimize physical development
• Understand the fundamental concepts of your sport movement
• Apply training method
• How and when to replenish energy systems

Coaches sometimes tend to be one sided in terms of knowing sport skill and performance science.

We either excel at the technical and tactical demands but lack the basic understanding for sports science. The other side of the coin is the conditioning coach is so well versed in gym science they fail to understand the coaching demands for the athlete in their respective sport.

As we can see coaching demands a wide variety of skill sets, it also demands that coaches get out of the comfort zone and learn to converse with each other. It also demands trust and respect of each others craft, checking the ego, with the main focus to be on long term athletic development in sports and building relationships.

Water Breaks

Signs of dehydration

• Headaches
• Weakness
• Premature Fatigue
• Nausea
• Thirst
• Irritability
• Cramping
• Goose bumps

Some coaches still use water breaks as a way to punish or reward their athletes

The coach should have the basic education on the amount, time and type of fluid needed and lost during their respective sport.

Hydration should take place two hrs before competition or a workout. Fluid is lost primarily thought sweat and breathing.

The athlete should drink 20 to 24 ounces of fluid for each pound lost.

The coach should be educated and educate the athlete on these basic hydration guidelines.

Principles of coaching athletes' in team settings

#1 Environment- what type of environment are you creating to help the athlete focus on the task while increasing effective and efficient performance?

#2 Consequences- are you strengthening or weakening the athletes physical and mental ability to maintain a high rate of performance and self confidence with positive feed back and smart training, or are you guessing and making them afraid to make a mistake in the result of negative feed back and lost performance?

#3 Responds- do you think the athlete will respond to positive or negative consequences?

#4 Reinforce- are your actions physical punishment i.e. push ups, running, wall sits etc... or reinforcement? are the same athletes making the same mistakes? "no matter how many times I tell him, he keeps making the same mistake"... this is only known by the course of that action.