Young Coach's developement

[terminator]

Has or are S.A.S.A going implement some kind of Coaching developement programme to help Talented/Gifted Coach/teachers realise there full potential. Since to produce the best swimmers we need great coach's.

i belive a programme should be set up to identify these individuals
and proper funding made available for these people to develope there carrers.

any one please correct me if im wrong.

[super_fish88]

There was a course at Stirling Uni not so long ago but i think that was for swimming teachers not coaches. I checked the Scottish Swimming (http://www.scottishswimming.com) website but i didn't find anything about coaching development programmes.

[lane4]

Originally posted by terminator
Has or are S.A.S.A going implement some kind of Coaching developement programme to help Talented/Gifted Coach/teachers realise there full potential. Since to produce the best swimmers we need great coach's.

i belive a programme should be set up to identify these individuals
and proper funding made available for these people to develope there carrers.

any one please correct me if im wrong.

In 2002, the SASA funded a number of talented/gifted coaches to attend the GB National Event Camps. Information was distributed to all clubs at the 2002 Scottish Spring Nationals inviting such coaches to apply for a place. Were you not one of the applicants?

The same thing is happening in 2003 (although it might not be as widely known due to the cancellation of the 2003 Spring Nationals!). Have you phoned SASA to ask about this? If not I suggest you do.

There are also other opportunities for coach development on both a Scottish and GB level, particularly for those who are willing and hungry to seek them out. Those coaches waiting for SASA / GB to come to them and offer such development opportunities are likely to be waiting a long time.

[ktcute]

Just to be cheeky, which of course I never am...

Doesn't this imply than you have to decide for yourself whether you are any good or not? Sorry to have to be a party pooper... but "I think I'm the best" doesn't seem like the best way to decide something like this to me.

Is there some kind of selection process so that we can weed out the idiots from the rest?

[lane4]

"I think I am the best" might not actually mean you are the best but it could well mean, if you do it in the right way, that you are the most keen, willing, enthusiastic and hungry for success coach at present and thus might become the best later.

Yes there is a selection process, the authorities will reject you if they don't think you are genuine or don't have the potential to become the best.

[ktcute]

I suspect someone who thinks they are "the best" already may not have the potential to go further, simply on the basis that if they think that already, what could they possibly have to learn to make them any better.

I see nothing wrong with a little humility, and respect for other coaches and athletes. Neither do I see anything wrong with professional recognition being a path to being identified as a potentially great coach?

[patlamb]

Originally posted by ktcute
I suspect someone who thinks they are "the best" already may not have the potential to go further, simply on the basis that if they think that already, what could they possibly have to learn to make them any better.


I will be the best............please help me.

Good enough?;)

[ktcute]

Better :).

How about:

"I want to be the best I can be, so I can help people as much as I can?"