Become a Qualified Coach via Distance Education |
Your very own web page to advertise your services Your very own coach email address Updated regularly on vacancies worldwide Coach Equipment Discount at www.worldofcoaches.com.au and Tennis Product discount from www.worldoftennis.com.au Coach Business Packages to help with your business Skill Upgrades including quarterly journals and ITF links Loyalty membership programs as well as knowing you are supporting an independant and non profit company LEARNING OUTCOMES - Level 1: Be able to: 1. Use occupational health and safety practices - including equipment use and managing minor injuries. 2. Ensure a positive environment and appropriate communication, motivational and conflict resolution skills. 3. Identify basic biomechanical and kinesiological concepts. 4. Demonstrate stroke production techniques & methods of coaching at basic level for each of the following: Forehand, Backhand, Serve & Overhead, Volley, grips, spins, open stance and all related components of same. 5. Plan and organise and conduct group coaching with maximum participation including with infants. 6. Demonstrate ball feeding techniques - by coach & pupil. 7. Recognise common technique flaws and provide appropriate correction. 8. Demonstrate and conduct warm ups, games, modified activities, with use of targets and “Games Sense”. 9. Organise a half or 1 day tournament for kids and adults & conduct round robin, knockout, handicap, and social. 10. Identify disabilities, physiological, and technical difficulties and apply appropriate activities for talent development. 11. Apply basic psychological strategies incl. positive thinking, tension control, behaviour management. 12. Have appropriate understanding of and compliance with current rules and regulations and relevant tribunals. 13. Model and have students apply appropriate standards of attitude in sportsmanship and etiquette. 14. Understand the legal responsibilities and liabilities of a coach including risk behaviour, harassment, drug use and abuse, duty of care, negligence, insurance. 15. Plan a player’s tournament/competition schedule for local or regional application with appropriate bodies. LEARNING OUTCOMES - Level 2: Be able to:1. Use accredited First Aid practices (as developed by Australian Red Cross or similar) and ensure client safety. 2. Identify physiological and psychological responses to injury and modify a training program as needed having regard to rehabilitation progress. 3. Identify and implement anatomical & biomechanical principles of movement. 4. Demonstrate stroke production techniques & methods of coaching at advanced level for each of the following: Forehand, Backhand, Serve & Overhead, Volley, grips, spins, open stance, kinetic chain of forces and other key biomechanical techniques, and all related components of same. 5. Recognise less common flaws and idiosyncrasies in players’ technique and provide appropriate advanced correction. 6. Apply advanced tactics and strategies relating to all strokes and components during advanced games and drills. 7. Demonstrate (a) methods of coaching the return of wide serves, (b) use of video analysis, (c) use of ball machine. 8. Conduct tournaments & competitions - plan, organise and implement all tournament types identifying seedings, facilities, players, organise equipment and officials. 9. Evaluate match results and develop performanceenhancement strategies of focusing, mental rehearsal, and apply game plans in-match and post-match. 10. Prepare and conduct activities for disabled persons.11. Conduct, evaluate, monitor, and analyse a long-term training program for a squad of advanced players. 12. Discuss and apply the following: Differences withindividual v group or squad lessons, fitness and agility, aerobic and anaerobic, specificity, nutrition: lecture about court surfaces, business and employment options, computers and marketing in a tennis business.Coaches Code of Conduct 1 Treat all students with respect at all times. Be honest and consistent with them. Honour all promises and commitments, both verbal and written. 2 Provide feedback to students and other participants in a caring sensitive manner to their needs. Avoid overly negative feedback. 3 Recognise students’ rights to consult with other coaches and advisers. Cooperate fully with other specialists (eg. Sports scientists, doctors, physiotherapists etc). 4 Treat all students fairly within the context of their sporting activities, regardless of gender, race, place of origin, athletic potential, colour, sexual orientation, religion, political beliefs, socio-economic status. 5 Encourage and facilitate students’ independence and responsibility for their own behaviour, performance, decisions and actions. 6 Determine, in consultation with students and others, what information is confidential and respect that confidentiality. 7 Encourage a climate of mutual support among your students. 8 Encourage students to respect one another and to expect respect for their worth as individuals regardless of their level of play. 9 At all times use appropriate training methods, which in the long term will benefit the students and avoid those which could be harmful. 10 Ensure that the tasks/training set are suitable for age, experience, ability and physical and psychological conditions of the students. 11 Be acutely aware of the power that you as a coach develop with your students in the coaching relationship and avoid any sexual intimacy with students that could develop as a result. 12 Avoid situations with your students that could be construed as compromising. 13 Actively discourage the use of performance enhancing drugs, the use of alcohol and tobacco and illegal substances. 14 Respect the fact that your goal as a coach for the student may not always be the same as that of the student. Aim for excellence based upon realistic goals and due consideration for the student’s growth and development. 15 Recognise individual differences in students and always act with regard to the student’s long-term best interests. 16 At all times act as a role model that promotes the positive aspects of sport and of tennis by maintaining the highest professional standards of conduct. 17 Do not exploit any coaching relationship to further personal, or business interests at the expense of the best interest of your students. 18 Respect other coaches and always act in a manner characterised by courtesy, good faith and integrity. 19 Respect the role of officials in ensuring that competitions are conducted fairly and according to established rules. 20 Abide by tennis rules, regulations and standards, and encourage students to do likewise. 21 Ensure physical contact with children is kept to a minimum and not be cause of any reflection on your character or be a cause |
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