international festival of athletics coaching 2009

International Festival of Athletics Coaching

2009

Dr Frank Dick OBE

Workshops - 1115

• Elite shot / Coaching Beginners – Meet in Lobby for Kelvin Hall 1050

• Elite Sprints – Ground (Waverley) • Elite Pole vault – 1st Floor• Elite Middle Distance – 13th Floor• Heptathlon – 12th Floor• Development Endurance – Ground (QE1)• Development Jumps – Ground (QE2)• Development Speed – Main Hall• Development Throws – 1st Floor

TEAM BUILDTEAM BUILD

UNLEASHUNLEASH

INSPIREINSPIRE

INVOLVEINVOLVE

DEVELOP

SELECT

Own take personal ownership of every opportunity to make the winning difference

Decide take considered risks indecision making and judgement calls to be the winning difference

Do just do it! Act effectively and excellently

Coaching Process

• Be the light…………… (direct)

• Fuel the light………….. (coach)

• Reflect the light ………(support)

• Stand out of the light…(counsel)

Roots to grow

Wings to fly

Join up the dots

Align vision and values

Manage relationships


2009

Wilson Kipketer


2009

Seb Coe


2009

Kevin TylerStrategic Head of

Coaching and Development - UKA

Fiona WernhamHead of Coaching and

Volunteering sportscotland

What are we doing?Dr Frank Dick OBE

Performances

World Men

Better 13

Worse 10

Same 1

Europe

Better 9

Worse 11

Helsinki ’05 – Berlin ‘09

Performances

World Women

Better 11

Worse 12

Europe

Better 9

Worse 14


Positions

Men

Better 6

Worse 10

Same 8

Women

Better 5

Worse 9

Same 9


Medals

2005

Men 7 5 3 (15)

Women11 3 5 (19)

2009

Men 7 3 3 (13)

Women7 4 5 (16)

Helsinki 2005 – Berlin 2009

Coaching Questionnaire

European M.F.s 50

Responses 21

Requests Academy 19

Requests Coach Events 4

Coaching Questionnaire

Three M.F.s who indicated coaching

strength across all event groups failed to medal!

It is time to seriously consider how to leverage our collective European

learning and advantage as professionals.

Highest Influence on International Success

1. Financial support2. Coaching3. Training facilities4. = Talent i/d4. = Sport policies (elite)4. = Sport culture (elite)7. National/international competition8. = Scientific support8. = Sport participation10. Athletic career support

Veerle de Boscher

Coaching Profession 5 power bases

1. System excellence

2. Practice excellence

3. Support excellence

4. Development excellence

5. Professional excellence

• What an M.F. could do or is doing

X What EA/EACA provides (some with IAAF)

¢ Work in progress

System – National

• Coach education certification

• Coaching structure (careers) and tracking

• Athlete development pathway and tracking

• Values and vision

System – EA / EACA

• Festival workshops

• IAAF CECS

• IAAF code of coaching ethics

¢ System design consultation (with IAAF

MSD)

Practice – National

• Club / school / community programs

• Athlete / coach live directory

• Coach performance reviews

• Sport / education/ wellbeing connect

• National / international athletes club

Practice - EA/EACA

X Summits

¢ Elite performance centres

¢ ICCE coaching effectiveness

X IAAF WCs…ATCs

¢ Euro-class athletes club

Support – National

• Promote coach inclusion / support

• Continuous learning options

• Process support (synthesis)

Support – EA / EACA

X Coaching model

X Summits / Festival / IAAF WCs / ATCs

¢ Cohesion services

ACTION

DECISION

SYNTHESIS

INFORMATION

Physiologist

Doctor

Psychologist

Performance Analyst

Physiotherapist

ATHLETE & TEAM

COACH MANAGER

PERFORMANCE DIRECTOR ?

Technologist

Nutritionist

Biomechanist

Specialist Coaching Input

Development - National

• National class coaching club

• Performance data base

• Coach-led development and

research projects

Development – EA / EACA

¢ Euro class coaches club

¢ Euro coaches nexus

X IAAF Academy network

Professional - National

• Coaches Charter

• Coaches Association

• Professional licensing and

registration

• Recognition and rewards

Professional – EA/EACA

X EACA and Alliance

X Master Coach and College

¢ Regulated profession

Dream together

Learn together

Work together

Excel together

Coach Europe

to become all

that it can be

WHAT AREYOU GOING

TO DO ABOUTIT ?

IT’SUP TO YOU

Dr Frank Dick OBE

Sergey Bubka

Festival of Athletics coaching2009

Sergey Bubka

from own experience

SPORT CAREER

• First steps in athletics• Childhood and youth (making progress and dealing with

difficulties)• Learning the technical skills; theoretical and practical

knowledge; psychological adaptation• First experience at the World Championships and the

first World record• Personal perceptions at different periods of my career

COACH / ATHLETE

• Changing relationships in different periods of the athletes career

• Difficulties in the relationship

FEDERATION and MANAGER

• Athlete and Federation• The role of manager • Relations “Federation – Athlete – Coach – Manager”• Athletes calendar

EDUCATION

• Why it is necessary to seek continuous education throughout a sport career

• Integration into the greater community and pursuit of a new career

DOPING and HEALTH

• Why it is important to be educated in the issue of Doping

• Why it is necessary to look after general health

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION !!!

Dr Frank Dick OBE

Paralympic Programme

• Dr Wolfgang Potthast

• Richard Brickley

• Dr Penny Werthner

• Peter Eriksson

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