teaching technical and tactical skills

SRM15-Edu: Techniques of Coaching Sports

Prepared by: Jeremy Floyd Pedregosa

Teaching Technical and Tactical Skills


TECHNICAL and TACTICAL

SKILLS

TECHNIQE

Tactics

Game plan

Strategy

A Skill that is

required to

accomplish a

specific task

Tactics is a plan

to gain

advantage in a

contest

Game plan is the

application of team’s

strategy to a

particular contest

Strategy is a plan of action for your team

for a season or series of contests

system

procedure method

way

“There is an efficient

way of shooting a

basketball”


Introduce the Technical Skill

Demonstrate and Explain the

Technical Skill

Have the athletes practice the

Technical skills

Correct errors or Evaluate

Four Steps of teaching

technical skills

TECHNICAL


Introduce the Technical Skill

Get the Team’s Attention

Arrange the Team So Everyone

Can See and Hear You

Name the Technique and

Explain How It Is Used.

1

TECHNICAL


Demonstrate and Explain the

Technical Skill

Demonstrate and Explain

Relate the Technique to

Previously Learned Techniques

Check for Understanding

2

Keep demonstrations brief; tell athletes one or two things they should watch for

TECHNICAL


Have the Athletes Practice the

Technical Skills

Whole Versus Part Practice

Practice Principles

Check for Understanding

3

Part to Whole

Whole to Part

Have Athletes Practice the Right

Technique

Have the Athletes Practice the Technique

in Game like Situation

Keep Practice Short and Frequent When

Teaching New Technique

Use Practice Time Efficiently

Make Sure Athletes Experience a Reasonable

Amount of Success at Each Practice

Make Practice Fun

TECHNICAL


Correct Errors or Evaluate

Observe and Evaluate

Performance

Use Video

4

You can observe a lot by

just watching – Yogi Berra

Video can help athletes see

their errors and learn to

correct them

Have a Positive Approach in Correcting Errors

TECHNICAL

Providing Effective Feedback

• The sooner you give feedback, the more likely the athletes will

remember what the feedback pertains to and to practice

correctly

• More frequent feedback is better than less frequent feedback

• When an athlete is making several technical errors, it is best o

correct only one error at a time

• Feedback to feed back exactly what was done. When athletes

performed incorrectly, you should feed them back what they

did wrong. Then explain how to do the technique correctly.

• Both explanation and demonstration should incorporate

specific feedback.


REMEMBER THIS…

TECHNICAL

Questions for Reflection

• When you introduce a technique to your athletes, how do you

get their attention, and how o you arrange them so they can see

and hear you?

• Which techniques that you teach could be broken down into

parts, and which should be taught as a whole? How do you

decide?

• How can you correct errors by using a positive-feedback

approach?


TECHNICAL


TACTICAL

Players with excellent tactical skills have a “Game Sense” , or

what you called “The ability to use understanding of the rules; of

strategy; of tactics; and, most importantly, of oneself to solve the

problems posed by one’s opponents” – Alan Lauder

Game Sense

Tactical Knowledge

Reading the

situation

Decision-making

skills

Should a runner go out hard or lay back for a strong finish? It’s tactical decision


Conclusion

There is an efficient and excellent way of doing specific sports skill.

Each requires a correct technique or method.

Teach technique first before tactics

A team with a better tactics wins the game.

There are many ways of winning the game. Take advantage of your

teams’ strengths.