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What is coaching? Legendary basketball coach, Pete Newell stated the following regarding coaching.
Basketball develops initiative in the individual and at the same time fosters a spirit of cooperation with a group, integrity to a team and to oneself, qualities of leadership, honesty, and responsibility, moral obligations, the ability to sacrifice, moral and physical courage, and a defined sense of values. Certainly each of these qualities are composite traits of personal integrity or character…There must, therefore, be more than the mere physical development of the individual in the game of basketball. Consequently, the benefits derived from participation must include more than a favorable outcome of the game” (Newell & Benington , 1962, p.10).
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During the first class we discussed what the profession of coaching is. Think about coaches you have had. What did they do? Provide a short response to the following question, by posting a comment to this blog. What does it mean to be a coach?
I agree with what the many successful coaches mentioned in class as well as with what many excellent coaches that I have interacted with, that coaching is teaching. To be a coach is to be a teacher.
ReplyDeleteOne quote that I am very fond of is "Sports are a metaphor for Life and Life is a metaphor for Heaven." I'm not sure who first stated this idea, but it expresses that sports relate to the human experience as a whole. Therefore a coaches duty is guide his students to an understanding and knowledge of the sport at hand in creative processes that are consistent with the moral laws everyday life is based on.
This allows the athlete the freedom to discover him or her self in a wholistic (physical, mental, and spiritual) manner. Only when someone can define themselves and their purpose can they perform at they're peak. It is this which is a coaches duty, to guide them to a self-realization resulting in a potential fully met.
to me being a coach is being a teacher yet much more. i have been playing competitive sports since the age of six but have been learning from a teacher or coach since the day i entered this world. my first coach in life and in sports was my father and till this day he still teaches me with in a coaches point of view.
ReplyDeletewith this being said coaching is much more then being a mere teacher. there is a relationship or bond built between both coaches and players that teachers and students never share. for me all my coaches have become father figures in life, teaching me values on and off the field which i will carry through the duration of my existence.
During my football career most of my coaches emphazies dicipline and commitment. Most of the coaches that I have are not the crazy type that yell in your face but they are the ones that talk to you and show you what your doing wrong and right. Becoming a coach you need to understrand his or her surrounding and who you working with. A coach needs to know his player inside out and understands them. With all that Coach should be a good teacher, mentor and a good friend.
ReplyDeleteCoaching is a lot more than just being a disciplinarian. Thats were a lot of people get the definition of a coach misunderstood. Well at least the definition of a good coach. I believe that through out my football career i have had my fair share of good coaches. One thing that stands out to me most is the way in which the majority of my coaches have always tried to emphasize togetherness, and create a family like atmosphere. By getting a team to buy into the family like mentality, a team will literally exert themselves to the fullest in order to not let each other down. a coach must also be a great teacher, and by saying that i mean he must have the ability to bring out the best in all of his players. Even those players that are not the superstars, but rather the role players. Lastly i would like to emphasize the importance of a players coach. For a team to take it to the next level the players must first fully buy into what a coach is pitching. When players have a coach that they trust, respect and look up too a player will be willing lay themselves on the line no matter what lies ahead.
ReplyDeleteTo me, being a coach means a lot more than just coaching athletes and being a teacher. Coaching means gaining a strong rapport with your athletes, letting them know that you are going to try your hardest to help them become not only the best athletes that they can be, but also help them be the best individual humans as well.
ReplyDeleteCoaching means showing the community that your team is reaching out to help themselves as well as others have successful futures and meaningful lives. This is done by helping the athletes take pride in volunteering around the community. Seeing the smiles that they help put on other peoples' faces will ultimately help them feel like they have achieved great things, whether or not the score at the end of them game is in their favor.
Having an athlete look up to is a great feeling in which a coach should cherish. If they are have that amount of trust and respect, it should be known that they are have helped another individual.
As we discussed in class I believe there are many more aspects to coaching than the simple win/loss ratio. As coaches I believe that it is our job to educate athletes on more than the concept of winning. I feel each athlete should be taught the values of the games both fundamentally and ethically on the court. But as we all know their is more to life than just the game on the court, everyday we are playing the game of life and that is why I feel that it is also our responsibility as a coach to be a role model that helps establish the skills of life.
ReplyDeleteto me being a coach is a very important role. not only do you have to being willing to help young people better themselves you also have to be a role model for them, someone they can look up too and respect.along with being sucessful on the court/field you need to be a good person in the eyes of the community. many young athletes look to coaches as a mentor and a leader. athletes may be influenced both positively and negetively from coaches through out their career as an athlete. it is also part of the coaches job to teach them life lessons that will carry on with them for the rest of their lives.
ReplyDeleteCoaching to me is when you have a group of people who are good at the sport that they are doing you educate them on things that they can do better to make them a better player and person. how to work as a team or just them. i think that coaching is alway life changing.
ReplyDeleteThe majority of coaches I have had in the past really enjoyed their jobs. I definitely think that they were very good at communicating with people. They also really enjoyed the relationships they built with players and the relationships they maintained. One coach in particular addressed our team at the time with this statement: "One of the most important things we can do in this life is make a positive impact in other people's lives." I always look back on that statement and try to reflect on my own life and the people in it. I question whether or not I am making a positive impact in other people's lives. When I end up in a coaching position, I intend to live up to this type of standard. If someone were to ask what is coaching, and what does it mean to be a coach. I would answer that coaching is about building and maintaining legitimate relationships. Coaching also requires being a teacher of a particular game, and a teacher for life situations as well. Coaching incorporates athletics, morality, and counseling. It is much more than just being a teacher of a game, and some are much better than others.
ReplyDeleteCoaching is a huge responsiblity. As a coach you have to teach your players not only the skills needed for the athletic events but life skills as well. Many players look up to their coaches as role models and emulate their actions on and off the court. I had a basketball coach in high school that was extremely negative about everything. While I didn't want to emulate this person, it taught me to look at things in a positive manner. In short, a coach should act how he expects his player to.
ReplyDeleteI agree with a lot of the poeple coaching is a big respondsibly not only are you in charge of forming the way that players think on the court but you are also respondsible for them off the court. Players pick up things from there coaches even if they dont mean to. I find myself doing some of the things that my high school coach did when i have coached my little brothers basketball team. I also have taken one thing to heart what he told me is that even when you think your down you always will have a chance to pick yourself up and try harder. This was one thing that i will say if i start coaching.
ReplyDeleteTo me coaches need to be not only a teacher for their sport but a teacher about life as well. You want to teach respect, discipline, hard work, etc, things that your athletes can take with them in their lives since such a few athletes make it to the level where they can be paid. My coaches made sure that we respected all of our opponents no matter if we were obvious heavy favorites. We had to play our hardest if we wanted to be successful. Coaches need to be good communicators as well. You have to be able to communicate with the other coaches so everyone is on the same plays, and they have to do the same with their players so that the team can accomplish what it needs to.
ReplyDeleteCoaching comes with many responsibilities: teaching, mentoring, parenting, role-modeling, disciplining, loving, communicating and so much more. For one athlete, you may be their teacher. For another, you become a mentor or a friend. I have enjoyed taking on the many roles of a coach for several years now. While my favorite part was teaching and mentoring, the disciplining portion is where I have learned the most. Athletes respond effectively in a well-disciplined atmosphere. I believe I learned this lesson from my high school coaches - they were always in control of the 50+ athletes on our team and as athletes we held much respect for the two coaches.
ReplyDeleteTo me coaching is more than just writing x's and o's on a chalk board. coaching requires the ability to be a leader even in the most difficult situations. Also it requires a person to be able to teach, to help others learn the skills to make the person better than before. They need to be able to motivate others around them to achieve their best. Coaching is very important to a person's development, and having a good one in your life is very helpful
ReplyDeleteBeing a coach has to do with a lot of responsibilities. First of all coach should have great skills on the sport which he is teaching. Also he should have his own experience on this sport. He should know how to communicate with his students. He should know when to scream at them and when to say good things to them. You should be in a great relationship with students so that way they respect you and do what you say. The results of the students on the tournaments depends on their coaches. Sometimes happens that player is winning and coach might say something which is going to make down the student and student may lose right away. First of all Coach should know his student very well so that way he knows what to say in certain times.
ReplyDeleteTo me, coaches are teachers with a bigger influence. They teach the fundamentals, the scheme, the technique, and what it all means, but they also shape the lives of those they are coaching. Because of this, coaches endure a limbo in which they must push their players to the fullest extent, without compromising the relationship. I think the best coach acts as the players' right hand man that they trust to take on the responsibility of leading them on game day.
ReplyDeleteCompetition is an agreement between two different parties to play a game of some sort. It is also respected to some degree that fair play should also be promoted within the rules and spirit of the game. I am a former baseball player, and every time I had the opportunity of facing an opposing pitcher I was able to "compete". I knew that my work eithc was honorable i.e. I did not use steroids or illegal bats etc. However, I always hoped I was facing the best of what my competitor had to offer. It was always a gret experience to have the opportunity to compete so many times in baseball.
ReplyDeleteCoaching is one of the most noblest of professions. It invovles time, passion, commitment and probably a sample of every other emotion out there. What it means to be a good coach is a simple this to me actually. It means that one is to be completely and udderly selfless in his/her desires to see other succeed. The best coaches that I have ever meet are those people who commit all they are to the athletes. Too many times winning becomes the most important thing, but the best coaches focus on the athletes and the winning comes later. I was blessed to have some amazing people as coaches in my past, they are the reason why I want to coach and why I am the person I am today. Coaching is more than showing a kid how to play a sport. It is showing a kid how to live his life better for himself and everyone else around him.
ReplyDeleteCoaching to me, plain and simple, is effective teaching on and off the field. To be a coach would have to be an honor because you're being appointed as a leader to lead a group of young men/women not only to be successful as athletes, but as individuals. My father has been one of my first coaches although he was imprisoned for ten years, yet he was still able to still coach and teach me how to be a better athlete and a better man. His sacrifices enable me to amount to the man I am today.
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Coaching is not just a person who has a whistle and blows it when he feels that some thing is going wrong. To many athletes out there, coaches or best friends, role models, and for some atletes, father figures. So being a coach is very important, and has more responsibilities than most think.
ReplyDeleteI've learned that a good coach knows that, "Learning is more important than the test."
having a role as a coach is a role where not only the sport in which you coach is your priority. A coach has to teach a player the correct techniques in the sport and also life skills and also how to compete beacuse in life there is always competition. the most important thing i have learned from a mentor/coach is that sports arnt everything having the dream of being in the bigs one day is every real athelets dream but havin a back plan is more important if that dream doesnt work out.
ReplyDeleteCoach Grime's coaching phillosphy is one of whitch he will do what ever it takes and win at all coast. Never back down, let up nor give up. My coaching Philosphy would be very similar to this, However not at the highschool level. Epecially if i was playin a team in which's caliber level was far below par.In a game such as this one I would have started my best five as normal until we got a comfortable 20- 30 point lead, I would then empty the bench and slow down the tempo. I would emphasize to my team the importance of good sportsmanship, However still play hard. I would overenphasize technique and imploy extra ball movement on every tramsition down the court, NO THREES'. However if we were playing a team in our division or a rival i would have the same mentality as coach Grimes. But you have to be aware of the level of play and competetion.
ReplyDeleteCoaching is leading a group of individuals to play well in a sport together. Even though its not always that easy. My coaching philosophy would be winning, I will teach the group of guys or girls how to work as one relentlessly until the games are done. I will also have a friendly relationship so they know I am human and not just a win addict.
ReplyDeleteA coach to me is a person who knows the game that they're coaching. Also know how to teach his or her players the skills and techniques of the game. Coaches can be bosses, mentors, teachers, or friends.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite coach is my high school coach. Everything i just listed he met. He taught me how to play the game. When i needed some one to talk to, i could always talk to him.
to me a coach is a role model, a leader, and a teacher. a coach is someone who you can look up to and know what they are teaching you can help you not only in the sport they are teaching, but in the real world. the things that a coach leaves you with can shape you into a greater person in you life, whether its family, work, or how you act as a person. a coach is supposed to be someone who motivated you in your everyday life. a coach is also someone who teaches you skills to preform at the level that they expect you to preform at.
ReplyDeletehaving a positive coach is someone who is a mentor or role model. it is someone who can teach you how to win in the sport they are teaching and someone who can teach you how to excell in life.
A person who knows the game, does the best he or she can, treat the players with respect, honesty, etc. provides the tools needed, thinks positive towards the players, parents and himself, i believe is a coach.
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