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Effective
Coaching
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Presented By:
Scott ColbySport Performance Consultant
Since August 2007, Coach Scott Colby has been a Sport Performance Consultant for USA Swimming. Prior to that, Scott coached in Ohio, Louisiana (Bengal-Tiger Aquatic Club), Texas (Fort Worth Area Swim Team), served as an assistant at Dynamo Swim Club in Atlanta and coached for 5 years at a YMCA on Long Island. His Louisiana team placed top ten at Nationals.
His swimmers have placed in the finals at Olympic Trials, won 2 National titles and 7 Junior National titles including all four strokes, set three National Age Group Records, and won the National Meet Bob Kiphuth High Point award. Scott has also produced numerous Top 16 athletes. He holds a Masters degree in Physical Education and is an ASCA Level 5 coach.
Parent/Coach Texts
Hell hath no fury like the parents of mediocre athletes!
Whom Do You Model?
How Do I Better My Coaching?
Educate Yourself
Seinfeld Coaching Advice
Bill Parcells Hall of Fame Induction Speech
"The players deserve a chance to win, and you as an organization, a university and a head coach have an obligatory responsibility to give it to them."
Power of ExpectationThomas Edison Teacher’s Note
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K95XgPpZkxs
Apprenticeship
“Think like a gardener,
work like a carpenter.”-Daniel Coyle
Culture Blueprint
Leaders create culture
Culture Drives Behavior
Behavior Produces Results
Culture BlueprintWhat We Believe In How We Behave Outcome We Achieve
Relentless Effort Go as Hard as You Can
We are tougher than anyone or any Situation
Competitive Excellence
Constant focus on Technique at Speed
Prepared for the Meet
Power of Team Uncommon Commitment to each other and the process
Trust your team
Wire
Insulation
Myelin Sheath
Axon
Myelin Sheath
London 200 Fly
Michael Phelps, acknowledged that there were days
when he glided into the wall at practices in the past four
years. “And that came out at the moment I needed it the
most,” Phelps said, adding: “I’m not going to sit and
make excuses. Those lazy finishes were decisions I
made.” It cost him another Gold in the 200 Meter Butterfly. It was his choice.
How do we “Learn?”
Repetition is Everything
Technique is the result of all the
strokes your athletes have taken
over a lifetime. Their first strokes
influence today’s abilities
CLUB DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
Sport Performance Consultant
How Long Does it Take?
Google: Smarter Every Day - Bike
How do we “Learn?”
Repetition is Everything
Practice does not make perfect…it
makes habit…perfect practice
makes perfect
CLUB DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
Sport Performance Consultant
“A drill done 99%
right is 100% wrong!”
-Bill Sweetenham
‘Musts’ for skill acquisition:
Deep, deliberate practice - (building circuits)
Motivation to stay deliberate
“Deliberate Practice” has 4 components
4. Sustaining #1 & #2 for extended periods
3. Clear, accurate & immediate feedback
2. Intense engagement (awareness/presence/focus/concentration/effort)
1. Number of ‘hits’ at the edge of one’s ability
Teaching With Images
http://thetalentcode.com
Freestyle (Body Position)
Get the Most Out of Each Practice
The Right Things – Practice things that need improve performance?
Effectiveness of Practice – Does doing something in practice actually enable athletes to do it in a performance setting?
Make each minute matter – Urgency!
Reaching Repetitions
Practice higher priorities more than all else combined
Identify the 20% of things that will yield 80% success
10,000* hours of “Purposeful Practice” to master performance (become world class) - Dr. Anders Ericsson (*sort of)
Practice does not make perfect. It makes habit.
Perfect practice makes perfect
Reaching RepetitionsBreak every move down into “chunks”
If not successful, simplify temporarily, then add complexity
Keep practicing – the value begins at mastery! “It’s not
learned when they can do it right … it’s learned when they
can’t do it wrong”
Focus athletes on ‘fastest possible correct version’ or
‘most complex right version’
Purposefulness
Parts of society and school are about ‘fake learning’ – regurgitating material so expectations can be skewed (“go for the grade”)
Make your PURPOSE and INTENT crystal clear
Give Clear, Concise Instructions
“We work on this all the time in practice,
then the meet comes along and you
don’t do what we practiced!”
- Frustrated Coach
Block vs Random
Block Practice is “controlled”
Fine-Tuning a Skill
Necessary for beginning skill acquisition
Block
Repetition of Skill
Random
Random Practice is “unpredictable”
Random is important to make it “stick!”
Competition is Chaotic (Random)
Done after lots of Block Practice
“Cements” the Skill
Block vs Random
Use Random Practice to make it “stick!”
Use Block for Skill Acquisition
20 x 50’s Focus: #1-A #2-B #3-C #4-A #5-D #6-C #7-B…
20 x 50’s Focus on “A”
Block vs Random Studies
http://trainugly.com/portfolio/block-random-practice/
Feedback…for what?“Good Job…”
Feedback
Average Length of
Feedback:
5 seconds!
for entire season!
People can focus on and use one thing at a time
FeedbackLimit the amount of feedback you give
https://annecaingolf.com/einsteins-golf-lesson-one-thing-at-a-time/
“Young man, when I throw you one ball, you catch it. However, when I throw you four balls, you catch nothing! So when you teach, make only one point at a time!”
FeedbackShorten the feedback loop (5 seconds?)
Give feedback right away, even if it's imperfect.
Speed of consequence beats strength of
consequence pretty much every time.
A simple/small change, implemented right away,
can be more effective than complex rewiring.
FeedbackWhen athletes get feedback from multiple sources, ensure that what they hear is consistent and not overwhelming………(Hmmm!?!)
Common teaching language for your team
Almost every athlete has two volunteer assistants!
At Home!!!!
Feedback
Help them with other places to apply skill
Tell them to keep doing “that”
Identify what they did right for/with them
What athletes do right is as important in practice as what they do wrong.
Feedback
Feedback
Focus on the desired outcome: “Do this…”
If correcting a skill or behavior, give a substitute correct behavior or skill
Feedback
“Not yet!”
Give hope that they will get it eventually.
Teach GritRelentless Effort (not talent or intelligence) is the key to achieving great things in life.
Struggle is part of the process
It is hard and often painful
FeedbackThe Impact of Praise
http://trainugly.com/portfolio/praise-and-mindsets/
FeedbackMake it an “all the time thing!”
The more consistently you give and seek
feedback, the more normal it is.
Give feedback right away at practice. If you wait
until something negative requires it, feedback will
be linked to the idea of a mistake
FeedbackBecause you gave feedback, doesn’t mean it is
interpreted as you intend
Ask athletes to summarize what you said
Ask athletes to prioritize the feedback you gave
Ask athletes to identify the next action they'll take
Feedback for Set Backs
Connection to the Coach
Teaching is selling
Energy, Effort, and
Excitement make the sale!
“No one cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Coach Jon Urbanchek
Age 78!
Be Enthusiastic!
Be Enthusiastic!
Using Modeling
In person modeling is often more believable
Play a game of copycat - learners model skills
Make Models Believable
Use someone of similar age, only slightly better
Coach, Be an Accurate Model!!!
Body Position
Arm gestures
Propulsion/Distance Per Cycle
Qualities of Successful CoachesAvoid long speeches - The Wooden Method –
short, quick, and evocative phrases and directions
Focus on FUNdaMENTALs
Make a scorecard for learning – Track Success
Qualities of Successful CoachesTreat all athletes fairly, but not equally!
Educate their athletes.
Work/Life Balance
Qualities of Successful CoachesAlways try to get better
Practice what they preach: Goal Setting
“Winning” Practice
Save time by planning every second in advance
Keep practicing – Value begins at mastery! (Not yet)
Practice higher priorities more than all else combined
Identify the 20% of things that will yield 80% success
Repeat productive sets/drills with minor variations
MeetsCoach during a meet, don’t teach
Only cue and remind athletes what they have learned.
Take care of yourself
Physical Health
Mental Health
Family Relationships
Know Your AthletesWhy Do They Swim?
What is Their Comfort Zone?
Know YourselfWhy Do You Coach?
What is Your Comfort Zone?
World Record/Olympic Gold?
Nationals, Juniors, Futures, Sectionals?
Zones, Large regional Meets?
LSC Championships?
Swimmers’ Comfort Zone
World Record/Olympic Gold?
Nationals, Juniors, Futures, Sectionals?
Zones, Large regional Meets?
LSC Championships?
Your Comfort Zone
Final (Random) ThoughtsEmbrace struggle, it’s how we learn
Chose 5 minutes a day over an hour a week
Instead of “drills,” play small, addictive games
Think and teach with vivid images
Final (Random) ThoughtsCorrect “Positively”
Coach at Meets, Teach at Practice
Set Goals: Short & Long Term
Find your own coaching personalityModel others, but be yourself
Final (Random) Thoughts3 coaches, same team
Kindergarten Pictures
Praise Effort!
“It’s Showtime!” - Be enthusiastic
Final (Random) Thoughts
It takes time (the secret practice?)
Do It in order throughout the season
Have a (team-wide) Progression
Find examples/demonstrators
Final (Random) Thoughts
Use Experiential Learning
Problem Solving
Short feedback with key words
“One thing at a time,” says Einstein!
Please RememberAs a coach, your impact on children is much
larger than you will ever know.
You’ll never know when you are changing a life.
But you do, every day.
Please RememberWhen all is said and done, it’s not what you
take with you, it’s what you leave behind.
You never know when “it” will be learned. It
may be on the first try, or it may be on the
1000th time. Never give up on a child.
Resources
You Are Awesome!
You Shape Lives!
Thank You for What You Do!
