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“Coaching Children in the GAA”• Presented by Paudie Butler• Mallow, Saturday 10th March 2012
Munster Coaching Conference
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Graceful, Balanced and Economical
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Deformed, Lopsided, Stunted
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“People know what they do,
they frequently know why they
do what they do,
but what they don’t know,
is what they do does”
French Philosopher – Jean Michel Foucault
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1. The Right to participate in sport.
2. The Right to participate at a level commensurate with each child’s maturity and ability.
3. The Right to have qualified adult leadership.
4. The Right to play as a child and not as an adult.
5. The Right to share in the leadership and decision-making of their sport participation.
6. The Right to participate in a safe and healthy environment.
7. The Right to proper preparation for participation in sport.
8. The right to equal opportunity for success.
9. The Right to be treated with dignity.
10. The Right to have fun in sport.
The Rights of the Child in Sport
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“Movement is the Child’s First Language”
Sally Goddard Blythe – The Well Balanced
Child
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Primary School Curriculum
ABC - Agility Balance Coordination
R.J.T
.Running Jum
ping Throwing
CPKSCatching PassingKicking Striking
Games
Fun Fun
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What is a Coach?
“A Coach is a Person who
Builds Competencies
by
Assisting and Challenging
Players and Self
to Achieve their Potential”
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“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice, and because we fail to notice,that we fail to notice
there is little that we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice has shaped out thoughts and deeds”
R.D. Laing
Failing to Notice
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Trust
Reliability Competence
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Success vs. FailureAssisting Challenging
The End of the Beginningor
The Beginning of the End?
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“Your Children are not your Children
But Life’s Longing for Itself”Cahil Gibrain
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13© GAA31 Coaching Children - Paudie Butler
So Why Do Children Play?So Why Do Children Play?
...to have fun
...to feel worthy
...to belong
...to be free
...to have influence
...to survive
...to be like their heroes
...to test themselves
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Positive Negative Outcome
+1 : -1 > Depression
+3 : -1 > Survival
+5 : -1 > Growth
+7 : -1 > Flourishing
Maureen Gaffney - Flourishing
The Positivity Ratio
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What Great Coaches Do
1. Coach Players Values
2. Focus on Player’s Real Beliefs
3. Coach Player Habits and Behaviours
4. Focus on Player’s Resistance (Feelings & Emotions)
5. Develop Player’s Ability to Think
6. Nurture Player’s Ambition & Desire
7. Focus on Player’s Lifestyle
8. Be aware of Player’s Uniqueness & Attitude
9. Build Player’s Confidence & Calmness
10. Enhance Player’s Self-Esteem
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What Coaching is NOT!When you as a coach are:
• Enforcing • Controlling• Manipulating• Bullying• Insulting• Berating• Pressurising…
You are NOT Coaching and CANNOT achieve the results of Coaching
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Risk
Balance
Training Time
Pressure
Game Time
Skill mastery
Formal
Game Time
Instruction
Praise
Non-pressure
Self expression
Informal
Travel
Action
Safety
Correction
When everyone plays, you have the balance right.
When you have the balance right, everyone stays.
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BalanceWhen they have enough skill
to enjoy the game.
When they have enough games
to show their skills.
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7 to 12 is The Golden Age of Learning
“Education has for its objective
the formation of character”
Herbert Spencer
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Stages of Development
Age 6 - 12 Play to Learn
Age 13 - 17 Learn to Compete
Age 18 - 40+ Compete to Win
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Acquiring Bilateral Coordination
6-12 Stage 1 : Play to Learn
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Games Based Coaching ModelPlay the Game
Freeze the Game
Fix the Skill
Fuel the Will
Observe Analyse
Re-Affirm Generate Feedback
Demonstrate Explain
Set Targets Encourage
Mod
ify
Chan
ge
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“Tugann Dúchas Dóchas”