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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

SHAPE America

Every May, we celebrate physical educators and coaches — the “champions” who help kids gain the confidence, competence, and motivation to be physically active in school, before and after school, and for the rest of their lives. Be creative and include them in games and movement challenges.

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THE PITFALLS OF 'MORE, YOUNGER' MINDSET Why Starting Kids Too Early and Pushing Them Too Hard Can Backfire in Youth Sports

Better Coaching

We will explore child and adolescent development, overuse injuries, burnout, and how parents, coaches, and sports administrators can collaborate to address these risks. For some private clubs and coaching academies, recruiting children as young as five years old means more clients paying for longer periods of instruction.

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Sports Equipment for Your Home Coaching

Whole Child Sports

This safe and fun balance-trainingdevice helps a child develop body awareness, core strength, and rotational movement. In addition, the boards replicate board sports (skateboarding, snowboarding, surfng) movements. Agility ladder. The post Sports Equipment for Your Home Coaching appeared first on Whole Child Sports.

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How to coach someone to improve their balance

Sports Coaching FAQ

In order to coach balance, a progressive programme of exercises and movements should be used. Dynamic balance is the ability to maintain stability while performing movements. For each exercise ask the athlete to hold for 10 seconds before moving to the next (this could be achieved with the coach conducting a countdown).

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Back to Padel School: Talking Padel with Sandy Farquharson

The Sporting

Padel has a very specific movement profile, moving in all directions almost continually, but probably going backwards more than any other sport. Similar footwork drills to tennis – agility cone drills , ladders etc. Obviously, all players are individual, so it depends on the approach. This will take time and repetition.

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You Are Your Child’s First Coach—Freeing Your Child from Oppressive, Hyperorganized Sports

Whole Child Sports

We do this because, as parents, we are our children’s first coaches. As our children grow into physically active, upright beings and we introduce them to sports, we pass the coaching baton to others, hopeful that while playing sports with their peers, our kids will be taught new skills, make friends, and develop a passion for exercise.

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What does Skills and Values look like in Physical Education (PE)?

Reinventing the Game

Without doubt, as experts, we can predict much movement outcomes when it comes to skills, values, etc. The player with a shouting coach/teacher or a strict block practise regime training/PE session will not develop the behaviours we seek as expected. Are all this attempts to put the horse before the cart too explicitly?