Better Coaching
DECEMBER 24, 2024
A well-designed sports program has the capacity to teach teamwork, sportsmanship, grit, leadership, and many other life skills, as well as a lifelong love for their game. Children have shorter limbs and different leverage points compared to adults, which influences their biomechanics during movements like throwing, kicking, or running.
The Everlearner
DECEMBER 17, 2024
If you are a secondary school or college PE teacher, theres a pretty good chance that the concept of biomechanics teaching has crossed your mind. Perhaps youve taught it at GCSE or A-level or perhaps youve heard conversations about how hard it is and how people avoid teaching it.
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Gopher Sport
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Time should be set aside at the start of the year to teach students movement competence concepts related to walking. Types of Walking Teaching students the skill of walking starts with identifying types of walking. It is fast, but it is not biomechanically sound. What to Teach? Purposeful Walking. How Fast is Enough?
Learning Through Sport
JANUARY 31, 2025
In my last post here , I considered what it means to teach physical education for effective learning. In this blog, I connect back to an idea I have discussed before in relation to games based teaching here , that is making a physical education program meaningful. biomechanics, skill acquisition, exercise physiology, etc).
Better Coaching
MARCH 5, 2021
In a systematic review of curveballs as a risk factor, conducted by 3 medical doctors, first published in PubMed in August of 2013, the researchers aimed to evaluate the scientific evidence regarding the curveball and its impact on pitching biomechanics and the overall risk of arm injuries in baseball pitchers.
Better Coaching
JANUARY 22, 2017
Youth sports coaches are the men and women who volunteer their time to teach our youth the many life lessons we can acquire through sports. Below is the short list of most common/most damaging teaching practices and techniques used by youth coaches. Wasting Time. Likely, that coach played around 10-20 years ago. Let’s think about that.
PLT4M
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
But the California State Standards for PE can still be achieved by teaching basic water safety and dry-land swim skills. Below is an example of how PLT4M teaches dryland and in water flutter kicking, which is a core component to successful swimming. For example, not all physical education programs have access to a pool.
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