High Performance Disability Sport Coaching
eBook - ePub

High Performance Disability Sport Coaching

  1. 218 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

High Performance Disability Sport Coaching

About this book

As the profile of disability sport has risen, so has the emphasis grown beyond participation to include the development of a high performance environment. This book is the first to take an in-depth look at the role of coaches and coaching in facilitating the professionalisation of disability sport, in raising performance standards, and as an important vector for the implementation of significant political, socio-cultural and technological change.

Using in-depth case studies of elite disability sport coaches from around the world, the book offers a framework for critical reflection on coaching practice as well as the reader's own experiences of disability sport. The book also evaluates the vital role of the coach in raising the bar of performance in a variety of elite level disability sports, including athletics, basketball, boccia, equestrian sport, rowing, soccer, skiing, swimming and volleyball.

Providing a valuable evidence-based learning resource to support coaches and students in developing their own practice, High Performance Disability Sport Coaching is essential reading for all those interested in disability sport, coaching practice, elite sport development and the Paralympic Games.

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Yes, you can access High Performance Disability Sport Coaching by Geoffery Z. Kohe,Derek M. Peters in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Sport & Exercise Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Introduction to high performance disability sport coaching
  8.   1 Going the distance: a tale of energy, commitment and collaboration: Drew Ferguson, Head Coach of Canada’s Para Soccer Team
  9.   2 Creating a high performance para-rowing programme in the USA: from the geography of the land to the generosity of the spirit (and everything in between)
  10.   3 Coaching across the species barrier: para-equestrian dressage
  11.   4 ‘Just doing it’: a strength-based approach to coaching athletes
  12.   5 On the way to Rio 2016: coaching Paralympic volleyball in Brazil
  13.   6 Coaching wheelchair basketball players: from the beginning to the top
  14.   7 Coaching in the flagship Paralympic sport: a tale from trackside
  15.   8 Ozzie Sawicki – coaching Alpine skiing: the curiosity to be the best
  16.   9 Glynn Tromans: in search of ‘fearless’ boccia and the ‘big hairy audacious goal’
  17. 10 From Melksham to Rio: a coach’s 20-year journey in para-swimming
  18. 11 Beyond high performance disability sport coaching?
  19. Index