Swimming coaching skills course
Old Way New Way® swimming coaching skills is an advanced sports coaching skills course designed for experienced swimming coaches and swimmers, at all levels up to elite and Olympic.
Old Way New Way® swimming coaching can enrich your coaching experience and greatly improve your coaching effectiveness.
Read these reviews of Old Way New Way® coaching and our courses:
Old Way New Way® sports coaching received a very positive review in Sports Coach, 2003, Vol. 25, No.4 (an extract appears below).
Sports Coach is Australia's national sports coaching journal, aimed at the practising sports coach.
Produced quarterly, Sports Coach presents up-to-date sports coaching articles on a variety of topics, ranging from interviews, sports coaching drills and nutrition to research results in a wide range of sports. Sports Coach is an excellent periodical for the active sports coach.
Old Way New Way®, by Graham Cook (extracts from Sports Coach)
It is one of the most perplexing and frustrating obstacles any coach has to face; without warning and often without apparent reason, the athlete they are coaching goes into a form slump.
Hitherto excellent techniques, often carefully refined over years of hard work are lost, to be replaced by persistent and stubborn errors that refuse to respond to correction.
In the past, this has usually resulted in a long and destructive regime of constant repetition of skill drills aimed at driving the offending error from the athlete's repertoire.... [However] the correct technique, apparently recovered after constant practice, disappears under the pressure of competition....
A different approach ... enthusiastically endorsed by a growing number of coaches and sporting professionals, is Old Way New Way®, which aims to put the athlete back on the right path, not within months or weeks, but possibly after one intensive session....
... one of the most spectacular examples of Old Way New Way®'s success [is] cricketer Jason Gillespie [who] needed to change his bowling action .... he was able to change a major part of his bowling action in about 20 minutes....
... Olympic [athletes], a javelin thrower and a sprinter, were in a form slump associated with technique problems .... both problems were corrected ....
While an experienced [Old Way New Way®] practitioner is needed initially, there is no reason why coaches should not quickly learn the subtleties of the method and introduce it when required.
Olympic swimming: Research Institute for Olympic Sports
Professor Yuri Hanin, Professor of Sport Psychology, says this about the online sports coaching course in Old Way New Way®, on which the CD-ROM course is based.
"I've been using Old Way New Way® for rapid correction of consistent errors in technique with track and field athletes (javelin, hammer throwing and sprinting), with a pro-tour female golfer, and also with a soccer team. All nine interventions were very successful. At the same time, we collaborated with Paul to advance our research into skill development and correction with elite athletes and still do."
"There are several benefits that I have experienced using Old Way New Way. It is very practical; the technical problem is solved quickly and completely in just one single session; the results are immediate, there is no adaptation period as with conventional skill development and correction."
"Moreover, the observed technique improvement is permanent and extends into psychological benefits such as feelings of empowerment, enhanced self-confidence, satisfaction with the elimination of errors, better understanding, higher motivation and a desire to engage in more high quality training of this kind. A single learning trial lasting from one to two hours, including an half hour warm up, usually results in 80% or better improvement in performance. The new way (corrected skill) is consistently performed and spontaneous recovery of errors, if any, is easily handled. Skill improvement also directly transfers to competitive performance, as shown in our case studies [with Olympic athletes and their coaches - read The Sport Psychologist, 2002, 16, 79-99]. Under conventional skill correction methods, technique difficulties still resisted correction after months and, in some cases, years of effort."
Swimming coaching course: What's in it for me?
Old Way New Way® swimming coaching is well grounded in psychological learning theory and is verified by published experimental research in refereed professional journals. Furthermore, the record of its success in practical situations stands unrivaled.
The course will provide you with information, demonstrations, and step by step instructions so you can quickly start using Old Way New Way® to accelerate a swimmer's learning.
You will learn the fascinating theoretical background of Old Way New Way; discover how it has been used to quickly correct technique and other performance problems in sport; see a step by step demonstration of its use with a swimmer; learn to prepare your own skill correction protocols that you can use in many different swimming coaching situations; and learn how to use Old Way New Way® to speed up technique correction, recover quickly from performance slumps, and accelerate skill transitions.
Swimming coaching course contents include:
- a modern, interactive Flash based course that will run on both Windows and Mac computers
- a review of Old Way New Way® coaching by the Australian Sports Commission in Sports Coach, their national journal for active sports coaches
- course introduction, learning objectives, and rationale for the course structure
- background reading for the practical assignments, with an interactive test and review of understanding of the main concepts
- demonstration of a brain mechanism that slows down change and improvement, and makes old habits die hard
- practical assignments that teach you the steps in Old Way New Way® Coaching
- practical assignments that guide you, step by step, to use Old Way New Way®, first to change your own behaviour and sport performance, and then to improve a swimmer's performance
- four video segments that show you, step by step, how a range of technique correction problems were corrected in different sports including swimming
- a generic Old Way New Way® coach's checklist that you can use in any kind of technique correction and other performance problem in swimming
- a stepwise comparison of Old Way New Way® and conventional coaching, so you can quickly understand where they overlap, and see the important differences
- case studies of how Old Way New Way® has improved performance in a range of other sports, including Olympic javelin and sprinting, swimming, golf, cricket, lacrosse, baseball, soccer, football, and running, among others
- how Old Way New Way® has been used in physical therapy, and an example of its use to accelerate the learning of mental skills
- how to use Old Way New Way® for skill transition training
- list of published research that underpins this methodology
- implementation support options
- details of optional collaboration on research using Old Way New Way®
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