High-Performance Sport: Coaching

Disability Sport Info

In this episode, I speak with Dr Rob Townsend to consider high-performance Parasport coaching. We consider the current state of play, the scope and quality of coach education in Parasport, as well as examples of best practice.
Below are links to papers referenced in the episode.
Link to Rob's PhD thesis: https://bit.ly/43mveXd
Link to paper discussing care from the perspective of a highly impaired high-performance athlete https://bit.ly/3U9YZ9n

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פרקים

1. High-Performance Sport: Coaching (00:00:00)

2. Introduction (00:00:30)

3. What is Parasport coaching? (00:00:49)

4. Skills of a Parasport coach (00:03:52)

5. Pathways into Parasport coaching (00:06:40)

6. Improving the profile of Parasport coaching (00:10:10)

7. Coach education (00:11:44)

8. Elite Para athletes becoming coaches (00:15:03)

9. Coach education (00:17:13)

10. Knowledge of classification (00:21:33)

11. Best practice in Parasport coaching (00:23:40)

12. Welfare in Parasport (00:26:06)

13. End of discussion (00:28:00)

14. Conclusion (00:28:16)