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Educators as agile and adaptive pedagogues

Learning Through Sport

Similar is found in another educative endeavour, sport coaching with the coach centred / player centred paradigm shift. Is there a middle ground between teacher (coach)-centred potential for learner passivity and student (player)-centred potential for teacher (coach) passivity? Olinger, R. Meddling in the middle.

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Sports Equipment for Your Home Coaching

Whole Child Sports

Create dozens of fun games and skill competitions with a pitchback to develop hand and foot/eye coordination in conjunction with agility training (Stages One to Three). Agility ladder. Use the ladder to develop agility, balance, and coordination in hundreds of movement drills and obstacle course configurations.

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The Art of Rugby Goal Kicking

The Sporting

Both Wilkinson and Jenkins became kicking coaches with England and Wales, respectively. Peter is a former Otago fly-half and now coaches attack for Australia’s women’s team, the Wallaroos. He works one-on-one with several internationals as a skills coach and provides online programs through the Rugby Bricks website.

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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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Strength and Conditioning Templates

PLT4M

A well-structured strength and conditioning program can enhance strength, power, speed, agility, capacity, and endurance while reducing the risk of injury. For years, coaches managed their program design with Excel templates. With Excel, coaches could write training programs with exercises, sets, reps, and percentages.

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Back to Padel School: Talking Padel with Sandy Farquharson

The Sporting

Similar footwork drills to tennis – agility cone drills , ladders etc. Most tennis coaches will know the drop off of people playing tennis due to technical frustration, staleness, difficulty finding a player your level, family commitments etc. What exercises can we do off-court to improve our footwork for Padel?

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Even Moderation in Moderation - Another Case for Work Life Balance

AKA Sports

the key to warming up and cooling down in fitness and life Part 3: Speed and Agility win. A muddy path to who knows where, and an identity built on playing and coaching soccer while going around the country to see a band. To think that over 20 years ago, I was relatively lost. No sure fire career or financial backing.

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