On Monday morning when football training is finished and the students have taken off their boots, they are fortunate to move into YET another amazing learning environment.
The same opportunity awaits the coaches on any given Monday as we move into a continuing education workshop. This workshop is a forum to discuss and explore the myriad of opportunities that exist for us, as coaches, to professionally and personally develop.
This week I have seized the opportunity to present some of the work by someone I admire greatly:
Gabriele Wulf, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Dr. Wulf has produced more than 100 publications in motor learning and control and 35 publications related to attentional focus and motor skills. She initiated the line of research described in this book, External versus Internal Focus of Attention, in the mid-1990s. She has been a section editor for Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport and Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal and has been an editorial board member for Journal of Motor Behavior, Human Movement Science and International Journal of Fitness, as well as an international advisory board member for Physiotherapy. She also served as secretary and treasurer from 2002 to 2004 for the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity.
I have attached the first half of my presentation which I am currently working on. If you would like to see the second half please leave me a comment and I will post it on my next blog.
Through my frequenting of Arsenal forums worldwide, i have become friends with a professional
Coach who is involved in Europe at the youth level.
I touched base with him over the last 6 months when deciding whether or not to send Sean, our 8 y.o., to the college.
Let me tell you all that the coaching our kids are receiving is every bit as good as what kids of the same age are getting Europe, and my friend is mightily impressed at the set up.
He has also stated he wished he lived in Oz……more accurately, near Kariong…. So he could join the IFS.
We are blessed to have kids with talent, and the college so handy to nurture them.
How lucky can we be?
I agree with you Scott. It is a great feeling, knowing that everyone cares so much about making the kids and the college – worlds best practice!
I agree, we are very lucky to have a college like this with amazing coaches and teachers to nuture our children. My son is 12 and in the short time he has been at IFS, has improved in skill and confidence, Thanks Danny and Julie.