'Those with the fewest initials...' how true. But where does the funding go? In the UK, it goes (and stops) with the administrators in the NGBs: more centralised roles (and salaries). Instead of funding going to upskill coaches in local areas and help them obtain funding.
Ugh. I get fed up with NGBs thinking the clubs are there to justify their existence instead of the other way around.
Yes - this is the top-down v bottom-up grassroots approach. IMO, they need to occur simultaneously. I think sometimes we (at grassroots) do not understand some of the bureaucratic/political/financial aspects of NGBs that tie their hands.
You are right in what you say. However, until we bring in practitioners who have worked with youth at the base levels and create workshops with parents and youth sport organizations who will always be the coaches at the grass roots levels, we are again just talking. These volunteers at this level, not only want to know what but how to implement what we have been saying for 30-40 years.
I refer back to Simon Senek"s Golden Circle, Why/How/What.
The research has been done, we know it needs to happen. As Josef Drabek say in his book, Children and Sports Training: How Your Future Champions Should Exercise to Be Healthy, Fit, and Happy.
It starts with quality Physical Education.
I have said this in many presentations NSCA and others. Everyone is an athlete who has a body. Some just better than others
Youth Strength and Conditioning /Physical Education should emphasize:
1. Physical Literacy
2. Teach before you Train
3. Stabilization before Strength
4. Bodyweight before Barbells
5.Range of Motion before Resistance
6. Basic Movement before Sport Specific
We are doing a poor job on Fundamentals, then jump immediately to Train to Win.
Thanks for the response Pat. I agree about the inclusion of practitioners and also for the vital need for (quality) phys ed, hence why SHAPE is included in the Collective Impact group. But it seems at this time, American phys ed is most interested in SEL despite the fact that a holistic approach that emphasizes your points can/will also develop SEL if led by well-educated and crafty practitioner.
As for LTAD in Canada: they've lost the plot. They now use the plank as a measure of physical literacy! The least athletic movement of all, but easy to measure. They wanted something 'quantifiable' rather than investing in good quality physical education.
In the UK, few of us know about Rudolf Laban's movement framework and how to implement it. In the 1970s this was a staple of p.e. teacher education.
'Those with the fewest initials...' how true. But where does the funding go? In the UK, it goes (and stops) with the administrators in the NGBs: more centralised roles (and salaries). Instead of funding going to upskill coaches in local areas and help them obtain funding.
Ugh. I get fed up with NGBs thinking the clubs are there to justify their existence instead of the other way around.
Yes - this is the top-down v bottom-up grassroots approach. IMO, they need to occur simultaneously. I think sometimes we (at grassroots) do not understand some of the bureaucratic/political/financial aspects of NGBs that tie their hands.
You are right in what you say. However, until we bring in practitioners who have worked with youth at the base levels and create workshops with parents and youth sport organizations who will always be the coaches at the grass roots levels, we are again just talking. These volunteers at this level, not only want to know what but how to implement what we have been saying for 30-40 years.
I refer back to Simon Senek"s Golden Circle, Why/How/What.
The research has been done, we know it needs to happen. As Josef Drabek say in his book, Children and Sports Training: How Your Future Champions Should Exercise to Be Healthy, Fit, and Happy.
It starts with quality Physical Education.
I have said this in many presentations NSCA and others. Everyone is an athlete who has a body. Some just better than others
Youth Strength and Conditioning /Physical Education should emphasize:
1. Physical Literacy
2. Teach before you Train
3. Stabilization before Strength
4. Bodyweight before Barbells
5.Range of Motion before Resistance
6. Basic Movement before Sport Specific
We are doing a poor job on Fundamentals, then jump immediately to Train to Win.
As said in LTAD Canada:
Preferred Sequence:
* Create the Athlete
*Make a player out of the athlete
1. Have a PLAN
2. Build a FOUNDATION
This is the PROCESS
TECHNIQUE:
Teach the Process
Not the Product
Just my opinion
Thanks for the response Pat. I agree about the inclusion of practitioners and also for the vital need for (quality) phys ed, hence why SHAPE is included in the Collective Impact group. But it seems at this time, American phys ed is most interested in SEL despite the fact that a holistic approach that emphasizes your points can/will also develop SEL if led by well-educated and crafty practitioner.
As for LTAD in Canada: they've lost the plot. They now use the plank as a measure of physical literacy! The least athletic movement of all, but easy to measure. They wanted something 'quantifiable' rather than investing in good quality physical education.
In the UK, few of us know about Rudolf Laban's movement framework and how to implement it. In the 1970s this was a staple of p.e. teacher education.
I have been familar with the movement wheel and always associated with Graham but learned it came from Laban. I have a blog on it in the queue
The “quit by 13” was emphasize on Good Morning America about a week ago. So, the word is out and the time to strike is now
The quit by 13