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Coaching adventure sports has been largely neglected in the adventure studies literature. This is the first book to link contemporary sports coaching science with adventure sports practice. It examines the unique set of challenges faced by adventure sports coaches, such as the natural environment and the requirement to train athletes to levels of high performance outside traditional structures of competition.
Written by an international team of authors with wide experience of coaching, teaching, researching and high performance participation in adventure sports, this book is invaluable reading for any student or practitioner with an interest in outdoor education or sports coaching.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Conceptualising the Adventure Sports Coach 2. Understanding the Role of Pedagogy in Adventure Sports Coaching 3. Observing and Analysing Performance in Adventure Sports 4. Theories of Motor Learning and their Implications for the Adventure Sports Coach 5. Setting the Scene: A Framework for Coaching Practice in Adventure Sports 6. Coaching Tools for Adventure Sports 7. Coaching the Advanced Performer 8. Planning for Progression 9. Tactics: The Missing Link in Performance 10. Training Principles for Adventure Sports 11. Using Mental Skills in Your Adventure Coaching 12. Risk Management 13. Professionalism and the Adventure Sports Coach
About the author
Matt Berry is a lecturer at the University of Chichester teaching on adventure education and physical education programmes. Matt is an active adventure sports coach in a variety of sports but with a specialist interest in white water kayaking
Jane Lomax is a lecturer at the University of Chichester teaching on adventure education and physical education programmes. Jane is an active ski and netball coach and is also a BASES accredited sports scientist dealing with mental skills training
Chris Hodgson is a lecturer at the University of Chichester teaching on adventure education and physical education programmes. Chris is qualified as coach in skiing, paddle sport, mountaineering and windsurfing. His particular area of research interest is in human performance and environmental stress
