Sport coaching is a practice that has gained an important recognition in the prevailing academics. In the playing field, the presence of coaches has allowed them to raise their own instructional manuals to educate the trainees while still gaining information on its professionalism. Researchers explain the training methods involved in sports, the type of diet recommended for the participants, and psychology among other important issues covered by the coaches in their field (Williams & Anderson, 2006). In this regard, the coaches engage in practices that depend heavily on the knowledge and experience they have attained from the area. Essentially, most of these coaches attain the skills from learning or participating as players in the section they are coaching. For instance, the players who train to become coaches are aided by the information and familiarity they gain as player (Potrac, 2013). Potrac (2013) has argued that coaching is growing and surpassing from traditional hallmarks certainly. The following paragraphs present some of the literature reviews that demonstrate and support this hypothesis.
A study conducted by Duffy et al. (2011) addressed several issues including the creation of a center to enhance participation in sport coaching. The research from these researchers explained how the current sport coaching is different from the previous versions. In this light, the prevailing coaching is based on knowledge, purpose, ethics, and organization which make it a profession to the interested parties. In their research, Duffy et al. (2011) have encouraged participation that suite one’s interest and experience in the coaching field. This differs from the traditional setup where coaches practiced strategies dictated by other individuals and therefore denying the implementers a freedom to initiate new strategies. The results and conclusions retrieved from this research supported the hypothesis accordingly. Finally, the research performed by Rangeon, Gilbert, and Brunner (2011) described the prevailing development of sport coaching through comprehensive explanations. The research pointed some steps to be improved including the incorporation of recent information technologies to gather new information among other.
Issues Faced During Coaching Responsibilities
The coaching career comes with various challenges which are depicted by the players and coaches. Therefore, this section will avail some of these issues challenging the coaching career and the people in it.
Having poor communication skills
Although the sport coaching seems easy to manage, there are challenges like poor communication skills that prevent credible performance among the players. For example, when the coach is unable to communicate and emphasize in an authoritative manner, the learners or players might become ignorant on the instructions issued during the field practices. However, communication skills can be improved through learning stringently to eliminate the weakness.
Procrastination habit
In most cases, procrastination results to unfinished goals and partial achievement. Coaches face this problem due to other commitments elsewhere, which bring their practices to low performances.
Lack of commitment
Lack of commitment is another challenge that most coaches have to deal with in their practices. Commitment is prevented by the needs to incorporate other promising careers and take sport coaching as an additional one. However, it can be solved through making the coaching practices professional and not hobbies (Williams & Anderson, 2006).
Lack of proper direction
Appropriate and relevant instructions become an issue to sport coaching at times. This is due to lack of enough experiences to show and motivate the players how to play successfully.
References
Duffy, P., Hartley, H., Bales, J., Crespo, M., Dick, F., Vardhan, D.,…Curado, J. (2011). Sport Coaching as a “profession”: Challenges and futures directions. International journal of Coaching Science, 5(2), 93-123.
Potrac, P. (2013). Routledge handbook of sports coaching. New York: Routledge.
Rangeon, S., Gilbert, W., Brunner, M.(2011). Mapping the world of coaching science: a citation network analysis, Journal of Coaching education, 5(1), 83-108.
Williams, P., & Anderson, S. K. (2006). Law & ethics in coaching: how to solve and avoid difficult problems in your practice. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.