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Integrating the art and science of coaching in a person-centred environment ensuring coaching effectiveness and healthy, injury-free athletes.
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Dr Mary Ann Dove, Dr Janine Gray and Andrew Gray have launched their new company ‘The Locker Room’ with the aim to expose coaches to some of the latest thinking in coaching best practice and translating scientific research into practical solutions.
The team of experts will provide coaches with tools to develop players as both people and athletes while encouraging participation, performance and personal development.
They will enhance the coaches’ professional and interpersonal knowledge to achieve athlete outcomes in different coaching contexts.
Their aim is to inform the coaches’ responsibility and understanding of injury prevention and management to reduce the attrition rate, improve performance, and contribute to the long-term physical and mental well-being of the athlete.
They will introduce the science of coaching, and identify practices that have been shown to improve performance and a players’ technical ability.
Contact them at https://www.thelockerroom.org.za/
Integrating the art and science of coaching in a person-centred environment ensuring coaching effectiveness and healthy, injury-free athletes.
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Dr Mary Ann Dove, Dr Janine Gray and Andrew Gray have launched their new company ‘The Locker Room’ with the aim to expose coaches to some of the latest thinking in coaching best practice and translating scientific research into practical solutions.
How do you get back to school sport in a safe way?
What does school sport look like after the Corona Virus?
What criteria do you need to follow to run school sport in a safe way?
What does the future of school sport look like?
Professor's Candice Christie (University of Rhodes), policy brief lead, and Professor Rowena Naidoo (University of KZN) led a team of professors, scientists and sporting personalities from most of the universities in South Africa together with other a couple of universities from other countries in Africa and sporting research agencies came up with a brief to assist schools with the best practice guidelines to return sport to schools.
“Sport has the power to change the world” – Nelson Mandela.
Regular participation in exercise, sport and physical activity offers many proven benefits for children and adolescents. Beyond just the obvious physical advantages, physical activity plays an important role in promoting mental health and well-being and social development in children. Schools provide many opportunities for physical activity, in the form of structured and unstructured play, as physical education within the formal academic curriculum or through informal and formal organised sport, including competitive intra- or inter-school activity.
This policy brief focuses on formal organised sport in schools and provides guidelines on how to manage school sport during a pandemic. It is premised on the fact that sports participation is important for both the physical and mental well-being of children, as a platform for safe and enjoyable physical activity, and a foundation for acquiring life skills and promoting social interaction.
This brief draws on the principles and benefits of physical activity articulated by complimentary policy briefs in this series and from other literature. It is the outcome of a collective effort of experts concerned about the current and future impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and adolescents who engage in organised sports in school. As many types of organised sport involves close physical contact, it is designed to provide guidance to all those engaged in organised sport in schools; participating learners, educators, coaches, parents/caregivers, spectators and the communities, on how to practice the best possible safety measures during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
This policy brief is best used alongside safety guidelines developed by Health Departments of national, regional and local governments and international health guidelines, as set out by the World Health Organisation (WHO) pandemic response team. Further, this document augments existing school organised sport policies, but can also serve as a stand-alone guide.
Are mental health issues only for high performers or does everyone suffer from mental health issues?
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How can you use sport to assist kids with mental health issues?
Are you and your team able to deal with the pressures on the field?
What is Mental Health?
Do only to athletes face the pressures on the field?
Has the lockdowns had an affect on athletes and coaches?
How do you deal with various issues on the field of play?
Mental Heath has been in the news quite often in decent times with international sports stars coming out and talking about what they have gone through and how they dealt with it.
When Marcus Trescothick spoke about his difficulties in 2006 which led him to withdraw himself from the English cricket team and eventually retire from international cricket, mental health was still considered something that you don’t talk about. This is stigma still persists but it is finally breaking loosing its stigma as a taboo subject.
According to the U.K. Surgeon Journal (1999), mental health is the successful performance of mental function resulting in productive activities, fulfilling relationships, being able to adapt to change and cope with adversities.
These are things that we all deal with on a daily basis and no one is immune. So how do we deal with it? How can we turn certain situations into a positive and get results from them? How do we help ourselves, other coaches and our athletes?
Eugene Oppelt is a Consulting Psychologist that works with elite athletes and teams across South Africa, including the Stellenbosch University’s Maties Sport High Performance programme.
He dealt with questions around mental health, creating a high performance environment, working with all kids and not just top athletes and finally the effect of the coronavirus on kids and their return to school and playing sport.
Sport is not only a place where kids have mental health issues, it is also a place where mental health issues are dealt with and there are programs in place to assist kids with dealing with life’s problems.
