Coaching Talk

[cestria]

We have litlle problem at our club in January.

As we shoot in a school hall, the school needs the hall for mock exams for three weeks. NO SHOOTING . There have been several suggestions about what we should do, but I'm wondering if the club would benefit from employing the services of a "Proffesional" coach to give some kind of seminar for one or more of the weeks off.

This poses several questions

1 Do such people exsist?
2 Would they be prepared to do it?
3 What kind of costs are involved?
4 What would the club and its members get from it?

How easy it would be to get the club to agree would depend on some of the answers to the above.

[geoffretired]

The benefits depend on the levels of understanding and interests of the members. If there are lots of new members, who are getting little or no coaching and are drifting into bad habits, one good talk could give them a better way forward. I'm sure there are AIUK members round your area who will know who to contact to find a coach. Discussing a list of what the members needs to learn would be a good idea too.

[Erika]

Perhaps contact a top archer and invite them to visit your club. If you pay travel, food and accommodation (even just put them up and feed them), you may be able to tempt someone to come down and talk to your archers.

[Munsterman]

take a look at the Essex coaching Guild for some ideas. They have quite a structured approach to sminars. Other examples will no doubt exist

[Meddler]

Why not approach your local coaching group?

Just a thought...

[grimsby archer]

Originally Posted by Meddler

Why not approach your local coaching group?

Just a thought...

If I understand what you are saying, you want something (archery based) for your archery club members to do, but you can't actually do any shooting.

May I suggest you look up a "sports psychologist"
try the web, or even your yellow pages/thompson local etc

Many archers accept that the mental (quit the jokes) side of archery makes up as much as 90% of the ability to shoot well. There are many skills and methods that can be learned or applied to archers and archery such as goal setting, imagery, hypnosis, nlp, coping skills (even cures for the dreaded target panic) etc Certainly many olympic archers and top sportsmen and women from other sports use these mental skills to gain an advantage.

These skills are not archery specific, though it might be useful to find a sports psychologist that specialises in "target" sports such as rifle shooting, or more commonly golf.

There are lots of qualified sports psychologists around and many will give talks, and group sessions. Remember they are professionals, so be prepared to pay for their services, though with several of you, the cost shouldnt be frightening.

[cestria]

Hi G.A.
Yes that's the scenario. The slightly better news is, that yesterday we were told that the hall is only required for two weeks not three as originally planned. However the idea of a sports psychologist is not a bad idea if we can organise it in time.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by cestria

Hi G.A.
Yes that's the scenario. The slightly better news is, that yesterday we were told that the hall is only required for two weeks not three as originally planned. However the idea of a sports psychologist is not a bad idea if we can organise it in time.

County Durham? - doesn't ASW live up your way?

John

[hypertigger]

i thought that asw was in edinburgh...

[Furface]

North of Watford, innit!

You could even go right back to basics, and have maintenance workshops. You'd be surprised how many don't really know how to fletch!