GNAS National Coaching Development Conference

Meddler · #1 (**permalink**) 25-04-06, 12:54 PM

What was it all about?

From memory (As I don't have the programme in front of me)

Updates on Level 1 (and Levels 2 & 3)

Information on the Performance Unit and how Coaches will help out. There is going to be a talent identification process (not just those archers who shoot scores at tournaments...), and so on.

Loads of info about the 2012 Olympics and how GNAS fits in to the overall Olympic situation (our profile is being / has been raised). Any time we (GNAS) run a major international tournament, we raise the standard for those tournaments to follow in future...

Information on how we are doing with our reorganisation of Coach Training compared to other sports on the UKCC. And, let me tell you, we are doing very well... some sports have asked if they can use OUR Coach training model.

The whole conference was asked to fill out a renewal form (including the CPD requirements), to see what they thought, and 80% of them said the new renewal was easier to work, and that the CPD points system (once explained to them) wasn't a black art, like some people think.

There was a lot of "networking" done in the coffee areas and the networking room (some unkind people call it the bar

...), and a lot of good contacts made. Fr'instance I met people from Cumbria which is 40 miles south of where I live. Where I live, I'm 200(-ish) miles from Aberdeen, and 200(-ish) miles from Lilleshall, so I can cover a farily (that's a cross between fairly and scarily) wide area.

So, all in all, a good weekend, and the National Coaching Conference is next in November...

joetapley · #2 (**permalink**) 25-04-06, 01:15 PM

Ah, so any shifty individual in dark glasses and false beard seen hanging around is probably a GNAS talent scout then.

geoffretired · #3 (**permalink**) 25-04-06, 01:19 PM

Do you have any details on how the coaches will help out with the development unit? Is that coaches at the unit or coaches in general do you know?

Meddler · #4 (**permalink**) 25-04-06, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by geoffretired

Do you have any details on how the coaches will help out with the development unit?

Err... no.

Quote:

Originally Posted by geoffretired

Is that coaches at the unit or coaches in general do you know?

There are Coaches working for/with/in the unit already, but others will be drafted in as required. Archers can bring along their own personal Coaches.

AFAIK Coaches/archers can recommend archers to be "looked at", and that's when the false bearded, sun-glass wearing individual arrives. Or it might be by eyeball by Performance Unit member at a national/regional tournament.

geoffretired · #5 (**permalink**) 25-04-06, 02:38 PM

Thanks for that clarification.

Meddler · #6 (**permalink**) 27-04-06, 03:18 PM

Try following this link

http://scottisharcherycoaching.org.u...erence2006.htm

The presentations and some rather unflattering pictures are there...

Iain.