1st Edition
Teaching and Coaching Lifestyle Sports Research and Practice
Section 1: Introducing lifestyle sports
1. Teaching and Coaching Lifestyle Sports: A Primer
Thomas M. Leeder and Lee C. Beaumont
Section 2: Physical education and lifestyle sports
Ken Green and Patrick Foss Johansen
Tristan L. Wallhead, Kelly L. Simonton, Tamara Abu-Ramadan, and Cynthia Hartung
4. Teaching and Learning Movement Capability in Physical Education: Learning from Freeskiers
Gunn Nyberg
5. Physical Education – Lifestyle Sport, Neoliberalism, and Childhoods
Richard Blair
6. Using Lifestyle Sports to Create a ‘Meaningful’ Physical Education Experience
Jordan Wintle, Liz Durden-Myers, and Kiara Lewis
7. Embedding Lifestyle Sports into a 21st Century Physical Education Curriculum: A Motivational Perspective and Challenges of Integration
Victoria E. Warburton and Lee C. Beaumont
Section 3: Sport Coaching and Lifestyle Sports
8. High-performance Coach Learning and Development in Lifestyle Sports: Looking at the Surfing Context
Vinicius Zeilmann Brasil, Eva Ellmer, and François Rodrigue
9. The Impact of Professionalisation and Structured Coaching Programmes in Skateboarding and Freestyle BMX: A Socio-cultural Analysis
Ben Gould
10. Understanding Parkour as a Donor Sport for Athlete Learning and Development
Ben W. Strafford, Keith Davids, Jamie S. North, and Joseph A. Stone
11. “Orienteering is a way of life”: Learning from and for Lifestyle Sports Coaching
Thomas M. Leeder and Lee C. Beaumont
12. Self-, Peer-, and Performance Coaching: Observations from BMX in Australia
Eva Ellmer
13. Flexibility, Adaptability, and Creativity: A Culture for the Lifestyle Sports Coach
Loel Collins and Eric Brymer
Section 4: Conclusion
14. Concluding Thoughts on Teaching and Coaching Lifestyle Sports: Steps Forward for Research and Practice
Thomas M. Leeder and Lee C. Beaumont
Biography
Thomas M. Leeder is a Lecturer in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. His research interests primarily focus on the professional learning and development of physical education teachers and sport coaches, via the use of qualitative research methods and sociological frameworks.
Lee C. Beaumont is an Associate Professor in Physical Education in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. His research interests lie in the area of physical education and sport pedagogy, with a particular emphasis on health-related policy and practice within physical education, the promotion of healthy active lifestyles in young people, sport coaching, outdoor education, and lifestyle sports.
"The editors quote one definition of “lifestyle sports” as “a range of participatory, informal, and thrill-seeking urban and rural sporting activities that are qualitatively different to traditional, rule-bound, competitive, and institutionalised sport” (p. 3). Examples include surfing, snowboarding, parkour, skateboarding, bicycle motocross (BMX), climbing, orienteering, and mountain biking. The popularity of these formerly fringe sports has grown, and some have been included in recent Olympics. As they become more formally accepted, it has become increasingly necessary to institutionalize their parameters. After a solid introductory chapter, the editors organize this collection into two tracks: six chapters on teaching lifestyle sports in a physical education curriculum and six chapters on coaching. The editors contribute one coaching chapter on orienteering. The other contributing authors are on the faculty at various international universities, and the chapters range from research studies to theoretical discussions of lifestyle sports. In the final chapter, the editors provide good summaries of the previous chapters and make suggestions for future research. Their enthusiasm for this topic is apparent, and this book should be a welcome addition to sports research."
--J. A. Badics, Eastern Michigan University
