2nd Edition
Adventure Sports Coaching
1. Re-conceptualising the adventure sports coach
Loel Collins and Dave Collins
2. Understanding the role of pedagogy in adventure sports coaching
Matt Berry
3. Observing and analysing performance in adventure sports
Craig Pulling, Peter Bunyan, and Sid Sinfield
4. Theories of motor learning and their implications for the adventure sports coach
Phil Kearney and Ed Christian
5. Setting the scene: A framework for coaching practice in adventure sports
Phil Kearney and Ed Christian
6. Exploring the coaching toolbox in adventure sports
Ed Christian and Phil Kearney
7. Coaching the advanced performer
Phil Kearney and Ed Christian
8. Planning for progression
Jane Lomax
9. Tactics: The missing link in performance
Chris Hodgson, Paul Gray, and David Pears
10. Training principles for adventure sports
John Kelly and John Metcalfe
11. Risk management
Chris Hodgson
12. Professionalism and the adventure sports coach
Bill Taylor and Islay McEwan
Biography
Matt Berry, MA (Ed), is a senior lecturer at the University of Chichester, teaching on adventure education and physical education programmes. Matt is an active adventure sports coach in a variety of sports, with a specialist interest in white water kayaking.
Chris Hodgson, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the University of Chichester, teaching on adventure education and physical education programmes. Chris is qualified as a coach in skiing, paddle sport, mountaineering and windsurfing. His area of research interest is human performance and environmental stress.
Jane Lomax, PhD, is a BASES Accredited Sports Science support worker in Sport and Exercise Psychology and Pedagogy. She is a UKCC Level 3 Netball coach, and her Netball coaching experience includes England and British University, National Talent League, Superleague A/C, Performance development and grassroots levels and UK Armed Forces.
