Assistance

Last weekend I went to a tournament that my mentor was coaching his team at and I saw something that interested me. We were late to the tournament in the morning so he wasn't able to get there in time and warm up the girls the way he wanted to so he was hoping that his assistant would be able to pick up the work and warm the girls up without him having to be there. to his disappointment we arrived and saw that the girls were standing around and talking while the assistant was talking to one of the parents. During the game you could tell that the girls were not ready to play and it showed because they had not been warmed up on time and effectively.  This reminded me of two things, first from my independent component 1 I remember that my teams coach picked the right assistant because when he wasn't at practice his assistant was able to run practice just as if the coach had been there himself. The second was from my research when reading my book coaching the mental game by H.A. Dorfman, I read that having a good assistant can help your team build better chemistry and can help relieve some of the stress off of the coach.

                                                        Tournament in Rowland Heights

Blog 18

Content:
EQ: How can a U-16 Soccer Coach best help his team have a winning season?

Answer 3: A U-16 soccer coach can best help his team have a winning season by having an assistants coach whom they can rely on to run practices, make team decisions, and provide useful input on how to better the team.

Support: An important element to coaching is having an assistant who is able to run practices when you are not there. According to coaching the mental game assistant coaches are supposed to be able to keep practices productive even if it is something that you may have not taught to the team as long as it is useful then they are correctly doing the job that you brought them along to do.

Support:Coaches on certain occasions need to be able to decide who is going to play and or what needs to be done in order to help the team win. assistant coaches can provide assistance because they can have previous knowledge and or experience that can help you make a more well informed decision.

Support: assistant coaches bring knowledge, expertise and techniques that can help provide dpth, insight and even varity to a team that can use an extra boost.

Research source: Coaching the mental Game by H.A. Dorfman


Concluding Sentence: A U-16 soccer coach can best help his team have a winning season by having an assistant coach that provides expertise, consistency, diversity, and reliability.

Blog 17: Fourth Interview

Content:

1. How do you get an athlete to do more than they think they can when it comes to their skill level?
2. How do you keep the game in perspective and not focus on just one game?
3. How do you find each kids individual talent?
4. When it comes to kids losing interest how do you motivate them? 
5. How do you stop an athletes ego self worth from getting in the way?
6. In what ways is consistencey important in coaching your team?
7. When is keeping composure important?
8. How can a coach teach technique breakdown to struggling kids?
9. What can count as a reasonable goal for a coach to acheive?
10. What drills help a child learn to become a leader?
11. How does dedication bring a team together?
12. What does a coaches body language do to the way his team plays?
13. How does a coach handle pressure under stressful situations?
14. After losing a big game how do you handle the teams emotions?
15. What advantages does a coach have when the season starts?
16. How qualities should a coach make his team represent?
17. Why should coaches demand respect?
18. What life lessons help your kids learn?
19. How does positivism affect a team?
20. How tolerant should a coach be?

Blog 16 Advisory Meeting #2

Content:  
EQ: How can a U-16 Soccer Coach best help his team have a winning season?
Answer:  A coach can best help his team have a winning season by identifying each players strengths and weaknesses through the use of drills.
 Support:  

• Coaching the Mental Game ( Book) I found in this book that by giving each child a goal they are then able to work on that goal during practices and you can then see what else needs to be worked on. By  telling a child they need to work on shooting you can then have them strengthen that area and then you can move onto another goal.
• What Motivates Athletes ( Article ) If a kid is struggling have them lower their goals to match their efforts or raise their efforts to match their goals. If a kid can not dribble correctly have them focus on one aspect of dribbling then have them work their way up.
• What makes a good coach ( Article ) Coaches should have a basic understanding that each athlete is different, these coaches take the time to get to know the individual player. A coach should ask their players how they feel about the way they play and what they think they should work on. 

Conclusion: 
In order to successfully lead a team a coach must get to know his players and the way they play in order to better understand how to coach the team.

 

Blog 15 Independent Component 2 Approval

1. Describe in detail what you want to do for your 30 Hours?

For my 30 hours for independent component I plan on taking a coaching course and actually coaching during practices and hopefully during games. I want to take the class to actually become a certified coach so I can coach during games. By actually coaching I hope to find answers for my EQ.

2. Discuss how or what you will do to provide 30 hours of evidence.

For evidence I will plan on showing my coaching certificate that i recieve from taking the class and I plan to have pictures of me coaching during games in order to provide evidence that I have completed 30 hours of work.

3. And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

By taking a class I hope to be taught new things on coaching and I hope that it provides me with answers and gives me examples of good coaching. By coaching the team I hope to find evidence on how the players react to certain coaching strategies that can help lead me to answers. 

4. Post log of Independent Component 2 Log

Blog 13 Lesson 2 Reflection

1. Positive Statement

I am most proud of the content that I presented because I felt that the people understood it and it really helped me back up my first answer. I am glad I used the research because that gave me better ways to explain my answer and actually give examples

2. Questions to Consider

I would give myself a P-/AP+ because my content was very good as was the activity but my poster was not and I feel as if I rushed my info when I could have slowed down and focused more on details that I had left to talk about. I also did not end my presentation very well when I should have ended it in a different way.

3. What worked for you in Lesson 2?

What worked in my presentation was the activities I had because they really helped people understand my answer and they were simple for people to know what to do.

4. What didn't work?

I felt that I rushed my info when I could have slowed down and gone more in depth about the details in my answer. I would also fix my PowerPoint and the poster I had because they were not well done and they could have been presented better.

5. What do you think your answer 2 will be?

I think my answer 2 will be on dedication.

Blog 14 Independent Component 1

• Literal   (a) I, Ronnie Martinez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.   

                      (b) I used Coaching The Mental Game(book) and I played soccer for Covina AYSO, I also was a referee at the league.
                      (c) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsdWNjbSwve3dENZdTNpaDlfbGRwY0x0RkNyUEQ4YVE#gid=0  Spreadsheet of Hours
                      (d) During my independent component I wanted to accomplish two things learn what exactly a coach thinks of when his team is playing and how to handle practice. I accomplished those things because during my readings I saw that coaches need to keep composure during practice and they need to have a goal on accomplishing one thing during each practice. I also learned that coaches making changes mid game helps make the team stronger. I learned this while playing on my soccer team and by reffing games for other divisions.

• Interpretive 

                      (a) My work during independent component included playing on my soccer team, reading articles, and reffing games. Playing for my team was significant because it helped me to understand how coaches work during games. I asked questions and even got to help make decisions on what the teams next move should be. By reffing I was able to asses different players attributes and what I would do as a coach. Reffing was significant because being able to ref with my mentor gives us the ability to discuss how teams play and coaching styles that we see as good or bad.

Below are pictures from practices and games that I went to with my mentor

Book I read that helped me understand my topic better

• Applied

                 (a) This component helped me because it helped justify my first answer to my EQ by showing that having a vision in practices and games really does help. the component also helped me better understand my foundation better because it helped me get a better idea on how coaches think during game situations and even how they react. When I was playing for my team I attended practices up to 3 times a week and played one to two games per week. During games I played midfield and I was then asking my coach to be subbed out at least twice to ask the coach questions about some decisions he would make such as players fitness levels and how the team was doing in general. Playing in games helped me to better see what my coach was doing right when we were winning and what wasn't working when we were losing, so this better helped me to answer my EQ by giving me examples on what decisions coaches make mid game.  When I was reffing games I chose games that would be easy for me to evaluate how coaches reacted during games when calls were made. I chose games based on division and the teams overall wins to show what the coach was doing right in order to be successful.Reffing games helped me with my EQ because I got to see how the players were reacting to what the coaches were saying. Reading my book was very helpful because it provided examples of coaches who have found success by using techniques in the book.