My First Research Papers

Recently I was contacted by Sports Coach UK to do some research for them into 2 areas. The first being how coaches can use technology to improve their coaching, aimed mainly at grassroots coaching. The second was to look into methods of how coaches can share best practice online. Both pieces are really only an overview of what could really be looked into and I would have loved more time to write my articles however both appear to have been very well received very well. The links to the report are shown below. Feel free to comment and rate them on the Sports Coach UK website, all feedback is welcome!

Report 1: http://www.sportscoachuk.org/resource/technology-use-your-coaching

Report 2: http://www.sportscoachuk.org/resource/sharing-good-practice-coaching

A database of ideas for coaches… Help Needed!

I have a new project that I want to start up and need your advice on it. I think that for coaches there are a number of websites with session plans and others with other information. There are others which enable coaches to communicate between each other (sportscoachlinks.com, twitter, etc.) However I want to create a way of having a coaching database. A place where everyone can upload ideas of things that have worked or not, theory behind ideas and session plans for each sport. I think that as coaches communicating and sharing is brilliant but we need one central place to do this. So I am currently setting this up however I would like 2 things from people if you don’t mind:

A first stage of editors (volunteers please) and a list of topics that you would like covered.

I will then try to split up the site into different areas. Please email me, leave a comment on here or send me a message on twitter/facebook with your ideas. If we all work together to produce one resource for coaches it will end up very useful for everyone!