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Rapid Technique Improvement module now available for all coaches, athletes and players. Flash based online course. Win and Mac.  AU$59  

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This page describes our generic technique improvement routine which is applicable to athletes and coaches in every sport.

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Technique correction: Rapid technique improvement routines

The Old Way New Way^® Rapid Technique Improvement is an advanced sports coaching skills course designed for:

• skills coaches, sports coaches and sport psychologists
• athletes and players in all sports and at all levels right up to Olympic sport.

Old Way New Way^® coaching can enrich your coaching experience and greatly improve your coaching effectiveness.

Professor Yuri Hanin, Professor of Sport Psychology at the Research Institute for Olympic Sports in Finland, says this about the online sports coaching course in Old Way New Way^®, on which the CD-ROM course is based.

"I've been using Old Way New Way^® for rapid correction of consistent errors in technique with track and field athletes (javelin, hammer throwing and sprinting), with a pro-tour female golfer, and also with a soccer team. All nine interventions were very successful. At the same time, we collaborated with Paul to advance our research into skill development and correction with elite athletes and still do."

"There are several benefits that I have experienced using Old Way New Way. It is very practical; the technical problem is solved quickly and completely in just one single session; the results are immediate, there is no adaptation period as with conventional skill development and correction."

"Moreover, the observed technique improvement is permanent and extends into psychological benefits such as feelings of empowerment, enhanced self-confidence, satisfaction with the elimination of errors, better understanding, higher motivation and a desire to engage in more high quality training of this kind. A single learning trial lasting from one to two hours, including an half hour warm up, usually results in 80% or better improvement in performance. The new way (corrected skill) is consistently performed and spontaneous recovery of errors, if any, is easily handled. Skill improvement also directly transfers to competitive performance, as shown in our case studies [with Olympic athletes and their coaches - read The Sport Psychologist, 2002, 16, 81-101] . Under conventional skill correction methods, technique difficulties still resisted correction after months and, in some cases, years of effort."

Old Way New Way^® coaching is well grounded in psychological learning theory and is verified by published experimental research in refereed professional journals. Furthermore, the record of its success in practical situations stands unrivaled.

The course will provide you with information, demonstrations, and step by step instructions so you can quickly start using Old Way New Way^® to accelerate an athlete's learning.

You will learn the fascinating theoretical background of Old Way New Way; discover how it has been used to quickly correct technique and other performance problems in elite sport; see a step by step demonstration of its use with an athlete; learn to prepare your own skill correction protocols that you can use in many different skills coaching situations; and learn how to use Old Way New Way^® to speed up technique correction, recover quickly from performance slumps, and accelerate skill transitions.

The contents of the course include:

• course introduction, learning objectives, and rationale for the course structure
• background reading for the practical assignments, with a self administered test of understanding of the main concepts, accompanied by model answers
• demonstration of a brain mechanism that slows down change and improvement, and makes old habits die hard
• practical assignments that teach you the steps in Old Way New Way Coaching
• practical assignments that guide you, step by step, to use Old Way New Way, first to change your own behaviour and sport performance, and then to change an athlete's performance
• four video segments that shows you how to correct specific performance problems in different sports
• other practical assignments that show you how to use Old Way New Way to change the performance of team members, and whole teams
• a generic Old Way New Way^® protocol template, the Coach's Checklist, that you can use in many different kinds of technique correction situations and other performance problems
• stepwise comparison of Old Way New Way^® and conventional coaching, so you can quickly understand where they overlap, and see the important differences
• case studies of how Old Way New Way^® can improve sport performance in Olympic javelin and sprinting, swimming, golf, cricket, lacrosse, baseball, lawn bowls, soccer, football, and running.
• examples of how Old Way New Way^® has been used in physical therapy, and its use to accelerate the learning of mental skills
• how to use Old Way New Way^® for skill transition training
• list of published research that underpins this methodology
• implementation support options, including e-consultation, an online course, and on-site consultation
• details of optional collaboration on research using Old Way New Way

Go to the order form now to place your order. We accept major credit cards (VISA, Master Card, AMEX) and other secure forms of payment.

For background information on the Old Way New Way^® Coaching method, please visit www.coachingwins.com

Rapid technique improvement routines - new formats

Choose from these three rapid technique correction routine formats, from AU$59 to $395, covering all sports.

1. Technique correction - full course including four instructional videos

This Flash based course covers all sports, with specific step-by-step examples of how to correct technique faults in a range of Olympic and other sports, including elite and recreational. Contains four video segments showing how specific technique problems were corrected. Available online for AU$59. Currency conversion. Order form.

2. Technique correction - individual tailor-made online course

Custmised online coach development course includes all the course materials on CD-ROM, plus step-by-step guidance and email support in a course that is customised just for you for AU$395. Currency conversion. Order form.

3. Technique correction - coach development workshop

One-day rapid technique correction workshop tailor made for sports, athletics and track and field coaches, skills coaches, martial arts instructors and others providing technique correction, skill transition training, breaking bad habits in any sport, from beginner to advanced level including Olympic. More information.

Improving too slowly?

Sports coaches and players try to get it right the first time but invariably end up spending a lot of time trying to correct technique faults and bad habits that somehow develop.

Once established, habit pattern errors like technique faults are notoriously hard to correct because they actually disable learning of correct technique and slow down or completely block improvement. This makes an athlete uncompetitive and can lead to a career-threatening performance slump.

The typical advice to practice skill drills and train hard is usually not very effective. The athlete may appear to improve during training but repeatedly falls back to old ways under pressure of competition.

Transfer of training from skills coaching sessions and practice drills to competition is consequently poor.

Transition training, required when the athlete has to change over to a new code, new equipment, new techniques or new rules, presents similar adjustment difficulties. Old habits die hard.

Fortunately, a coaching science discovery called Old Way New Way^® Sports Coaching offers:

1. A new perspective on the transfer of training problem.

2. A cost-effective and user-friendly method for rapid skill and technique correction, and habit correction.

3. A fast and practical method of sports transition training.

This page explains how established and habitual technique faults can interfere with skill development and learning of correct technique.

This page describes the training programs in this award winning approach to coaching sport.