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Features of the Old Way New Way^® sports coaching skills workshop.

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Skills coaching workshop

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Sports coaching skills workshops

Old Way New Way^® coaching was reviewed by the Australian Sports Commission in Sports Coach, 2003, Vol. 25, No.4, Australia's national coaching journal, aimed at the practising coach.

This generic coaching skill based on discoveries in cognitive science is being used by coaches at the South Australian Sports Institute, the Research Institute for Olympic Sports in Finland, and by many successful coaches world wide.

Old Way New Way^® more quickly:

• eradicates bad habits, persistent faults and faulty technique
• accelerates changeovers to new codes, new rules, new equipment and new techniques
• improves transfer of training to competition.

Workshop details (Brisbane and environs):

Audience: All 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.

Days available: Saturday, Sunday, public holidays. Other days by special arrangement.

Duration: One day. Theoretical underpinnings and practical demonstrations in the morning; hands-on supervised practical application for individual participants in the afternoon.

Location: The client provides the location and all facilities, e.g., at club premises, including the training room; sports equipment (e.g., bats, balls, racquets, court, playing field, etc); instructional facilities (whiteboard, video playback facility); and catering.

Cost: AU$150 per head, including GST. Payment by VISA, Mastercard, Bankcard, AMEX, direct bank transfer into account, cheque (subject to clearance). Book in advance. Full payment should accompany bookings.

Group size: Minimum 4; maximum 12; larger numbers by negotiation.

Certificate: A Certificate of Completion is issued to those who complete the full day’s program.

Provider: Personal Best Academy. Specialists in Old Way New Way Learning Systems.

Conditions: Locations outside Brisbane will incur an additional fee to cover travel and/or accommodation expenses. Quotes valid for 30 days.

Workshop bookings: Please phone, fax, write (see below) or email us for a price.

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 describes the features of the Old Way New Way^® sports coaching skills workshop.