Do you enjoy swimming and love the fun that comes with being deep inside the water? If your answer is yes, you have a starting point to make it in coaching swimmers. However, fantasy in swimming does not translate to being a good coach, hence you need to pay attention to the following lessons from a swim team coaching from the City of West Chester.
Coaching calls for you to be excellent if not an accomplished swimmer. Going back to class may not be an option for you, but it is worth it in order to put yourself up to date with swimming techniques. In any sport players believe they are as good as their coach so work on demonstrating this by acquiring the required skills. Practice makes perfect they say so if you have been out of swimming for a while some of the skills you possessed may have turned brunt by now. You should consider sharpening them by enrolling into a class.
Paying attention is one of the special gift you need to posses. By doing so you can identify players strengths as well as weaknesses and as the coach identify ways of improving on them. For example, how often do you spot a swimmer performing excellently in backstrokes? If you spot one take your time to encourage them to continue and improve on the same.
Feedback is crucial so you need to establish a mechanism of getting some. Your greatest source of information on how you are faring are your swimmers. Always be open and encourage honest discussions. Being strict will stifle down any attempt by swimmers to open up about your coaching career. Winning trophies is the ultimate goal for any competition but failure to win is not the end. As a swim coach you need to make this be known to your swimmers. However, avoid using it as a scapegoat to loosing so it is good to always focus on winning, but be accommodating of any failure that come your way.
The ultimate desire for any team is to win trophies in competition, but sometimes defeat is inescapable. When failure knocks swimmers often fills defeated and sometimes develop a low self esteem. In life generally, success is not final and failure is not fatal so make sure your players understand this well. However, the above mantra is prone to misuse when used to discourage doing the best hence you should be on the lookout.
The title coach can be overwhelming and you may tend to think of yourself as the best. If this happens, it may be the beginning of your downfall. Always remember that the number of years you have spent in coaching does not necessarily translate to experience, but the number of lessons you have acquired equals your experience. Swimming can be equated with class work where the most hardworking students do not necessarily top the class. To be a good coach you need to ensure that hard work is coupled with talent. With this combination you can be assured of good results.
To excel in anything calls for discipline and coaching requires that you possess more of it. Be a good example and be assured that your swimmers will follow suit. Discipline calls for punctuality in keeping time and always putting a clear line between social life and your profession. Having a list of rules that swimmers should adhere to will not help if you are the first one to break these rules.
Enjoying what you do will assure you success in it. Lastly, always remember that you are just a facilitator as the most important coach lives within the player. It is however your task to develop this real coach so just acts as their assistant.
Coaching calls for you to be excellent if not an accomplished swimmer. Going back to class may not be an option for you, but it is worth it in order to put yourself up to date with swimming techniques. In any sport players believe they are as good as their coach so work on demonstrating this by acquiring the required skills. Practice makes perfect they say so if you have been out of swimming for a while some of the skills you possessed may have turned brunt by now. You should consider sharpening them by enrolling into a class.
Paying attention is one of the special gift you need to posses. By doing so you can identify players strengths as well as weaknesses and as the coach identify ways of improving on them. For example, how often do you spot a swimmer performing excellently in backstrokes? If you spot one take your time to encourage them to continue and improve on the same.
Feedback is crucial so you need to establish a mechanism of getting some. Your greatest source of information on how you are faring are your swimmers. Always be open and encourage honest discussions. Being strict will stifle down any attempt by swimmers to open up about your coaching career. Winning trophies is the ultimate goal for any competition but failure to win is not the end. As a swim coach you need to make this be known to your swimmers. However, avoid using it as a scapegoat to loosing so it is good to always focus on winning, but be accommodating of any failure that come your way.
The ultimate desire for any team is to win trophies in competition, but sometimes defeat is inescapable. When failure knocks swimmers often fills defeated and sometimes develop a low self esteem. In life generally, success is not final and failure is not fatal so make sure your players understand this well. However, the above mantra is prone to misuse when used to discourage doing the best hence you should be on the lookout.
The title coach can be overwhelming and you may tend to think of yourself as the best. If this happens, it may be the beginning of your downfall. Always remember that the number of years you have spent in coaching does not necessarily translate to experience, but the number of lessons you have acquired equals your experience. Swimming can be equated with class work where the most hardworking students do not necessarily top the class. To be a good coach you need to ensure that hard work is coupled with talent. With this combination you can be assured of good results.
To excel in anything calls for discipline and coaching requires that you possess more of it. Be a good example and be assured that your swimmers will follow suit. Discipline calls for punctuality in keeping time and always putting a clear line between social life and your profession. Having a list of rules that swimmers should adhere to will not help if you are the first one to break these rules.
Enjoying what you do will assure you success in it. Lastly, always remember that you are just a facilitator as the most important coach lives within the player. It is however your task to develop this real coach so just acts as their assistant.
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