Adventure Sports Coaching
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 24 December 2025
- ISBN 9781032779959
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 Illustrations, black & white; 15 Illustrations, color; 3 Halftones, black & white; 15 Halftones, color; 12 Line drawings, black & white; 24 Tables, black & white 698
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Short description:
Adventure Sports Coaching was the first book to link contemporary sports coaching science with adventure sports practice examining the set of challenges faced by adventure sports coaches. This edition reflects the new empirical work, and practical guidance, in areas such as technology, techniques and risk management.
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Adventure Sports Coaching was the first book to link contemporary sports coaching science with adventure sports practice and examine the unique set of challenges faced by adventure sports coaches, such as the dynamic natural environment and the requirement to train athletes to levels of high performance outside of traditional structures of competition, and explore both key theory and best practice.
This new and fully updated edition reflects the increased wealth of empirical work and practical guidance in areas such as technology, techniques and risk management developed over the last ten years. The book covers major topics such as
- Skill acquisition and skill development
- Models of learning and teaching
- Performance analysis
- Tactics and decision making
- Training principles
- Mental skills techniques
- Goal setting and progression
- Risk management
Each chapter contains applied examples from a range of adventure sports, including mountaineering, rock climbing, canoeing, kayaking, surfing and winter sport, as well as practical coaching techniques and a guide to further reading. Written by a team of authors with wide experience in coaching, teaching, researching and high-performance participation in adventure sports, this book is invaluable reading for any student or practitioner with an interest in adventure, outdoor education, sports coaching or lifestyle sport.
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1. Re-conceptualising the adventure sports coach. 2. Understanding the role of pedagogy in adventure sports coaching. 3. Observing and analysing performance in adventure sports. 4. Theories of motor learning and their implications for the adventure sports coach. 5. Setting the scene: A framework for coaching practice in adventure sports. 6. Exploring the coaching toolbox in adventure sports. 7. Coaching the advanced performer. 8. Planning for progression. 9. Tactics: The missing link in performance. 10. Training principles for adventure sports. 11. Risk management. 12. Professionalism and the adventure sports coach.
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