Upcoming coaching courses and opportunities across Sussex and surrounding areas.

New Coaching Workshops

England Netball has developed a new series of workshops aimed at providing club coaches / teachers who are regularly planning sessions with a better understanding of a specific area of player and game development, the toolkit required to analyse and correct technique and fresh ideas for building practices and sessions.

Please note: Cheques are to be made payable to England Netball and be received with the candidate booking form by the deadline shown on each workshop.

Getting Physical: Strength and Conditioning for Netball

Where: Downlands Community College, Dale Avenue, Hassocks, West Sussex, BN6 8LP

When: Sunday 5th September

Time: 10:30am - 2:30pm

Cost: £35 Affiliated member £45 non affiliated

 For an application form click HERE. Deadline for entry Friday 27th August 

Course Summary:

Getting physical is a workshop to help coaches understand and implement some key physical training ideas specifically for netball. This is a practical workshop that will take coaches through; injury prevention strategies related to posture and the development of efficient movement patterns and strength development exercises to increase athletic performance on court. Coaches will learn progressive exercises recommended for players progressing along the Excel pathway which have relevance to all levels of performance. Coaches will learn how to incorporate conditioning principles into netball training sessions through varying intensity levels and combining skill practice with fitness training. The workshop will also look at practical and easy methods of measuring player fitness and identify post training recovery methods.

Coach Objectives

• To identify postural weaknesses in athletes and how to correct them

• To identify poor mechanics, explain why they may exist and how to develop them

• To understand the conditioning continuum and how to adapt sessions to target the desired area

• To understand and guide athletes on the benefits and techniques of resistance training

• To understand and implement athlete monitoring and body management methods

Please note that this is a practical workshop and may require coaches to participate in some activities, it is therefore advisable to ensure appropriate clothing and footwear is worn.

Activate: Essential Attacking Skills for Netball

Where: Venue TBC (Mid Sussex)

When: Thursday 18th November

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Cost: £25 Affiliated member £35 non affiliated

Course Summary:

This course will examine the qualities of an attacking player and will explore the methods a player can utilise to get free. The workshop will apply the Games for Understanding approach and review how a meaningful games experience can be embedded in the coaching session. Coaches will be introduced to the principles of attacking play and will observe and analyse performance in relation to these in the workshop. The coach will be equipped with the skills to plan practices which are in a games context and will recognise the value of placing conditions on games to improve the practice. The workshop will address set ups, first and second phase options in a range of game situations. The cues an attacker should attend and respond to will be a feature of the workshop with a particular emphasis on the centre pass.

Outcomes:

By the end of the workshop a coach should be able to:

• Explain the qualities of an attacking player

• Observe and analyse an individual’s performance in relation to the principles of attacking play

• Explain how meaningful games experiences are key to learning as part of the Games for Understanding approach

• Design practices in a conditioned game context

• Describe the various set ups, first and second phase options in a range of game situations

UKCC Level One Course

No courses currentrly running in Sussex.

For details of other Level One coaching courses in the region and further afield go to the England Netball website

UKCC Level Two Course

Dates

29th & 30th January , 19th & 20th February  & 26th Feb 11

Closing Date for applications

22nd December 2010

Venue

Aylesbury College, Oxford Road Campus, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8PD

For details of other Level Two coaching courses in the region and further afield go to the

England Netball website