Level 2 coaching course open now

Letyourselfgo

Just a heads up to anyone hoping to do it as it'll fill up fast.

https://events.athleticsireland.ie/ps/event/Level2CoachingCourse2014

RayCun

which areas are you going to do?

Sacksian

Have you both done the Assistant Coach & Level 1 courses? Would you recommend them?

Letyourselfgo

Endurance inc walks and yep I've done the level 1 and it is worth doing. You make some good contacts and pick up some good ideas. Fairly sure also that you need to do the level 1 before you can do level 2.

RayCun wrote: »

which areas are you going to do?

You doing it or have you done it already.

RayCun

Sacksian wrote: »

Have you both done the Assistant Coach & Level 1 courses? Would you recommend them?

I would, if you're coaching juveniles. The endurance running section is probably the weakest area of both courses, but for everything else I found the courses to be very good.

Letyourselfgo

RayCun wrote: »

I would, if you're coaching juveniles. The endurance running section is probably the weakest area of both courses, but for everything else I found the courses to be very good.

Think they've changed the layout for level 2 now, no idea what those changes are though

RayCun

Letyourselfgo wrote: »

You doing it or have you done it already.

No, I might do a refresher on Level 1 this year, and will do the Endurance course if they ever get it off the ground, but I really don't have the time to do level 2 this autumn. Probably next year, if its on again.

Think you have to pick two areas in level 2 by the way - Endurance, Sprints/Hurdles, Jumps, and Throws

wrstan

Thanks for the prompt.

It looks like from the following link that the Level 2 qualification requires you to do 2 weekend modules
1 weekend theory + 1 weekend event specific

Coaches must choose one event group to specialise in from sprint (inc hurdles), jumps, throws or endurance (inc walks).

Can anyone clarify? Also do you know if it's possible to do the modules spread out over a period of time? I might fire off an email to my friendly AI development officer and report back.

I would agree with Ray's assessment of the L1 course - very good, but not much focus on mid/long distance running. The Athletics Leader course was focused on very young athletes, in retrospect I would have done the Assistant Coach course.

RayCun

When some people from the club did the course a year or two ago, I think they picked two event groups and did one per weekend. But it looks from the details here that you pick a single event group and spend two weekends on it.

For anyone thinking of the other courses -

Athletics Leader is really aimed at Little Athletics coaches, working with under 7, under 8, maybe under 9. Strong emphasis on games that teach agility, coordination and speed rather than competition. It's a one-day course.

Assistant Coach is the starter for 'real' coaching. Practical demonstrations (and practice!) of sprints, long jump, shot putt, and discussion of coaching principles, maybe a bit of discussion of distance running. Good for coaching under 9 to under 12 (except there is no training in turbo javelin, which is the starting throw) Another one-day course.

Level 1 is the next step up. Covers sprints, relays, hurdles, walks, long jump, high jump, shot, discus, and javelin - all practical stuff again. More detail on coaching principles, a (tiny) bit of discussion of endurance running. Will bring you up to under 14, thereabouts. Two weekends - a Friday evening and a Saturday on each weekend.

Then level 2 you focus on an event group.

Jnealon

Have signed up to do the level 2 endurance. I've missed this for the last couple of years as it clashed with Berlin, this time it clashes with the XC but it will be worth it

Letyourselfgo

Jnealon wrote: »

Have signed up to do the level 2 endurance. I've missed this for the last couple of years as it clashed with Berlin, this time it clashes with the XC but it will be worth it

Yeah I'll be sacrificing the kids Dublin XC champs but you're right, it'll be worth it.