October 5th 2012
Today was the 1st practical of 'The Reflective Coach' module. Our aim of the session this morning was to look at different types of sport; Invasion sports, Court sports, Stick/Racquet sports, Target sports, A-B-C's (Agility, Balance, Co-ordination).
For this practical, it was vital that we understood what each type of sport entailed. Our task was then to devise a fun activity to help develop particular skills required for them types or sport (E.g. Court games - Spatial Awareness).
Our group started off well, and continued to get better as we went through the different types of sport. Cliff made a small suggestion after our first activity, he told the group to strip it right down to the very basics and focus on that. With that in mind we progressed through each activity, stripping them down to the basics and got better as we progressed.
We found it a lot easier to come up with activities once we broke it down, however we struggled when we got to the A-B-C's (Agility, Balance, Co-Ordination). This was because they are the basic fundamental skills required to play any of the types of sport and we had to devise an activity which incorporated all 3 of them.
We showed/demonstrated our activity Cliff, who then stepped in to once again help us by suggesting we altered our activity slightly so that it incorporated all 3 skills more. This helped us greatly as we had included Agility and Co-Ordination, but our activity didn't focus on Balance as much as we had hoped.
After the session I went away with a greater understanding of how to devise an activity, by stripping it down to the very basics. This will definitely help me in future practicals where I may be asked to do something similar.
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