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    Posted: 01 Jul 2008 at 8:21pm
Will coaching courses make me a better instructor or is it an innate ability
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Hi Catus
 
My advise is to go on a course and find out, Some people are born coaches ( but are they sure they are coaching correctly and to the latest standards), Some people learn how to be a coach.
 
The course's don't  teach you to be a coach, but give you a very good grounding in the methods available to put the information across. You need to get your current coach/Sensei to help you in your own class, Look at how he/she does things. Ask the class after what they thought and how you could do it better.
 
But this is only my opinion, What do other think?
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Hi Catus

Actually I think going on a coach course will help you to teach. It will give you some valuable ideas and you will get pointers and insights from other people on the course. Yes there are people who natural teachers but teaching is just another which can be learnt if your not a natural.

But having a passion for the subject will become infectious.

Personally I think teaching gives you valuable insights into Aikido

Good luck in your choices
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I think coach education - CPD - whatever you like to call it - can give you knowledge and skills. It is then up to the individual coach to apply/use these in order to create a great experience for the student.

But I don't think you can teach 'charisma' - you either have it or you don't. I have attended sessions  taught 'by the book' - lesson plans in place - warm up and cool down - range of teaching methods used etc etc. But the instructor was boring and uninspirational. So I would probably not have wanted to go back. Having said that I do think that coaching experience can create personal growth which can certainly help with the whole charisma thing (confidence and presence etc).
 
Equally I have been to some quite 'dodgy' sessions which were just amazing - fun and exciting and full of passion - where you left on a high feeling fantastic about the whole experience. Maybe the warm up was not perfect - and we didn't do developmental stretching. And maybe there was no lesson plan as such - and some content worked and other didn't. 
 
But which session would I want to go  back to?
 
Of course the best is when you get someone who has all the skills AND the charisma - that is presumably what we all strive for as coaches? 
 
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There is no doubting that Aikido only started through the enthusiastic aikidoka without any formal ‘training’. These giants of Aikido are few and far between but there are very good Aikioists that can add to their skills through the BAB coaching scheme.

 

How many times have I attended a course where, for example I couldn’t hear the instructor or saw the techniques from only one direction? These are overly simplistic comments as there are many more points that are covered on the coaching courses.

 

It is not prudent after a session to say to the instructor would you mind shows the techniques from differing positions as its sure way to be chief uke next time! One senior instructor said coaching was a waste of time as he had been teaching for over 20 years. Someone much braver than me said ‘so you been that bad for 20 years then’.

 

To me a coaching course imparts knowledge and never leaves you with less than what you started with so must be a case of win win. These are teaching skills not aikido skills but to suggest to some high grade that they could learn something is usually taken as an insult to their aikido and this couldn’t be further from the truth.

 
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I have been left totally confused by some coaches, But that was before Grev sent them all on a course%3clap
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Whilst I have no doubts that coach education is a good thing, I sometimes think that some coaches are teaching poor Aikido very well. Without a good solid Aikido base all the coaching skills in the world will not improve the lack of a depth of knowledge.

I was forced into teaching Aikido as a 1st kyu back in 1978, looking back how the club kept going I don't know. Back in the 70's there were less clubs around after passing my shodan I decided that the only way forward was to travel to London on a weekly basis and study with Dr Lee Ah Loi and Ken Broome.

In my view the only way to drive the quality of coaching Aikido up, is that rather than just attend a coach education course instructors should look at improving their technical level of Aikido.
 
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Originally posted by Shaun Hoddy Shaun Hoddy wrote:

In my view the only way to drive the quality of coaching Aikido up, is that rather than just attend a coach education course instructors should look at improving their technical level of Aikido.
 
Well said and I agree with Shaun, only wish I could meet that standard :( 
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