1. People:
The PEOPLE made the experience!
“Teaching/Coaching is about the Human Element” (Vern Gambetta)
The willingness of people to share their knowledge, their experiences with everyone, with their roommate, with a fellow GAINer no matter their role (coach, teacher, trainer, doctor); their experience (1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 40 years); their level (Prep School, High School, College, University, Professional, Elite), the occasion (during presentations, practicals, ’Q&A’, informal chats); anytime (during breakfast, lunch or dinner).
Sharing and discussing information and experiences with fellow practitioners helps you develop, improve, get better at what you do by helping you to think, to question, to reflect on your current practices either reinforcing that you are on right path or that you may need to take a little detour to get you back on that path…
2. Basics:
Every aspect of the experience came back to the BASICS.
The Fundamental movements… The Foundations of teaching and coaching…
QUALITY NOT QUANTITY
3. Learning Methods:
There are many ways that we can learn…
GAIN utilises a variety of teaching methods from practical workouts, presentations, practical demonstrations and question and answer sessions.
4. Athlete-Centred:
The GAIN experience is all about making sure that the experience of your athletes, players, and/or students is the best that it can be…
That their Athletic Development journey/pathway is individualised at every stage of the process to meet their current needs, their trainability (i.e. are they ready to train/play), the demands of the sport(s) that they play, and the position(s) that they play in…
5. Development:
The very nature of why you attend GAIN…
To become the best that you can be, to get better, to learn, to improve for the benefit of your athletes/players/students that you teach/coach/mentor.
No matter how much experience you have, or how many years you have been teaching and/or coaching, you can always take every opportunity as a learning experience to get better.
Vern Gambetta (GAIN Founder) “Coaching the BEST to be BETTER…”
Nick Hill
Website: www.nickhillcoaching.com
Twitter: @NH_coaching_
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