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Kelly Wolfe
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| | Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 9:49 am: |       |
Do you feel it is better to be a command style coach or a cooperative style coach? Command, meaning the coach makes all decisions and cooperative meaning the decision making is shared between both the athlete and the coach. Why do you feel this way? |
Kris (Kdk4988)
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Username: Kdk4988
Post Number: 1
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 8:03 am: | |
I feel that in coaching, a cooperative style works better with the decision making being shared by both the player and coach. Players need guidance but they also need to be allowed freedom when playing the game. Some players respond well to command style, while others do not. I think it is key to find a style that is somewhere in the middle that caters to the vast majority of players. If you stick to one style, this could help some players, but harm many others as well. |
Michael Combs (Mxc6785)
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Username: Mxc6785
Post Number: 2
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 9:10 am: | |
I am going to say that from my experience, I find that a cooperative style of coaching is far more effective. When you coach in a cooperative manner, it allows the athletes to get more involved in the sport. I think that this helps cater to their individual knowledge of the sport. Now obviously I am not saying that the coach should let the athletes do whatever they want, but I do believe that it is important to discuss why you are doing what you are doing. This will help them understand your reasoning, and give the athletes a chance to provide you with input. |
eric olson (Grizzly)
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Username: Grizzly
Post Number: 1
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 9:28 am: | |
To my experience i have had many different kinds of coaches such as command and cooperative. Its hard to explain but the days of Bobby Knight are over, kids these days just will not put up with coaches like that, but you can still be a coach in that aspect. It just takes time to develope kids trust like that. But when i was having the most fun in sports i had a coach that was both kinds of coaching. He was young, and right off the bat he demanded alot out of us, but he knew not to push us to hard because it was a long season and he knew we would all be their at the end for him. He told me once that you have to read your athletes, for instance you can get on one kid if he is not doing so well but then for another kid that isnt doing so well you have to talk to him in a different way, use the sandwich effect, a good thing he did, then the bad, and a good to end it. it really does have a great effect on athletes. |
Joe Fishel (Joefishel)
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Username: Joefishel
Post Number: 2
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 6:11 am: | |
What sport are you coaching? Each sport has its own unique culture, so your coaching style should fit a particular sport. For instance, the style one uses to coach football should not the be same style that one uses to coach golf. Regardless of the sport, the players need to know that the coach is the ultimate authority. If you choose the cooperative style, give the players choices that you would feel appropriate, not necessarily what they think is appopriate. In choosing this style of cooperative coaching, the players believe they are making the choices, but in reality, you are still the authority figure. For example in a football practice, give the players the choice of whether they want to run 10 40 yard sprints or 4 100 yard sprints for conditioning. Either way, they are still running the same distance. I don't want to get into a side discussion of how these types of sprints are different, it is just an example. But, the players believe that they have made the choice of what to run. In reality, you have chosen it for them. Just one example of many that could be used for |
Casey Slusser (Slus24)
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Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 5:45 am: | |
In dealing with coaching styles it is all about the feel you get from the players and any other assistant coaches. Your style may change from year to year or every so often. You still must gain the respect and trust from your athletes be truly become successful. |
Brett Moser (Blm2408)
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Username: Blm2408
Post Number: 4
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 1:47 pm: | |
I believe when your dealing with coaching styles the best approach is cooperative. Yes its true you have an understanding of the game but the athlete is out there on the pitch playing. Both the coaching perspective of the game and the athletes perspective both add a different aspect. Both together should add the best results. |
steve acree (Stephenpe)
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Username: Stephenpe
Post Number: 28
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 11:07 am: | |
Ive been called "coach" for 28 years but mostly teach PE. I did coach some organized Bball two years but low key. Being a coach means being yourself and demanding excellence and attention.
If you dont have their attention it is going to be what ever their interpretation of the game may be. I think the coach needs to remain calm when talking to kids so they realize things are gonna be OK. I think, as a coach, you need to really understand what you, yourself, wants to get out of the sport. Is it totally about winning or about young people having fun, learning proper technique and skills and learning to cooperate for a bette team? This is a great topic and we need a pitcher or two to really hash it out. ;) |
Emil K Erhart (Email)
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Post Number: 4
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 1:36 pm: | |
I think the first thing you have to do is keep control of your team, not letting the players run the team therefore to do so you have to have some command over them, but being a captain of my soccer teams all my life i relaized how important it is to have some input into your team and having a say in some decisions made by the coach. Having a open mind as a coach is important because sometimes issues come up where the coaches havent thought about. |
Eric (Emurphy3)
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Post Number: 2
Registered: 10-2008
| | Posted on Monday, October 27, 2008 - 7:25 pm: | |
I think you have to use a command style because you have to be in control of your team and you have to let them know who is running the team. When you start comprising with your players from what I seen in the past they will look to comprise all the time, and in the games team are not going comprise with them. Either way can work but the team has to know who is in charge. |
Stephen DeFilippo (Sdefilippo84)
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Username: Sdefilippo84
Post Number: 4
Registered: 3-2009
| | Posted on Monday, April 06, 2009 - 10:51 am: | |
I think as long as you have control of your team and they know you are the boss and your system works then your coaching style is good. Now, the problem is how do we evaluate ourselves. By wins? By losses? By what? Sometimes students learn alot from us and we know this because of their results. Other times they learn alot but you wouldnt know it from how they perform. Our coaching style is so key to our success yet so hard to guage if its successfull. |
