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High Performance Disability Sport Coaching: Introduction
No full textAs the profile of disability sport has risen, so has the emphasis grown beyond participation to include the development of a high performance environment. This book is the first to take an in-depth look at the role of coaches and coaching in facilitating the professionalisation of disability sport, in raising performance standards, and as an important vector for the implementation of significant political, socio-cultural and technological change.
Using in-depth case studies of elite disability sport coaches from around the world, the book offers a framework for critical reflection on coaching practice as well as the reader’s own experiences of disability sport. The book also evaluates the vital role of the coach in raising the bar of performance in a variety of elite level disability sports, including athletics, basketball, boccia, equestrian sport, rowing, soccer, skiing, swimming and volleyball.
Providing a valuable evidence-based learning resource to support coaches and students in developing their own practice, High Performance Disability Sport Coaching is essential reading for all those interested in disability sport, coaching practice, elite sport development and the Paralympic Games
Beyond High Performance Disability Sports Coaching?
No full textAs the profile of disability sport has risen, so has the emphasis grown beyond participation to include the development of a high performance environment. This book is the first to take an in-depth look at the role of coaches and coaching in facilitating the professionalisation of disability sport, in raising performance standards, and as an important vector for the implementation of significant political, socio-cultural and technological change.
Using in-depth case studies of elite disability sport coaches from around the world, the book offers a framework for critical reflection on coaching practice as well as the reader’s own experiences of disability sport. The book also evaluates the vital role of the coach in raising the bar of performance in a variety of elite level disability sports, including athletics, basketball, boccia, equestrian sport, rowing, soccer, skiing, swimming and volleyball.
Providing a valuable evidence-based learning resource to support coaches and students in developing their own practice, High Performance Disability Sport Coaching is essential reading for all those interested in disability sport, coaching practice, elite sport development and the Paralympic Games
High Performance Disability Sport Coaching
No full textAs the profile of disability sport has risen, so has the emphasis grown beyond participation to include the development of a high performance environment. This book is the first to take an in-depth look at the role of coaches and coaching in facilitating the professionalisation of disability sport, in raising performance standards, and as an important vector for the implementation of significant political, socio-cultural and technological change.
Using in-depth case studies of elite disability sport coaches from around the world, the book offers a framework for critical reflection on coaching practice as well as the reader’s own experiences of disability sport. The book also evaluates the vital role of the coach in raising the bar of performance in a variety of elite level disability sports, including athletics, basketball, boccia, equestrian sport, rowing, soccer, skiing, swimming and volleyball.
Providing a valuable evidence-based learning resource to support coaches and students in developing their own practice, High Performance Disability Sport Coaching is essential reading for all those interested in disability sport, coaching practice, elite sport development and the Paralympic Games
Sports practitioners, athlete welfare and duties of care: A case study of the professional practice of hamstring management in English professional rugby union
Full text linkThe management of hamstring injuries is complex and involves many processes and procedures. Specifically, within in professional sporting contexts there is a plethora of research that focuses on the scientific underpinnings of the management of hamstring injuries, from assessment, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and injury prevention. However, little is known about how hamstring injuries are managed within the wider context of professional sports work and athlete welfare. Within recent years, knowledge is emerging on how to optimise rehabilitation following acute hamstring injury (Thorberg, Ishoi and Krommes, 2017 cited in Ishoi, Krommes, Husted et al., 2020). Within elite sport athletes will have a multidisciplinary team to provide a wide range of management strategies that are focused on returning them to play in the safest, shortest time. This thesis will focus on technical expertise and scientific knowledge and working as a multidisciplinary team and interrogate the management of hamstring injuries in elite English Rugby Union. From this thesis we will be able to build on the scientific knowledge we already have to ensure the best possible care for our athletes both in terms of processes and procedures. In this research, I adopt a Constructivist-Interpretivist approach, similar to Scott & Malcolm (2015); Arnold et al., (2019) and Kerai, Wadey, & Salim (2019) to unearth how practitioners in elite English Rugby Union treat and manage first time acute hamstring injuries. The aims of the thesis were to: 1) explore how practitioners work to manage hamstring injuries in elite English rugby union in terms of technical expertise and scientific knowledge, and within a multidisciplinary team, and 2) Discover how hamstring injuries were managed in elite English Rugby Union from a doctor, physiotherapist, and strength and conditioning point of view.
This thesis adopts a qualitative Mixed Methods Research (MMR) design, comprising the collection and analysis of data collected via thirty-five semi structured face-to-face interviews and completion of a questionnaire with 13 doctors, 11 physiotherapists and 11 strength and conditioning staff. Specifically, I adopt a Constructivist-Interpretivist approach to explore how doctors, physiotherapists and strength and conditioners in elite English rugby union reflect upon and perceive their treatment and management of first-time acute hamstring injuries. Whereas previous studies have focused primarily on the mechanics of injury treatment, a qualitative MMR approach affords complete in depth and comprehensive understanding of some of the issues evident within professional practice. Practitioner responses were coded using thematic content analysis and analysed under the themes technical expertise and scientific knowledge (TESK) and multidisciplinary teams (MDT). Verbatim quotes from the practitioners are included to highlight key areas that both support and disagree with the literature.
This thesis concludes that the management of hamstrings injuries in elite English Rugby Union is varied from a doctor, physiotherapist, and strength and conditioning staff perspective. During the management of hamstring injuries practitioners show how they apply their high level of technical expertise and scientific knowledge to all aspects of the management process. We see that many practitioners use pain and symptoms to guide their treatments and rehabilitation rather than set timeframes highlighting that they apply technical expertise and scientific knowledge during the injury management process
London 2012 (Re)calling: Youth Memories and Olympic 'Legacy' Ether in the Hinterland
Full text linkEngendering interest and support among young people was a key strategy for the organisers of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Part of the approach entailed promoting the event as a context and inspirational catalyst to propel young people’s proclivities toward, and enduring participation in, sport and physical activity. Although a variety of participatory platforms were entertained, the discipline of physical education remained a favoured space in which enduring Olympic imperatives could be amalgamated with government policy objectives. In this paper data are presented taken from the initial three years of a longitudinal study on young people’s engagement with the London 2012 Olympic Games, sport, physical activity and physical education within the UK’s West Midlands region. Memory scholarship is brought together with Olympic critiques, legacy debates, youth work and discussions about physical education to conceptualise participants’ anticipations and recollections of the London 2012 Olympic Games as a triptych of narrative fragments: each provides insights regarding youth experiences and the remnants of Olympic ether in the country’s hinterland. The paper offers a means subsequently to think differently about how we might play with the qualitative sociological/historiographical moments (experiences, voices, accounts, stories, etc.) that we capture in and through our work
Still Playing Together(?): A Recall to Physical Education and Sport History Intersections.
Full text linkAs academic disciplines, Physical Education and Sport History share interests in performance, participation, physique and the politics of corporeal praxis. Engendering unity between the two disciplines, however, has not been without concern. Scholars working within (and across) both fields have highlighted how the potential for shared knowledge production and meaning making has been, to a degree, stymied by epistemological and methodological criticism and trepidation. Issues over contextualization, rigour, narrative schemas, conceptualizations of the body, and notions of agency and power still, in particular, constrain our current educational and historical readings and renderings of physical culture(s). Scholarly schisms and methodological differences can be overcome, however, and need not prohibit disciplinary collaborations that might better address prevailing ethical questions and affect political cause; vis-à-vis the body, the physical and sport. This brief piece is, consequently, recourse to the scholarly symbiosis between Physical Education and Sport History and echoes the encouragement of our earlier colleagues to play, inquire, create and produce together
Our Distinguished Son: The New Zealand Olympic Committee and the Reappropriation of Jack Lovelock
No full textDuring the 1920s, New Zealand, in common with other nations, experienced a period of fluctuating economic conditions, a changing political landscape, and, a resurgence of a (masculine) sports culture. Stronger trans-Tasman relations and a renewed sense of imperial allegiance, for instance, prompted nationalistic and patriotic resurgence. In addition, regional parochialism challenged the partisanship of central government, growing discontent among working class labourers over wage and working conditions rocked trade industries, concerns over indigenous health and welfare thwarted racial harmony; and global conflict threatened national security and colonial ties. These tumultuous forces precipitated a reappraisal of New Zealand’s economic position, national direction, identity, and culture, which, in turn, also influenced the country’s sports organisations. Indeed, sport was an active constituent in many of the social and cultural tensions and conflicts in New Zealand life. Social and cultural forces also influenced the amateur New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) and its involvement in the Olympic Movement. During this time NZOC sent the country’s first ‘national’ team to an Olympic Games and athletes celebrated the first exclusively ‘New Zealand’ Olympic victories. In what follows I examine how NZOC capitalised on the expertise and popularity of Jack Lovelock - one of the country’s top scholars and emerging middle-distance running star of the 1930s – to help develop the organisation and prepare it for future adversities. By re-appropriating Lovelock for their own purposes, I contend, NZOC fortified their own public persona (by basking in reflected glory), and, showed their professional responsibility by demonstrating an attentiveness to athlete concerns; both of which became enduring issues for the organisation
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