First Aid duties of a Coach
No coach wants to think of their players getting injured on or off the court. It can be heartbreaking to see a player with a lot of promise sidelined for any length of time due to a sprain, strain or more severe injury. You need to be aware, however, that as a sport, basketball does carry with it some inherent risk.
There can be injuries caused by interaction with other players (such as two players colliding mid-court after trying to get to the ball), or potential problems caused by a pre-existing health condition.
Different areas and organizations will have separate requirements for their team coaches in terms of first aid certification. However, there is a moral, if not legal, obligation for you as a coach to be familiar with the techniques needed to treat the injuries that may come up during a practice session or a game.
Read MoreHow to teach a new Basketball Offense
The season of my womens team is over and I’m already planning for the next season. Today I’d like to share with you a couple of things I had been thinking of for implementing a new basketball offensive system.
From time to time, I tend to study my opponents’ type of offensive game to get ideas for effective plays which can be run by my teams. As a coach, what are the ways that you can make use of to introduce a new basketball offensive play? Let’s look at some essential points to successfully teach a new system.
A quick summary of Effective Teaching:
Read MoreLayups.com Speedlinking #003
Over the course of a week, I visit several websites and blogs to read articles on what is going on in the Basketball Coaching Network. Along with the Weekly Round of articles published here on Layups.com, I’d like to share with you some of the greatest articles I found on the web. You can find all previous links right here in the Speedlinking Archive.
Read More8 Ideas to teach Competitiveness in Sports
In whatever sports you are in to, there are many things that you have to consider to teach your players, or whoever there is who wants to become an athlete. The job does not always stay on teaching athletes to perform the technical ways of the sport. You have to be holistic. When you say holistic, you think about all of the aspects of players including their social, physical, mental, or even spiritual aspect.
Now, if you think that you have given your players enough knowledge about the sport and you have help them develop their corresponding skills, the next thing to do is to teach them how to be competitive. But I got to tell you that being consistent in developing your players is still helpful for them to become competitive. And I will show you how that can be. Going back to the word competitiveness, aside from the word compete, there is another term that should be taken into consideration. And this is the word competitive. Let us break down these words into pieces to fully understand the concept of competitiveness.
Read More10 Attributes of a good Team Captain
Most sports, like Basketball, involve more than a single player. Several players combined to form a single group can be considered as a team. When you hear the word team, there has to be someone who will lead them. I am, definitely, not referring to the coach of the team. What I mean is a leader among the player themselves. The player who steps up and demonstrates leadership skills, both on court and off court, is widely considered to be the team captain.
Simple Recall
To better understand this topic, let us try to analyze how Webster described the following terms:
- Responsibility – a moral obligation or duty; a charge or trust.
- Team – a group of people participating in a sport together.
- Captain – the leader of a team, as in sports.
Just by the definitions alone, one can perceive what it means, and how hard it is, to be the team captain. Now, we are ready to look at the different responsibilities of a team captain.
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