This document discusses techniques for coaching sports. It outlines four steps for teaching technical skills: 1) introduce the skill, 2) demonstrate and explain it, 3) have athletes practice, and 4) correct errors or evaluate. Each step is further explained. It also discusses providing effective feedback and teaching tactical skills like game sense and decision making. Tactics involve reading situations and using strategy to take advantage of strengths and solve problems posed by opponents. The conclusion emphasizes teaching technique before tactics and using tactics to win games by capitalizing on a team's strengths.

1. SRM15-Edu: Techniques of Coaching Sports
Prepared by: Jeremy Floyd Pedregosa

2. Teaching Technical and Tactical Skills

3. Teaching Technical and Tactical Skills
TECHNICAL and TACTICAL
SKILLS
TECHNIQE
Tactics
Game plan
Strategy
A Skill that is
required to
accomplish a
specific task
Tactics is a plan
to gain
advantage in a
contest
Game plan is the
application of team’s
strategy to a
particular contest
Strategy is a plan of action for your team
for a season or series of contests
system
procedure
method
way
“There is an efficient
way of shooting a
basketball”

4. Teaching Technical and Tactical Skills
Introduce the Technical Skill
Demonstrate and Explain the
Technical Skill
Have the athletes practice the
Technical skills
Correct errors or Evaluate
Four Steps of teaching
technical skills
TECHNICAL

5. Teaching Technical and Tactical Skills
Introduce the Technical Skill
Get the Team’s Attention
Arrange the Team So Everyone
Can See and Hear You
Name the Technique and
Explain How It Is Used.
1
TECHNICAL

6. Teaching Technical and Tactical Skills
Demonstrate and Explain the
Technical Skill
Demonstrate and Explain
Relate the Technique to
Previously Learned Techniques
Check for Understanding
2
Keep demonstrations brief; tell athletes one or two things they should watch for
TECHNICAL

7. Teaching Technical and Tactical Skills
Have the Athletes Practice the
Technical Skills
Whole Versus Part Practice
Practice Principles
Check for Understanding
3
Part to Whole
Whole to Part
Have Athletes Practice the Right
Technique
Have the Athletes Practice the Technique
in Game like Situation
Keep Practice Short and Frequent When
Teaching New Technique
Use Practice Time Efficiently
Make Sure Athletes Experience a Reasonable
Amount of Success at Each Practice
Make Practice Fun
TECHNICAL

8. Teaching Technical and Tactical Skills
Correct Errors or Evaluate
Observe and Evaluate
Performance
Use Video
4
You can observe a lot by
just watching – Yogi Berra
Video can help athletes see
their errors and learn to
correct them
Have a Positive Approach in Correcting Errors
TECHNICAL

9. Providing Effective Feedback
• The sooner you give feedback, the more likely the athletes will
remember what the feedback pertains to and to practice
correctly
• More frequent feedback is better than less frequent feedback
• When an athlete is making several technical errors, it is best o
correct only one error at a time
• Feedback to feed back exactly what was done. When athletes
performed incorrectly, you should feed them back what they
did wrong. Then explain how to do the technique correctly.
• Both explanation and demonstration should incorporate
specific feedback.
Teaching Technical and Tactical Skills
REMEMBER THIS…
TECHNICAL

10. Questions for Reflection
• When you introduce a technique to your athletes, how do you
get their attention, and how o you arrange them so they can see
and hear you?
• Which techniques that you teach could be broken down into
parts, and which should be taught as a whole? How do you
decide?
• How can you correct errors by using a positive-feedback
approach?
Teaching Technical and Tactical Skills
TECHNICAL

11. Teaching Technical and Tactical Skills
TACTICAL
Players with excellent tactical skills have a “Game Sense” , or
what you called “The ability to use understanding of the rules; of
strategy; of tactics; and, most importantly, of oneself to solve the
problems posed by one’s opponents” – Alan Lauder
Game Sense
Tactical Knowledge
Reading the
situation
Decision-making
skills
Should a runner go out hard or lay back for a strong finish? It’s tactical decision

12. Teaching Technical and Tactical Skills
Conclusion
There is an efficient and excellent way of doing specific sports skill.
Each requires a correct technique or method.
Teach technique first before tactics
A team with a better tactics wins the game.
There are many ways of winning the game. Take advantage of your
teams’ strengths.