In my role as World Sailing Regional Development Coordinator (RDC) manager I am responsible for training and managing all the International Sailing Federations Regional Development Coordinators and coaches. I also run coach development clinics in various countries to help train their coaches and develop their training schemes. I also plan and run a scholarship course every year in the UK where we train coaches to become National Training Managers capable of developing and ma

The CD experience has been instrumental in shaping my ideas and practices over the past 6 months. It has taken me a good bit of time, many long runs and long conversations with colleagues to really wrap my head around where I am in the coach developer space. It complicates things to be both ahead and behind at the same time and to be straddling a line between two worlds. Being in the United States, there is an internal and external assumption that we are on the cutting edge

My wheels have been turning for several years on the difference between coaching “action” sports and “traditional” sports. Much of that thinking culminated in my Trad[itional] vs. Rad[ical] sports presentation at the NCDA in July. When I returned from my travels to Japan, I kept thinking about this topic and specifically how coaches of all sports can apply some of the concepts of open ended sports into their daily coaching practice. Eventually, I expanded on the original “