How and Why you should Use this Toolkit
This toolkit covers most of the core focus areas of wheelchair basketball, and we hope that it can be an asset as you progress through your coaching career.
We have many drills, practice documents, and game strategies, but our biggest goal is to answer, ”Why?” and “How”
Your players will ask you:
Why should I perform this drill?
Why do I need to go out on a curve when setting a pick?
Why is mirror shooting important?
How do you integrate the mental component of the game?
Not every drill will be applicable to every player in their current stage of development, but as a coach, your biggest challenge will be answering “Why?”
If you can’t answer their question, send us an email at info@theBCchallenge.com, and we will give you our best answer.
General Rules and Resources
The Pyramids of Success
The Pyramids of Success
The Pyramids of Success
The Pyramids of Success
Building Up a Player
As coaches, we can have a major impact in the development of wheelchair basketball players. We can provide them with a thoughtful program that will give them the opportunity to train, play, and enjoy basketball at the level that matches their commitment, athletic ability, and knowledge of sport of wheelchair basketball, while balancing the other parts of life.
I try to focus first on the individual and what I think they are able to do well or has the potential to do well to contribute to the success of a five-man unit. There are many variables that we need to consider. They include:
· The athletic ability and knowledge that the individual already possesses. Can they handle complex basketball or do they need it simple?
· The athlete’s classification and hours playing the sport. The more severe the disability, the longer the process of development.
· The coach-ability of the athlete, both on and off the court, and their commitment.
· Understanding why they play and what makes the sport enjoyable for them.
Coaches Corner
Coaching Development Plan for a wheelchair basketball Program
Being collaborative can be highly successful coaching development approach. Sharing coaching skills, philosophies and strengths has great benefits to a coaching team. It also allows for individuals to work in their area of interest and strength. How you collaborate will revolve and change over time.
The primary goals is to support coaching development in all areas of A national program. This will include:
The integration of first time coaches into high performance wheelchair basketball coaching.
Improved support for our already existing and experienced coaching team.
Enhanced networking between our IST team and/or the able bodied basketball community.
The opportunity to develop more professional tools to make us even more efficient at serving fellow coaches and athletes at all levels of performance development.
Coaches can take part in video analysis of there coaching skills and styles. Also allow others to observe your coaching and doing a post-game debrief. It is a great opportunity for all of us to learn from each other and to reach in to some other coach’s toolbox to improve our coaching skills and of course become better coaches for our athletes.
Some of my observations about coaching:
All of our coaches are very passionate about coaching wheelchair basketball and they all bring different skills and styles.
We can do a better job of developing roles and responsibilities for coaches who are assisting others during the game.
All of our coaches seem to spend the majority of their time focused on our athletes and not necessarily on the intricacies of the technical and tactical strategies that the opposition uses during the game.
Our pre-game, time-out, half-time and post-game procedures can be even better with all of us working together to share our strengths and ideas.
We need to formalize some of the roles and responsibilities that we think can improve our program for both the coaching team and the athletes. One example would be to address how we use video analysis for coaches and athletes.
We are improving our use of technology in practices and games, but we need to make sure that we share with each other the things we do right. Examples of this would be the Coach’s Eye app, Excel spreadsheets for all of our shooting drills, developing pre-camp procedures, etc.
Each of you has been very open and honest in receiving observations of your coaching styles and being video-taped and miked during games. I have begun breaking down individual coaching video for each of you. This is an exciting opportunity for us all to learn from each other. Giving specific and positive feedback, motivating individual athletes, and using effective time outs are just a few examples of what we can gain from this experience.
I would encourage you all to add to this list any comment or observations of things we are doing right and areas where we could improve. Hopefully, we can inspire each other and new coaches to follow in our footsteps so that the next 20 years will be even better for all those athletes that choose wheelchair basketball.
What’s Next:
How can we make our next camp better for the coaches and athletes?
Understanding what we enjoy doing for the program and if we have a long term goal with the program, how can I support you in reaching that goal?
Start planning our coaches symposium/retreat (dates, topics . . . )
How each of you would like to benefit from your involvement with the BC Initiative; ie., professional development, video analysis, or just an opportunity to share your vision of how we can improve high performance programming.
What would you like to see in future newsletters?
How do we provide you with opportunities to become a better coach and what is your learning style?
Completing peer coaching evaluations on each other
Putting together a list of possible interested coaches with their areas of skill or expertise
Putting together a list of desired skill sets we are looking for in our coaches: video analysis, shooting coach, etc.
A coach’s document that aids us in using our points of emphasis more effectively with our athletes and fellow coaches.
Videos List
Understanding Stages of Play
At Home, Virtual Training Tips
Tips and Tricks
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