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The best coaches are motivators with a positive attitude and passion for both the sport and their athletes. Coaches who can motivate their athletes can get them to strive for excellence. Rather than focusing on outcome goals, a good coach focuses on performance goals. Essentially, sports coaching is about motivating, guiding, and training individuals to prepare them for a sport, a career, or an event. A coach is usually hired by a professional athlete in order to help him train and compete - but you do not need to be a pro to get a coach. In this article, we will discuss the skills, roles, and qualities that make a great sports coach.  Qualities and skills of a successful sports coach When managing a sports team, it is imperative that…

Dance was our next wall to knock down with the children, and what better way to knock it down than with the aggressive and intimidating HAKA dance. As spring started children at Believe and Achieve schools began learning the art of dance and its many wonderful forms. I picked the loudest, most hard hitting and scary dance. Sound stupid? Of course but kids love to be loud so at least let them blend it with dance. Unlike gymnastics I wanted to show the children visually what this dance looked like, we used YouTube to search the New Zealand rugby team and what the HAKA war dance stood for. Before you knew it all the kids in school were “HAAAAA”ing, “HOOOO”ing and “AHHHH”ing across school .All they needed were the rugby…

  Olympic standard: Preparation for Tokyo 2020 In autumn Believe and Achieve Sports schools began preparing for the 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo, well Gymnastics as the lessons plans titled but still aspirations were high Both Key stage 1 and 2 started their gymnastics adventure with a group discussion of what comes to mind when they think about gymnastics? What makes a good gymnast? Had any of them had experience in gymnastics? And what they were most excited about learning, most of course wanted the mats and to start rolling. Early years began by self-exploring what the children could do with their bodies, we looked at making shapes i.e. letters, utilizing space and what balancing is. After a couple more weeks of varied movements, looking at balance, how animals move…