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Common Indicators of the Current Sports System

Friday, 28 August 2009 06:15

Young developmental participants under-train and over-compete.
Adult- and professional-style competition schedules are superimposed on young participants.
Adult training programs are superimposed on young participants.
Training at the beginner and intermediate levels is too heavily focused on outcome (i.e., winning) instead of on the process (i.e., optimal development).
Chronological age of the participant and not developmental readiness dominates program design and administration.
Optimal periods of skill development are neglected or missed.
Highest skilled coaches are working mostly at the older elite youth levels instead of the critical introductory and intermediate levels.
Coaching education does not pay enough attention to the impact of growth and development on the proper design of programs.

This section is an adaptation of Balyi, Istvan; Charles Cardinal; Colin Higgs; Steve Norris; Richard Way. Canadian Sport for Life, (Victoria, BC: Canadian Sport Centres, 2005), p 19-34

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