Traditional Approach

Traditional Approach

The traditional approach of coaching is where a skill is taught and broken down into layers that are progressions to show the correct skill. Using the traditional approach is mainly using at beginners level to help them understand and learn the correct technique. Children are a great example when to use the traditional method because as a coach you can make the techniques fun and interactive which then encourages them to learn the skill.

The advantages of teaching the traditional approach that you can see what part of  the participant's technique needs to improve. This is improve to after the skill was been taught and has been practiced you would now need to bring in more of the games lead approach. Not having the traditional approach no one would know what the correct technique of a skill is and they would not be able to put it in a games approach.

The disadvantages of the traditional approach as it does not create lots of different drills because you are just teaching the technique so this could create, especially children to get bored. Also, teaching a participant a technique within the traditional approach is not realistic as you need to consider the environment, for example a forehand in tennis you need to move to the ball, so if  you are just teaching the shot when they go into moving around they will find it tough. Demonstrating the skill is important as if the coach does not have a good amount of knowledge teaching the skill because then the player could be taught the wrong technique.

Every participant will go through the traditional approach within their sport each athletes may have problems with their technique but this could be just consistency and down to just refreshing the mind.