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APPLIED COACHING RESEARCH JOURNAL 2018, Vol. 2
embrace technology and foster an improvement
culture, Prof Ben Oakley and Dr Alex Twitchen
from the Open University review a free online
distance learning course, Exploring Sports Coaching
and Psychology.
StreetGames aims to make sport more widely
available for disadvantaged young people and to
maximise the power of sport to change young lives
and change disadvantaged communities.
Rus Smith and Dr Kath Leflay share their
findings of an evaluation of StreetGames’
Coach-Mate Connector programme in the West
Midlands, which attempted to support people from
underrepresented groups to get involved
in coaching.
this model could be used by coaches to develop a
greater understanding of the talent identification
process and to work with players to develop their
individual strengths and weaknesses.
On behalf of the editorial team I do hope you will
enjoy this second edition and in closing I would like
to remind you to register your interest on the UK
Coaching website for the second Applied Coaching
Research Conference taking place in 2019.
To see what we got up to last year, please have a
look at the video below.
Louisa Arnold, Kent Sport
Pete Vallance talks to Pete Sturgess, The FA’s
National Lead Coach for 5–11 year olds, to
understand his personal journey. It demonstrates
how mentoring and experiential learning influenced
his development as an elite coach and his
contribution to creative coaching.
In line with the interdisciplinary nature of coach
development, Dr Adam Kelly, Craig Williams and
Mark Wilson, from Birmingham City University
and the University of Exeter, discuss the use of a
unique approach to talent identification using a
locking wheel nut analogy. The article suggests that
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