player ownership

[badmintoncoach]

how much do you all believe we should encourage the players to have ownership over there coaching?? Should the coach tell the player what to do all the time or should we encourage the players to have an input if so how much? I believe that the more we involve the players the more they will want to work? I would like to hear views from some current junior players and coaches on this subject please be honest.

[Mux0006]

I have seen many teatchers in my time and I belive that a good training session is based upon friendship. If a young player is always told what to do then at some point he will feel supressed and starts to think about other options in terms of wich sport to practice.

So my advice would be to have the students organise a training or few in a mont so that they can come and do the things they like. You can also ad theory to it - ask them why their chosen activity will make them a better player and help them analyse their activity.

A good trainer does not learn from his students, a good trainer lets his students teach him.:D

[redkingjoe]

i think it's called "trainee participation"

when i was a trainee, i spent a lot of time:

1)studying the theories(from books, webs or forums), skills(from life observation and videos ), strategies, discussion with my trainers and other coaches

2) uses a few coaches at the same time...not letting them know

3) think about and analyses the ways what those trainers are doing with me

when these coaches notice that i have positive contributions to the way that i was trained, depending on the personality of the coaches, some will get my contributiions into the training sections while the others will be very "bossy" and resist...eventually, i narrowed down into one main coach(and spend most of the time being coached by him) and uses other as consultants only

[Mux0006]

Logical but at the period when I stopped playing I hav very few options as we do not have that many very good trainers in Estonia (thing are and have improved), but the reason for me was that the trainer started to teach technique after technique and didn´t let us rest enaugh (from my point of view). If trainings had been more fun I would probably be a class A player here instead ob class C.

I stopped playing around 4 years ago so I was like 15 or 16 so... and by then I had played since I could walk and I was among top 5 players of my age for some time (in estonia).

Stupid me for quiting:(

[myself]

i think it's called "trainee participation"

when i was a trainee, i spent a lot of time:

1)studying the theories(from books, webs or forums), skills(from life observation and videos ), strategies, discussion with my trainers and other coaches

2) uses a few coaches at the same time...not letting them know

3) think about and analyses the ways what those trainers are doing with me

when these coaches notice that i have positive contributions to the way that i was trained, depending on the personality of the coaches, some will get my contributiions into the training sections while the others will be very "bossy" and resist...eventually, i narrowed down into one main coach(and spend most of the time being coached by him) and uses other as consultants only
red,
it sounds like chinese kungfu to me myself: a guy trys to learn all styles of chinese kungfu from different "kungfu masters"...summarizes them...takes the best from each of the master and style and do some "intergration"...no wonder the chinese are doing so well in badminton