Competition – Development Goes Online
– by Don Watts

The Developing Athletic Abilities module in the Competition – Development context is using an online delivery format for a two-hour online self-paced pre-workshop session that is a pre-requisite for the nine-hour in-class workshop.

The online session is designed to:

• familiarize coaches with training terminology so they can communicate using common language;
• have coaches develop a profile of their athletes’ sport; and
• reflect on current training practices.

Completing the online session, allows the facilitator-assisted in-class workshop to focus on training applications using scenarios that allow coaches to transfer learning to their respective sports.

The online and in-class format is available to sports that plan to integrate the Developing Athletic Abilities module into their sport-specific training curriculum. This new format for delivering the Developing Athletic Abilities module will begin January 2009.