JudoScotland Coach Reflections
Over the last few years, we have had many top-quality visiting coaches coming to Scotland and sharing their knowledge, this has been done not only by the governing body but by you, the clubs themselves. For many coaches there have been a number of excellent points to take away from these sessions but if you could reflect back to our visits from Sensei Hiroshi Katanishi, he shared his philosophy and methods on coaching especially the principle of tandoku renshu and sotai renshu, individual practice and paired practice.
During this time of social distancing it has become apparent that our ‘normal’ judo practice has had to be adapted and even when we are allowed to bring judoka back together indoors there may have to be adaptations to our sessions, but with the knowledge and experience of our coaches within Scotland these adaptations can be a positive opportunity for our judoka across the nation to develop themselves. Sensei Katanishi provided us with many examples of individual practices to develop tori, providing whole sessions where there was no physical contact. If we can adapt our mindset to developing judoka on an individual basis moving forward, I believe we can better develop the judoka of the future, even during this challenging time.
We truly do not know what the future looks like, how long these distancing measures will be in place, and how things will be following the vaccination process? We just do not know, but what we can do is prepare in a positive way going forward. There has been no face to face opportunities to re-validate as a coach recently but we have had some fantastic courses online that we can take part in.
What we would like to do is credit you for your work during this pandemic so far and if you have completed some courses that have improved your coaching or made you think about your approach then we would like to hear from you, likewise if you have continued to service your members by using online sessions then we would like to hear from you. Please see the questions below and use them as a guide, answer them as fully as possible where relevant and try to reflect on what impact these changes have had on your approach to coaching. We would be looking for a response of between 300 to 600 words, but if you are not comfortable writing your reflections, we would be happy to accept a reflective video that mirrors the word count requested.
Please also look at the diagrams below before answering the questions, it may help when you start writing but in essence we plan, we do and we review, we hopefully then use the review to change our practice and improve our plan before starting again. JudoScotland will be happy to accept such reflective practice as part of the CPD element required for your coach licence.
During this time of social distancing it has become apparent that our ‘normal’ judo practice has had to be adapted and even when we are allowed to bring judoka back together indoors there may have to be adaptations to our sessions, but with the knowledge and experience of our coaches within Scotland these adaptations can be a positive opportunity for our judoka across the nation to develop themselves. Sensei Katanishi provided us with many examples of individual practices to develop tori, providing whole sessions where there was no physical contact. If we can adapt our mindset to developing judoka on an individual basis moving forward, I believe we can better develop the judoka of the future, even during this challenging time.
We truly do not know what the future looks like, how long these distancing measures will be in place, and how things will be following the vaccination process? We just do not know, but what we can do is prepare in a positive way going forward. There has been no face to face opportunities to re-validate as a coach recently but we have had some fantastic courses online that we can take part in.
What we would like to do is credit you for your work during this pandemic so far and if you have completed some courses that have improved your coaching or made you think about your approach then we would like to hear from you, likewise if you have continued to service your members by using online sessions then we would like to hear from you. Please see the questions below and use them as a guide, answer them as fully as possible where relevant and try to reflect on what impact these changes have had on your approach to coaching. We would be looking for a response of between 300 to 600 words, but if you are not comfortable writing your reflections, we would be happy to accept a reflective video that mirrors the word count requested.
Please also look at the diagrams below before answering the questions, it may help when you start writing but in essence we plan, we do and we review, we hopefully then use the review to change our practice and improve our plan before starting again. JudoScotland will be happy to accept such reflective practice as part of the CPD element required for your coach licence.
Reflective guide questions
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