About this Course

The course provides understanding for a coach to truly maximize his or her effectiveness in the two primary functions of coaching: teaching athletes the best way to perform sport skills and correcting athletes’ performance so that success may be achieved.

The correct understanding and technique learned will avoid in using wrong training methods on athletes. Scientific analysis and evaluation with proper application of sports mechanic helps improve athletes’ performance, contrary to the traditional trial and error method which may do harm than good to athletes in training.

COURSE GOALS

This course aims to help sports leaders to analyze a sports performance and determine what part(s) of the athlete's form should be corrected. Steps to work with the athlete to apply these corrections are covered towards the end of the course. This process of analyzing and correcting sports performance through the use of technology, particularly video analysis technology like Dartfish, is also explored. 

To successfully accomplish this, students will:

• Observe, analyze, and correct errors in sports performance
  
• Assess the effectiveness of innovations in sport equipment
  
• Assess training methods for potential safety problems; assess the value of innovations in the ways in which sports skills are performed
  
• Explain what to expect from different body types and different levels of maturity
  

AWARD

Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be awarded:

Certificate in Sports Performance Enhancement by the United States Sports Academy, ‘America’s Sports University”.

COURSE DURATION 

The course may be completed in 8weeks (40 hours) .

Assessment Methods

Students will sit for a written examination at the end of each module.

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