Develop your technical skills to achieve excellence in your sport
Overview
This standard is about technical skills and their importance to achieving excellence in your sport. You will be working with experienced and proficient coaching and/or other staff; however, you also have an important role to play in improving your own technical performance.
The main outcomes of this standard are:
- Select and agree a development programme to improve your technical skills
- Implement a development programme to improve your technical skills
- Apply and evaluate your technical skills
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This standard is for athletes who have the realistic potential to achieve excellence in their sport and are seeking to perform at the highest level.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
*Select and agree a development programme to improve your technical skills *
1. work with your coaching and/or other staff to:
1.1 agree the technical skills for excellence in your role(s)
1.2 analyse your level of technical skill and your potential for achieving excellence
1.3 select goals that meet your technical performance priorities
1.4 plan and agree your development programme to achieve your technical goals
2. agree with your coaching and/or other staff your main priorities for achieving technical excellence in your role(s)
Implement a development programme to improve your technical skills
3. participate in the planned technical development programme
4. analyse your participation in the technical development programme
5. contribute to ongoing assessments of your progress
6. provide feedback to your coaching and/or other staff on the technical development programme
7. make modifications to your development programme to help you achieve your technical goals
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Apply and evaluate your technical skills
8. discuss and agree with your coaching and/or other staff how you can practice the necessary technical skills before, during and after competition
9. use your technical capability to take part in pre-competition practices
10. provide feedback to your coaching and/or other staff on the effectiveness of pre-competition technical practices and make suggestions for improvement
11. integrate your technical skills with your tactical, physical and psychological skills at all times, particularly in a competitive situation
12. work with your coaching and/or other staff to evaluate and improve your technical performance and technical goals
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
Select and agree a development programme to improve your technical skills
sources of information about the technical demands of your role in your sport and how to maximise their use
the technical skills required to achieve excellence in your role in your sport
effective ways of working with your coaching and/or other staff on improving your technical skills
4. the types of assessments used to analyse technical skills in your sport and how to take part in these
5. the importance of providing your own views and opinions during the assessment of your technical skills
- the types of technical priorities that athletes in your role may have to concentrate on to achieve excellence
Implement a development programme to improve your technical skills
7. why you must set, understand and agree technical goals to achieve excellence in your sport
8. the types of technical goals that athletes at your level may need to set
9. the main components of a technical development programme at your level in your sport and how they can help with achieving your goals
10. the types of information that you can provide to coaching and/or other staff to help them develop your technical development programme appropriate to your needs
- the importance of adhering to your technical development programme and how to do so
12. how to contribute positively to all aspects of the technical development programme
13. the importance of giving your coaching and/or other staff honest feedback on how well your technical development programme is meeting your needs
14. what to include in your feedback during your technical development programme
- ways of modifying your technical skills development programme to meet your needs
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Apply and evaluate your technical skills**
16. how to maximise your technical skills at all times, particularly in a competitive situation
17. the types of technical pre-competition practices that can help you to prepare for competition and how to use them
18. ways of helping your coaching and/or staff to improve your technical pre-competition practices
19. the importance of making thorough and objective evaluations of your technical performance at all times, particularly in a competitive situation
20. evaluation methods for technical performance at all times, particularly in a competitive situation
21. ways of contributing to evaluations of your technical performance
22. how to use evaluations to make further improvements to your technical skills