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