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Travelling skills: |
Climbing, hopping, jumping, running, skating, skipping, sliding, swimming, swinging, wheeling. |
Object control skills: |
Sending – kicking, rolling a ball, striking an object, throwing.Receiving – catching, stopping, trapping. Travelling with – dribbling with feet, hands or stick. Receiving and sending: striking a moving ball with bat or stick, volleying. |
Body management skills: |
Balancing/centring, body rolling, dodging, floating, landing, ready position, sinking/falling, spinning, stopping, stretching/curling, swinging, twisting and turning. |
The three basic movement skills |
LTAD - Long term athlete development
When Tiger Woods and Ernie Els were growing up, they competed in a variety of sports - baseball, athletics, rugby and tennis to name a few. Although golf became their main sport, they developed a huge range of physical skills during their early years, making them superb athletes not just superb golfers.
LTAD (Long term athlete development) is a coaching philosophy which, if applied to golf, will help kids develop a broad range of skills - often referred to as "physical literacy"- to benefit all sports and their golf.
One of the main aims of LTAD is to coach to the developmental age of the child. Currently in most sporting programmes (golf included) kids of the same class at school are put together in the same group and coached the same things. However, due to differing growth rates, you could have two ten year olds one of whom is an early developer (and 2 years ahead of average) and another, the late developer (who is two years behind). With, in effect, a 4 year gap in physical maturity, their coaching needs will be different.
LTAD starts by assessing physical strengths and weaknesses in areas like balance, co-ordination and strength. This enables coaches to tailor golf instruction much more effectively and help improve a child's overall physical literacy as well as improving their golf. To the right are a list of three groups of basic movements that provide the basis for playing sport. Without these, a child will have difficulty playing any sport well.
Although other succesful sporting nations have adopted this model within their national coaching curriculum, Premium Golf Schools is the first golf academy in Britain to offer it to golfers.
We have begun to introduce LTAD principles to our coaching. All the kids that sign up for our Search for a Star campaign will have a go at a range of games and tests designed to help higlight their strengths and weaknesses and help us spot real raw talent. There may be a lot of kids out there who have got what it takes to become a superb golfer but just don't know it yet.
To find out more about our coaching Email us or call on 0208 422 6697.
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