Coaching Qualifications

[azoffaly]

Hi lads (and Treas ),

I know some of ye, well at least one of ye, is thinking about (or has already done) your Foundation level coaching qualifications. I'm trying to do them, but I just realised that the local club here in Newport actually ran the course in January, and i missed it.

Can you attend a course anywhere, or must it be your local or affiliated club?
Do you have to be actually training a team already to attend? The blurb about the courses mentions log books.

I want to get involved in training underage teams to begin with here in Tipp, but I'd like to do one of these courses first. If anyone has done them, what are the reports from them? Are they good/tough/interesting/boring/expensive/time consuming etc etc.

Cheers
AZ

[Bord na Mona man]

For Foundation Level you don't need any team to train or log books.
It is fairly elementary, but worthwhile.
In Dublin, some of the people doing it are parents who never even played hurling or football.

However if you want to achieve all levels, it becomes much more steep in terms of hours and expertise required.

[azoffaly]

For Foundation Level you don't need any team to train or log books.
It is fairly elementary, but worthwhile.
In Dublin, some of the people doing it are parents who never even played hurling or football.

However if you want to achieve all levels, it becomes much more steep in terms of hours and expertise required.

I think you must do Foundation level though, you can't skip levels. Foundation LEvel is supposed to qualify you to train Under 14 and down. I presume it gives help on dealing with mad parents and sulky young lads.

Level 1 is supposed to be for Under 14-Adult club teams.

Level 2 is underage county teams

Level 3 is adult county teams

Level 4 is advanced adult county teams.

I'd start off with the foundation course, and try and apply it by helping out with an underage or school team here in Newport next year please God. Then I'd do the level 1 and try to move on to minor teams or under 21s in a couple of years.

I think Level 1 takes 40-60 hours of course work, and log books.

(The spec for the foundation Course says 'Requirements : Attendence and Log Book Completion). What does that mean so?

[azoffaly]

Also, sorry to add this, do the various levels prepare or help you with coaching both codes, or do you have to specialise in hurling or football at some stage? I know there are various drills for football which would not be relevant to hurling, and vice versa.

[Treasurer]

AZ, it doesn't have to be with your own club. As far as I know the courses are more plentiful during the winter months but if you ring the guys listed here http://gamesdevelopment.gaa.ie/page/upc ... rses1.html they should be aware of any that are going on at the moment.

Have you been on that site? Some more details there - there is a logbook required for foundation but I believe it's fairly basic. I've been told that the foundation course is too basic for anyone that already has any clue about the games, but that it gets steadily better from there on. (I've thought about doing them myself (not least when I got stranded on a couple of occasions by myself with a juvenile training session) but I don't think all the paperwork in the world would make me into a half decent coach!)

[azoffaly]

Cheers for that Treas....

As regards the foundation level course, yeah it seems to be very basic alright, but sure it's no harm to 're-baseline' yourself. Especially if there's any hints on handling lunatics with umbrellas roaring for their young lad to be given a run. In any case, I thought I read you MUST do foundation before progressing to LEvel 1, which would be my aim withing the next couple of years.

[Treasurer]

More detailed info here http://www.dublingaagamesdevelopment.ie ... dation.php

[the bare biffo]

I just got involved with u-12/u-10 football here in Roscommon this year. Did the foundation level. It's very basic in terms of skills. There was nothing in it that I hadn't been coached as a juvenile myself. The most useful part I found was getting up to speed on the "child welfare" issues that go hand in hand with anything to do with groups of kids these days. We did one indoor theory session and an outdoor practical. The theory package did include both hurling and football, but needless to say the Roscommon guys just skipped over the hurling as it was all football clubs that were attending.

Level one sounds a little more taxing but not overly, intend to get that next year as the courses all seem to be at the beginning of the year.

(Another one damaging other counties talent)

[turk]

I would be interested in doing some of the courses in the interest of "putting something back" (no laughing)

I will look into this in a while