COACH FORUM + COACH DEVELOPMENT Saturday April 30th-11:00-12:00. Information

We are very pleased to inform NHA hockey whanau our Coaching Forum lead by Tasman Districts Sr. Men’s Coach Paul Jones on Saturday April 30th 11:00 -12:00. Below are details and all related information. We are also planning on having more opportunities as the season progresses.

Coach Forum.

Paul Jones has volunteered to lead the initial Coach Forum, details are below.

Date – Saturday 30^th April

Time – 1100 to 1200

Venue – hockey turfs

Topics – basic screens and presses, theory and practical

Cost – $0

Also, Ryan Edwards from Sport Tasman will be attending that session in his capacity as our regions Lead Coach Developer for Sport New Zealand. He will be available to talk with any coach that wants to join a Coach Developer program that focuses on the important aspects of how to coach rather than what to coach. The how to coach topics include but aren’t limited to, body positioning, body language, athlete/team questioning techniques, training/activity focus points. He is keen to have coaches join that program and will be available for a discussion post the on turf activities Paul is running.

Hockey NZ has recently updated their online learning portal and is keen to have as many of our coaches utilizing it as possible, see below for the link. Coaches can set up their own account in the portal to trace their progress.

https://hockeynz.brackenlearning.com/online-learning-portal

Online Learning Portal The Hockey New Zealand Coaching and Resource Portal for Community Coaches will allow coaches to explore and develop their coaching by checking out weekly articles, video resources, podcasts and more. This is a hub to connect and develop our community coaches. hockeynz.brackenlearning.com

For any extra information please don’t hesitate to contact NHA.

We’ll see you all on Saturday April 30th.