The value of developing a coaching philosophy is that it ensures coaches and athletes a framework to allow them to build on a players skills and learn through progression. More specifically it helps a coach identify motives to make athletes perform to a higher standard and ensure they have a path in which they can follow and how they will contribute towards the team as a result of being a coach (Kretchmar 1994). The pathway in which a coach would follow serves as a guideline for their teachings; to work alongside an athlete in multiple situations. This means during training and competition. …show more content…
The reason behind this is because pressures relating to coaching situations are not noticed when writing a philosophy. When using it during real life situations they may come in contact with barriers that you cannot change like weather for example. This therefore means that a coach’s philosophy may not always be truly functional. Because of these barriers a coach must create a more flexible and realistic philosophy that can be used during sessions. This allows a coach to be more readily available and create a significant amount of awareness towards circumstances that may change. If a coach can allow themselves to provide more flexible adherence to their coaching sessions within the boundaries provided in their own coaching philosophy; it creates the ability to more reactive to problematic tasks (Saury and Durand 1998’ Côté et al.