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This book explores the historical development of coaching
traditions across Europe, placing national approaches to coaching
within their cultural and political context. Sports coaching is a
social practice that has been shaped by its cultural context,
resulting in different countries being characterized by different
coaching traditions. By helping us to understand the history of
coaching across Europe, this book allows us to better understand
both the history of sport and the cultural and social history of
Western European nations. Drawing on cutting-edge historical
research by international scholars, the book presents studies of
coaching cultures in France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden,
Norway and the United Kingdom. It explores how sporting histories,
cultural attitudes, and social contexts resulted in distinctive
coaching heritages, which were further shaped through coach
migration and the adoption of elements of other countries' coaching
structures. This book explores these phenomena to provide critical
evidence of the historical impact of culture on the development of
sports coaching. The book offers insight into the characteristics
of European coaching traditions. It will be fascinating reading for
academics in sports history, sports and coaching studies, gender
studies, and transnational studies, as well as those with an
interest in British or European history and social and cultural
history.
At the London Olympics in 2012 Team GB achieved a third place
finish in the medals table. A key factor in this achievement was
the high standard of contemporary British sports coaching. But how
has British sports coaching transitioned from the amateur to the
professional, and what can the hitherto under-explored history of
sports coaching in Britain tell us about both the early history of
sport and about contemporary coaching practice? A History of Sports
Coaching in Britain is the first book to attempt to examine the
history of British sports coaching, from its amateur roots in the
deep nineteenth century to the high performance, high status
professional coaching cultures of today. The book draws on original
primary source material, including the lost coaching lives of key
individuals in British coaching, to trace the development of
coaching in Britain. It assesses the continuing impact of the
nineteenth-century amateur ethos throughout the twentieth century,
and includes important comparisons with developments in
international coaching, particularly in North America and the
Eastern Bloc. The book also explores the politicisation of sport
and the complicated interplay between politics and coaching
practice, and illuminates the origins of the structures,
organisations and philosophies that surround performance sport in
Britain today. This book is fascinating reading for anybody with an
interest in the history of sport, sports coaching, sports
development, or the relationships between sport and wider society.
This book explores the historical development of coaching
traditions across Europe, placing national approaches to coaching
within their cultural and political context. Sports coaching is a
social practice that has been shaped by its cultural context,
resulting in different countries being characterized by different
coaching traditions. By helping us to understand the history of
coaching across Europe, this book allows us to better understand
both the history of sport and the cultural and social history of
Western European nations. Drawing on cutting-edge historical
research by international scholars, the book presents studies of
coaching cultures in France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden,
Norway and the United Kingdom. It explores how sporting histories,
cultural attitudes, and social contexts resulted in distinctive
coaching heritages, which were further shaped through coach
migration and the adoption of elements of other countries' coaching
structures. This book explores these phenomena to provide critical
evidence of the historical impact of culture on the development of
sports coaching. The book offers insight into the characteristics
of European coaching traditions. It will be fascinating reading for
academics in sports history, sports and coaching studies, gender
studies, and transnational studies, as well as those with an
interest in British or European history and social and cultural
history.
At the London Olympics in 2012 Team GB achieved a third place
finish in the medals table. A key factor in this achievement was
the high standard of contemporary British sports coaching. But how
has British sports coaching transitioned from the amateur to the
professional, and what can the hitherto under-explored history of
sports coaching in Britain tell us about both the early history of
sport and about contemporary coaching practice? A History of Sports
Coaching in Britain is the first book to attempt to examine the
history of British sports coaching, from its amateur roots in the
deep nineteenth century to the high performance, high status
professional coaching cultures of today. The book draws on original
primary source material, including the lost coaching lives of key
individuals in British coaching, to trace the development of
coaching in Britain. It assesses the continuing impact of the
nineteenth-century amateur ethos throughout the twentieth century,
and includes important comparisons with developments in
international coaching, particularly in North America and the
Eastern Bloc. The book also explores the politicisation of sport
and the complicated interplay between politics and coaching
practice, and illuminates the origins of the structures,
organisations and philosophies that surround performance sport in
Britain today. This book is fascinating reading for anybody with an
interest in the history of sport, sports coaching, sports
development, or the relationships between sport and wider society.
The process of converting the 'past' into 'history' involves
engagement with a multitude of different sources and methods, and
sports historians inevitably participate in the same debates over
approaches and methodologies as their counterparts in other
historical disciplines. At its heart, history remains a genre of
empirical knowledge that is based upon the remains of the past, and
without suitable evidence, there can be no sports history. A
burgeoning range of sources has stimulated new ways of thinking and
a significant expansion in the sports historian's evidentiary base,
as textual sources have been supplemented by photos, films and
cartoons, uniforms, architecture, maps and landscapes, and material
culture more generally. This book deals with some of these
innovations. It is divided into two sections, the first offering
chapter-length studies of particular methodologies, and the second,
brief responses from experts in their fields to the question 'what
can sports historians learn from other disciplines?'
The process of converting the 'past' into 'history' involves
engagement with a multitude of different sources and methods, and
sports historians inevitably participate in the same debates over
approaches and methodologies as their counterparts in other
historical disciplines. At its heart, history remains a genre of
empirical knowledge that is based upon the remains of the past, and
without suitable evidence, there can be no sports history. A
burgeoning range of sources has stimulated new ways of thinking and
a significant expansion in the sports historian's evidentiary base,
as textual sources have been supplemented by photos, films and
cartoons, uniforms, architecture, maps and landscapes, and material
culture more generally. This book deals with some of these
innovations. It is divided into two sections, the first offering
chapter-length studies of particular methodologies, and the second,
brief responses from experts in their fields to the question 'what
can sports historians learn from other disciplines?'
This book explores how different constituencies influenced the
development of nineteenth-century swimming in England, and
highlights the central role played by swimming professors. These
professionals were influential in inspiring participation in
swimming, particularly among women, well before the amateur
community created the Amateur Swimming Association, and this volume
outlines some key life-courses to illustrate their working
practices. Female exhibitors were important to professors and
chapter three discusses these natationists and their impact on
women's swimming. Subsequent chapters address the employment
opportunities afforded by new swimming baths and the amateur
community that formed clubs and a national organization, which
excluded swimming professors, many of whom subsequently worked
successfully abroad. Dave Day and Margaret Roberts argue that the
critical role played by professors in developing swimming has been
forgotten, and suggest that their story is a reminder that
individuals were just as important to the foundation of modern
sport as the formation of amateur organizations.
This book explores how different constituencies influenced the
development of nineteenth-century swimming in England, and
highlights the central role played by swimming professors. These
professionals were influential in inspiring participation in
swimming, particularly among women, well before the amateur
community created the Amateur Swimming Association, and this volume
outlines some key life-courses to illustrate their working
practices. Female exhibitors were important to professors and
chapter three discusses these natationists and their impact on
women's swimming. Subsequent chapters address the employment
opportunities afforded by new swimming baths and the amateur
community that formed clubs and a national organization, which
excluded swimming professors, many of whom subsequently worked
successfully abroad. Dave Day and Margaret Roberts argue that the
critical role played by professors in developing swimming has been
forgotten, and suggest that their story is a reminder that
individuals were just as important to the foundation of modern
sport as the formation of amateur organizations.
Flying a model helicopter is a challenge almost as difficult as
flying a real one, and the wise modeller will seek the fullest
advice on all the possible variations and handling techniques
before embarking on attempts to fly. They will find all the advice
they need here - in Dave Day's classic book, now revised and
updated for the first decade of the 21st century. The continuing
development of radio controlled model helicopters over the years
since this book was originally published has led to great
sophistication in the hobby. This in turn has produced a situation
where the actual flying of a correctly set up model with the latest
radio equipment is considerably easier. Despite this, the process
of learning to fly has not really changed a great deal, while the
setting-up process has become increasingly complex. Both must be
learned and developed by the individual with practice and
perseverance. In this book Dave Day, who had the forethought to
record his early experiences as they happened, and who has
continued the process as his skills developed, sets out a
step-by-step programme from the first exercises through to advanced
aerobatics and beyond. These are accompanied by comments on a
typical model, its requirements and its setting-up which will be of
interest and value to all model helicopter flyers irrespective of
their skills.
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