Coaches
Team15 clubs have to operate within RYA Training Centre guidelines, so as a minimum the club should be run by a Start Windsurfing Instructor whilst a Senior Instructor needs to be present when club sessions are running.
End of Season BLAST!
Open to RYA windsurfing instructors of all levels (including assistant instructors) and all wannabe instructors!
Coaching is an excellent way to get more involved in club activities, help your Team15 grow, and to develop your own sailing. What better way to develop your skills than to go to this year’s End of Season BLAST!
There will be expert coaches on hand to improve your personal sailing, and you can learn how to run better ‘start’, ‘intermediate’ and ‘advanced’ sessions, as well as try demo equipment and talk to the windsurfing trade. All this for just £10!
The day will inspire you to perpetually develop your skills as a windsurfing instructor, and it may be the catalyst to go one stage further and book on a more advanced instructor course. Become an intermediate instructor, senior instructor, advanced instructor – or maybe a T15 freestyle coach, racing instructor or level 2 racing coach.
The list is endless, so keep progressing , learn new skills and ways of coaching – and help bring on the next wave of Team15 stars and windsurfers of the future!
Sign up for the End of Season BLAST and become the best instructor you can be…
Where’s your nearest event?
Rutland Watersports, Whitwell, 16 October 2011
For further information and to book, contact the centre:
rutlandwatersports@anglianwater.co.uk or call 01780 460 154
Book by 7 October
Yorkshire Dales Sailing Club, Skipton, 5 November 2011
For further information and to book, contact:
ben.reid@rya.org.uk
Book by 17 October
Please remember to bring your own windsurfing equipment!
(End of Season BLAST poster available to download on the right of this page)
Succession planning
It is important to ensure that succession planning is in place. For instance, should the Senior Instructor (SI) leave, is there another SI to take their place to ensure that the centre remains RYA recognised and that the Team15 club can still operate? One way of ensuring that all your hard work in building up your Team15 club isn’t lost overnight is to become an SI yourself.
Developing your coaching skills
To run a Team15 club you have to be a Start Windsurfing Instructor. You don’t have to be a Team15 coach but it does help to understand what the Team15 programme is trying to achieve and ideas to implement at club sessions. The best course to achieve this information is the RYA Racing Instructor course (previously known as the Team15 Coach-Red).
If you are already a Racing Instructor (or T15 Coach-Red) and have good personal competition experience in either windsurfing of dinghy sailing, then you should look to take the Level 2 Club Racing Coach Course (Windsurfing). This will help you deliver higher level competition training to your Team15 sailors and adult racers, and nurture the younger sailors towards the RYA Zone Squads.
As many of the Team15 club sessions will focus on generally improving the skill level of the young sailors, having higher level windsurfing instructor qualifications will increase the amount of skills training you can impart. If you are a Start Windsurfing Instructor then consider becoming an Intermediate Instructor; similarly, if you are already an Intermediate then why not go for your Advanced? It will help with your personal sailing too.
And if you’re interested in freestyle, then perhaps consider taking the T15 Freestyle Instructor course, which can also be used for teaching the same basic freestyle skills to adults.
Contact UsArticle Published: October 14, 2011 14:38