coaching

[MJ_1993]

how do you become a coach, and what courses and levels are there?

Does it work like rugby, football and cricket, where it is:

level 1->level 2->level 3 etc.

People at school are contemplating doing the three above, (i might do rugby or cricket)

So I just started to wonder as you do

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

Yes Mo there is a structure.

BC are currently aligning their coaching regime so that there is a cross sport base with a specific cyling element.

I once did the ABC coaching award, then they changed it all and sudenly I wasn't a coach any more, so got a bit p.....d off and never bothered to do it all over again.

We need coaches, something which is the main barrier to us becoming a "go-ride" club or even "accredited status".

Try here[url]http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/coa/coach_ed_programme.asp[/url]

[MJ_1993]

Thanks

I might think about doing this, but I dont want to do it with a bunch of old guys, that I dont know.

Any other takers?

[MJ_1993]

Could I pretend I'm 16?

But I have to do a first aid course...(ah well, that will inevitably be useful in later life)

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

Almost anyone in the club is old compared with you

[MJ_1993]

indeed