Paul Potrac

This groundbreaking coaching studies text offers a coaches eye view of coaching, focusing on the coach as a person, and coaching practice as a complex social encounter. Fascinating interviews with eight leading international sports coaches from a range of team and individual sports, including football, rugby, swimming, and athletics, form the basis for subsequent exploration of key themes in sports...

Every successful sports coach knows that good teaching and social practices are just as important as expertise in sport skills and tactics. Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Understanding Sports Coaching is still the only introduction to theory and practice in sports coaching to fully explore the social, cultural, and pedagogical concepts underpinning good coaching practice. The...