Roger / Jamie et all, What Roger says does make sense ( please don't now shout at me ! ). I originally asked for a coach that we could hire because as a team located nowhere near a University or Ultimate "hotspot" ( Leeds, Nottingham, London etc ) you do become isolated.
I originally started playing as a Junior 8 years ago when there was a least 2 tournaments a year for Juniors ( National Indoors & Outdoors ). Now it seems the Junior scene is very small & apart from Student Ultimate it is very hard to get a new team started. If you haven't gone to Uni. & made the connections there that would perhaps lead on to Open Ultimate it is very hard for a team to improve, especially now with the game focusing much more on Outdoors ( increase in Winter Leagues etc ) to compete teams need to be more skilled - I think everyone will agree Outdoors is much harder than Indoors, a top 10 team Outdoors would cream my team yet Indoors whilst we wouldn't win it would be closer. Where as before I think everyone recognised this as a voluntary sport ( take the UKUA board members for example ), Teams can start to recognise much more the value of a coach and would be willing to pay for it. Not to sure about the *voluntary* coaching though ! I've just seen Barry's e-mail relating to this, so I wait with baited breath for January. Hopefully this will make coaching & learning of skills more accessible to everyone. Tom Bolstridge Kamaya Maya -----Original Message----- From: Roger Thomson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 December 2003 11:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BD] RE: Coach for Hire ? >*sigh* you always come back for more *sigh* because we have an unsatisfactory status quo, and quite often I'm the only one who has the time/inclination to do anything about it. Jack made an extraordinary point about paying UKUA officers - I don't think there was even one single comment from Britdisc........... > members subsequently pass on the knowledge gained/shared to various other > student, women's, mixed, open and GB teams BUT some teams do not have access to outstandingly generous founts of knowledge like your good self. What about them? There are plenty of them. Oh sod them, none of our mates play on those teams? >Instead of proposing half-baked ideas Roger, why don't you >formulate a plan for implementing one of them Because as far as I'm aware the UKUA has a coaching plan which has been worked on for years by a variety of people. You know me: I would hate to tread on the UKUAs toes. Maybe one of the UKUA board could tell us what that plan entails and where we can find draft documentation? There was me thinking that Britdisc was exactly the place we should fire off half-thought through plans in the hope we can work them up together into something valuable for the community. Sorry I was forgetting it was only for tournament announcements and requests for lifts - DOH! :-/ r .IMPORTANT NOTICE: The information in this email (and any attachments) is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use or disseminate the information. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify me by "Reply" command and permanently delete the original and any copies or printouts thereof. Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by American International Group, Inc. or its subsidiaries or affiliates either jointly or severally, for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pootle.near.me.uk/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
