Sports Coaching Practice (Combat Sports)

You will be encouraged to coach both peers and external participants and have opportunities to take NGB coaching awards alongside your studies. Our strong links with sports organisations and employers mean there will be opportunities for coaching work-experience throughout the course, developing skills to meet the real-life needs of sports people across a range of ages, level of performance and sports settings.

In addition, you will be equipped with the skills, knowledge and attributes to work independently and as part of a team within the coaching profession and allow for employment opportunities in a wide range of other sport-related and graduate level careers. You will have the opportunity to explore coaching issues related to combat sports, and be encouraged to utilise a range of learning, teaching and sports science technologies.

This exciting Combat Sports ‘route’ of the Sports Coaching Practice course means that you can choose to focus your studies on a particular combat sport(s). You will undertake specialist modules such as: Combat Sports Performance Skills (Technical Analysis), and Combat Sport Performance Skills (Advanced Performance Analysis).

Typical modules include:

• Motor Learning
• Introduction to science in sports coaching
• Coaching in Context
• Introduction to coaching
• Interdisciplinary practice in sports coaching
• Martial Arts Performance Skills (technical analysis)
• Training principles for sports performance
• Motor Control and Performance
• Coaching Philosophy in Practice
• Research Methods and Analytical Procedures
• Science in performance coaching
• Martial Arts Performance Skills ( tactical analysis )
• Optimising Training and Performance
• Practical Coaching
• The Professional Project
• Martial Arts Performance Skills (advanced sport science and analysis)
• Martial Arts Performance Skills (professional practice)