3 Day Classroom Component for USDBF National Dragon Boat Coaching Core Certification
WHEN: TBD
WHERE: TBD
Course
fee: $300 (includes drinks and snacks, lunch on your own)
To Register: TBD
Course highlights include:
Team safety – injury prevention
Basic stroke mechanics – coaching strategies
Identification of your coaching style
Ability to create & utilize team mission and goal statements
Design team season and practice plans
Learn to capture and use video as a coaching tool
Develop “critical eye”
Develop a race day plan
This course is designed to benefit dragon boat coaches of crews from novice to competitive. It
will serve as the classroom component for USDBF Coaching Core Certification. Core
Certification will require successful completion of additional follow-up work for assessment
which will be made available to class participants post-course, as well as a $25 certification fee.
This USDBF training course is led by Connie Flesuras, founder of Dragon Boat Training and
long serving member representative for the USDBF. Connie brings 20 years of recreational,
national and international dragon boat paddling, coaching, drumming, team and club
management experience to this course development. She has been instrumental, with the help of
other US National Coaches, in the development of the USDBF Coaching Certification
Curriculum and Assessment Program. In addition to this Fundamentals Course, Look for
USDBF Advanced Coaching Course that will serve as classroom component for the USDBF
Advanced Coaching Certification in 2018.
For additional information regarding course topics please contact Connie at
connie@usdragonboatcoach.com