ANALYSIS OF COACHING STYLES IN RACKET SPORTS

Ms. Yogita Saini and Dr. Ashwani Saini

Abstract

Coaching styles in sport is an area of great concern to the coaches, researcher and learner as coaching style leads to an effective Teaching learning environment. Spectrum of different teaching and coaching style developed by Mosston & Assworth is well accepted and commonly used concept worldwide by the sports teacher and coaches. Keeping it as a reference point present research was taken up to find out the status of different Coaching styles use by coaches in India. A self-made questionnaire was prepared with the help of expert of physical education and sports to investigate the status of coaching styles used by the coaches in Delhi state. Forty coaches of racquet sports i.e. Tennis, Badminton, table tennis and Squash were selected purposively as the participant of the study. Descriptive statistics was used to analyse the data. Findings of the study revealed that the coaches are not aware about some of the latest Coaching styles used worldwide. Command style, Practice method, self-teaching method and self-teaching method are the most preferred style. It was concluded that the Coaches learning platform e.g. Diploma courses, certification, workshop and conference must incorporate these latest Coaching styles in their curriculum.
Keywords: Coaching Pedagogy, Coaching styles and Racket Sports.