Lifelong Learning | David Turner
Episode 41, Dec 02, 2019, 05:30 PM
David Turner is the Coaching Children & Safeguarding Lead at UK Coaching, the region’s lead agency and charity for sports coaching. David co-authored the latest UK Coaching/NSPCC Safeguarding & Protecting Children workshop that 25,000 coaches attend annually, and the "First Steps into Coaching" workshop and resource aimed at getting parents from the stands and into coaching. David currently serves as the Lead Throws Coach at Loughborough University.
Table of Contents
0:00 - Intro
Table of Contents
0:00 - Intro
2:09 - Growing up
5:25 - Sport specialization
9:12 - Attrition in the UK
12:57 - How organizations can make kids love the game more after the season than before
21:01 - David’s role in UK Coaching
23:24 - Abuse prevention
27:14 - Importance of multisport participation
30:37 - David’s work in coaching children
35:40 - Decline of free play
37:34 - Coaching tenure with Hollie and Becka
46:06 - Differences between coaching boys and girls
48:20 - Playing outside of comfort zones
52:02 - Shaving 5 years off the coaching learning curve
54:01 - Books and resources for coaches
56:50 - 10,000 hour fallacy
1:00:00 - Importance of lifelong learning
1:01:10 - Reaching David