Time to changes degrees

Today I was watching a video http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=dU1xS07N-FA&feature=youtu.be&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdU1xS07N-FA%26feature%3Dyoutu.be all about coding and how computers and technology are taking over the world. My first thought was why am I doing coaching and exercise science at university rather than IT or something computer based? I'm trying to break into a world to get a job in an area that isn't of the highest demand when I could have done IT and got a job in seconds by the sounds of this video. Well then I thought because this interests me and that's what really matters why do something in life if you don't have any interest in it?

My thought process then changed, I was curious to understand how I can start coding something myself. Well firstly I need to start off with the basics so I am going to ask a friend from work who did do IT at uni where to start from.

The big in thing atm are apps for phones and tablets. The next thing I need is an idea. Now my idea that I'm thinking is a program somewhat like easy tag dart fish. This is a simple app that can be used for coding anything. I have previously used it for coding what happens when the ball enters the attacking 50m in AFL games. But I found the program hard to set up and not good when mistakes were made. Also i found when try to out put the code to excel or any other program's didn't produce a readable document so pretty much you were stuck with a coded game on your device that couldn't then be used on a computer.

So my idea is to make  an app that allows users to be able to code games easily, be able to fix mistakes and then the app be able to easily produce tables and graphs inside the app and on excel or other spreadsheet program's. This simple app could change performance analysis for the better it would make coding so much quicker and easier than it has ever been previously. Hopefully this idea comes off the ground as I think it could really help coaches with their objective feedback and maybe make me a few dollars whilst I'm at it.

Thanks again for reading

Kind regards Daniel Scroope.

Video coaching and technology changes.

Hello all.

After completing my video of myself coaching I gave more thought to using video footage to more often. As technology advances and the portable cameras inside a phone or ipad become better and more advanced I was thinking why haven't I been using a camera to simply shoot different skills my athletes perform to teach them. I have used video footage for self coaching a few different times as I am a golfer and it is me of the handiest tools to understand what's going on in my swing. But I noticed simply that when coaching an athlete in my video how to handball I couldn't quite pickup n the technique problem she was having in real time. But as soon as I looked back on video footage once or twice and compared it towards another players technique the problem unfolded so simply. Why had I not thought of this earlier? I always knew team sports were evolving to the point where video footage makes up a big part of coaching so why aren't beginner coaches using it at the basic levels? It's not very hard and it's not like the equipment isn't available a simple phone or tablet is all that is needed. The article http://www.teachthought.com/trends/30-incredible-ways-technology-will-change-education-by-2028/ really stimulated this whole thought pattern in a way that made me think where is technology taking us and how can coaches from a beginners level incorporate it. I believe the key to unlocking technology in coaching is experimentation and communication. The more experimentation our coaches are doing with technology hopefully the better thier communication with athletes and other coaches will be.

Thanks for reading Daniel Scroope

Periodisation

So I was reading the article "Periodization paradigms in the 21st century: evidence-led or tradition-driven?" and I was thinking about how I have gone about the periodization of my current team that i coach. Well I first thought do I even use periodization when I think about the big picture for my team. And yes I do although it isn't as structured as I like and sometimes different trainings don't go as planned due to lack of numbers but there is the idea that we are building and we do work on certain skills before we move forward into more complex skills. Although this isn't as structured as a professional team world be there is still the basic idea that we are building for finals and getting our skills more sport specific as we move through the season. This to me is still a form of periodization. I would very much like to see if many current professional teams are "realigned with contemporary elite practice and modern scientific conceptual models" I believe they wouldn't be to far off the pace but clearly are ever changing and evaluating as to how to periodize better.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22356774/

Thanks for reading Daniel Scroope