Imizamo Yethu Sports Field Project Now Online

Schoolboy Practices Soccer in School Yard

 

The Imizamo Yethu Sports Field Project has created an online presence to support the promotion of the project and facilitate the raising of funds.  The project has established a website, blog, Facebook group and a page on the charity fund raising site JustGiving.

 The project aims to raise £300,000 through the charity International Development through Sport (Charity Registration No 1001564) to provide a 3G synthetic sports field and supporting youth sport and development programme in the informal settlement of Imizamo Yethu.

Imizamo Yethu is situated in Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa and has limited and poor facilities for sports participation especially for young people.  This project aims to improve the lives of young people from Imizamo Yethu by giving them the opportunity to take part in sports activity linked to life skills training.

The project will use email and social media to recruit and support 100,000 individuals in the UK who will each be asked to commit to raising £300 each.  Funds raised will be collected through JustGiving the online charity fundraising website.

If you would like to support this charitable effort, please contact us.

The Journey from Competency to Capability

Top sports coaches are innovative, finding new approaches to the train and prepare their teams and athletes, and in the process helping them to achieve a competitive advantage.  Good coaches possess practical coaching skills, knowledge and understanding of their sport, and demonstrate appropriate attitude, values and conduct.  Top coaches move to higher levels by reflecting on their coaching practice, solving problems and creating new and innovative approaches to coaching.  Top coaches move beyond competency and demonstrate capability.

The following diagram helps explain this journey from competency to capability.

The Journey from Competency to Capability (Applied Competency)

When a coach has achived a minimal standard of coaching by demonstrating that they can perform a coaching tasks in predetermined contexts to a prescribed standard, they are considered to possess practical competency.

If a coach can demonstrate that they have a clear understanding of what they are doing when performing coaching tasks and why they are doing them, they can be said to possess foundational competency.

Reflective competence is where the coach is able to take his/her coaching to a new level by adapting their skills and knowledge to unfamiliar issues situations and also being able to explain their adaptations.  They are able to reflect on their coaching practice, develop it to new levels, and  bring innovative approaches to their coaching.

This development over time of practical, foundational and reflective competence will see improving standards of coaching practice. Coaches progressing from recognised minimal standards to new standards of applied coaching competence or capabilty.