The Core Training programme provides candidates with the tools to plan, deliver, and review long-term coaching programmes in their specialist discipline. It provides an in-depth look at the coaching process in the context of intermediate and long-term coaching, and includes aspects of the following;

• The roles and responsibilities of a Performance Coach
• To be able to safely deliver a series of 12 pre-planned discipline specific sessions over the course of a year
• Consolidation of and advancement of the British Canoeing Coach Award coaching processes
• Develop coaching process to promote long-term learning for candidates
• To profile and create a plan to aid a learners development
• To develop participants performance at an intermediate level
• To deliver sessions where candidates individualised needs are identified and coached
• Effective use of coaching behaviours
• Evaluate and analyse participant’s performance
• Review strategies for coaching and performance

The Discipline Specific training provides an applied looking at the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of the coaching process and the technical and tactical skills required to effectively coach boat handling techniques and manoeuvres in the context of the chosen discipline