Essential Sports Skills

A unique new video ideal for PE teachers and coaches, instructing track and field. This excellent programme arms you with the skills to effectively coach:

• Running, walks and hurdles
• Jumps
• Throws

Each programme covers the rules, safety and physical preparation of young athletes and demonstrates the specific skills needed in this sport.

Part One:

Running, Walks and Hurdles wih VIS coach Peter Fortune, Harry Summers and Kath Lee. You will learn how to warm up muscles and focus minds; develop correct technique through a series of drills; and finally put it all into practice.

Part Two:

Jumps with VIS coach Kirsteen Farranve. In this video you will learn the correct techniques for the long, triple and high jumps. Individual skills include a step-by-step guide to personalising the run-up to suit each athlete.

Part Three:

Throws with VIS coach Mike Brown. You will learn the physical requirements and techniques for the demanding throwing events, including Shot-put, Discus, Javelin and Hammer Throw. Safety and physcical preparations are key elements of this programme.

The authors are the owners of Top Lodge Leisure Limited, the health and safety specialists in training, consultancy and project management, the first in the sports and recreation industry to obtain registration from NEBOSH. Within the Sport and Recreation Sector Top Lodge are the first and only accredited centre for the NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health in the United Kingdom.