A Constraints-led Approach to Figure Skating Coaching

Garrett Lucash

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Routledge
30 September 2022

Sports training & coaching; Ice-skating

Series: Routledge Studies in Constraints-Based Methodologies in Sport

Motor skill acquisition and athlete development practices are rapidly evolving. Positioned at the forefront of this evolution, the constraints-led approach encourages practitioners to consider the athlete as a whole person, with unique traits, abilities, and capacities. Accordingly, an athlete’s competitive success lies in the practitioner’s ability to adapt programming to the unique needs of each athlete and to facilitate the athlete-environment relationship.

A Constraints-led Approach to Figure Skating Coaching applies contemporary motor skill acquisition and athlete development practices to figure skating. The book encourages coaches to think about why they coach, the athletes they want to support, and the goals they want their program to achieve. It informs coaches how to transform these core considerations into the driving inspiration for their daily coaching practices including assessment methods, the coach-athlete relationship, practice structure, competition preparation, and conceptions of technique. The lessons here are founded on the constraints-led approach. They are personal, yet broadly inclusive to the global sports programming market.

The book is written through a ‘conversive’ voice and is accessible to a broad audience interested in athlete development and programming such as coaches, athletes and parents. At the same time, academics and students in the areas of sport coaching, biomechanics, motor skill acquisition, strength and conditioning, and related disciplines will find interest in the insights provided from this underrepresented niche in sports.

By: Garrett Lucash
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 303g
ISBN: 9781032345840
ISBN 10: 1032345845
Series: Routledge Studies in Constraints-Based Methodologies in Sport
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 30 September 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Garrett Lucash is a U.S. figure skating champion, International medalist, and three-time World Team member. He is a National Development Team coach (USA), the Chair of the PSA Sport Science Committee, and a member of U.S. Figure Skating’s Sport Science and Medicine Committee. As an athlete, Garrett trained under some of the most successful coaches in figure skating history and alongside dozens of elite athletes from all over the world including Olympic and World champions. He attended and presented at numerous coaches and judges seminars as an athlete and a coach, attended numerous sport science training camps, and guest lectured at Boston College. In 2018, Garrett co-founded Athlete Centered Skating, a holistic figure skating program that supports the individual needs of its athletes and develops learning skills within its curriculum. The Athlete Centered Skating methodology is derived from a constraints-led approach. Garrett’s writing appears in Dynamics of Skill Acquisition vol.2 (Human Kinetics, publisher), and he has written numerous articles for Skating magazine and The Professional Skater magazine. He has also written continuing education courses for the PSA, the official coaches’ education and accreditation association for figure skating coaches in the United States.