ADAPT Coaching Journal
ADAPT Qualifications — The Coaching Journal
Coaching
Science
And philosophy.
Seventeen years of certifying parkour coaches across 50 countries has taught us things no textbook anticipated. The Coaching Journal is where we write them down. For coaches who take the discipline seriously.
1,500+
Coaches certified
50+
Countries
17
Years certifying
2008
Founded
Coaching
Science
And philosophy.
Seventeen years of certifying parkour coaches across 50 countries has taught us things no textbook anticipated. The Coaching Journal is where we write them down. For coaches who take the discipline seriously.
Internal cues focus attention on the body. External cues focus it on effects in the world. The research is clear on which produces better movement and faster learning.
Parkour is a physical discipline with real risk. The bodies of the people in front of a coach are real. The environment they move in is real. The consequences of bad coaching, not just injury but bad learning, bad habits, eroded confidence, misplaced progression, are real and lasting.
We take coaching seriously. Very seriously. It’s as important a profession as law, medicine, school teaching, policing, etc… because it has the power to shape people’s lives for the better, or worse, depending on the quality of the coach. A good coach can have an enormous positive effect on a young person’s self-esteem, confidence, self-belief, even their direction in life. A bad coach can have an equally powerful, but negative, effect.
This is the coach's guiding principle, his litmus test and his raison d'etre. It must be at the centre of everything the coach does, it must underpin his choice of every method, exercise or programme.