Highlights•The essence of coaching effectiveness has yet to be agreed and
captured.•Proliferation of coaching conceptualisations limits its systematic study.•Coaching …

While a growing number of studies have highlighted the potential of virtual reality (VR) to
improve athletes' skills, no research has yet focused on acceptance of a VR head-mounted …

While sport science can have significant and positive impact on coaches and athletes, there
is still a general consensus that the transfer of sport science knowledge to coaching is poor …

Training, as a core device in the projects that use sport to increase employability, is today a
much-cited element in papers in the sector. However, there seems to be little research that …

This ethnographic case study examines the long-term impact of youth sport coaching within
tennis, using observations, field notes, and interviews as data sources. We highlight the …

The present study was designed to explore the effects of a one-year coach education
program on coaches' perceptions of their communication skills and co-orientation of their …

Currently, little work has evaluated the impact of interventions within talent development
environments (TDEs). This study is the first of its kind to evaluate the efficacy of the Talent …

The purpose of the present study was to explore perceptions of shared reality in teacher-
student partnerships in ballet, and how these perceptions were related to experiences of …

The methods used to assess sports coaching expertise vary considerably between studies.
This variability limits the capacity for researchers to compare, contrast and replicate findings …

This chapter discusses the stress process as applied to coaches and reviews the literature
that has attempted to uncover the complexity of the stress process in coaching at all levels …