Class Surfing (Option I Modality - Sports Coaching)

(full text FUC pdf)   First year of specialization as a SURF coach, with an emphasis on pedagogical practice and the early stages of sports development for the practitioner. Consolidate in the student knowledge about the sea, equipment and general and specific knowledge about technique and tactics in surfing at the initial stage of development of the practitioner. The learning developed during the year should result in an intervention (outside and inside the water) that is autonomous and transversal to the various targets of practitioners - different age groups, foreign language, different technical levels (recreational and training) and cases with different curves of evolution. It is also intended to develop in the student skills for the overall management of the surf school (equipment, spaces, organization, signs), as well as general knowledge about the regulation, licensing and organization of the sport system of the sport. 

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Theoretical Surf Historical and Evolution The basic material Knowledge of the Sea and Places of Practice General Safety Procedures Beach Safety and Prevention (Life Guard Rescue Institute) Surf Federative Structure, Regulation and Organization Surf School Structure and Operation   Theoretical-Practical Surf Warming Techniques Surfing Initiation Teaching Methodology (sequential learning) Pedagogical Practice and Safety (different sea conditions and different student targets) Waterman Practice Development Process (specific teaching in parallel surfing sports: bodyboard, longboard, stand up paddle) Special Populations and Adapted Surfing Beach Safety and Safe Surfing Techniques Introduction to Surf-Specific Functional Training (physical condition)

Micro Teaching through Autonomy in Practice. Autonomy in Practice - with supervision

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