Coach Accreditations

Australian Sailing’s philosophy is to create programs that develop skills and competencies; and deliver best-practice within a nationally consistent framework.

Sailing is no different to other sports, where the use of a coach has significant benefits that increase the level of skills, satisfaction with, and enjoyment of the sport.

To ensure coaches are meeting and delivering coaching programs to meet the needs of the participant and have access to current best practice and content, it is important that they receive tuition and attain a nationally recognised qualification.

Australian Sailing has a range of learning options to develop coaching skills.  The Foundation Coach and Sailing Coach courses provide options depending on your interests, aspirations, and experience in sailing.
 

Foundation Coach

Gaining the Qualification

Course Overview

The Australian Sailing Foundation Coach Course is designed as the entry into coaching, introducing fundamental coaching skills and technical knowledge on and off the water.
The course has been created through feedback and contributions from a cross section of the sailing community, including Senior Coaches and Instructors, young people who have national racing experience, class association and club officials. 

The course builds on the instructor and experienced sailors’ knowledge and caters for those working with participants who have learnt the basics and want to develop their skills to be independent and confident on the water, so that they can enjoy recreational sailing and/or foundation level racing (Green Fleet) with confidence.

This course is for:
-  Current qualified Australian Sailing Instructors (from age 16) who want to begin their coaching in any class of boat, board, or discipline.

At the conclusion of this course the Foundation coach can:
-  Assist a Sailing Coach at Clubs and for Class Associations.
-  Coach Green Fleet endorsed programs/activities of 1:6 boats independently for Class Associations and Clubs
-  Access recommend coaching plans and session material, and ongoing training and development from Australian Sailing
-  Coach Green Programs/Fleets at Youth Sail and other events

Cost

The Foundation Coach course is free.

Registration

To register for the Foundation Coach course select one of the links below in relation to your existing qualifications.

If you have:

You can also access this course via the course finder - click here
 

Sailing Coach Course

Gaining the Qualification

Course Overview

The Australian Sailing, ‘Sailing Coach Course’ is based on the learnings and success of the Australian Sailing Team over a number of years.

The course has been created with significant contributions from members of the Australian Sailing Team including multiple Olympic medal winning coaches Victor Kovalenko and Michael Blackburn and has been further developed and piloted by Olympian Sarah Ogilvie.

The course builds on the Instructor's knowledge and caters for those working with participants and athletes who confident in fundamental sailing skills and want to develop their skills further, so that they can enjoy practicing and competing at Club, State and National events.

The course contains both theory and on-water components and is conducted over 2.5 days (generally a Friday evening and a weekend). The course is delivered by Australian Sailing accredited Senior Coaches.

Upon certification the Sailing Coach can:

-    Coach Green, Intermediate and Advanced programs at Clubs and for Class Associations.
-    Coach any class of boat, board or discipline
-    Have an assistant coach working with them (Foundation Coach) to support their coaching delivery
-    Access recommend coaching plans and session material, and ongoing training and development for Green, Intermediate & Advanced Programs.
-    Coach at Youth Sail and other events
-    Apply for Performance Pathway / HP coaching opportunities 

Cost

Sailing Coach Course: $415 

Pre-requisites 

To register for the ‘Sailing Coach’ Course, several prerequisites need to be held by the applicant. These details need to be recorded on the individual’s mySailor profile.

The prerequisites are as follows:
•    Safety Boat Operator certificate
•    First-aid certificate (Apply first-aid HLTAID003 or above)
•    Working with Children Check
•    Must be 18 years-old
•    Water confident.
•    Comply with relevant State Maritime Licence requirements
•    Instructor qualification or appropriate experience (teacher, coach, tutor, etc), with minimum expectation being the completion of the Australian Sailing Instructor General Principles online course.

Online Sailing Coach General Principles
The pre-course work is an online component known as the ‘Sailing Coach General Principles’ and takes six hours to complete. 

Face-To-face Course
The face-to-face course is conducted over 2.5 days (generally a Friday evening and a weekend). 

Qualification

If participants are successful in their assessment and have all prerequisite documentation on their mySailor profile, they will be awarded the Sailing Coach qualification which will remain valid for 5 years.
 

Maintaining the Qualification 

Annual Renewal

The Sailing Coach qualification needs to be renewed annually. 

You do this by paying the annual renewal fee which provides you with insurance coverage.

Other components of the qualification that you are required to maintain include:

• Apply first-aid certificate
• Working with Children Check
• State Maritime Licence (if applicable in your State)

Qualification Reaccreditation

Once the five-year qualification period has concluded, a practical assessment of the coach is required to ensure the skills, knowledge and best-practice remains current. 

Please contact your local Australian Sailing Club Support Officer for more details on when they are being held.

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