Locked in Shed - ski coaching podcast

Ski boot fitting This episode condenses a live recording made during my boot fitting at Solutions 4 Feet. Proprietor and master boot fitter Colin discusses options for bespoke insoles, explains cuff alignment and you can hear how Masterfit insoles and ZipFit liners are moulded. To get in touch visit www.richardbarbourcoaching.co.uk Alternatively, search for lockedinshed or richard barbour coaching...

Ski boot assessment There comes a time when our beloved ski boots are tired and need replacing. That time has come for mine, so this one’s personal as it’s a recording made during a boot fitting assessment. In this episode I’m talking with Colin Martin who runs Solutions for Feet, a specialist in ski boot fitting and custom orthotics. I made the trip over to Bicester in Oxfordshire UK to have my i...

Focus of Attention – part 4   In September 2023 over 70 coaches from grassroots participation to Olympic level met at the UK Snowsports Coaching Conference. The conference theme was “It ain’t what you do but the way that you do it” and blended learning and coaching theory with its practical application.   Recorded at the conference, this podcast builds on workshops by Marianne Davies of UK Coachin...

Focus of Attention - part 2 Where performers and coaches direct their focus of attention has significant influence on behaviour and learning.  Marianne Davies is a Senior Coach educator for UK Coaching and former Coaching Manager for Canoe Wales. She’s got a background in adventure sports, is a keen equestrian and is currently doing a part-time PhD in Skill Acquisition in Equine Sports.  We’ve tea...

Focus of Attention - part 1 Where coaches and performers direct their focus of attention has significant influence on behaviour and learning.    I’ve got a great guest who knows a lot about this topic and that’s Marianne Davies. Currently a Senior Coach educator for UK Coaching and former Coaching Manager for Canoe Wales she’s got a background in adventure sports, is a keen equestrian and currentl...

What we see depends where we’re looking. Or more accurately…what we perceive as a coach or performer depends on what we are paying attention to, the information we receive and how we process that information.  My coaching guru John Shedden devised a skill model based on the information processing concept in cognitive psychology. This has the same mnemonic as a technical analysis tool. Both mo...

Skill: Measured vs Judged Locked In Shed bitesize are short episodes covering key coaching concepts. In this episode John Shedden, former National Coach and Director of Coaching for the English Ski Council, and I discuss evaluation of skill. Skill can be measured or judged. Listen on to hear more about skill and implications for the coach, especially when balancing the needs of young skiers and th...

Episode 9 Reasons to be skilful (part 3) In this episode I’m continuing my discussion with John Shedden and my intention is to focus more attention on skill. As well as expanding on the implications of skill for performers and their coaches, we discuss considerations for goal setting, planning a coaching programme, some anecdotes, Mikaela Shiffrin’s practice and Donald Rumsfeld – Donald Rumsfeld!...

What is skill? In this episode I’m continuing my discussion with John Shedden and my intention is to focus attention on skill. John’s book Ski Teaching introduced to snowsports a definition of skill by Barbara Knapp, an academic in the Physical Education Department at the University of Birmingham. In her book Skill in Sport, first published in 1963 she introduced a definition of skill that has bee...

Episode 7 I’m continuing my discussion with the former National Coach and Director of Coaching for Snowsport England, John Shedden. During research, John explored how skiers’ perceptions were affected by sensory information. This influenced his thinking about skill and the importance of developing sound habits in closed environments before applying them in more complex environments. We go onto dis...

Episode 6 Skilful skiing I’m continuing my discussion with the former National Coach and Director of Coaching for Snowsport England, John Shedden. Three of John’s books: Ski Teaching, Skilful Skiing and Skiing: Developing Your Skill are seminal works. From the early 70s they were hugely influential on those developing ski instructing in Britain and form the backbone of national coaching schemes op...

Episode 5 I’m continuing my discussion with the former National Coach and Director of Coaching for Snowsport England, John Shedden. In this episode I am concluding a 2 hours discussion that was made into three episodes, this one being the third. John discusses the work of Georges Joubert, how dynamic balance became active balancing, arousal, emotions and finally meeting the American professor who...

Episode 4 Information processing and PET I’m continuing my discussion with the former National Coach and Director of Coaching for Snowsport England, John Shedden. In this episode I am talking with John about his university study where he explored his interest in psychology and information processing, leading him to develop a new model of motor skill development, still in use today. We also discuss...

Episode 3  These recordings are about the art, science and history of snowsport coaching.  As a coach educator for the national governing body Snowsport England, I wanted to create resources that supports their mission of inspiring participation in snow sport at every level.  I’m continuing my discussion with the former National Coach and Director of Coaching for Snowsport England,...

Episode 2 The development of skiing in England and formation of the English Ski Council I’m continuing my discussion with the former National Coach and Director of Coaching for Snowsport England, John Shedden. I wanted to find out more about how the structure of English skiing developed in the 70s, John’s role in promoting the sport and the formation of the National Governing Body, the English Ski...

Episode 1 John Shedden - skiing beginnings I'm using the covid-19 lockdown in the UK to make recordings about the history and art of snowsport coaching.  My first guest originally aspired to a career in the nuclear sciences. But a spiritual experience on a school skiing trip transformed his life by steering him in new directions. He's the former National Coach and Director of Coaching for Sno...

You’re listening to a trailer for the Locked in Shed podcast... I’m Richard Barbour, internationally qualified coach and coach developer. I’ve been making recordings about the British snowsport scene. I’ve been chatting, learning and sharing with fellow snowsport coaches and hope they’ll be informative recordings and fun to listen to. I want to help current coaches and those new to the art by brin...