| DAILY RECORD OF VISIT TO THE PLACEMENT
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| Date: | 06-01-2020 |
| Group or individual with whom I worked: | Marjon Tennis Society |
BEFORE my placement …
| What am I aiming to achieve from my placement today? What do I need to be mindful of? What issues/questions need to be addressed to ensure I achieve my aim? Do I need to be aware of particular theories, or have particular skills? Have I thought about all of the ‘what ifs’? |
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The main aim of my placement today was to ensure that all the players were fit after the Christmas break. I need to take an active role in finding out if they are carrying any injuries that they picked up over the Christmas period. As well as this I need to catch up with the players with the Achilles and hip problems and see how they are.
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DURING my placement …
| What did I notice happening around me today? What was I thinking and feeling? How was I involved? Did I do anything to intervene and change the situation that I found myself in e.g. how I conveyed a point or whether I decided not to do something I had planned to do? Did my reflections at the time change the session I had planned or my actions? |
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Everyone was slow to get back into the session after the Christmas period and many of them seemed to be stiff. I conferred with the coach and I took the team through some stretching within tolerance to make sure that they were as prepared as possible for the session. Although I didn’t have a stretching session planned I was able to improvise and the players responded well to the delivery due to the nature at which it was presented.
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AFTER my placement … (based on the Gibbs (1988) Reflective Cycle)
| Describe the activities you undertook whilst on placement today. Set the context, what you did and what happened. |
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Upon catching up with the players I found that none of them had developed any injuries whilst being away for Christmas. However, they were all very tight and restricted when it cam to activity. Furthermore, the player with the Achilles tendinopathy seemed to of made a recovery to 100% after the isometric exercises. The player with the hip pathology is still reporting soreness but at a decreased level to what it was.
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| Document how you felt through-out your placement today. Were you anxious, confident, pleased or disappointed? |
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I was slightly nervous going into placement today as I was unsure if I was going to get bombarded with multiple injuries that were sustained over the Christmas break. But after I got there, and everyone seems to be fine I quickly relaxed.
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| Evaluate today’s placement activity. What went well, what went badly, what would you have done differently? |
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I think that today’s placement went well as there were no issues that were serious and the stretching that I did with the squad was a success.
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