AKR Coach Development Programme - VISION by Blake Bennett

Coach Expereince

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What’s it like to be a coach in 2035?
How supported do coaches feel?
What’s motivating coaches to stay involved?

Systems & Support

bben378 — 2025-08-03 01:32:14 UTC

What tools or systems are in place to help coaches succeed?
What does “support” actually look like in practice?
Is anything automated, shared, or centralised?

Player Expereince

bben378 — 2025-08-03 01:32:19 UTC

What’s changed for players of all levels?
How does the coaching program help players improve, enjoy, or stay longer?
Are players more confident? More connected?

Community Impact

bben378 — 2025-08-03 01:32:22 UTC

What impact is the program having beyond the dojo?
How is kendo perceived by schools, parents, the public?
Has anything shifted in how volunteers are supported?

Common threads

bben378 — 2025-08-07 04:39:42 UTC

Words, ideas, or intentions came up more than once

Tensions

bben378 — 2025-08-07 04:40:22 UTC

Where do we disagree—or not have clarity?

Missing pieces

bben378 — 2025-08-07 04:40:53 UTC

What do we still need to explore?

Well supported by AKR

bben378 — 2025-08-22 23:01:51 UTC

Players Trust

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Recognition of the separation of technical skill and coaching skill. Helps to build player trust in those two areas separately.

LMS - modules, online resources

bben378 — 2025-08-22 23:03:46 UTC

Accessible resources

Moer people signing up

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Micro-credentials/micro-learning

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Creation of training space

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A training space where coaches can attend and all players can attend, without breaking the trust of their Sensei - all are welcome and encouraged to attend. Not a dojo - but a space

What is it like

2025-08-22 23:06:45 UTC

Coaching develop pathways, local, state and national

Seminars

Coaches scale

Develop opps

Learning from eachother / peer coaching

Resources, materials, training, venues, funds

What's motivating

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Development and progress of players

Seeing progress

Seeing results - competition, student numbers, student engagment

Postive environment

Allow objective view and analysis through data for individual performance

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Create goals and methods of catering to the audience

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Creating safe spaces for all ages

More accessible events - financial, logistical etc

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Positive environment for more people to train

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Resources neeed!

bben378 — 2025-08-22 23:18:23 UTC

Proud to be part of AKR/kendo

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Opportunities to be more!

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Positive showcase of kendo to Australia

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Disrupting amateur model

bben378 — 2025-08-22 23:24:26 UTC

because of the potential of the 'kendo expereince'

Recognition of 'good coaching' examples

bben378 — 2025-08-22 23:28:50 UTC

Kendo percieved and valued as an activity that contributes children's physical and mental development

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How players transition/grow to be coaches

2025-08-22 23:35:04 UTC

Often it's assumed that when players achieve a certain grade (e.g. 5 Dan) automatically becomes an instructor or a coach, but they not necessarily have had the experience of instructing/coaching prior to achieving that technical rank.