Blog 22 Reflection

1) Positive Statement-  I am proud of the information I had for my answers during my presentation. I feel like I taught my audience in an effective way.
2)

• a. P
• b. AP

3) Mentorship worked for me. It was very essential to my project throughout the year and was a great learning experience.

4) The research checks did not work for me. They did not work because it was hard for me to find quality articles, and i did not finish the notes during class.

5) This project has helped improve in my research skills. First off I had to find a mentor so I had to contact some of my old coaches. Then once I did find a mentor I had to start to look for research articles, and the fact that we couldn't use websites such as Wikipedia, it made me look harder for articles.  

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Literal

- I, Jesus Ortiz, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

- The soccer club Irapuato FC helped me complete my independent component. 

- For my independent component, I helped out the soccer club Irapuato FC. I first started to only help out during practice, and shadow the head coach, but then he gave me some say in what we would practice or even the starting line up. I had to justify my decisions.

Interpretive 

- My work demonstrates 30 hours of work because I had to go almost every Tuesday and Thursday to help out. I have been doing minor stuff right now, like helping set up for practice, drills and games. Also the coach Lorenzo Raya has been teaching me all the duties a soccer coach has. After every action he does, he explains the importance of it to me.

 

Applied

- This component helped me understand the foundation of soccer coaching, because it introduced me to a whole new side of soccer. I had no prior knowledge of coaching, and this experience was eye opening. For example I did not know how much work was put in order to set up a competitive and successful starting line up. I believed that the best players should automatically start and that the bench was just there in case of injuries. 

Blog 21 Mentorship

Literal 
-56 hours
-Lorenzo Raya, Irapuato FC
Interpretive
- The most important thing I gained from this experience, is the ability to look at soccer from a coach's perspective. This is important because as a player, you never get to see how much work a coach actually puts in. Now after my mentorship I can see that not everyone can be a successful coach.
Applied
- This experience has helped me answer my EQ, because my mentor Lorenzo Raya has showed my why my answers work. For example, my best answer deals with injury prevention tactics, which I had no idea about until my mentor taught me. He then showed me the effects of always having the same starting line up as opposed to rotating it. What I saw was that the team chemistry is lost and the squads effectiveness decreases, thus not wining games.

April Post

This month I mainly focused on asking my mentor for information on my second and third answer. At mentorship he showed me different injury prevention tactics. He also explained the different effects some have. Since they are used to protect oneself, the opponent might get hurt. He says this makes the opponent uncomfortable. He also showed me at one of his games, how he chooses when and who to substitute. This helps because my third answer deals with strategic substitutions.

Blog 20 Exit Interview

1) My EQ is " How can a coach best lead his a team to a championship season.
My answers are

• A coach can maximize their potential to win by implementing the formation that gives their team the greatest advantage over their opponent.
• A coach can maximize their chances of winning by teaching his players injury prevention tactics, to maintain a strong starting lineup.
• A coach can increase his chances in securing a win, by knowing how and when to modify his team.

My best answer is " A coach can maximize their chances of winning by teaching his players injury prevention tactics, to maintain a strong starting line up." This is my best answer because if a coach does not start a game with his best players, he is giving his opponents an advantage.

2) I got to this answer after I started looking for my second answer. I started to research the diets that professional coaches make their players follow. I then started to notice that the purpose of these diets were to keep the players at their top level. Once i learned this I started to think about how useless all that work is if the player gets injured. This started to seem like a better answer because as a soccer fan, I get frustrated when key players get injured, so I can imagine that coaches feel worse. I then consulted my mentor and he agreed with me. He then told me all he knows about injury prevention tactics.

3) A major problem that I faced was finding quality articles that could support this answer. I had to ask my mentor for specific tactics that then helped me actually find articles.

4) The most significant source I have is my mentor Lorenzo Raya. He is the most significant because dirty tactics are frowned upon so there are not that many books/ articles that go in depth with them, and he an open minded coach so he is willing to include them in his style of play. Also he has explained to me that most tactics are learned through experience. My other source would have to be "The Uglier Side of the Beautiful Game" on the bleacher report website. This article explains some dirty tactics that the professionals use.

Blog 19 Independent Component 2

LITERAL
a.I, Jesus Ortiz, affirm that I have completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
b. Lorenzo Raya Irapuato FC coach.
d. For my independent component 2, I worked with my mentor Lorenzo Raya. I was basically his assistant coach. I had to show up to all the practices that I could make, and sometimes i would go help him out in the actual games. He sometimes trusted me with running the whole practice. When I did I would just follow his style and do the same drills he would make them do. He also consults me when setting up the starting line up for up coming games.
INTERPRETIVE

- For independent component 2, I had to go to Irapuato FC's practices, which are from 6 p.m to 8 p.m, tuesdays and thursdays. I tried to attend as much as I could, so getting my hours was slow but sure.
APPLIED
-My time with Irapuato FC helped me answer my EQ, because my mentor Lorenzo Raya helped show why my answers actually help a team.

Third Answer

• How can a soccer coach best lead a team to a championship season?
• The best way a soccer coach can lead his team to a championship season, is by knowing when, and how to modify his team during a game.
•  The coach should be able to adapt to the style of play of the other team.
• He should know how to modify his team in order to get an advantage.
• If he sees a weakness in the other team, he can exploit that weakness with someone on the bench.
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