British Cycling Level 2 MTB Coaching award?

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Money spinner or good idea?

Being a MIAS Level 2, I don't quite understand the principle behind the new British Cycling scheme?

Does anyone else with a L2 qualification (MIAS, SMBLA etc.) think this is a good idea or yet another money making exercise?

To be eligible for the course you have to already hold a Level 2 qualification? So, whats the point behind it all? You get a Level 2 qualification, then go on another Level 2 course?

Am I missing the point?

Here's a link to it;

http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/coachi ... ng-Award-0

_HENDO_

I think you've missed something.

You need a level 2 (general cycling) to do that course which is level 2 MTB. That course is more specific to MTB.

Basically you do level 1, then level 2 general, and then go on to a specific discipline (level 2 MTB or Road, BMX for example. You could then go on to level 3 in you discipline when they develop it!

Hope that helps.

x-isle

Aha, I did miss that it was a generic Level 2 that was missed. However, I still find it a bit strange that you need a pre-req for it?

Surely people would just opt for the MIAS or SMBLA instead?

Herbie The Dog

I'm MIAS level 2 and to be honest I just see this as another course to take but from a different provider.

'The aim of the Level 2 Mountain Bike Coaching Award is to give coaches the skills, knowledge and confidence to go out and improve their rider's technical performance.'

Errr...just like MIAS L2 (and others).

trailpuppet

It is an add on to the lev2 coaching ticket. I help out with a Go-Ride club where most of the coaches come from a road background, the rest of us from mtb. We can guide but not coach under this scheme with our SMBLA TCL/MTB tickets. BC are just doing something they should have done when SMBLA was introduced. If I had registered with SC I would have been one of the first to complete the SMBLA TCL course.

Most of the BC stuff is geared for the racing scene, mainly road atm but are now trying to catch up. They have add ons to the level2 such as timekeeping, Tts and various other stuff, have a look at courses

x-isle

Thanks for the info trailpuppet.

Just out interest, why can you not coach with the SMBLA? After all, isn't this a coaching award. Same goes for MIAS?

trailpuppet

Just out interest, why can you not coach with the SMBLA?

Just the way our Go-Ride club has been set up. Maybe it is just the way our SC officer and club Chair have interpreted the rules/regs of the way G-R clubs should be run, but that is what they have decreed. SMBLA guide and SC/BC Lev2 coach.

I also have this quali;
http://www.cyclingscotland.org/cycletrainer.aspx

Derosabike

British Cycling is The National Governing Body (NGB) of Cyclesport and not a commercial profit making company. Their courses are non-profit making and are infact subsidised, being funded jointly by for example The Lottery, Sport England funding and various commercial Partners.

A SMBLA which British Cycling also deliver is as it say's on the can "... A Mountain Bike LEADERS award" not a coaching qualification and does not teach you as such how to coach or how to progress an individual's riding skills to, for example towards competition. That is not to say that SMBLA riders don't have any skills to pass on to the riders that they are leading! In order to take a BC Level 2 MTB award, a rider will have to have first completed a level 2 Core Coaching coaching course which is a generic cycling coaching course. Once a L2 course has been passed a candidate may choose to specialise in their chosen discipline such as Track, Road & TT, MTB, BMX etc where they will learn and become qualified and insured to coach in more technical environments such as a velodrome.

To become and maintain Go-Ride Club status it is required that there is a registered Level 1 or L2 Coach as part of the accreditation process. I hope that this helps?

trailpuppet

Cheers derosa. I could not think of. The words and a way to compose them to explain.
I have also held the opinion for some time that whatever the course or provider there is no regulation of the "industry" that has sprung up around the MBLA qualification. The original SMBLA qualification was devised by the people at Glenmore Lodge and Scottish Cycling by Jim Riach and my friend Greg Knowles. At the time it was intended to be for outdoor education workers who were just beginning to introduce mtbing into the curriculum, certainly in Scotland. Rik at Drumlanrig and I were their first 2 pupils
IMO the BC lev2 has been a long time coming from what is regarded by most as the premier cycling organisation.