Bath University - Overview

Bath University has the best sporting facilities in the country and has recently been awarded university of the year for 2011/12, the university offers a wide variety of sporting experience, where you can become a sportsman of any level whether it be recreational sport you are interested in, student or elite sporting opportunities. Bath universitys vision is too create a world-leading sports environment for student, elite and recreation level sport 418 million has been spent on the facilities to improve them to the standard that they are now. Sports that are coached at the university are: Athletics Badminton Bobsleigh Football Gymnastics and trampolining Hockey Judo Modern pentathlon Netball Rowing Rugby Skeleton Squash Swimming Tennis Volley ball Athletes that have won medals in sporting events after coming through Bath university are: Amy Williams Skeleton Kate Howley Judo Sam Weale Modern Pentathlon Ben Rushgrove Athletics Team Bath have the mind-set that the younger generation are their future, which realistically is correct, coaches introduce children to new sports and coach them mentally and physically, Team bath cater for 2 year olds and upwards, they also work with schools.

Judo and its facilities

Team Bath have an inspirational setting of their martial arts dojo at the Sports Training Village, this is apparently the hub of Team Baths judo activities. Based on a traditional Japanese style, the dojo has been a training base for some of Britains top judo players, including double Olympic medallist Kate Howley. It is also used by student groups and for Team Bath Tribe (minors) judo sessions.

Team Baths judo offering includes outstanding facilities and coaching. They provide: A world-class judo dojo Top-class coaching for performance athletes and for children through Team Bath Tribe Use of other facilities, including the gym and hydrotherapy pool Renowned sports science and medicine support A leading University scholarship programme

Team Bath judo is dedicated to helping players to achieve their goals, whatever their level. Team Baths coaching programme is headed up by Head Coach Jrgen Klinger, a 6th Dan judo player and former Assistant National Coach of the German Judo Federation. The dojo walls are decked in wooden panels in the traditional Japanese style and also features a drying and ventilation system for mats and judo suits

Judo Coaching
Jrgen Klinger :
Jrgen has been coaching since 1979, and joined bath universities coaching staff in 2006, he is a 6th Dan judo player and prior to working at Bath university he was the National assistant coach for Germany, and he has worked with various world and Olympic medallists. Jrgen has a coaches academic degree which he qualified for in cologne, Germany. Jrgen is extremely beneficial to the University, in the past he has experienced National Coaching to the highest standard, being his home nations assistant coach, training Olympic level athletes. With his knowledge and experience of the sport he is whats needed at Bath University and Team Bath. Jrgen began his interest in judo in 1963, he was born in 1951.

Jrgen klinger

Judo sports science support

What can the Judo players use? Physiotherapy injury treatment and prevention Sport massage prevent muscle, ligament and tendon injurys Sport medicine using medicine that has been subscribed by your physicist

Sport science support injury recovery

Strength and conditioning get fit by working on weaker parts of your body Sport nutrition keeping a balanced diet Sport psychology helping with mental problems and stress and motivational aspects of the human mind. Video & performance analysis assessing your recorded performance levels

Jrgen thoroughly explained the facilities and resources his athletes use and why it is important to use them in certain circumstances. Listed below are some of the examples he gave that his athletes use: The gym (for fitness and strength) Outdoor tracks (for fitness) Physiotherapy (for injury prevention and treatment) Sports psychology (for players getting depressed about their performance or way they have been playing)

All of the above have been proven to help performance levels and fitness levels, all of this is quite a modern thing really, because nowadays athletes are told what to eat and what not to eat, theyre told they shouldnt drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes etc., which is kind of taking away their freedom and humanity but thats what it takes to be a pro athlete. Whereas in the 60s, 70s 80s and before their werent really any diets that athletes had to stick too, they could eat or drink as much as they wanted whenever they wanted, and they had no specific schedule. Athletes of the modern era appear to be fitter and healthier than those of the 60s etc. but they also succumb to injury more these days. So with the courses in place for the judo players that will prevent injuries and mental problems and keep them on track.

Judo funding
What funding is available for elite athletes?
Bath university and their judo playing team receive no money from the British judo association, the reason for this being that Bath universitys facilities are seen at a high enough standard to not receive funding simply because they do not need it. It would be un-neccesary to give the university money because theyd have nothing to use it on.

Evaluation of Judo provision

Do Bath university Cater well for their judo players? The answer is most definitely YES! Overall Bath University provide absolutely outstanding services and facilities for their judo players. They also offer a wide range of High class, top quality experiences coaches. They offer a sports science support system that is notorious for its renowned services, they also offer much more than other universities. Its a fantastic opportunity for the athletes to use all the services and from personal preference I would say they are highly privileged. All of these services have been used by professional athletes from all over and have been used by Kate howley the two time Olympic medallist.

Badminton
Team bath offer all types of players to use the facilities that are available, these players can either perform at a national level and be elite athletes or they can be used by players just looking to perform on a recreational basis. Bath University is one of the two high performance centres within the country, they have even grown players into professional athletes who have represented their country at national level. Anybody and everybody is welcome to use the badminton facilities at Bath university, the standard of facilities used is remarkable and players are welcome to use the main hall and the founders hall which has sprung floors, which provides perfect playing conditions for all players. At Bath university there are 4 main players who are included in the high performance squad which represents the university, all together there are 50 players within the university. The high performance squad with the four higher ranked players in, play 5 times a week and are bale to have one rest day.

Badminton Facilities
The badminton players at Bath university are offered a wide variety of facilities whenever they want these facilities are: Indoor badminton court which has sprung wooden floors, both in the main sports hall and the founders hall which were mentioned in the judo facilities slide. Both of these halls are ideal for both elite players or recreational players, and are perfect as a venue for badminton players and tournaments at all levels. The Gymnasium athletes will use the gym in order to keep fit and keep active Outdoor track athletes would use the track to keep fit, but more importantly to raise or maintain there endurance levels. Nutrition coach he or she would be used to ask for advice and be tutored on how to keep a healthy diet . Physio, sport and science to help athletes come back form injury and to help motivate them mentally if they are depressed or feeling like the injury has overcome them. Strength and conditioning coaches the coaches responsibilities are to try and help players improve their [performance levels and improve on their weaknesses.

The facilities at Bath university, Team bath.

Badminton Coaching
Pete Bush :
Pete Bush is the head Badminton coach at Bath university, he is an excellent coach. He is the most experienced coach that the University has to offer for badminton, he has thirteen caps for eglands national badminton side and he has coached many high standard badminton players, he has even coached world champions. In 1993 Pete was ranked the 3rd highest badminton player in the UK, in 2005 Pete took over the job role of head badminton coach at bath university and has worked their in that role since. Is he good at his job? Well I should imagine so seeing hes been their for 7 years. Of course he is good at his job, Pete was a very talented player, is strong minded and a terrific coach and bath university are pleased to have him on there side. His main objective is to coach and support the team to success.

Badminton sports science support

What do they use for sports science support and does it help are the two biggest questions raised when looking at the title of this page: so here are your answers, the badminton players are allowed to use a series of physio and sport science linked services , all players are entitled to use services such as: Physiotherapy to recover from injury Psychology to improve players confidence and to maintain a healthy attitude towards themselves Nutrition coach for the correct healthy lifestyle and balanced diet instructions there are other services available as there are for judo. The facilities offered to the players give great advantages to the athletes, all athletes are allowed to use the facilities whenever they like to or whenever they need to.

Badminton funding
One out of the four players in the high performance squad gets badminton funding, therefore meaning he gets most equipment or kit either for free or for a discounted price, this is an amazing opportunity for the one person but unfair for the other three members of the team. bath university receive free shuttle cocks from badminton England as they are entitled to have them with the amount of players in the badminton squad

Evaluation of badminton provision

Generally speaking Bath university provide the highest standard of facilities, coaches and services available, you could not fault them at all, all the players rare guaranteed to feel at home knowing they can have as much help and use everything whenever they want rather than having restricted timetables . All of this benefits to the players mood(s) and the players mood(s) can deter whether a player has a good or bad performance. In my opinion this sector along with judo are the two most credible sectors of bath university and are by far the best the country has to offer. To conclude I would like to say that Bath university have exceptional standards and compared to any other university they are the Boss .

Gifted and talented pyramid 2009-2011

Summary
I think bath universitys facilities are of the highest standard and very impressive! They most definitely deserve the reward they received for best university for 2011/12, its also clearly not just me that thinks this seeing as famous athletes like Dai Greene, Ben Rushgrove, Amy Williams and many other have trained at the university over the years. Personally for me, playing sport at bath university usoing their facilities and such would be a dream.

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