This blog is primarily a platform for keeping records of my coaching and training activities in Alpine and Para Alpine Ski Racing. Presently, I am coaching the Alpine Ontario Para Race Team (AOPRT) and the U16 Team with the Camp Fortune Ski Club (CFSC).
This blog is also part of my note-taking practices as a researcher and writer about sport. In 2011, I started doctoral research in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Carleton University. Coaches and other people working within the sport system commonly draw from physiological, psychological and kinesiological systems for knowing and organizing but sociology has remained at the margins, unable to engage with sport in a generative (rather than judgmental) mode. This represents both a shortcoming on the part of sociologists and a blind-spot for sport professionals. An overarching goal of my research is to begin articulating a sociology that can inform the work of coaches, trainers, athletes, program administrators and sport policy makers.
A reoccurring theme, both in my academic research and the writing on this blog, is the advantages of integrating disabled and nondisabled sport. This season, as I coach both Alpine and Para Alpine athletes, I'm always looking for ways that integrative structures of sport improve practices of training, competition and administration. The truth is, ALL SPORT IS ADAPTIVE SPORT. The myth of non-adaptive sport is an impediment to us all.
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