Love What You Play

David Turner is the Coaching Children & Safeguarding Lead at UK Coaching, the region’s lead agency and charity for sports coaching. David co-authored the latest UK Coaching/NSPCC Safeguarding & Protecting Children workshop that 25,000 coaches attend annually, and the "First Steps into Coaching" workshop and resource aimed at getting parents from the stands and into coaching. David currently serves as the Lead Throws Coach at Loughborough University. Table of Contents 0:00 - Intro 2:09 - Growing up 5:25 - Sport specialization 9:12 - Attrition in the UK 12:57 - How organizations can make kids love the game more after the season than before 21:01 - David’s role in UK Coaching 23:24 - Abuse prevention 27:14 - Importance of multisport participation 30:37 - David’s work in coaching children 35:40 - Decline of free play 37:34 - Coaching tenure with Hollie and Becka 46:06 - Differences between coaching boys and girls 48:20 - Playing outside of comfort zones 52:02 - Shaving 5 years