Understanding Coaching Practice in Team Esports: A Call for Future Research
2This is a recording of the Esports Research Colloquium on December 06, 2022. The idea of this colloquium is to provide a forum for knowledge exchange, for networking, and for discussing research ideas. In this session Kabir Bubna discussed his proposal for a PhD on coaching practice in esports.
About the speaker:
Kabir Bubna did his Bachelor (in Sports Coaching and Physical Education) and Masters by Research in Sports Coaching at Oxford Brooks University. His Master thesis focused on Coaches’ self-perceptions on how they influence collective behavior in team sports. Kabir worked as a basketball coach at Dream Sports Academy Hong Kong. While being a former League of Legends player, Kabir now coaches a university League of Legends team (Oxford Brookes Vipers).
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KabirBubna
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kabir-b-64a83688/
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/kabirbubna?pli=1
About the presentation:
Kabir Bubna provided a presentation on coaching practice in esports. In doing so, Kabir started with a brief introduction on coaching in esports by highlighting current research. After explaining his background to the audience, he continued to define coaching and describe different learning designs as well as team dynamics in esports. After emphasizing on the need to research coaching in esports, he presented three research proposals including 1) a semi-structured interview study with esports coaches on talent in esports, 2) a semi-structured interview study with esports coaches on coaching practices (e.g., training periodization), and 3) a longitudinal study with professional teams to adopt a constraints-led coaching approach. Following the presentation by Kabir, Oliver and the audience engaged in a discussion on the research proposal.
Introduction by Kabir 00:00:55
Current research 00:02:04
About Kabir 00:05:26
What is coaching 00:07:00
Representative learning design 00:09:28
Affective learning design 00:11:30
Team dynamics 00:14:06
Study 1 00:16:33
Study 2 00:18:30
Study 3 00:20:30
Discussion 00:23:08
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