Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Brent Davis Update

Seeing as it has been such a long time since I have posted on this blog I thought I would spend a little time updating you all on what is happening in my career since the last time I was active on this blog.
Basically, I have been working for the PGA of Australia in the Academy department working across all the education programs the PGA offers. I have been involved in the Trainee program, the ACE program (full Member continuing education) and the Community Instructor program which is a joint venture between the PGA of Australia and Golf Australia. I help develop content for these programs, present at face to face training schools for the Trainees, assist with compliance and administration on the Registered Training Organisation (RTO) and maintain and administrate the PGA’s online learning platform. This has been a bit of a change to my normal working day as I spend a lot more time at a desk working on a computer these days!

I am also coaching on a part-time basis out of the PGA Centre for Learning and Performance based at the Sandhurst Golf Club in the South-Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. This is a state of the art facility with access to some of the latest coaching technology such as Trackman, SAM PuttLab, SAM BalanceLab and K-Vest. You can look at some pictures of the facility and read about the technology available by going to my website here.

As well as working in these two roles I will be attempting to expand on my tertiary qualifications by starting a PhD. This will be a little bit of an unusual pathway as my Masters was completed by coursework rather than research. This means that I have to enrol in a Masters research program and hopefully transfer to the PhD program at a later date. I am interested in researching the influence that playing ability in a sport has on the coaching ability in that sport and I think my study will take me down some interesting paths. I am also keen to research coach education as this will help me improve the programs within the PGA.

Social media is also a lot bigger since I last posted and you can follow/like my profiles on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram by clicking on the links.

Well, that about does it for my update and I am looking forward to posting more interesting content on a regular basis.

Until next time,

Brent

Sunday, January 15, 2017

I'm Back!......... For Real This Time.

You can see by the dates on my blog posts that I have not been posting regularly. This is due to a number of things, but mostly the fact that I have been lazy about posting.

As part of the new year and a few other changes to my career and life, you will see me posting on here a lot more often.

Take a read of my past posts about my time in Taiwan and China and keep and eye out for new posts coming the next day or two.

Until next time,

Brent