Author: Giacomo Galletto

August 1, 2022 (updated August 24, 2022) Published by

EACA president Frank Dick OBE had two talks for Runnespace.com at the iconic Wild Duck Cafè in Eugene, during the World Athletics Championships.

One of the talk was focus on the Global Athletics Coaching Academy (GACA) of which Frank Dick is chairman. GACA is the new Coaching Body of World Athletics and Frank talked about its purpose to create a global, professional coaches’ alliance.

In the other speech, Frank talked on “Making excellence possible” in a panel discussion hosted by Jimson Lee. 

If you have missed Frank’s talks at Runnerspace.com, you can watch the recording on Runnerspace.com website.

July 21, 2022 (updated August 17, 2022) Published by

Final show for the Global Athletics Coaching Academy’s Coaches’ Clubs in this 2022! Get ready for the Cali22 Coaches’ Club.

The Club house in Cali will be at the Institution Universitaria Escuela Nacional del Deporte, Auditorio José Fernando Arroyo Valencia
Calle 9 #34-01.

As usual, if you can’t be in Cali, don’t worry: the Coaches Club will also be streamed on Zoom: visit regularly the official page of the Cali22 Coaches’ Club on GACA website to register and stay posted!

EACA Memberships improvements!

July 3, 2022 (updated August 17, 2022) Published by

EACA has improved all its memberships offers, from FREE to PRO leaving the fees untouched.

Free members have now access  also to IFAC 2013 stuff (videos and presentations) and not only 2013.

Premium members have now access also to IFAC 2019 stuff, while all Pro members have access to IFAC 2020.

Plus, additional videos have been added to IFAC 2014 gallery.

We absolutely want to give as much as possibile to our members and while we’re slowing increasing the stuff available on our website, we know it’s not enough yet. 

EACA is planning to add more and more content from here to the end of the year so we hope you’ll be satisfied.

June 2, 2022 (updated August 17, 2022) Published by

After the successful initiative in Belgrade, the Global Athletics Coaching Academy is now heading to Eugene for the Oregon22 Coaches’ Club.

The Club house in Eugene will be in the Frohmayer Music Building at the University of Oregon (OU) 961, East 18th Avenue.

If you can’t be in Eugene, don’t worry: the Coaches Club will also be streamed on Zoom: visit regularly the official page of the Oregon22 Coaches’ Club on GACA website to register and stay posted!

January 18, 2022 (updated August 17, 2022) Published by

EACA is proud to announce two new Web Series

Next February will see two new EACA web series coming out! Jimson Lee will host the ‘Split Second’ series, dedicated to a technical insight on sprints, hurdles and relays. 

Instead, EACA president Frank Dick will host a series with the title ‘Coach to Coach’, with the focus on how great coaches become great.

Two big italian names for the first episodes of both series

Frank Dick’s guest will be absolutely stunning: Antonio La Torre, Team Italy Head Coach! The architect behind the unpredictable five gold  medals for Italy is born in Manfredonia (Puglia) but he moved to Milan with the family when he was 9 years old. He got the Physical Education diploma in 1983 in Milan, while he was also working as technical designer for a big metallurgical company.  10 years later he graduated in Science and techniques of physical activities in Dijon (France). He coached several Race Walk athletes, including the 1999 World Champion and 2004 Olympic Champion Ivano Brugnetti.

Jimson Lee will host Marco Airale, coach to Darryl Neita, Ama Pipi and Jimmy Vicaut. Marco is a 32 years old italian coach from Chivasso (Turin), also graduated in physiotherapy with a master in osteopathy. He started coaching in Italy, with successful results (18 medals with 7 titles at various National Championships from 2015 to 2019). He also worked as therapist on the Juventus FC team for 3 years. In 2019 he became Performance Therapist of the Chinese National Team and he then worked as assistant coach to Randy Huntington and Rana Reider until the last Olympic Games. After Tokyo, he founded his own training group which is currently based on Padova (Italy).

Episode 1 of the ‘Coach to Coach’ Series will be out next February 1st, while the opening of  ‘Split Second’  Series is scheduled for February 11th.

Exciting news
October 8, 2021 (updated October 20, 2021) Published by

Hi everybody!

The 2021 season is over but we’re sure you all still have in your eyes all the stunning performance of this year’s summer.

To celebrate them, here at EACA we worked hard to make our members happy now it’s time to unroll a number of exciting news.

First, we cutted the price of the Pro membership from € 100,00 to € 60,00 per year.  Consequentially, we decided to withdraw the monthly subscription for both the Premium and Pro membership. This is because the yearly subscriptions’ prices are now both very affordable so there is no reason to offer monthly subscriptions.

But, hey: if you are a Premium or Pro member already and you don’t want to upgrade to a yearly subscription don’t worry: existing monthly membership will be still active.

But that’s not all, no way. 

The table below shows the announcements for each membership level.

We tried to make everybody happy, adding content and opportunities to all the members of any level.

So, we really hope that you will enjoy all these new things at EACA because something very big is coming next week: the 2021 International Festival of Athletics Coaching programme!

Stay tuned!

PS: Dr. Frans Bosch asked us to remove his presentation from IFAC 2012 but, don’t worry: we will replace it soon with another presentation from IFAC 2012!

Free Premium Pro
New video from IFAC 2012: Frans Bosch – Positive running CONTENT REMOVED AFTER REQUEST BY THE AUTHOR

Tokyo 2020 Coaches Club Recordings

Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Coaches Club Recordings

Nairobi 2021 WJC Coaches Club Recordings

IFAC 2020 19hrs recordings at €30,00
New video from IFAC 2013: Vern Gambetta – Athletic development

New video from IFAC 2012: Frans Bosch – Positive running CONTENT REMOVED AFTER REQUEST BY THE AUTHOR

Tokyo 2020 Coaches Club Recordings

Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Coaches Club Recordings

Nairobi 2021 WJC Coaches Club Recordings

IFAC 2020 19hrs recordings at €15,00
IFAC 2020 19hrs recordings FOR FREE!

New video from IFAC 2013: Vern Gambetta – Athletic development

New video from IFAC 2012: Frans Bosch – Positive running CONTENT REMOVED AFTER REQUEST BY THE AUTHOR

Tokyo 2020 Coaches Club Recordings

Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Coaches Club Recordings

Nairobi 2021 WJC Coaches Club Recordings

Frank Dick will interview the legendary coach Ans Botha

August 18, 2021 (updated August 18, 2021) Published by

EACA is pleased to announce that our very own President Frank Dick will be hosting an interview with the legend that is Ans Botha on the 26th August 2021.

Frank will be talking to Ans about her journey as a female coach to a world record holder, her influencers and the importance of relationship building with your athletes all via zoom which is open to everyone to register

Ans Botha coached South African Athlete Wayde Van Niekerk who set the World Record for 400m Gold at the Rio Olympics. Frank has said “I hope the interview will give us a picture of Ans’ journey as a coach; who Ans is; How she thinks as a coach; her priorities in the coaching process; examples with Wayde. Truly a history maker in being first female coach to coach an athlete to Olympic Gold and a World Record in Athletics”

The interview will take place on the 26th August 2021 at 13:00 – 14:30 SAST and CET Time and 12:00 – 13:30 UK time.

You will need to register using the link below.

www.bit.ly/AnsBotha2021

Coaches Clubs, again!

August 17, 2021 (updated August 18, 2021) Published by

Virtual Coaches Clubs, again!

The European Athletics Coaches Association, following the success of its Tokyo Coaches Club during the Olympic Games, is pleased to announce two new
Virtual Coaches Clubs.

Both Clubs will be hosted by Jimson Lee, founder and owner of the world renowed website SpeedEndurance.com.

We truly hope you will put these dates and times in your diary. This is a fantastic opportunity for our coaches to learn together through the real time of the Olympic Experience.


Nairobi WJC Coaches Club

August 19th and August 22nd at 7PM CEST the Athletics Development topic will be discussed by panellists like Amy Dean, Arne Gullich, Christine Bloomfield, Danie Cornelius, Frank Dick, Gunter Lange, Kevin Ankrom, Rita Engelbrecht, Shaun Pickering and many others, to analyze the events with particular focus on European performance but also reflecting on the Global picture.

EACA Nairobi WJC Coaches Club is free:

Subscribe to the Zoom meetings here!

Please, feel free to share this link to anyone!

ParaCoach Athletics Club – Tokyo

August 23rd and September 1st at 7PM CEST the Tokyo Paralympic Games will be discussed by panellists like Frank Dick OBE, Peter Eriksson, Dr Tabo Huntley, Trevor Painter, Steffi Nerius, Suzanne Ferreira, Richard Parkinson and many others.

ParaCoach Athletics Club – Tokyo is free:

Subscribe to the Zoom meetings here!

Please, feel free to share this link to anyone!

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July 30, 2021 (updated August 5, 2021) Published by

European Athletics Coaches Association is pleased to announce the first Virtual Olympic Coaches Club.

From 31st July to 8th August at 19.00 CEST, Jimson Lee will host invited Panellists like Christine Harrison-Bloomfield, Rita Engelbrecht, Kelly Sotherton, Laura Turner, Dalton Grant, Danie Cornelius, Peter Eriksson, Martin Bingisser, Peter Stanley, Shaun Pickering, Wolfgang Ritzdorf, Anders Borgstrom, Frank Dick and many others, to analyze and discuss the day’s events with particular focus on European performance but also reflecting on the Global picture.

The event may be accessed by this link.

The event is free and open to everyone and on this inaugural occasion to coaches across Europe who wish to participate.

We truly hope you will put these dates and times in your diary. This is a fantastic opportunity for our coaches to learn together through the real time of the Olympic Experience.

We wish you the best for this Summer 2021!

“Mindful Coaching” Series Episode 2 with Laurent Meuwly and Paolo Camossi

May 26, 2021 (updated May 27, 2021) Published by

The brand new EACA series “Mindful Coaching” aims to cover the world of coaching at 360° by interviewing coaches with different skills and experiences, also coming from other sports or other areas.

In the Episode 2 of of its first season, Jimson Lee hosts two European coahces: Laurent Meuwly and Paolo Camossi. At the recent European Indoor Championships they achieved great results, reaching the top in the 60 meters event, where Ajla Del Ponte and Marcell Jacobs won the gold medal for Switzerland and Italy, respectively. 

In perfect harmony with the spirit of the “Mindful Coaching” Series, Jimson especially tries to spotlight their approach to coaching rather than talk about which technical exercises they adopt during the training sessions.

We added a new main menù item to access to EACA Series:

Starting from this episode, the series will be accessible for the EACA members only, no matter if Free, Premium or Pro members, so if you are not registered already, choose your membership level and sign up!

Let me reminds you that, in order to celebrate our President’s 80th birthday, for the whole current month of May the yearly Pro Membership is 50% discounted FOR LIFE, meaning that those who will become a yearly Pro member this month will pay half the price every year, not only at the sign up but forever.
To get the 50% discount apply the code FRANK80 during the sign up process.

As always, we hope that you’ll really enjoy this new content. But we are only at the beginning: lots of ideas in our mind will be effective soon!

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