ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the question of what coaching is about and what makes it distinctive from other roles and processes. There has been significant inter-role and intra-role confusion about sport coaching; the ambiguity between teaching and coaching roles is a good example, as is the interpretation in some sports of the coach’s sole purpose as technique and tactics specialist. The question of boundary markers is an essential part of the conceptual framework for which arguments were presented in the previous chapter. Indeed, the rationale for clarifying the precise nature of coaching is very similar to that outlined in the previous chapter.
