Athletics or Track and field athletics coaching

[ian]

I am intending to move to France in the near to mid-distant future. In the UK, I coach athletics (middle and distance athletics) and wonder if anyone knows whether it is possible to do so in France and where to start?  Most coaching in the UK is conducted voluntarily in many sports  - is this the case in France?

[Motorhead]

10 days and no reply. I must apologise for the good folk here. My experience is that they are into more gentle pursuits. Once upon a time I got involved in a thread on puddling clay but when I mentioned that I'd found an old pair of hammer shoes to be the ideal footwear for this I was met with the forum equivalent of blank stares.

My days as a field athlete are now over since I switched to powerlifting but I still notice a few things. French athletics seems far more dependant on voluntary coaching especially with  juveniles who don't do any at school. It is also far less cliquey than in the UK.

I don't know if you'd need to do any French qualifications but you almost certainly will need to carry some sort of insurance. If you go onto your governing body's website look for a link to the European umbrella organisation and then find one down from there to the French body which shold have a site that tells you all you need to know. That's what I did and I didn't even know that powerliftng was called force athletique in France.