Book Description
Coaching Youth Softball is written especially for the unprepared parent thrust into the role of coaching his or her 8- to 12-year-old child's softball team. Upbeat and inspirational, it schools new coaches in the fundamentals of controlling, motivating, and encouraging a disparate group of kids in the art and science of softball.
Parents learn the logistics of running a youth team and the specifics of coaching softball. They learn how to match drills to a player's skills and motivation level and gain a wealth of detailed instructions on such specifics as how to run a successful practice and manage during a game.
- Takes a drill-based approach to teaching basic skills
- Reviews softball fundamentals for inexperienced parents
Customer Reviews:
Great Book!.......2005-04-22
This book is another great in the series of A Baffled Parent's Guide. These books are thorough and complete - a coach's bible, especially a new coach. The book covers everything from basics of the game to working with the children and dealing with the parents. I highly recommend books from this series.
good book for beginning coaches.......2002-06-23
I have yet to coach a girls' softball team, but I am really interested in doing it. This book has some great advice on how to handle beginner players and their parents. The thing about this book that I found great was that it told you some characteristics to look for when selecting a pitcher, something that I would not have had a clue about doing. Highly recommended.
Excellent for beginner or experienced coach.......2002-05-11
This is an AMAZING book! Even if you have never coached, played, or even heard of softball, it helps you out. It breaks every aspect of the game down and puts it in simple terms so you can explain it to your team. It gives you practice advice and schedules as well as drills you can use for team members to improve, or establish, softball skills. It also gives you advice on how to become the best coach, dealing with gender issues and how to handle difficult parents. This book is a MUST for EVERY coach!
Excellent Coaching Book for New Coaches.......2001-04-28
I am not a parent but nonetheless, this book is excellent! This book gets right down to the heart of coaching. It tells you step by step how to teach someone how to throw, catch, pitch, hit and play every position. It also tells you what type of girl would be good for positions of pitchers and catchers which is important since most girls at this age have no experience in many positions. The drills have diagrams and there is glossary in the back to help with the terminology. There are not that many good softball coaching books (believe me I've looked), so grab this one!
Book Description
Written by soccer great and championship Stanford coach Bobby Clark, COACHING YOUTH SOCCER: THE BAFFLED PARENT'S GUIDE tells you how, starting at point zero, an uninitiated coach can meld kids into a team and help them enjoy one of the most rewarding experiences of their youth. (In the end, you may be the one who reaps the biggest reward, as you watch kids learn and grow in an experience they'll treasure for a lifetime.)
Customer Reviews:
Helpful.......2006-11-12
I bought this for my daughter who volunteered to be Soccer Coach for the first time. I say she wanted to do it but perhaps was more stong armed into doing it. She found it helpful.
coaching soccer-a baffled parents guide.......2006-11-03
The book gave very helpful information. I have never coached anything and it gave helpful insight into giving the best experience I can into my son's 4 yr old soccer team.
Great Book!.......2006-08-12
I'm a second year coach with very limited playing experience. I played soccer during elementary school but it was essentially mob ball. This book has helped a great deal. It gives great suggestions for organizing practices and the drills, ahem I mean games, are great. The problem, analysis, solution section is also very helpful.
Wonderful! Highly Recommended!.......2005-11-24
This book helped organize my practices and provided ideas for drills that kept my U8 Boys team interested the entire season. I received numerous compliments from parents that their kids enjoyed the variety of "games" (i.e. drills) we played in practice. My team went 11-2 this past season and all my players chose to return for the spring season over baseball and other sports. I honestly feel this book improved my coaching style and played a large part in the success of our team.
extremely helpful.......2005-09-07
I am coaching my daughter's U-8 AYSO soccer team this season and was in desperate need of an easy overview of rules as well as age and skill appropriate drills for practices. This book was very helpful and I am using it as a resource.
Book Description
Fun, safety, and effective instruction are the focus of the fourth edition of Coaching Youth Softball, helping you create an environment that promotes learning, cultivates a love of the game, and motivates your athletes to come out for the team year after year.
Numerous coaching books present the skills and drills of softball. But here's a book that teaches you how to convey those skills to your athletes in an engaging and positive manner. Endorsed by Babe Ruth Softball, Coaching Youth Softball is focused on teaching offensive and defensive skills through gamelike drills, which sets it apart from the current lineup of softball coaching books.
The fourth edition includes 12 new drills 37 age-specific coaching tips that are sure to jump-start your practices, all in a reorganized format geared for sequential learning and quick reference.
Coaching Youth Softball's double play of softball fundamentals and essential coaching skills, like communicating with parents and officials, motivating players, and preparing for games and practices, makes this book a must-read as you prepare to meet the challenges and enjoy the rewards of coaching young athletes.
Customer Reviews:
Great Ideas for Practice.......2006-05-16
I looked through lots of books at the Bookstore and I was looking more for ideas for practice and helping kids learn new skills. This book provides learning through games, strategies and many more useful tools. I think that keeping the kids busy and learning in practice with little idle time is essential. It also gives you a plan for the year per age group. This book has given me lots of ideas. Thanks.
Psychology of Coaching.......2001-05-07
This book is a great book to discuss the pshycological aspect of coaching. The book discussed what it means to be a coach and how to deal with parents. It did have a few drills at the end of the book that were somewhat helpful but overall this book didn't have a lot of useful information for myself. If you want a great book for coaching, buy "The baffled Parents Guide To Coaching Youth Softball".
Coaching Youth Softball.......2000-04-17
A more appropriate title would have been "The Psychological Aspects of Coaching Youth Softball". This book's strength is in that area. However, I was very disapointed in it's minimal discussion of specific drills (batting, defense, base running etc.)
Play ball!.......2000-04-04
As a first time league softball coach, I was looking for some pointers on teaching basic skills, drills, and organizing practices. Boy, does this book deliver. In simple prose, and with helpful diagrams, this book lays out a thoughtful approach to teaching every aspect of the game, and making it fun. I am beginning my first season with more confidence having read this book. Play ball!
Book Description
One of the NFL's leading coaches helps you improve your players' techniques and your team's performance
Building on the phenomenal success of the Baffled Parent's series, this comprehensive resource helps you expand your teaching skills and improve your players' performance and enjoyment. It's equally indispensable for parents thrust into coaching, former players taking on their first coaching assignments, and veteran coaches.
This great guide features:
- Tackling and catching drills for the entire team
- Group and team drills for offensive, defensive, and special team situations
- A unique system of paired drills and instruction for wide receivers and defensive backs; linemen and tight ends; and running backs and linebackers
- Photographs and diagrams that simplify the coaching process
Customer Reviews:
First time Coaches bible.......2007-06-24
If you have never taught / coached youth football before this is a step by step guide to running an efficient and productive practice session. Packed with specific drills for all the positions. Teaching / Coaching youth football is nothing like having been a player! I played peewee all the way through college and coaching is a totally different animal!
A must for Youth Football coaches.......2006-07-19
Got the book last week, read it over the week-end. First practice last night with the 8-9 year old team. I had prepared drills for the D-Line as I am D-Line coach.
The defensive coordinator couldn't make it and there were only 11 kids at practice on defense because of vacations.
I improvised with individual and group drills, that I picked up in the book, for 60 minutes. Kept the practice quick paced like Coach Bass said.
Amazing! The kids were all into it. No talking and fooling around like usual because they're bored waiting their turn.
I recommend it to any Youth Coach who is starting out or event with some experience.
Book Description
Packed with drills and tips for practice and game days
The fun and easy way(r) to kick-start your soccer coaching skills
Volunteering as a youth soccer coach can be a great experience, both for you and your squad. But what if you've never coached before? Don't worry! This friendly guide explains soccer rules, shows you how to approach coaching, and gives you practical pointers on improving your team's soccer skills and encouraging good sportsmanship.
Discover how to
- Understand soccer rules
- Develop a coaching philosophy
- Teach soccer fundamentals
- Run great practices
- Lead your team during a game
- Communicate effectively with parents
Customer Reviews:
Coaching Soccer For Dummies.......2007-09-06
This is a great book for anyone thinking of coaching a soccer team..it is full of great information.
First Time Soccer Coach.......2006-11-06
My 5 year old signed up for instructional soccer, the local parks and rec. deparment needed coaches, next thing you know I'm a soccer coach. Step one, buy a book that will get me started on the right foot, and that's exactly what this book was. This book provided me with the guidelines for dealing with the parents as well as providing me with a refresher on the ins and outs of soccer. I would recommend this to any coach just starting out. If you have previous knowledge of soccer either playing or coaching this may not be the book for you as it is very basic.
Book Description
Most youth coaches are former players and fans. There's a huge difference, as you're about to discover, between playing football, watching football, and coaching football. As a coach, there are things you need to know, and things you need to do, long before you ever step on the field. By reading this book, you'll learn. .The history of football from the Roman harpastum to the modern day H-back. .The best three and worst three written materials available for coaching this sport. .The best four video picks for general football coaching. .How to organize your time and break down film efficiently, starting with getting game film you can use. .How to deal with parents and keep them out of your hair and off your practice field while still keeping their support and respect. .How to select and prepare a staff to help you. Who to pick, why to avoid certain people, and how to organize them into an effective coaching team. .How to prepare for practice - putting together skill sets and getting your assistant coaches to teach them. .How to divide your program into manageable chunks that follow a logical teaching progression for your players. .What equipment to seek out to help you stay efficient on the practice field. .How to select drills that efficiently reinforce the skills you need, and avoid the biggest time wasters in football. Also includes a comprehensive practice plan for your first twenty days of practice. Build your team from the bottom up; from the coaches' introduction to the day you win your first game of the season. Additionally contains six appendices with information on everything from drills to use at practice, to injury recognition and treatment. With a foreword by Steve "Dipper" Popovich, creator of the Delphi Double Wing Coaches' Forum! Praise for Volume One of Impact!. Derek Wade is one of the rare men that can effectively communicate to the neophyte or experienced coach the "how-to"s of successful youth coaching. He is a coa
Customer Reviews:
Great book for the New Head Coach!.......2007-07-16
Impact is a great book for the new or old Head Coach and assistants. The book gives a head coach everything they need to start off the season on the right foot with parents, assistant coaches and kids. The detailed practice plans were exactly what I had been looking for. The offensive examples describe in the book are the double wing, with which Coach Wade has had a lot of success. This book is not an offensive or defensive play book and it was not the intent of the author to be one. You will have to get this in his other future books or from other sources. Coach Wade does point to a lot of great resources where these can be found and to ones that should be avoided. If you're new to coaching youth football and searching for the right plan or if you have a team but you need a better system, this is the book for you!!
Great Book.......2007-04-30
This book by far was the best football coaching related book i've read by far. Coach Wade was very informing and intoned to what new coaches need to be successful.
Great for a Rookie Coach.......2007-02-14
If you are a rookie Coach (like me), and don't want to look like one this is a great book. It is very informative and gives you a step by step plan on how to organize your team. Includes Practice plans, Scheduals..everything you need. I am only halfway through the book and what I have read so far is worth more than I paid for the book. Highly Recomended...Thanks Coach Wade, for the great book.
-Rookie Coach Case
Best Youth Football Coaching Book...Ever! .......2006-03-29
As a 20 plus year veteran youth coach I have just about every book ever written on coaching youth football. If you have to have one book this is it! Coach Wade explains from top to bottom, how to be a successful youth football coach. For new coaches he explains why and how to run a football squad. For experienced coaches he gives you insight and well articulated information on how to make you a better coach. This book has it all! Thank you Coach Wade for taking the time to share your coaching experience with us. If you decide to write another book I will buy it! Coach JT
The Definitive Book on Coaching Youth Football.......2006-03-16
Coach Wade's book is thorough and comprehensive. This mammoth tome (420 pages) is the youth football coaching book by which all others will now be measured. It is a must-have for the novice, as well as the experienced youth coach. There is no other book available that comprises so much information with such exacting detail.
Book Description
A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Features the expertise of one of the nation's top-ranking college football coaches
Author Paul Pasqualoni, head coach at Syracuse University, is renowned for the hands-on style he developed over years of coaching football at all levels. Like all Baffled Parent's Guides, Coaching Youth Football takes an upbeat, inspirational approach to coaching, with an emphasis on creating a positive, supportive environment. Pasqualoni offers the fundamentals of motivating, controlling, and encouraging a disparate group of children of varying skills and dispositions. Readers learn the secrets of coaching football, including how to determine a child's position, how to teach blocking and tackling safely, and how to calm a player'sand parent'sfear of being hurt.
- Takes a drills-based approach to teaching basic skills
- Q&A sections provide solutions to problems most new coaches face
Customer Reviews:
Good beginning tool........2006-06-26
Well written. Easy to understand. Good remainder for coaches who forget who they are coaching for and why they are coaching youth football.
Good reading for any coach just starting or who have just a couple of years under their belt
Slow start, but builds speed.......2006-05-09
For a coach, the first 3 chapters were not needed. The rest of the book provided great insight and help with the game.
Very Helpfull for the Beginner.......2005-09-12
This is my first year coaching and I found my knowledge of the game,and conditioning and prep drills lacking. This book may be too simple for those that have played the game a lot and are more than arm-chair quarterbacks.
I found the breakdown of practice sessions helpful because they stressed the different areas of the game but kept the pace moving to help keep the kids from getting bored.
This does not contain a playbook and if you are looking for this you might be disappointed.
Mostly Explains Football, Not How To Coach.......2005-05-30
This is an okay book, but the first half of this already thin ( about 120 pages 10"x7") book is just about something most guys who watch or have played football will already know. How wide is the field? How long is it? What's an even versus an odd defense? And so on.
The second half is very dilute, which is the real meat of coaching football. If you are an absolute novice, then buy this book. If you can get it free somewhere or very inexpensive, then it's worth a quick glance, but it is not a book you go back to over and over after the first reading, in my opinion.
Good luck to you coaches ... and remember the priority:
1. Children Safety
2. Build character
3. Win football games within spirit and letter of rules
Best book for Rookie Coaches. Very useful for veterans........2005-03-26
I've been coaching now for a couple of seasons and ran across this book. I decided to buy it, and a few others to add to my library. I feel like as a coach you can never learn too much, and this one seemed interesting.
I bought 4 books that day, but read this one first. I should have read it last because it made the other 3 look and sound retarded. Worst yet, it made me look stupid for buying them. The information provided in this book was absolutely great and very instructive. It really starts you off from the absolute basics of coaching, which can come across as a little condescending if you know anything about football. But quickly takes off into a world of information, some which you probably already knew but forgot over time.
It literally takes you by the hand and walks you through the process of getting through an entire season, from the first practice, how to handle parents, through team meetings, right into the seasons games. I highly recommend any coach that is working with youth teams (Jr. High and below) to take a look at this gem and get as much as they can from it.
Book Description
Few experiences are more rewarding than coaching a youth football team. Your journey through the season will be packed with moments that make you smile and that you and your players will remember for the rest of your lives. But what if you’ve never coached before?
No worries! Coaching Football For Dummies is
the fun and easy way to tackle the basics of coaching youth football. This friendly guide shows you how to teach your players effectively, regardless of their age or skill level, and lead your team to victory—even if you’re a first-time coach. You’ll discover how to:
- Develop a coaching philosophy
- Teach football fundamentals
- Encourage good sportsmanship
- Improve your team’s skills
- Ensure safety on the field
- Communicate effectively with parents
Packed with valuable information on preparing your game plan before you even step on the field, this hands-on resource gives you expert guidance in building your coaching skills, from evaluating your players and running enjoyable, productive practices to working with all types of kids—uncoordinated, shy, highly talented—at once. You’ll find a variety of fun-filled drills for teaching everything from tackling and blocking to running and catching, as well as advanced drills to take your players’ skills up a notch. You’ll also see how to:
- Conduct a preseason parents’ meeting—an often overlooked aspect of coaching
- Gather the necessary gear and fit the equipment to your players
- Raise the level of play on offense, defense, and special teams
- Take steps to avoid injuries
- Deal with discipline issues and problem parents
- Make critical half-time adjustments
- Transition to coaching an All-Star Team
Complete with tips for working with parents, keeping your players healthy, and leading your team effectively on game days, Coaching Football For Dummies is all you need—besides a whistle and a clipboard—to navigate your players through a safe, fun, rewarding season!
Book Description
Coaching Youth Soccer is an excellent introduction to youth coaching and teaching young soccer players valuable skills. It provides all the information you need to coach effectively and help 8- to 14-year-old athletes learn and enjoy the game.
The third edition of this valuable resource features the games approach instructional method, which makes practice more fun for the kids and teaching more effective for you, the coach. Also included are chapters on communicating with athletes and parents, planning and conducting practice, and coaching during games.
Developed by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP), the nation's number one coaching education program, Coaching Youth Soccer provides volunteer coaches with both an explanation of their role and concrete instructions on how to fulfill that role.
Customer Reviews:
Cover the ENTIRE field with this resource.......2006-08-01
This book has it all. Skills, drills, tactics, safety, how to organize the team and deal with parents as well as fitness and psychology goals. This is a professional publication, but written with the average youth coach in mind so there are many practical tips and trick that can be immediately implemented with a team. I'll be using this book for YEARS!
Pretty good on the basics.......1998-04-25
A good start for a new coach. Covers all aspects but is very general.
Book Description
A complete 12 week training program for 5 to 8 year olds. Includes dozens of progressive fun games and drills to maximize player development and enthusiasm. Also includes a section on parental involvement and profiles of under-6 and under-8 players.
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