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
This is the definitive manual for coaching America's fastest-growing sport for kids aged 8-19. Written for both beginning and seasoned coaches, The Complete Book of Coaching Youth Soccer shows you--in concise, easy-to-understand terms--how to organize, motivate, and lead your youth soccer team to success on the field. Included are:
- Step-by-step teaching points
- Rules and strategies of the game
- More than 100 illustrative diagrams
- More than 75 practice and competitive drills
- Complete 10-week season plans for each of three separate age groups
Designed for easy, on-the-field reference, author Simon Whitehead's proven practice drills are designed progressively to develop maximum skills for both individual and team play. Simon Whitehead lives in Minneapolis and has coached high school and college soccer in England and in the United States for more than ten years. Using proven European teaching methods, he shows the soccer coach how to maximize each young player's enthusiasm, involvement, and personal success in soccer.
Customer Reviews:
Great beginner youth coaches book .......2005-08-09
I purchased about 5 books on coaching soccer, particularly youth soccer (13 and under). This was by far the best of the lot, most covered only rules and strategy and not teaching basic skills. This is the first coaches book I found that actually explained how to kick a ball! It does a great job in explaining how to teach the basic skills, which is what most of the young players need. The drills were helpful and made a definite improvement in the play of the team.
great coaching skills for beginner coaches.......1999-05-12
goes in detail of coaching young kids [fantastic
A decent book for beginners and intermediates.......1997-05-04
This is an okay book for beginner and intermediate level youth soccer coaching. There are two
main problems with this book. One is that the illustrations are extremely crude, often reduced to
literally stick figures. The other problem is that, having collected several other youth soccer
coaching books and videos, I'm not sure that I actually learned anything new from this book, and
so in retrospect, I don't think I would have gotten this book. For beginner coaches learning how
to coach very young kids (i.e., ages 4-8), Karl Dewazien's "FUNdamental Soccer" is a better
book in terms of the illustrations, and in its emphasis on how to handle these very young
children. For a more detailed explanation of tactics and intermediate to advanced skills for older
children (ages 8+), Alan Hargreaves' book "Skills and Strategies for Coaching Soccer" treats
essentially the same topics in a much more thorough fashion. For teaching soccer dribbling
"moves", Wiel Coerver's "SCORE!" is the ultimate book (although, as I noted in my review of
that book, the companion videos, viewed in slow motion, are more useful). However, if you
haven't gotten any soccer coaching books yet, and are looking for your first ever youth soccer
coaching book for slightly older kids (ages 8+), this book might be useful. It does have a
cookbook set of week-by-week soccer drills that will get you through your first soccer season, if
you don't want to have to think too hard about what it is that you're going to have to do.
Product Description
The Referee's Survival Guide, a new book on soccer officiating by veteran soccer referee Jeff Caminsky, has the answers to many of a referee's typical problems on the pitch. Clearly written and easy to understand, The Referee's Survival Guide explains many of the "what's," "how's," "who's," and "why's" of life on the soccer field...as well as many of the things for a soccer official to avoid. Whether you're interested in training or getting better as an official, learning where to be on the field, how to handle crowds and players, or applying the rules in a common-sense manner, The Referee's Survival Guide offers something for every soccer referee.
Customer Reviews:
Superb guide!.......2007-08-09
As a first year referee, this book has been invaluable to me. I have been able to apply many of Jeffrey Caminsky's tips. If you are a new referee, or wish to enhance your current skills, read this book!
An unbiased review.......2007-06-14
Very helpful, wish I had this book when I started as a ref.
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
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
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
An Olympic coach tells how to lead the team to victory.
This is the first and best handbook for mastering both the "soft" conceptual skills of coaching youth soccer-such as good sportsmanship and dealing with parents-to the tactical skills of executing winning offensive and defensive strategies.
Customer Reviews:
Not for Youth Soccer.......2006-07-22
Very disappointed by this book. More than half is filler with agonizing repetition and exposition to create paragraphs and pages out of straightforward and self-explanatory concepts. I realize the series is for "idiots," but I believe perhaps it's really aimed at the curious, frustrated, and inexperienced, not the truly mentally deficient. The authors continually fail to address how different a job soccer coaching is for coaches of five year olds versus coaches of fifteen year olds, and they seem to only understand the latter. Very little space is devoted to the rules of the game or how to convey them to young children so they (both children and coaches) can enjoy the game. For example, the word "Substitution" is not even in the index, and the rules for when a coach can substitute players is not covered in the text. This is one of the many "simple" elements of the game with which most youth soccer coaches new to the game need guidance. On the other hand, too much space is devoted to field concepts too advanced for players under ten years of age. Trying to implement them with young children will only frustrate coaches and players. Little attention is given to practical ways to make the game fun and keep it safe, to coaching sportsmanship, or to keeping young children involved so that they will stay with soccer long enough to be well prepared for more advance play as a teenager.
Average customer rating:
- An outstanding, comprehensive guide for youth soccer coaches
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The best and most comprehensive coaches guide to youth soccer. Includes everything a youth coach needs to be an effective coach.
Customer Reviews:
An outstanding, comprehensive guide for youth soccer coaches.......1999-02-23
Having been both a player, coach and referee for many years, I found Dr. Brown's work to be a complete text on coaching youth soccer. This handbook takes the reader through the basics of developing a new soccer club, working with parents and the players and provides a comprehensive understanding the roles and responsibilities of the the coach, players and parents. Included are indepth descriptions (with diagrams and photographs) starting with basic soccer movements and going through complex team drills. If one had to pick only a single book on the game of soccer, this handbook would be it.
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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