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!
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A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
A games-based alternative to tedious rote exercises, guaranteed to keep practices fun, engaging, and productive
Great Soccer Drills provides soccer coaches with a great way to make every soccer practice active, fun, and productive. Coaches get 125 games guaranteed to keep kids moving and excited while teaching them basic skills, sharpening their reflexes, and building their confidence and decision-making ability. Written by two of North America's foremost names in youth soccer coaching, it also includes guidelines on how to create just the right blend of drills to hold the attention of six- to twelve-year-old players.
Great Soccer Drills can be used in conjunction with the bestselling Coaching Youth Soccer: A Baffled Parent's Guide or as an excellent stand-alone resource for spicing up any practice.
Customer Reviews:
Soccer drills found here.......2007-09-24
My wife bought this for her youth boys soccer team and found it to be very helpful in setting up drills to keep the boys busy and learning. She played soccer through highschool and still found the pages to be full of helpful ideas.
Worth the price.
Excellent coaching primer for all levels of youth soccer.......2007-09-12
I received a copy of this book as part of a U6/U8 coaching clinic that I attended last fall. The instructor had a lot of praise for the text, and incorporated a lot of the coaching philosophy and the drills into his presentation.
The book is full of good, common-sense coaching advice that's particularly useful for the novice coach, although I think that even seasoned coaches will find some great ideas here.
I've used quite a few of the activities in my practices, and they really do work quite well. The backbone of each and every one of these drills is that they get ALL of your kids involved in practicing. There is nothing here that puts your athletes in enthusiasm-sapping and attention-deficit producing lines. Every drill is carefully designed to keep your kids moving and learning at all times.
The text is clear and well-written and the pictures and illustrations do a good job of supporting the activities. Overall, it's very well-done. I've been coaching for 6 seasons now, and I really wish that I had discovered this book sooner.
Highly recommened, especially for new youth soccer coaches.
Wonderful even for seasoned coaches.......2007-09-06
I've been coaching for at least five years now and this book has some really fantastic drills in it. My under 11 team was cracking up while working hard and that is the best thing to see. This is an especially great book for working with children even younger. I'm enjoying all the drills.
Just Get It.......2007-09-05
I have been coaching youth soccer for about 5 years now after having played from age 4-18. This book truly helped my practices become more fun, developmental and organized for the kids. I love the section that has pre-set practices for different skill sets.
Couldn't be better!.......2007-08-13
I've been coaching my sons team for 2 years now. Under 8, Under 10 and getting ready to begin our 2nd Under 10 season. This book is essential to my success as a coach! Wonderful drills and skill builders that are broken down by skill type and age group. Great directions and diagrams. My favorite part of the book is the way it teaches you how to make a soccer practice plan for each practice. You can pick and choose the drills and games you like in order to customize your practices the way you see fit. This is a great book for any soccer coach. Learn to maximize each and every minute of practice while your players have a blast and actually learn something too!
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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
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
THE GUIDE FOR A FUN AND SUCCESSFUL FOOTBALL SEASON!
Do you need some guidance before you start coaching this football season? Coaching Youth Football, 3rd edition gives you everything you need to make this season a success. It covers all of football's fundamentals and gives coaching tips for every aspect of the game, including:
- blocking, passing, receiving, running, tackling, and special teams
- proper techniques for all aspects of the game
- the responsibilities of each position on the field
- defensive and offensive strategies
- a playbook of more than 30 plays to use in games
- how to create the desire to play hard in athletes
You'll also find template practice plans you can adjust for your own use, step-by-step drills, conditioning ideas, first-aid information, and an explanation of the game's rules. Plus, a glossary and skills checklists at the end of the book help you learn and teach the language and techniques of football quickly and effectively.
Book Description
*Second edition (1991) sold more than 25,000 copies
*Updated to reflect changes in soccer and in coaching and training philosophies over the past 5-10 years, as well as new photos and diagrams
*Author is a parent and a coach himself, and writes in a conversational tone, addressing the types of questions and concerns that parent/coaches have
Anyone interested in coaching youth soccer will find all they need in this book. It offers advice on how to promote positive athletic competition while effectively teaching kids sports fundamentals. It will give readers:
*Basic terminology and rules of the game
*Practice plans and drills that are fun, make teams eager to learn
*Tips for communicating with kids
*Game strategies
*Tools to assess kids' physical and intellectual strengths
*Advice about effective discipline and motivation
*Ideas for dealing with officials and players' parents
*Suggestions for conditioning and training specific to youth
*Information to prevent and properly deal with injuries
This book will help readers develop a coaching philosophy to build kids' self-esteem and teach them teamwork, good sportsmanship, how to perform under pressure, and how to learn from mistakes.
Customer Reviews:
Coaching Youth Soccer: The Guide for Coaches, Parents and Athletes.......2007-06-27
You can really tell McCarthy has experience in coaching the sport as well as a keen understanding of the needs of young athletes and their parents. I found this book to be instrumental in guiding my son as a parent not only through a better grasp of the sport's strategies and rules but also simple drills to increase his ability to handle the ball and play well. The plethora of player-model pictures to further help us "see" what good athletic positioning looks like, is just good direction on his part. Some of us learn by seeing! As a parent or coach, of course knowing more about the sport can only help build a child's skills which increases their motivation to be better at the sport and want to play more. However, McCarthy also brings in some aspects of the psychological desires of player and parents from his experiences and covers what works and what doesn't relative to the emotional aspects in order to even further guide us to love and respect the sport. A very well rounded book and worth the economical price!
Customer Reviews:
All the Help a Parent needs.......2006-07-26
I am the defensive coach for a youth leauge football team and this book is a tremendous help tp me
Reserved for those who can't even spell Football.......2005-03-02
I bought this book as part of a series of books that I was going through for youth coaching. I have been coaching for a couple of years now and was looking for maybe something that I could add to my team's game. This book was both disappointing and scary at the same time. I'll explain.
Early on in the book the author suggests that yelling at the kids to get them fired up, even if you don't mean what you're saying (i.e. "Kill'em!") was a good thing, part of the game and suggested in so many words that it would separate the grittier players from the weaker ones. I'm not sure what kind of game he played when he was growing up, but I have never had a coach like that, nor do I coach my kids that way, and I've never had a problem with getting my kids fired up. Furthermore, it's insane for any coach to assume for one second that the game should be one of win-at-all-costs. Although he didn't say it directly, it appeared like it was more about the coach then it was about the players. Sure, he goes over the "teamwork" concept, but it was vague at best.
On more than one occasion there was the feeling that you should coach your better players and yell at the weaker ones. What ever happened to, you know, coaching? For starters it should never be about you the coach... ever! It should always be about the players and the TEAM. There were a few entries about how you put your slower players on the offensive line and at the full back position (which I completely disagree with) and that your smartest player should go at QB. According to the author, the QB should be able to identify the defense being played, the blitzes, and the weak slots by the time he reaches the line of scrimmage from the huddle. Of course there are no suggestions on how exactly you are supposed to coach this professional level concept to a child.
The book is filled with nice suggestions, but with no hint as to how to execute them. The techniques are maybe 50% accurate at best, and offer little in the way of correcting on-going errors. It just says to look for them. Right, because my 6th graders are all NFL caliber athletes that understand the intricacies of the game. The plays in the book are poorly illustrated, have no real explanations and will never work on a football field, ever, which is why I assume the author never posts anything about his success as a coach; probably because he hasn't had any.
There are far better books than this one out there. Try "Coaching Youth Football (Baffled Parent's Guides) by Paul Pasqualoni". It is a far better quality book and absolutely designed for the first time coach in mind. In fact, even if you have only been coaching for a couple of years, like me, there is still tons of information in there that is far superior.
This book is as irresponsible as it is dangerous, not to mention a complete waste of money. Don't waste your time on this book when there are far better ones available.
Excellent for First Time Coach.......2000-09-06
This is an excellent book for the first time coach. I was asked to coach a team after another coach bowed out after the first week of practice due to family crisis. I had not been involved in football for 20 years and was lost. This book saved me. Lots of good information, particularly on how to run a practice, useful drills and fundamentals. Does not include a lot of offensive or defensive strategy (See the "Coaching Youth Football" series by John T. Reed) but tremendously useful in helping a beginning coach get up and running.
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ASIN: 0071411437 |
Book Description
"The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Indoor Youth Soccer should be applauded for its effort to help raise the interest, enjoyment, and quality of one of the fastest-growing sports in the world." --Don Shapero, president, United States Indoor Soccer Association
Three million children and teens play indoor soccer, and The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Indoor Youth Soccer provides parents and coaches much-needed guidance to help their kids navigate this popular sport.
With its own special rules, strategies, and skills, this one-of-a-kind guide offers:
- Basic skills for offense and defense
- Drills and situational strategies
- Photographs and step-by-step diagrams
Customer Reviews:
For baffled parents only.......2004-11-21
The title says it all, it's a book for baffled parents who know nothing about indoor soccer (or soccer at all) and are wanting a superficial overview of the sport or coaching in general. If you are a coach, a player, or know anything at all about the sport and are looking for drills and tactics to use when coaching or on the field, you need to look elsewhere.
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The Parent's Complete Guide to Soccer
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Book Description
Do visions of game-winning penalty kicks and World Cup victories dance in your child's head? Does the chant of "GOOOAAALLL" echo through your home? Join the crowd! Soccer is the fastest-growing youth sport in the United States. As a result, millions of moms and dads just like you are finding themselves thrust into the roles of soccer fan, advocate, and often, coach. So how can you best enhance your child's and your own soccer experience?
Inside is an informative and thorough soccer primer for parents of players ages 3 to 13. You will learn about everything important on the field as well as how to make soccer a positive influence off the field, including:
• How to choose the right level of play for your child
• Ways to ensure your child enjoys the game and avoids burnout
• Beneficial nutrition, conditioning, and first-aid tips
• Why soccer is a positive life choice for your child
• And much more!
"This uniquely practical guide is perfect for both novice and not-so-novice soccer moms and dads!"
—Lynn Berling-Manuel, president and publisher, Soccer America magazine
"A must-read for parents, coaches, and administrators of all youth soccer programs."
—Dr. Ronald Quinn, associate professor, head women's soccer coach, Xavier University, United States Youth Soccer (USYS) Coaching Committee
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Joe Provey takes the reader through the process of youth soccer and helps make soccer a positive experience for everyone involved!"
—Dr. Jay Martin, past president, National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA), head soccer coach, Ohio Wesleyan University
"A wonderful book: thorough, clear, filled with intelligent and practical ideas."
—Dean Conway, director of coaching, Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association
"As complete a guide to soccer as any parent could hope for. No one knows more about youth soccer and parents than
Joe Provey."
—Dan Woog, executive editor, Soccer America's Youth Soccer Letter
About the Authors:
Joe Provey is cofounder and editor of Soccer Jr. magazine. He also has edited numerous other soccer publications and is a youth soccer coach and lifelong soccer player. He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Owen Lockwood, the managing editor of Soccer Jr. magazine, has written extensively on soccer, covering both youth and professional levels. He lives in Trumbull, Connecticut.
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