Sports & Recreation, Coaching
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Coach to Coach
A Holistic Conversation on Coaching Youth Sports
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More than just wins and losses, sports build character and relationships, promote personal growth, and provide purpose. James Avery’s Coach to Coach brings a fresh and holistic approach to coaching the athletes at all levels of sport. Based on 25...
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Savate
A Comprehensive Guide to a European Martial Art and Modern Combat Sport
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In a ring crowded with various styles of martial arts, each battling for supremacy, one is tucked in the corner: savate. Born on the docks of nineteenth-century France, savate may have started as a style of street fighting, but over time, it’s...
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Coaching Lacrosse
Becoming a Player's Coach
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A primer on different approaches to coaching lacrosse with a particular focus on player- or athlete-centred coaching. Taylor guides readers through techniques like technical and self-reflection; behavioural, cognitive, and constructivist coaching...
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A Vagabond Life
Stories From a Minnesota Hockey Coach
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When it comes to a career in coaching sports, there is no teaching without doing—and practice doesn’t just make perfect, it makes a whole life. In this heartfelt memoir, first-time author Thomas H. Peart recounts the story of his experiences...
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Athletic Vision Skills
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An exceptional player will possess top-notch read-and-react skills when on the ice, anticipating where the puck is going because of their well-developed vision skills. This allows maximum peripheral vision to instantly help decide the next...
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Hockey Players' Personality
Contribution to Team Performance
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A great deal of research has been done on the quantitative indicators used in hockey player evaluation, but for the most part, the analysis of qualitative factors has been elusive. Until this book. Hockey Players' Personality Contribution to Team...
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The Basketball Coach's Primer
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The Basketball Coach’s Primer is a resource of basketball ideas. It is written for coaches ready to review the principles and methods of the game before getting started with a new team, or for renewing coaches reviewing for the next season of...
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Fundamentals of Role-based Youth Soccer
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Do you coach youth soccer? Who is the most important coach your charges will have over their career? You are! Yes, some coach who is more “qualified” than you can later teach them all about the defensive aspect of the game. Players with a modicum...
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Wednesdays With Wooden
A doctor's house calls and his unique bond with a legendary coach
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Dr. Michael Levi, a Southern California podiatrist, as a youth admired UCLA basketball Coach John Wooden. He attended several of his summer camps and regularly went to UCLA basketball games at Pauley Pavilion with his father, Myron “Mike” Levi....
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The Kayak Coaches' Manifesto
An Alternative Approach to High Performance Kayaking
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The author, Dari Y. Fisher has created this manual in consultation with Dr. Imre Kemecsey (Master Kayak Coach and Olympic Silver Medallist); regarding coaching structure and technique for elite and emerging Flatwater and Surfski kayak athletes....
