Coaching Youth Baseball provides you with both an explanation of your role as a youth baseball coach and concrete instructions on how to fulfill that role. You will find chapters on communicating with your athletes and their parents, teaching and developing baseball skills, creating season plans and conducting practices, and coaching in game situations.
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This handy coaching tool contains a variety of both tried-and-true and innovative drills that build on and reinforce your technique and tactic instruction of 7- to 12-year-olds. Drills are easily located by topic in the seven chapters, and they progress in difficulty so that you can choose the most appropriate ones for your players’ abilities in each facet of the game. And, because attention spans are short at those ages, each drill is designed to maximize the number of players involved on the field. Helpful tips throughout the book make on-field practice, organization, and time management much easier. Youth Baseball Drills is your guide to fun, productive practices so that your players get the best possible experience playing the sport. 208 pages-$14.95 BUY NOW

Coaching Youth Basketball is an excellent introduction to youth coaching and teaching valuable skills to young basketball players. It provides all the information you need to coach effectively and help 8- to 14-year-old athletes learn and enjoy the game. This third edition features the games approach to coaching basketball, 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 practices, and coaching during games. 168 pages- $14.95 BUY NOW

The drills are grouped by skills, with variations that progress as your players learn. Explanations show you how, when, and why to use each drill. You’ll find the information to build stronger individual players and develop a winning team. The arrangement of this book makes it a perfect reference tool—all of the details are presented in a step-by-step format. The drills are categorized into three skill development levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Each drill is clearly marked by number and by name, with an estimate of how much time it takes to execute. A list of all related drills is given to help you implement a systematic order to your workouts. 272 pages-$17.95 BUY NOW

Coaching Youth Soccer provides you with both an explanation of your role as a youth soccer coach and concrete instructions on how to fulfill that role. You will find chapters on communicating with your athletes and their parents, teaching and developing soccer skills, creating season plans and conducting practices, and coaching in game situations. The third edition of this book includes a special bonus—a chapter on the games approach to teaching soccer skills and tactics. The games approach is an effective way for you to coach youth soccer, and it makes learning more fun for your young athletes. 168 pages-$14.95 BUY NOW

As a youth soccer coach you have a limited amount of time to teach an enthusiastic group of kids how to play the game—and have fun doing it. That’s why you need Youth Soccer Drills. It helps you develop fundamentally sound players by providing 84 of the game’s best drills for teaching basic spacing and movement concepts, dribbling, passing, and shooting skills to beginning- and intermediate-level players ages 5 to 12. The book features a comprehensive, well-organized drill finder that categorizes drills according to the specific skill that is being taught as well as the age group for which the drill is appropriate. 224 pages-$15.95 BUY NOW