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This video includes more than 30 basketball drills that a player can practice in any driveway with friends and neighbors. This program highlights: shooting, ball handling, passing, defensive drills, offensive moves and fun games. The shooting drills presented are for both individuals or with a partner and are some of the most creative used by coaches at all levels.
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This video addresses two of the most underrated skills in youth baseball:baserunning and bunting. The baserunning portion of the video covers the most basic skills, such as sliding and running techniques, while also addressing more advanced techniques, such as the delayed steal, tagging up, and reading signs. The bunting section covers the different types of bunting techniques, such as the square bunt and the pivot bunt. The video then shows strategies...
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This program provides some of the most challenging and creative soccer drills for the experienced and advanced player. This program covers: footwork, crosses, heading, shooting, juggling, volleys, conditioning and fun games. Players looking to advance to the next level will learn the inner secrets of how coaches and leagues develop their most skilled players into elite players.
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This video covers a variety of strategies for the competitive youth baseball coach. Marty Schupak has drawn on his years of coaching and shared strategies with some of the most successful youth baseball coaches around who have won championships. Addressed are the most common strategic situations that occur in youth baseball games. Covered are cutoffs, back up situations, first and third offensive and defensive situations, the delayed steal, bunting...
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This program includes more than 50 essential drills for the youth soccer athlete which can be practiced in the comfort of one's backyard. This video covers: fast footwork drills, shooting drills, passing drills, volley drills, goalie drills, heading techniques, and fun games. This video will help make practicing soccer both fun and challenging for players, coaches, and parents. This program is appropriate for kids 8 years old up through high school....
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This program provides numerous creative goalie drills that some of the best soccer goalkeepers in the world use to perfect and enhance their skills. Covered in this video are: conditioning drills, diving skills and drills, breakaway goalie defense, lateral skill techniques, punting, bonus tips, advanced skills and more.
47) Backyard Golf
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This program addresses some of the most important golfing techniques that can be practiced right in your own backyard or at your local park. These fun creative drills are guaranteed to shave strokes off of your score whether you are a beginner or an experienced pro. Covered in this program: the grip, club head speed, centerdness of contact, breakdown of the swing, angle of approach, chip shots, putting and more!
49) Champions
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[2023]
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A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.
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"In Players First, John Calipari relates for the first time anywhere his experiences over his first four years coaching the Kentucky Wildcats, college basketball's most fabled program, from the doldrums to a national championship, drawing lessons about leadership, character, and the path to personal and collective victory. At its core, Calipari's coaching philosophy centers on keeping his focus on the players--what they need to get the best out of...
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For novice and experienced netball coaches, coaching 13–16-year-old netballers. 20 Netball Training Sessions fully planned out, in detail, ready for you to coach your team's season with confidence. As well as the training sessions there's insight from Gillian Lee about her thoughts going into the design of each session and how to coach it.
Each training session has activities catering for 60-90 minutes time slots. Each activity has set-up, diagram,...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I had a teacher who was a mystery to me until I found out he had coached me when I was twelve. I had never thought of him as a coach, but as a teacher. He had a rare ability to enter a child's mind, and he stayed there forever.
#2 The Isidore Newman School is a private school in New Orleans. It was founded in 1903 as a manual training school for Jewish orphans. The...
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The Youth Sports Coaching Guide contains the advice every coach wishes they had been given when they first started. Written by a father of four with coaching experience spanning three decades, the book reads like a down-to-earth conversation with someone who has been in the youth sports coaching trenches. The book covers every aspect of navigating the twenty-first century youth sports coaching arena.
The book travels from the logistics of team selection...
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If you want to achieve peak performance, experience being in the Zone, as well as experience daily joy and continuous improvements in your sport or athletic pursuit, this book is for you! Athlete's Way of Excellence is a revolutionary and holistic approach to sports performance and sports psychology based on 5000-year-old Chinese wisdom. Tobe Hanson's unique coaching style has been noted to be a cross between Tony Robbins and Eckhard Tolle, meaning:...
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This manual contains a collection of 40 fun and exciting netball related games providing coaches and teachers with more variety for training sessions and lessons.
How can I keep my netball team interested and motivated at training?
Answering the question above was the motivating force for us to put together this coaching resource. As coach educators, we are often asked variations of this type of question. From our combined forty plus years coaching...
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Una obra para todos, con un lenguaje de fácil entendimiento , una herramienta tanto para iniciados en el deporte como para profesionales.
Con análisis de los ejercicios, consejos, trucos, curiosidades, anécdotas, etimología y dando un punto de vista diferente a la hora de nombrar los músculos y los ejercicios por su forma o gestos al ejecutarlos.
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Important concepts are best understood by analogies with familiar experiences. When Jesus walked this earth, He taught the people using parables about eating and drinking, farming and fishing, and seeds and treasures.
The author of this book is an old Christian who has devoted his life to teaching and coaching. He here seeks to draw parallels between athletics and the Christian life, thereby offering insight into both.
Topics include hopes and fears,...
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The Character Coach's Playbook is not just a book, it is a tool! With millions of athletes playing today, it is time to coach the coaches about coaching. Very few (Little League through high school) coaches have any training in the arena of character development. Every great coach from Lombardi to Bowden and Osborne to Wooden understood the importance of personal character. Steve and Huey have produced a practical guide to assist and train coaches...
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TOM ANSTETT'S "Stop Whining; Start Winning" encourages honest self-reflection while offering a variety of tips from various angles for teachers and coaches. Sections such as "Inspire," "Communicate," and "Relish" will encourage thought and various emotions.
Whether you are a teacher, coach, parent, or administrator, or just an avid reader in search of a thought-provoking book, "Stop Whining; Start Winning" should find a place on your lap, in your...
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