A practical guide book for parents and young kids learning or playing Rink Hockey or Roller Hockey, this text covers the fundamental skills and includes 136 individual pictures, illustrations, and charts.
Complete with strategies and tactics, training games, playing field size, new parent orientation, referee's information, penalties information, playing equipment, and a glossary of terminology, this practical guide book features 236 individual pictures, illustrations, and charts.
This is a practical Handbook for youth Field Hockey coaches, and parents. It has 152 individual pictures and 81 illustration variations to look at. All the skill activities and drills are numbered for easy reference between coaches, kids, and parents. Complete with diagram, illustration, and explanation for each one. It covers all the fundamentals you will need to get started in youth field hockey. It also has training games to play, sample practice schedules, a glossary of field hockey terms, a section on Umpires and penalties, a stair step learning guide, equipment information, general game rules, a new parent orientation guide, the playing field size, and many plays to run to get your team started.
After 14 NHL seasons, a Stanley Cup victory, and five years as a youth hockey coach, Bruce Driver is the ideal author to bring the highly successful Baffled Parent's formula to one of North America's largest youth sports.
This is a practical handbook and guide for parents and coaches that want to help their kids become a better baseball or softball player. It has 300 individual pictures, illustrations and diagrams to show you what to do. It covers all the basics that players will need to become a good baseball or softball player. It is complete with history, playing field size, new parent orientation, training games to play, strategies, stair step training guides, equipment used and a glossary of baseball and softball terminology.
This is a practical Handbook for beginning youth field hockey players, coaches, and parents. It has 81 individual pictures and 152 illustration variations to look at. All the skill activities and drills are numbered for easy reference between players, coaches and parents. Complete with diagram, illustration, and explanation for each one. It covers all the fundamentals you will need to get started in youth field hockey offense and defense. It also has training games to play, sample practice schedules, strategies and tactics, equipment information, information on umpires and penalties, and many plays to run to get your team started.
Covering all the basic offensive and defensive fundamental skills players will need to play a better game of basketball, this practical guide includes 158 individual pictures, illustrations, diagrams, and charts.
This short book is a guide for parents who have no experience with hockey and are wondering whether they should register their child(ren) to play. If you are sitting on the fence, then this book may help you make that decision. Peter Falkowski did not play hockey as a child. However, he taught his son to skate at a young age and then registered him with the local minor hockey association. For ten years Peter drove his son to every practice, game and tournament. In this book he shares some of the lessons he learned on the way and offers some guidance to parents who are unsure of whether to proceed and would like more information to help with their decision. This book provides an overview of the many factors to consider when determining whether to become a "hockey parent" and offers a number of tips to make the experience pleasant for both child and parent.
Swope details 25 ways to have more fun in youth sports, and he includes inspirations, training success and failure stories, recommended additional reading, sample youth sports menus, and sample scheduling ideas.