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Training Soccer Champions Customer Review: Excellent and available for less than the sellers here offer it
I can only echo the other reviews and state that this is one of the best books for coaches out there. This is the one book I’d keep if I had to toss out all of the other soccer books on my shelf. You don’t have to pay the thirty bucks or more charged here. It’s still available from Reedswain for much less.
Customer Review: Future of Coaching
I’ve only coached men’s college teams, but I’m convinced Anson’s principles represent a foundation for the future of coaching — for athletes of either sex. Competition is fun and practices need to be fun. The days of drill sergeant as coaching model are over.
Kids from most countries now have hundreds of choices in terms of different sports and entertainment. Every minute of practice needs to be fun or they’ll do something else. And it’s only going to get worse.
Obviously the “competitive caldron” can create women’s US college soccer champions (UNC won the title again in 2000), but it may also be our best chance to lure the upcoming Sega generation into team sports.
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Warm Ups for Soccer: A Dynamic Approach In this long overdue book, Critchell addresses the issue of stretching and warm up practices for soccer. The main focus of the book is to discourage the use of static stretching and instead offer a variety of dynamic exercises which more closely resemble the movements made in the game, giving the players the preparation they need either pre-game or pre-practice.
Customer Review: Very Handy Guide
The book starts with dynamic stretch illustrations which are good. The illustrations of stretches are usually 1 photo and explanations that are complete and the sessions are drawn as A’s and B’s. They are broken down into groups of stretches like the basics, then combinations, patters with fast feet and then to actually exercises. Mick then has Stage Two as an improved running section with easy and pratical exercises. Stage Three he gives 60 specific warms ups covering basics to space and shooting. Almost all sessions are using a ball. I titled it has a “handy guide” as I use it to get things out and develop my own or grab one of Mick’s and go!
Customer Review: Good Stuff!
A super book for coaches who want to incorporate dynamic warm-ups/stretching into their teams training sessions and pre-game routine. Explanations are solid and easy to understand. As a coach of thirteen years I even found some terrific new warm-up exercises and games to use with my teams. Highly recommended especially for those who still believe that static stretching is still O.K. and anyone else who wants to leaern about proper warming up.
