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Product Description Coaching Youth Wrestling, Third Edition, stresses fun, safety, and effective instruction, helping you create an environment that promotes learning, helps your kids enjoy their wrestling experiences, and motivates your wrestlers to come out year after year.
Ideal for coaches of wrestlers ages 8 to 14, Coaching Youth Wrestling teaches you how to convey folk-style wrestling skills to your athletes in an engaging and positive manner. Its focus on teaching fundamental wrestling skills and techniques through match-like activities sets it apart from other wrestling coaching books. And, it's the only one written with the expertise of USA Wrestling.
Sequenced and specific chapters help you learn, retain, and reference in a flash. New skill-teaching activities and age-appropriate coaching tips are sure to bring focus and fun to your practices.
You'll get an in-depth look at wrestling fundamentals and the most effective teaching methods with updated and expanded information on coaching top and bottom techniques, coaching attacks and counterattacks, and basic skills. A straightforward discussion of weight classes and safety considerations prepares you to help your wrestlers make weight using safe, age-appropriate methods.
The expertise of USA Wrestling, combined with essential coaching skills like communicating with parents and officials, motivating players, and preparing for matches and practices, make this book a must-read as you prepare to meet the challenges and enjoy the rewards of coaching young wrestlers.
good for just starting coachesNovember 22, 2008 This book is a good book for coaches who are new to wrestling. It does a good job going over the concepts of coaching, covers topics in coaching that you might not think of on your own. It covers the seven basic skill that the USA Wresting Federation thinks are important. It has some chapters on actual moves and counters but it it very basic. It also talks about teaching skills but is very weak in discussing or showing drills to help solidify the skills. It has a games section at the back but I don't think that is a very good section. The section on developing season and practice plans is very generic. Overall I would recommend this book but only with an additional purchase of a good drills book and maybe a season long practice plan book (not sure if this even exists)
A great gudie for new and old coachesJuly 21, 2008 This book, now expanded has guidelines for all wrestling coaches and can assist in charting daily drills and learning the signals and the various holds. It also aides coaches into teaching fairplay and sportsmanship amongst young wrestlers, which is important in their daily lives. A great and informative read.
A little marvelMarch 20, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a little marvel.I got it as I am coaching a group of adult beginners...and it's really helpful....my wrestlers are slow to learn moves and not too agile, so the slow/kids approach is perfect. A bit disconcerting, all the photos of mere kids doing the moves...but that's to be expected as it's originally a teach-kids book. But it's really much more than that. It can serve as a premier at any level. The explanataions are very clear and can usefully be adapted..so often it's difficult to put into words information about moves, stances etc. This little marvel does it very well. 10 out of 10
Great book to learn the basics.February 19, 2008 Loved this book, it was very helpful to a parent who was new to wrestling.
Pretty Good Starting BookJanuary 25, 2008 We bought this book along with another one for our 5 year son for husband to help coach him his first year. It has good stuff in it, but my husband was hoping it had more beginning drills in it.
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