The Double-Goal Coach: Positive Coaching Tools for Honoring the Game and Developing Winners in Sports and Life (Harperresource Book)
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Written for both parents and coaches, The Double-Goal Coach is jam-packed with specific tactics and strategies to help motivate and inspire young athletes to reach their potential. There is a nation-wide epidemic of poor sportsmanship at all levels of youth sports, by the parents, the coaches, and the athletes. The nightly news shows parents fighting with one another, coaches lying about the age of their players, and the young athletes imitating the showboating and trash-talking antics of the professional leagues. In response, districts have tried to come up with Pledges in which participants agree to certain good sportsmanship rules, however without a complete rethink of youth sports and a practical program for implementing sportsmanship such Pledges are just words. Jim Thompson, Director of the Positive Coaching Alliance, provides a new foundation for youth sports. Thompson offers coaches and parents the essential tools to combine the desire to win with the more important goal of using sports to teach life lessons and build character in young athletes. The Double-Goal Coach draws from current sport psychology and proven coaching techniques to provide coaches and parents the practical tools that can be used to make youth sports a fun and enriching experience. Review: Excellent Book on Youth Coaching - This is an excellent book for someone drawn to coaching youth in any sport, especially the volunteer coach. I first read it from my local library and loved the elements of it so well that I bought a copy to keep and mark-up. This books orient a youth coach to what they need to be teaching and expecting of their players. You won't find drills and activities for any specific sport in this book but rather foundational principles of coaching, that is teaching youth how to honor the sport and the game, how to honor the rules and officials, and honoring your opponents and teammates. It shows you how to promote effort risk-taking and mistakes in the learning process, promote striving and improvement and mastery versus promoting outcomes. The first goal is coaching players to be winners, but the second goal, ultimately more important for the vast majority of our youth athletes, is coaching life lessons. If you are a youth coach, director of coaching in a volunteer organization, or the interested parent of a youth athlete, i would encourage you to buy it and read it. Review: Inspiring yet practical - Many books on the subject of improving youth sports are written to create awareness of the importance of the subject, but say little of practical value on the way of doing this. Other books treat the 'how' comprehensively but are as dry as fossilized bones. The DGC avoids these two pitfalls admirably. It does a great job of describing and explaining the problems that youth sports programs have in the US (and in many other parts of the World), with such feeling, sensitivity and clarity that one cannot avoid being moved by the arguments. Jim Thompson goes further, though, the DGC translates ideals into practical measures to build exemplary youth sports programs. My organization is currently using the DGC as a blueprint to develop a soccer program in Mexico, and its lessons and arguments are as useful, relevant and potent here as they seem to be in the US, judging by the growth of The Positive Coaching Alliance.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 36 Reviews |
S**H
Excellent Book on Youth Coaching
This is an excellent book for someone drawn to coaching youth in any sport, especially the volunteer coach. I first read it from my local library and loved the elements of it so well that I bought a copy to keep and mark-up. This books orient a youth coach to what they need to be teaching and expecting of their players. You won't find drills and activities for any specific sport in this book but rather foundational principles of coaching, that is teaching youth how to honor the sport and the game, how to honor the rules and officials, and honoring your opponents and teammates. It shows you how to promote effort risk-taking and mistakes in the learning process, promote striving and improvement and mastery versus promoting outcomes. The first goal is coaching players to be winners, but the second goal, ultimately more important for the vast majority of our youth athletes, is coaching life lessons. If you are a youth coach, director of coaching in a volunteer organization, or the interested parent of a youth athlete, i would encourage you to buy it and read it.
R**O
Inspiring yet practical
Many books on the subject of improving youth sports are written to create awareness of the importance of the subject, but say little of practical value on the way of doing this. Other books treat the 'how' comprehensively but are as dry as fossilized bones. The DGC avoids these two pitfalls admirably. It does a great job of describing and explaining the problems that youth sports programs have in the US (and in many other parts of the World), with such feeling, sensitivity and clarity that one cannot avoid being moved by the arguments. Jim Thompson goes further, though, the DGC translates ideals into practical measures to build exemplary youth sports programs. My organization is currently using the DGC as a blueprint to develop a soccer program in Mexico, and its lessons and arguments are as useful, relevant and potent here as they seem to be in the US, judging by the growth of The Positive Coaching Alliance.
K**D
Another hit by Thompson
This book covers some of the same topics as Thompson's classic, Positive Coaching. However, it has some new ideas in it, and also has some lessons learned since Positive Coaching was written. It also has a handbook-type approach - it gives you example talks, helps you plan a practice and also shows you ways to help you acquire Positive Coaching skills. I have found all of Jim Thompson's books enjoyable and enlightening.
T**.
Just a Great Book For Any Coach
I would put this in my top for coaches. It doesn't go over drills, defense, or offense. It goes over the most important things a coach should know like Honoring the game. Great book for getting the most out of the kids you coach and it will help you to enjoy coaching more too. I coach AAU basketball for the #1 ranked AAU program in America.
E**R
A Book for ANY Coach
Absolutely the best book for any coach of any sport. I searched for this book while I was coaching with someone who was a very negative coach. This encouraged me to counteract her, and it was incredibly successful. Even if you are a veteran coach, you can learn tools and tips for dealing with difficult situations, or fix things that aren't working well for you.
J**F
These strategies and tactics PRODUCE scoring
I can personally attest to at least 5 goals in one season of U8 soccer that were a DIRECT result of these techniques. This book is not theoretical gopplygook, it is real-life usuable techniques. Get the book!
M**N
A must-read!
If every parent, coach, and youth sports administrator read and applied half of the principles in this book, youth sports would be transformed into something that builds sport-specific skills, character, and good fun.
A**H
Great for coaches
Book goes into more detail about the PCA philosophy. Great for coaches.
V**S
Double coach
To br honest I've read up to page 93 and I can tell you this use some of these tips they can be a great help before I read this book I've use some of these techniques brilliant
A**R
Five Stars
Amazing book every coach and parent should read
G**G
Great
A must read for any coach, new or old. Great service
J**D
a positive coaching attitude
This is how sports coaching should be conducted, from grass roots to elite, the win at any cost attitude is outdated and has ruined sports for many of our younger generation.
R**E
Great inspiration
Very American in the sport references but the principles are all sound and should be the way forward for sport coaching.
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