Coaching Youth Wrestling 3rd/Ed

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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 matchlike 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. And skill-teaching activities and more than 20 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 teaching 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 such as 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.

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Coaching Youth Wrestling - 3rd Edition

From the Publisher

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 matchlike 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. And skill-teaching activities and more than 20 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 teaching 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 such as 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.

What People Are Saying

Coaching Youth Wrestling is a great resource for coaches who work withyoung wrestlers. Coaches and athletes alike will benefit from thestep-by-step instructions for introducing wrestling technique. USA Wrestlinghighly recommends this book for all wrestling coaches.
— Ted WitulskiNational Coaches Education Program Manager USA Wrestling

What People Are Saying

USA Wrestling recommends Coaching Youth Wrestling for any volunteer or beginning coach. The book covers everything coaches want to know aboutcreating a positive experience for their youth wrestlers.
— Mitch HullDirector of national teams USA Wrestling

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Coaching Youth Wrestling - 3rd Edition

• Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Welcome to Coaching!

Chapter 1 Stepping Into Coaching How to meet your responsibilities as a coach, how to coach when your child is on your team, and being aware of the five tools of an effective coach. Chapter 2 Communicating As a Coach How to send effective verbal and nonverbal messages to communicate better with players, parents, fans, officials, and opposing coaches. Chapter 3 Providing for Players' Safety How to provide for safety and respond to players' injuries when they do occur. Chapter 4 The Games Approach to Coaching Wrestling How to use the most effective method for teaching tactics and skills. Chapter 5 Teaching and Shaping Skills Learn the four steps of teaching skills effectively and how to shape skills, correct errors, and deal with misbehavior. Chapter 6 Match-Day Coaching How to prepare for the match, coach during the match, and keep winning and losing in perspective. Chapter 7 Rules and Equipment Understand the rules, wrestling equipment, and the three styles of wrestling. Chapter 8 Getting Wrestlers in Shape Know about fitness components, good nutrition, and making weight safely. Chapter 9 Tactics and Skills Know the offensive and defensive tactics and skills to teach to your wrestlers. Chapter 10 Season Plans Organize your practices throughout the season with sample plans for wrestlers aged 8 to 9, 10 to 11, and 12 to 14. Appendix A Injury Report Appendix B Emergency Information Card Appendix C Emergency Response Card

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Synopsis

Coaching Youth Wrestling is an excellent introduction to youth coaching and teaching young wrestling players valuable skills. It provides all the information you need to coach effectively and help 6- to 15-year-old athletes, both boys and girls, learn and enjoy the game.

Featuring the games approach to coaching wrestling, this book will show youhow to make practice more fun for the kids and teaching more effective foryou, the coach. Also included are chapters on communicating with athletesand parents, planning and conducting practices, coaching during matches, andspecific programs for both boys and girls wrestling.

Developed by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP), the nation's No. 1 coaching education program, and with USA Wrestling, Coaching Youth Wrestling provides volunteer coaches with both an explanation of their role and concrete instructions on fulfilling that role.

About the Author

The American Sport Education Program (ASEP) is the most widely used andrespected sport education program in the United States. More than 30 statesnow require ASEP courses for their high school coaches, and more than 200universities use ASEP courses and resources. Over one millionpeople-coaches, parents, and directors alike-have used ASEP products sincethe program began in 1981. The ASEP headquarters are located in Champaign,Illinios.

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Biography

Coaching Youth Wrestling was written by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP) in conjunction with USA Wrestling. ASEP has been developing and delivering coaching education courses since 1981. As the nation's leading coaching education program, ASEP works with national, state, and local youth sport organizations to develop educational programs for coaches, officials, administrators, and parents. These programs incorporate ASEP's philosophy of “Athletes first, winning second.”

USA Wrestling is the national governing body for the sport of wrestling in the United States and the central organization for the coordination and support of amateur wrestling programs in the nation. USA Wrestling works to increase appreciation for and participation in the international styles of wrestling (freestyle and Greco-Roman) as well as folk-style wrestling. USA Wrestling has more than 159,000 members, including athletes of all ages, coaches, officials, and parents.

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Coaching Youth Wrestling - 3rd Edition

• Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Welcome to Coaching!

Chapter 1 Stepping Into Coaching How to meet your responsibilities as a coach, how to coach when your child is on your team, and being aware of the five tools of an effective coach. Chapter 2 Communicating As a Coach How to send effective verbal and nonverbal messages to communicate better with players, parents, fans, officials, and opposing coaches. Chapter 3 Providing for Players' Safety How to provide for safety and respond to players' injuries when they do occur. Chapter 4 The Games Approach to Coaching Wrestling How to use the most effective method for teaching tactics and skills. Chapter 5 Teaching and Shaping Skills Learn the four steps of teaching skills effectively and how to shape skills, correct errors, and deal with misbehavior. Chapter 6 Match-Day Coaching How to prepare for the match, coach during the match, and keep winning and losing in perspective. Chapter 7 Rules and Equipment Understand the rules, wrestling equipment, and the three styles of wrestling. Chapter 8 Getting Wrestlers in Shape Know about fitness components, good nutrition, and making weight safely. Chapter 9 Tactics and Skills Know the offensive and defensive tactics and skills to teach to your wrestlers. Chapter 10 Season Plans Organize your practices throughout the season with sample plans for wrestlers aged 8 to 9, 10 to 11, and 12 to 14. Appendix A Injury Report Appendix B Emergency Information Card Appendix C Emergency Response Card

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