Coaching Simplified: Team Sport

By Robin Clarkson

This small but powerful manual cuts through the clutter that has been built up around coaching team sport and puts it into its nuts and bolts components. It will give you an understanding of sport and how it fits together and will provide you as a coach a foundation to build your own style upon.

The book lays out the four fundamental areas to focus upon for coaching teams and provides a practice structure to tie the four areas together. It also highlights the requirements to be a class skillful player and reveals useful information including tools to release potential, reaching for the top, player turn over and finals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Dec 19, 2006
• ISBN: 9781412208611

Robin Clarkson

Robin was born in 1966, Temuka, New Zealand, where he has lived nearly all his life, except for two years in the early 1990s whilst overseas, working in London, Belgium and Turkey. Robin has been involved with field hockey since 1973 and has actively participated in playing, umpiring, coaching and administration. He has also played and coached at representative level. Currently he holds New Zealand Hockey Federation Level Two and Coaching New Zealand Level Two Certification. Robin is passionate about field hockey, his future as a coach, regardless of which team will really be about lifting the skill level of each player, passing on knowledge gained and working the team strategy to bring out the best in each player.

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© Copyright 2006 Robin Clarkson.

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ISBN: 978-1-4120-7640-1 (soft cover)

ISBN: 978-1-4122-0861-1 (ebook)

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Contents

INTRODUCTION

STRUCTURAL OUTLINE

PLAYING STRUCTURE

FIELD PLAY

GOAL SCORING

SKILLS

PRACTICE STRUCTURE (1 HR) ADULTS

PLAYER DEVELOPMENT

PRACTICE STRUCTURE FOR

PLAYER DEVELOPMENT

THREE TYPES OF PLAYER

THREE TOOLS REQUIRED TO RELEASE POTENTIAL TO BECOME A CLASS SKILLFUL PLAYER

FUNDAMENTAL BASICS

YOU CAN NOW HAVE A PROFILE FOR A WORLD CLASS SKILLFUL PLAYER

SOME USEFUL INFORMATION

BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL SIDE

4 IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

MAKING QUADRANT DRILLS WORK

PLAYER TURNOVER

POINTS TO CONSIDER

INTENSITY

UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE OF ABILITY AND PLAYING LEVELS

PLAYING PYRAMID REACHING FOR THE TOP

CONCENTRATION

FINALS

HOW TO COMBAT AN OPPOSITION WHICH IS INTENT ON SLOWING UP PLAY

WARMUPS

CHANGE

A THEORY FOR OPTIMUM PACE AS APPLIED TO SPORTS TEAMS

THE LAST BIT

INTRODUCTION

If you are coaching any team sport other than field hockey, do not let the content of this manual put you off. I have written from the aspect of coaching field hockey because that is the sport I have focused my energies on. The principles within, with a little imagination can be applied to most team sports.

What is written are the answers to questions I constantly asked myself as a coach and is information I wanted and needed to know and regardless of the number of courses I attended or books I read, no one was