How To: Effectively Talk with Coaches
Noted high school baseball coach and parent of a college All American player, Brent McGuire discusses sound strategies for parents and players communicate with their coaches.
Noted high school baseball coach and parent of a college All American player, Brent McGuire discusses sound strategies for parents and players communicate with their coaches.
Longtime boys and girls coach, Reese Jacobs tells us the differences in coaching girls fast pitch softball and boys baseball.
I'm sure you've been there—halfway through typing something out, you realize that one word you've been using more than any other has been misspelled. Perhaps it's a single word, acronym, or line of code that you find yourself typing quite often at work, but this one requires complicated hand gymnastics that you'd simply rather not perform over and over again.
When playing sports, warming up is an integral pre-game must, and with kids, there's an entirely different approach to coaching them through warmup drills. This video will help coaches keep their team in good condition by talking about the process of teaching your youth players to successfully complete dynamic warmups. The biggest part is to prevent injury. The muscles have to be warm upped, the blood needs to flow, and the heart rate need to be up as well. See all of the necessary exercises ...
Wish you could flip in order to spice up that cheer you've been working on? Learn how to do both a front and back hand spring in this video tutorial.
Mastering your pike will add flare to any cheer. Learn how to do cheerleading pike jumps in this video tutorial.
Changing your leg position can create a beautiful variation to an already existing cheer. Learn some cheerleading leg variations in this video tutorial.
Knowing how to properly set up your mounts for cheerleading will help you execute your stunts safer and better. Learn how to do some stunt mounts in this video tutorial.
One of the most important things to do before practicing your cheerleading is to stretch properly. Learn some simple tips on stretching in this video tutorial.
Using stunts will ensure your cheers are visible to the crowd. Learn some shoulder height cheerleading stunts in this video tutorial.
Directing an actor in such a way that they can deliver the best performance possible is the most important work of the stage and screen director. If you're just getting started and need some tips, watch this video for some basic rules to follow on coaching actors.
Softball is essentially the opposite of baseball… but not really. Softball is always associated and stigmatized with weaker pitching, but softball pitchers can pitch just as fast as baseball players. This video will cover the beginning fundamentals to help youth players develop a mean fast pitch in softball. There's tons of tips, techniques and drills to show young girls the fastball pitch.
Need to lose weight fast to not only fit, but also look impressive and studly in your wedding tux? Then speed up fat loss while increasing muscle mass by doing this farmer's walk exercise.
Adding resistence in the form of weights to your workout is the best way to increase the difficulty of the exercise. This forces your muslces to work harder and makes you burn more fat (which is always a good thing).
Sometimes, the most talented people can be the hardest to deal with because of their tendency to dominate the situations that they are involved in. This video features an executive coach outlining strategies for managers to deal with overbearing, domineering employees in a way that utilizes their talents while keeping them from impinging on the productivity of the rest of your team.
Assigning rewards and punishments in a group-oriented workplace is a tricky business, as either one is very dangerous when misplaced. This video features an executive coach explaining how managers can deal with an employee who tries to take all of the credit for the work that their work does erroneously. It advises you to analyze why the employee feels like they have to take all the credit and also to create a system that does not reward such behavior.
This video features softball coach Crissy Rapp explaining some of the advanced techniques of softball hitting. Working with a tee, the presenter and her discuss different contact points, and how to practice using the proper contact point to hit the ball where you want it to go. Never hit a weak grounder to third again! Well, there is no training technique that can promise that, but you should be hitting those a lot less after practicing these techniques.
As anyone who's been around sports long enough knows, defense wins championships. This video features a middle school girls' volleyball coach explaining some techniques and drills for improving the defensive play of young female volleyball players. These include teaching your players to call for the ball and pass properly, and making players move around as much as possible during passing drills to get them used to covering as much ground as they can.
Are you on the road to becoming a cheerleader? Gymnastics are a huge plus when it comes to making a cheer squad. In this video, learn how to do a back handspring with Viktorija Grauding, coach of SCZ Cheerleaders and Brighton and Sussex Waves.
You can't start boxing until you master the proper stance. Your stance is the most important part of the fight - it offers balance and a platform to work with. In this tutorial, boxing coach Russ Anber teaches you how to acheive your perfect stance, step by step. Once you have your stance down, you will be ready to attempt more complicated boxing moves.
The breaststroke is a great swimming stroke for beginners. There are four simple moves to learn in the breaststroke. Get expert tips and advice by following along with the coaching in this swimming video.
Cary Kolat demonstrates wrestling technique - collegiate offense - single leg series - shoulder roll attack below hips. Check out this coaching video from Kolat.com archive of wrestling drills and moves.
This series of ping pong / table tennis videos demonstrate how to master the table tennis serve. Jim Clegg, a Level 4 Coach with the English Table Tennis Association and Head Coach of the Preston Table Tennis Association, explains and demonstrates how to do a table tennis serve correctly. Serving today is an extremely complicated topic. These are 9 in depth thought processes for a table tennis serve.
This series of ping pong / table tennis videos demonstrate how to master the backhand drive. Jim Clegg, a Level 4 Coach with the English Table Tennis Association and Head Coach of the Preston Table Tennis Association, explains and demonstrates how you play a backhand drive correctly.
Catch a good pass defense off-guard with the classic flea-flicker. Tip: Once the defense sees the running back with the ball, they'll think it's a running play and lose track of the receivers. Did you know? University of Illinois coach Bob Zuppke is credited for inventing the flea flicker in the 1910's.
Listen to Coach King in this how-to video and you could improve your skills and become a top footy star! This week, learn how to become a better keeper! Being a goalie is tough, but the right tips can help you catch more shots. Watch this video soccer tutorial and learn how to save goals.
Become a better footballer with Coach King's Skill School from the UK's best-selling football magazine, MATCH in this how-to video. Got a penalty shot? Don't choke, follow these tips. Watch this video soccer tutorial and learn how to score a goal on a penalty kick.
Become a better footballer with Coach King's Skill School from the UK's best-selling football magazine, MATCH. This how-to video shows how to save one-on-one goal attempts. Being a goalie takes a lot of skill, but learn some techniques to prevent the opponents from scoring. Watch this video soccer tutorial and learn how to save one-on-one shots.
Become a better footballer with Coach King's Skill School from the UK's best-selling soccer magazine, MATCH. This how-to video shows how to save penalties. There's a lot of skill involved in being a good goalie, but this video breaks the basics down into simple steps. Watch this video soccer tutorial and learn how to catch penalty kicks to keep them from getting into the goal.
Become a better footballer with Coach King's Skill School from the UK's best-selling football magazine! This how-to video offers tips for getting more power out of a kick. There are lots of ways a player can get a stronger kick, depending on what part of the foot is used to kick the soccer ball, executing a good stance, keeping balance, leg position, and follow through. Watch this video soccer tutorial and learn how to kick the ball harder.
Let Coach King show you how to sort out your long passing with the wicked footy tips in this how-to video! Long passes allow teammates to switch the location of the soccer ball to play in a drastically different area of the field. Watch this video soccer tutorial and learn how to play a long pass.
In this tutorial, Coach Burgener gives a few pointers on the Power Clean. The Power Clean is a olympic lift exercise that starts in a position similar as for the Deadlift. Pull the barbell onto your shoulders. Catch the bar in the front squat starting position. Watch this how to video and you will be able to do the power clean exercise.
Once a pitcher has completed a warm up she is ready to do full rotations. In this sports how-to video, Farmington (MN) HS assistant softball coach Melissa Langer demonstrates a warmup drill for the full pitching rotation. Improve your softball pitching skills with this full pitching rotation drill.
The fresh feeling of excitement in a relationship may fade over time. Learn ways to keep things fresh in your relationship from a licensed clinical social worker in this video tutorial. Take action: make intimacy and romance are priority, allow spontaneity, and don't stop learning about your partner. Carolyn McIntyre, the instructor in this how-to video from Live Strong, is a licensed clinical social worker, a certified employee assistance professional, and has training in Life Coaching.
Dave demonstrates how to perfect your running technique with three easy drills. Running coaches use a wide variety of biomechanical drills and skills to enable the athlete to run more efficiently. Practice the following three drills to improve your running technique: run like a waiter/waitress, pelvic tilt, and baby steps.
Check out this instructional swimming video that demonstrates how to improve your swimming abilities by practicing the top three swim drills. Learn how to use "slow arm recovery," "quick catch" and "high swingers" to improve your swim stroke. Swim coaches use a wide variety of techniques to enable a swimmer to swim efficiently. Incorporate these into your work out to make your stroke effective with this swimming tutorial video.
Afternoon tea is becoming a popular alternative to the business breakfast or lunch. In this how to video, etiquette coach Syndi Seid offers some simple guidelines for proper tea table manners. Watch this how to video and you will know how to behave at an afternoon tea or high tea.
A good soccer player must first learn the fundamentals of the game. The throw-in is a key skill every player must learn, and this demo will show you how to teach your kid to properly do a throw-in.
Want to help sharpen your child's fielding skills when playing baseball? In this video, a coach shows you how to properly catch a fly ball.
Join Matt Null (NCA/Millersville/Cheer Excel), Jhana, Dena, and Lauren (Fire and Ice Allstars), and Greg (Step 1 Allstars) as you learn how to load, set and execute a prep (or elevator) and dismount in a hug wrap. Great tips for the beginning cheer leading coach or cheerleader!