Youth Football Skills & Drills: A New Coach's Guide

by Tom Bass

Book Overview

One of the NFL's leading coaches helps you improve your players' techniques and your team's performance

Building on the phenomenal success of the Baffled Parent's series, this comprehensive resource helps you expand your teaching skills and improve your players' performance and enjoyment. It's equally indispensable for parents thrust into coaching, former players taking on their first coaching assignments, and veteran coaches.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071441794
• ISBN13: 9780071441797
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Youth Football Skills and Drill

Youth Football Skills & Drills: A New Coach's Guide A great beginner's guide to youth football. It is good for coaching the first couple years of tackle football. To be honest, if you have time, internet research can get you good guidance too in coaching youth football. But if you don't have the time nor patience to research the internet, this book is a quick, nicely condensed way to get the info.

Good Book for new coaches and/or parents

I am not a football coach but rather a parent who bought this book to get some tips for teaching the fundamentals to my 8 year old who is just getting into football. However, I have coached baseball and soccer for many years and am familiar with coaching books and dvds. I think this book does a very solid job of laying out many key responsibilites and techniques of each position. The drills look applicable to real game situations which is important. Because it does cover all of the positions and special teams in one book, it is not extremely deep in each position, but that is expected. I would definately recommend this for new coaches or parents/players wanting to learn the keys to each position.

Great book for more drill ideas

Even though I've coached for a couple of years, this book had great ideas for new drills and twists on old drills.

First time Coaches bible

If you have never taught / coached youth football before this is a step by step guide to running an efficient and productive practice session. Packed with specific drills for all the positions. Teaching / Coaching youth football is nothing like having been a player! I played peewee all the way through college and coaching is a totally different animal!

A must for Youth Football coaches

Got the book last week, read it over the week-end. First practice last night with the 8-9 year old team. I had prepared drills for the D-Line as I am D-Line coach. The defensive coordinator couldn't make it and there were only 11 kids at practice on defense because of vacations. I improvised with individual and group drills, that I picked up in the book, for 60 minutes. Kept the practice quick paced like Coach Bass said. Amazing! The kids were all into it. No talking and fooling around like usual because they're bored waiting their turn. I recommend it to any Youth Coach who is starting out or event with some experience.