(Part 3) Best sports coaching books according to redditors

2008 Wimbledon final. Nadal vs. Federer. For me, best match all time. Even though my favorite player lost, it was the best tennis he's ever played, same with Nadal.

The book: Strokes of Genius: Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played

The match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWMnLedLhCM

This is the biography written about Klinsmann's USMNT time by the same author.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014CS5LGI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

I'd like to see someone bring this to a game and have Hynes sign it.

Coaching Hockey For Dummies https://www.amazon.com/dp/0470836857/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_i_WQNODb4KR51SC

I'd be wary of trying to explicitly define one's style as stand-up (or conversely, butterfly) -- let your style develop organically as you learn, and focus on your skating ability above all else.

Save selection is really best approached from a "best tool in the toolbox" approach - some will be standing, some will be down. Don't throw out any save selection because it doesn't fit the "style" you want to play. As you learn execution of different saves, the way you read the play will determine whether you should stand or drop, and how you should do either one -- that sense comes with time and experience.

In terms of a single source of fundamentals, Steve McKichan / Future Pro's Essential Goaltending PDF is a good read, available from www.futurepro.com.

I'll also recommend Brian Daccord's Hockey Goaltending as another fundamentals-oriented text: http://www.amazon.com/Hockey-Goaltending-Brian-Daccord/dp/0736074279

I train every day unless I travel, and frankly I have less fatigue/soreness and can do more volume this way. If you want science, check these books: Squat Every Day by Matt Perryman and Science of Sports Training by Thomas Kurz

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Basically, overtraining is largely a myth. Yes, you need adequate recovery, but adequate might be less than 24 hours, depending on the load and the type of workouts.

Eric and Paul breakdown his annual edition of Thinking Texas Football....

Link to Amazon

If you want a really in-depth explanation, there's a great chapter on Don Coryell's offense in Jaws' book.

Links:
The Essential Smart Football and The Art of Smart Football. The price for me is $2.99 each

• Fear and loathing in La Liga
  
  
• The gaffer
  
• Danish Dynamite
  
• The mixer
  
• The Damned United
  
  I didn't struggle to find them online, they're right there on Amazon.

TL;DR: Hit a lot of balls to get your conscious mind out of the way and you'll learn faster.

The longer version:

Okay, the following is some of deep thinking on not only golf, but also on how we acquire motor skills.

But the core insight of my hypothesis is as follows:

1. You didn't learn to walk by pausing between steps. You simply started walking and you fell down.
   
   
2. Take most low handicap golfers and force them to hit their non-dominate side (ie, ask a right handed golfer to hit left handed). All that knowledge of "hitting from the inside" and "keep your head still" and "release through impact" will get lost as they shank it down the practice range. Although they consciously know all the right things, they don't have success because their cerebellum has not learned it.
   
   I understand that it is unconventional, but there is thesis based on knowing how we learn. I think I went down this approach by virtue of reading some of Shoemaker's stuff in Extraordinary Golf. If you have never seen or heard about his club throwing experiment, it is shocking. Shoemaker basically points out that by asking his student to throw a golf club, their swings magically look beautiful. It is mind blowing to see pictures or video of the experiment. He proves that we all have a good swing, but we need to find it.
   
   Therefore, my thesis is that the quickest route to success at golf, you need to uncouple your conscious mind from subconscious. Only when you can swing with abandon and freedom, do you start to swing well. Spending a lot of time over every shot is counter productive, and stops your learning. The last thing you want to do for 80% of your practice is think. (However, I do believe in having 20% in thought, and I've taken hundreds of hours of video on myself. But stick with the fast practice for the rest of my post....)
   
   So the goal of my practice range session is to squeeze hard enough not to get a lot of time between shots. (Also, 4 balls per minute is when I' going fast trying to get in practice before work. On the weekends, it is somewhere between 3 to 4 balls per minute.)
   
   So what is my rationale?
   
   Motor control is held by your cerebellum. This is often called the little brain or the reptile brain. All mammals have this part of the brain. What animals don't have is a neo-cortex, which is conscious thought processes and abstract thinking. What this means is that the act of swing and hitting a ball is not something that your conscious brain can really grasp, as strange as that may seem. The connection between these layers of the brain are poor, to say the least. (In many ways this is very good, because you wouldn't want to suddenly fall down and stop walking, just because you were thinking about "the existential being of man" after you had read a heavy book by Sarte.)
   
   You can give some major direction to the cerebellum, but you really just need to allow the cerebellum to learn by itself, or set up instinctual learning situations. So, the number one thing is to simply show up at the golf range and keep on swinging, with some key training aids that will help you.
   
   For example, if you slice, I believe that telling somebody to "come from the inside" is of minor help. However, using an inside approach, or a club shaft in the ground, or a plane stick, or a water bottle is of massive help. If you have something that will blow apart when you come over the top, your cerebellum understands this. No neocortex is required.
   
   If you don't know how to hit down or get forward shaft lean, simply get a tour striker. When people say the tour striker forces them to hit down, it is simply because it forces the cerebellum.
   
   Get Whippy clubs to force rhythm and lag. You won't be able to cast a club with a wet noodle for a shaft.
   
   Finally, I think the Tac-Tics are some of the best training aids because your cerebellum knows how to respond to a click. This forces learning.
   
   I've done the "pause and think" routine, and I know that value. If you've only done pause and think, why not try "mindless swing" method for a month? (You need to be in shape to do this method, so just trying a couple times is not good.) It also will cause recruitment of fast twitch B fibers in your muscles, but I have already written a book type post that is never going to be read by anybody, so I won't get into my theories on swing speed and muscle recruitment.
   
   It also gets you into pretty buffed shape as you pound 200-300 balls. But that is just vanity.

Hi,
I just finished the season with my U8 Team here in Germany.
You allready have some good advice here.

One Point i want to add:
-Don't be what we call a "Joystick-Coach". Let the kids make their own decisions on the field. Game intelligence and decision making is one of the most important aspects in soccer. A coach who tries to control every move from the sideline will actively hinder their development.
We play 4+1 vs 4+1 and the only things we say is: everybody is attacking and everybody is defending. goalkeeper isn't allowed to play hing, long balls.

I highly recommend you this book:
Horst Wein - Developing Youth Football Players
This will help you a lot

Hey, thanks for dropping by. Personally I've always been neutral toward ATL, but I like the Falcons a bit because one of the original Pats architects went over there. Have you read the book The War Room? It talks about how the brain trust split into 3 groups that also built up KC and ATL.

The book "Swim smooth" is quite good read imo https://www.amazon.co.uk/Swim-Smooth-Complete-Coaching-Triathletes/dp/1119963192

Site by the same name (never checked if its related or not) http://www.swimsmooth.com/

Technique technique technique. Read these books from cover to cover and work on your form every day:

http://www.amazon.com/Swim-Smooth-Complete-Coaching-Triathletes/dp/1119963192/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425594866&sr=8-1&keywords=swim+smooth

http://www.amazon.com/Swim-Speed-Secrets-Swimmers-Triathletes/dp/1934030880/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425594876&sr=8-1&keywords=swim+speed+secrets

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https://www.amazon.com/Installing-Explosive-Concepts-Into-Offense-ebook/dp/B01B12YSCG/ref=nodl_ is a good way to look at rpo’s. More of a introduction but it has some neat ways to incorporate it into more traditional systems.

Anything on R4 you can find online is great.

If you get more specific I can probably find something in my resources that will fit.

The Vince Lombardi Playbook: https://www.amazon.com/Official-Vince-Lombardi-Playbook-Recollections-ebook/dp/B01FA0AWM0/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485721280&sr=1-1&keywords=vince+lombardi+playbook

Lots of hand-drawn plays - including the famous Lombardi Sweep - and notes, along with pictures and stories. I'm a huge fan of this one.

I recently got a couple of these for doing that - https://www.amazon.com/Shot-Pad-notes-Pocket-Billiards/dp/0615257097

Easy enough to make your own and print it though. Especially since they put a fairly high-res image of the page on amazon.

I was going to add Jaws over McNabb, but I honestly think that's probably a good debate to have. Both QBs led their team to a lost Super Bowl, but McNabb had much more consistent success. Jaws looks a lot worse on the stat sheet, but he came out of a different era, so that's obviously not fair to compare one-on-one. Regardless of who was the better QB, Jaws is definitely the best analyst (IMO) in broadcasting. His book should be mandatory reading for anyone who wants to call themselves a football fan.

Extraordinary Golf by Fred Shoemaker

Would it be seen as offensive to send Blashill multiple copies of the "hockey coaching for dummies" book? I assume one exists.

edit: Found it!

Just to chime in real quick for some non-documentary media.

For the Federer v Nadal match there is a wonderful book called Strokes of Genius about it

And for Niki Lauda, there is a new scripted movie from Ron Howard coming out called Rush that will cover the crash and the rest.

Nice layout

Theres a pretty cool notepad similar to this, http://www.amazon.com/Shot-Pad-notes-Pocket-Billiards/dp/0615257097/ref=sr_1_2

http://www.shotpad.com/

The Official Coaching Book of KNVB is excellent
http://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Soccer-Official-Dutch-Association/dp/1890946044/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395697636&sr=8-1&keywords=KNVB+book

As is both of these books from Horst Wein:
Developing Youth Footballers
http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Youth-Football-Players-Horst/dp/0736069488/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395697714&sr=8-1&keywords=developing+youth+football+players

Developing Game Intelligence in Soccer
http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Game-Intelligence-Soccer-Horst/dp/1591640717/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395697768&sr=8-1&keywords=developing+game+intelligence+in+soccer

All three offer a great set of coaching guidelines, a solid philosophy and plenty of drills and simplified games for all age levels. The "Developing Youth Footballers" is used by the Spanish football federation.

Might also find The Philosophies of Louis van Gaal and the Ajax Coaches worth a read, as someone else mentioned, Teambuilding by Michels is like reading the Bible.

Also check out zonalmarking.net he has a list of many, many great books on there, most of which I've read.

Guillem Balaque has a few good books that aren't coaching guideline type books but I found both to be worth reading, "A Season on the Brink" about Rafa's Champions League season with Liverpool and his more recent "Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning" is very inspiring, I could not put it down, really, fantastic book makes you want to quit your real job and coach 24/7.

Congrats! Had a very similar experience in the playoffs this summer, just a surreal feeling. I started late too (played ball hockey in net since I was a kid but only could afford the ice equip in senior year of University) and it definitely gets better. If you're looking for info on improving your game after starting a little later, I picked up this and it was pretty helpful:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0736074279

Keep it up!

2 books come to mind, coaching climbing and climbing games

Coaching climbing is just what it sounds like, a book about coaching. It's got a lot of information you may or may not need, but it's a great resource for drills and activities, some of which take the form of games. Bonus points for pictures of Tommy Caldwell and Chris Sharma in their early teens.

Climbing games is a tiny little book with 50 or so "games" in it. Some of them are great, some of them are useless, and some of them don't even make sense, but it only costs $11 and it's easy to flip through right before a class if you need quick ideas.

See if you can convince your climbing gym to buy both of those books. It's a pretty paltry investment for a gym, and they're worth it to help new instructors come up with fun and useful classes.

If you really want to take this seriously, you should get Coaching Climbing. Or enroll your kid in youth climbing at your local gym once they are 6 (different gyms have different min-ages).

Nope, sorry. hes given so much into US soccer. He even wrote a book

Here is the mobile version of your link

I have no idea about the exact book but you can try on Amazon. Here are the links:
https://www.amazon.com/Successful-Suspension-Training-Building-Sustainable/dp/1942812019
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Ring-Workout-Train-Gymnast-ebook/dp/B01FOPE4B6