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Impact! Coaching Successful Youth Football: Volume One: The Program | 
 enlarge | Author: Derek A. "coach" Wade
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 244708
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 420
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Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.2 x 1
ISBN: 142089210X
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781420892109
ASIN: 142089210X
Publication Date: February 23, 2006
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Most youth coaches are former players and fans. There's a huge difference, as you're about to discover, between playing football, watching football, and coaching football. As a coach, there are things you need to know, and things you need to do, long before you ever step on the field. By reading this book, you'll learn. .The history of football from the Roman harpastum to the modern day H-back. .The best three and worst three written materials available for coaching this sport. .The best four video picks for general football coaching. .How to organize your time and break down film efficiently, starting with getting game film you can use. .How to deal with parents and keep them out of your hair and off your practice field while still keeping their support and respect. .How to select and prepare a staff to help you. Who to pick, why to avoid certain people, and how to organize them into an effective coaching team. .How to prepare for practice - putting together skill sets and getting your assistant coaches to teach them. .How to divide your program into manageable chunks that follow a logical teaching progression for your players. .What equipment to seek out to help you stay efficient on the practice field. .How to select drills that efficiently reinforce the skills you need, and avoid the biggest time wasters in football. Also includes a comprehensive practice plan for your first twenty days of practice. Build your team from the bottom up; from the coaches' introduction to the day you win your first game of the season. Additionally contains six appendices with information on everything from drills to use at practice, to injury recognition and treatment. With a foreword by Steve "Dipper" Popovich, creator of the Delphi Double Wing Coaches' Forum! Praise for Volume One of Impact!. Derek Wade is one of the rare men that can effectively communicate to the neophyte or experienced coach the "how-to"s of successful youth coaching. He is a coa
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 Solid, w/a few drawbacks August 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Coach Wade's book is a very good starting point for organizing a program. It has a wonderful collection of materials from which he has drawn his knowledge, and he willingly shares these. The book also is a wonderful tool for organizing practices and for thinking about your coaching philosophies.
The main drawback is the cockiness. Many times Wade uses humor to mask the arrogance, but it still slips through unmasked in many cases. For many dyed in the wool coaches, his style will be little noticed. But, for the sideline-dad-thrust into the action, the style may overshadow the substance if not forewarned.
Of course, the book rightly has no offensive or defensive strategies. Instead, it is devoted wholly to how to organize a youth football program. Overall, it is a wonderful asset, and if not for the style, a perfect 5. As is, it stands as a solid 4.
 Not very helpful August 26, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are looking for a book to help with football fundementals - such as offensive and defensive lines; running your drills, etc., keep searching. This book spends too much time (first 200 pages) on extraneous information.
 Great Book for a Youth Football Head Coach February 21, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I don't know Derek Wade personally, but several years ago I first "met" him through an Amazon book review. I was so impressed with his review that I did a search on his name and found out that he had a web site. At the time I was not coaching, but I was closely following my older son's progress in Youth football. I was trying to fill in the holes in my son's skill set, that his coaches were not able to cover because of their restrictions of practice time and ability to spend one on one time with the players. I soon realized I had good tactical knowledge of the skills required for individual football positions, but hardly any strategic knowledge of a football team from a coaches view. Derek's website http://www.fbforyouth.com/ contained tons of the knowledge he had gathered and shifted through on his similar quest for a strategic knowledge. His writing style was written in "Conversational" manner, where the emphasis is on communicating ideas in an understandable manner, as if having a conversation with an acquaintance, as opposed to trying to sound like an expert.
Chapter 1 History: This really filled in a lot of the holes in my knowledge. In other writings (or in my son's Madden Football) I would read references to offensive systems or defenses systems and I could only guess about them (ie. West Coast offense, 4-3 defense, etc.). Coach Wade explains these system with just enough detail and history to understand them from a 10,000 foot view. I couldn't put the book down while reading this. Then Coach Wade goes into a 5,000 foot view on the rules of football. This is an easy read as the entire section is labeled with bold headings so a person can skip what they don't want to read, and not worry about missing something they want to read.
Chapters 2 & 3 Video & book Reviews: There are a lot of coaching videos on the market. They are expensive. Most of them seem to be "Garage Projects". I agonize when I am trying to find the right video to fit my present need because it will cost a person tens of dollars to find out what you bought is not what you wanted. There needs to be more video & book reviews from trusted sources, so I was thankful for Coach Wade's insight. Coach Wade also has a few more book reviews on his web site.
Chapter 4 Film Study: Coach Wade makes it clear this is time intensive, but has big payback. I have been doing this for several years and I very much agree. As a dad, I would film a close up of the line where my son was, then slow it down to about 0.4 speed. That is VERY entertaining to watch as it emphasizes the hand to hand combat of the front line and has been VERY helpful to my son. Lots of good lessons learned in this section. Coaches should measure their resources and allocate them to film study accordingly.
Chapter 5 Dealing with Parents: Good philosophy and "lessons learned" in this chapter.
Chapter 6 Selecting Staff: Good philosophy and "lessons learned" in this chapter.
Chapter 7 Practice Preparation: Good philosophy and "lessons learned" in this chapter.
Chapter 8 Practice Plan: This chapter is the biggest in the book. Coach Wade takes a person through weeks of individual practices. I had to keep in mind that Coach Wade talks from his present coaching assignment at the Jr. high level, but I felt there was lots of good philosophy and lessons learned to help me at the K-4th level. I just finished coaching K-2 graders, all first time players, and my team would not have been able to progress as fast as the outline, but my older son's 5-6th grade team would have been able too. I will be coaching 3-4 graders and I plan on incorporating a lot of Coach Wade's practice philosophy here. I am presently rewriting my future practice plan accordingly.
Appendix 1 Misc Drills: Having this many drills laid out by subject area, with diagrams, and field tested is really really nice.
Appendix 2 Practice Plan: This is what I am referencing while I rewrite my future practice plan.
Appendix 3 Helpful Charts: If you are a visual person like I am, having things laid out in forms and organized into relationships is very helpful, but it takes time and a good form evolves from its initial concept to its working state. This section allows a person to skip the evolution stage and get right to the working stage.
Appendix 4 Letter to Parents: Interesting.
Appendix 5 The Black Lion Award: Interesting.
Appendix 6 Concussions: Very helpful. I plan on taking this seriously.
Appendix 7 Football Terms: Very helpful and interesting to read.
Index: Even this shows that some time was put into it.
Right to the point November 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been coaching youth football for several years. Many coaches have styles and techniques - some good, many bad.
This book gets right to the point and offers an all around complete coaching program.
Great book for the New Head Coach! July 16, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Impact is a great book for the new or old Head Coach and assistants. The book gives a head coach everything they need to start off the season on the right foot with parents, assistant coaches and kids. The detailed practice plans were exactly what I had been looking for. The offensive examples describe in the book are the double wing, with which Coach Wade has had a lot of success. This book is not an offensive or defensive play book and it was not the intent of the author to be one. You will have to get this in his other future books or from other sources. Coach Wade does point to a lot of great resources where these can be found and to ones that should be avoided. If you're new to coaching youth football and searching for the right plan or if you have a team but you need a better system, this is the book for you!!
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