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These skills, called technical skills, are the fundamentals that provide each player with the tools to execute the physical requirements of the game. These skills, called tactical skills, are the bridge between practice performance and game performance. Although all these skills are important, effective teaching of the technical and tactical skills of the game still provides the foundation for successful volleyball coaching.
HK founder and president Rainer Martens joined 15 other players, two coaches, and an umpire in the 2009 class entering the National Senior Softball Hall of Fame. The induction came the day after Rainer’s senior softball team, the Florida Legends, won the Softball Players Association National Championship in Dalton, Georgia. The National Senior Softball Hall of Fame was founded in 1995 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is now Headquartered in Mustang, Oklahoma.
We’ve come a long way from the days when our first orders were fulfilled on the ping pong table in our founder Rainer Martens’ basement. Thirty-five years later, with offices in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and a staff of over 320, HK is the world’s leading publisher of sports, coaching, and physical activity information. You’ll also find Swimming Anatomy, the latest release in our Anatomy Series, which includes the best-selling Strength Training Anatomy, ...
Like you, ASEP devotes considerable thought and effort to improve coaching and circumstances in which coaches coach. Sport psychologist Rainer Martens, sport physiologist Brian Sharkey, sport pedagogy specialist and coach Bob Christina, and sports medicine specialist John Harvey joined ranks in an attempt to provide youth sport coaches a very readable and useful book to fulfill their role more effectively. We’ve compiled and taken into consideration extensive input and feedback from ...
The Human Kinetics staff and I feel you’ve landed at a special place. Since 1974 when HK was founded by Rainer Martens, HK has been committed to providing quality information for the physical activity and health fields including sports, fitness, physical education, sport sciences, recreation, and dance. Our online courses remain on the cutting edge of quality and attract international attention including a recent visit from Chinese Olympic Committee representatives to see how HK was ...
American Sport Education Program (ASEP) founder Rainer Martens wrote a book more than three decades ago titled Joy and Sadness in Children’s Sports. Coaches and parents who ignore this trend and use sport to teach important life lessons provide hope for reclaiming the inherent virtues of sport participation. ” An athletic wear company, youth sports alliance, and key sports leaders formed a coalition last summer to create a set of guidelines designed to ensure more joy, better teamwork, and ...
Accomplishing these team goals and each athlete’s personal goals is more important than winning. To help athletes set realistic goals, you must be able to assess each athlete’s skill level. When coaches help athletes set realistic goals, athletes inevitably experience more success and feel more competent.
This approach can be useful in teaching the technical skills of softball, but unless coaches shape, focus and enhance the scrimmages or drills, the athletes may not successfully translate the skills to game situations, leaving coaches to ponder why their team practices better than it plays. The games approach emphasizes the use of games and minigames to provide athletes with situations that are as close to a real game as possible (Alan G. Launder, Play Practice, Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics,...
When we think of coaching, we think of face-to-face interaction, but of course coaches communicate by phone, through written messages, and by appearances on such media as radio and television. After several instances of college athletes communicating negative information about their coaches and fellow teammates, sports programs are placing restrictions on student-athletes’ use of social media to comment about the team. Your athletes are frequent users of social media, and you need to be ...
The whole method of practice is obvious: The whole technique is practiced intact. When the task is low in complexity and high in interdependence, have your athletes practice the whole technique. Continue by progressing through each part of the technique until the athlete is finally practicing the entire technique.
