Guru Coaching
By Brent Adams
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The simple, straight forward steps set out in this book can help anyone become the coach athletes should have. Learn why practice doesn't nessacarily make perfect. See what made the winningest coach in Oregon football history such a great man and it wasn't his winning record.
Take time to learn from some amazing coaches.
Brent Adams
Brent L. Adams is Dusenberry Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University. From 1976-80 he was Senior Research Engineer for Babcock and Wilcox Company. He has been a professor of materials science at the University of Florida and Carnegie Mellon University, and a professor of mechanical engineering at Yale University and Brigham Young University. He was recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award (1985-1990). Professor Adams directed the team of researchers that developed the orientation imaging microscope, which is now used by over 400 laboratories some 30 countries of the world to advance the development of materials. He is the author of 170 papers and five edited proceedings.
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Guru Coaching - Brent Adams
Guru Coaching of Youth Sports
Published by Brent Adams at Smashwords
Copyright 2011
Smashwords Edition, License Notes
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According to Wikipedia, a Guru is one who is regarded as having great knowledge, wisdom, and authority in a certain area, and who uses it to guide others. A coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction, and training of the operations of a sports team or of an individual.
Guru Coaching is instructing in a knowledgeable, purposeful, and wise manner.
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Introduction
Even though teams I have coached have won some championships, this book is not about how to win games. It is about leading kids in a positive and effective way that will help them throughout life. You’ll get some victories as a result, but the most important victories won’t come on the field, they’ll come from what those kids do in their lives.
If you want a book about strategy, well, that’s not exactly what this book is about. What this book talks about is helping young athletes to be the best people they can be. It is about trying to make the world a little better place. Helping young people to become the person they want to be. To help them learn a little discipline and how to pay the price to achieve the reward they want. It’s about teaching them to love the sport they play. And just as important as all the rest, it’s about having fun.
It is about becoming the best coach you can become. About focusing on what is really important. It’s about earning the title of Coach. And, it’s about showing how much you love the sport you are coaching.
If you are a coach that draws their self worth by the wins of the youth teams you coach, you really need this book. You have had your chance to participate, let the kids have theirs. Coaches that are trying to relive their lives through the youth sports they are involved with often have deeper problems than just that. If that’s the case with you, you may also need some counseling to get over it.
I have had the pleasure of coaching some of the finest young people you could every want to meet. Not all were gifted athletes. Some just wanted to play but had no idea what they were doing. Others were very gifted. All have been very special to me over the years. I hope I have taught them half as much as they have taught me.
The first time I coached kids was when my son Andrew’s soccer coach left and I mindlessly volunteered. My whole experience with soccer was watching half a season and playing one game in college. Yes, it’s true that I thought soccer was stupid because you couldn’t use your hands. Turned out Andrew’s team wasn’t too bad. We focused on sending a lot of people into the attack so the other teams had to play a lot of defense. That first team was proof that it is more about the ability of the kids than the ability of the coach.
I went on to learn more about soccer and ended up being an assistant coach at the high school level. Eventually I focused on coaching goal keepers. A great example of picking a coaching niche that not many people get into, that way you are in high demand. It also helps if you start out coaching an athlete that earns All-League honors. In fact, all of the goal keepers I got to work with earned All-League honors. I left before I could mess up that streak. A great group of athletes can really make a coach look like they know what they are doing.
I started coaching baseball because the assistant coaching my oldest son was such an idiot. He would hit balls at kids when they weren’t looking. Which is a great way to hurt a kid and make them afraid of the ball. My baseball experience was from playing in a few pickup games when I was young and getting cut from my high school team. I didn’t actually coach his team as he ended up with an excellent coach in Eric Hoff, whom I will tell you about later. But I coached my next oldest son for most of his baseball career.
Baseball tends to be a slow game, so coaching seemed the best way to enjoy it. After I learned about the basics, it was a fun game to coach. Not knowing much about coaching it gave me the opportunity to learn the basics and teach from there.
Basketball was a game I knew. Turns out I am really a mediocre basketball coach. I can teach how to shoot, pass, rebound, run plays, and play defense. But when it comes to executing as a team, well, let’s just say I didn’t