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 *Better Athlete Communication*

Three tips for improving communication with your athletes.
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 *High-Five Leader Assignment*

How to use a bench player to fire up teammates during good plays.
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 *Coaching Manuals Free from LA84*

A number of coaching manuals, lesson plans and web games from the LA84 foundation.
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 *Substitution System for Football*

A system for avoiding confusion and when making player substitutions on the football field.
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 *Workout Goals Before Practice*

Improve practice quality by having your athletes write down their workout goal before the beginning of every session.
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 *Parent Benefits From Kids' Sports*

Parents who sit at practices and games (and possibly volunteer) may be getting as much out of the experience as their athlete-children.
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 *Skills Test Score Sheet*

A reproducible score sheet that can be used for physical education skill testing or as a motivator to improve varsity athletes' desire to perform skill drills.
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 *How to Reach Performance Mode*

A step-by-step coaching strategy for helping athletes achieve the ideal mental state for optimal performance. Includes a reproducible handout. Hyperlink from pdf back to web-version of the article
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 *Maintaining Players' Attention*

Two ways to get students to focus on your instructions, even when in a distracting environment.
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 *Skill Focus Improves Retention*

A study has shown that coaches who focus on skill development rather than tactics increase the likelihood that athletes will stay involved in their sport. This may also have implications for physical education teachers.
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 *Congratulations-Improve Quality*

Make your praise more effective by providing specific rather than general feedback.
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 *Email Motivation Vs Phone Calls*

According to a recent study, e-mail messages are more effective than telephone calls for increasing long-term motivation.
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 *Pattern Recognition in Sports*

It would take the average athlete 10,000 hours to learn to recognize all the patterns and player-combinations that can occur in a hockey game.
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 *Racquetless Badminton & Throwing*

A badminton variation that provides the repetition needed to develop basic throwing skills.
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 *Self-Reporting System for Track*

A system in which runners record their own times during track practices or physical education classes.
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