Coaching Swimming Successfully - 2nd Edition (Coaching Successfully Series)

Coaching Swimming Successfully - 2nd Edition (Coaching Successfully Series)

(9 customer reviews)

Make your swimming program the best with the help of the sport’s essential coaching reference. Coaching Swimming Successfully covers a full range of topics that determine who excels in the pool:
·Improve stroke technique and efficiency in all four strokes.
·Teach the new underwater dolphin kicking technique.
·Develop and apply an effective coaching philosophy.
·Motivate swimmers to achieve record-breaking times.
·Create practice plans for more productive day-to-day training sessions.
·Prepare for and run successful swim meets.
·Evaluate swimmers’ performance and make proper adjustments for future races.
Author Dick Hannula brings more than 50 years of coaching experience, knowledge, and achievement—including coaching 323 consecutive meets without a loss—to this special book. Coaching Swimming Successfully will show you ways to motivate your swimmers and build a confident and winning team.

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Product Details:

Author:	Dick Hannula
Paperback:	192 pages
Publisher:	Human Kinetics
Publication Date:	March 14, 2003
Language:	English
ISBN:	0736045198
Package Length:	10.87 inches
Package Width:	8.35 inches
Package Height:	0.55 inches
Package Weight:	1.23 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 9 reviews

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Average Customer Review: 4.0

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0 of 1 found the following review helpful:

Useless Jul 05, 2008
The book is somewhat outdated, refers to freestyle as the "crawl stoke". Nothing is this book will help a first time coach.

Excellent source of information Nov 26, 2007
This book is a great source of information and ideas for coaching swim.
Currently I coach on an age-group YMCA swim team and I am always looking for new ways to create effective practices. This book is written in an easy to search format and it gives examples that translate easily to 10 year olds! I recommend this book for age group swimming!

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Mixed reaction May 12, 2004
This book had some nice ideas in it, but as a first time coach for young swimmers, this book was not terribly helpful to me, since the whole book is geared towards coaching adult swimmers. It covers just about everything else to do with coaching, but not in terrific detail. All in all, it's ok, it has good ideas in, and is probably good for a first book for an adult coach, but you will need more.

1 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Helpful Jan 29, 2004
I found this book to be very helpful to a first time coach for first-time-on-a-swim-team swimmers.

6 of 7 found the following review helpful:

Not for coaches Apr 05, 2002
This is NOT a useful book for coaches, although it can be helpful for people without a coaching education or a good swimming background. Unfortunately, this book lacks every form of depth and I don't understand why all the reviews until now were extremely positive. Dick Hannula was a great coach, but this isn't a great book. I guess the readers were lead by pride instead of objectivity.
Coaching Swimming Successfully has an attractive title, but is somewhat misleading. While reading, you do get some new thoughts about coaching, but it will not make you a coach successfully.
The book is written with a first-person narrator and would be more interesting if it wasn't, since you will get annoyed after a while by every self-glorification of the writer and his successes. Besides, it's mainly focused on the American swimming school (planning and preparation, club swimming vs. high school swimming, yard pools, etc.) and it lacks some ability for extrapolation for other swimming countries.

The `Coaching Stroke Technique' part is redundant if you are a qualified coach and you still have your textbook from the course.

The book is easy to read, gives some new thoughts and can therefore help you coach more successfully, but it is too superficial and limited for a swimming coach.

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