What is the best book on how to coach lacrosse?
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What level are you planning to coach?  There are tons of books on the subject, but the needs of athletes at different levels vary substantially.  Check Borders, Amazon, etc. and you should be able to find some that meet your needs.  Also, US Lacrosse (www.uslacrosse.org) may support coaching clinics in your area.  Go on their website and find contact info for your local chapter.  They may be able to help.  Good luck!
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Ryan's explanation is a good one, so I won't repeat what he said.  I'm just including a link that has a diagram of what each player does in the weave:\n\nhttp://www.coachesclipboard.net/3ManPassingDrills.html\n\nIt's one of those drills that can seem dull at times, but it's great for teaching ball movement.
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The Accidental Leader: What to Do When You're Suddenly in Charge by Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley\n\nYou can buy it used, through Amazon, for less than a cup of coffee.  It is a great read!  They also have a team management book, Why Teams Don't Work,  that is great!
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sportsworkout.com\n\nhttp://sportsworkout.com/The-Ultimate-Guide-to-Weight-Training-for-Volleyball-p-128.html\n\nThe Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Volleyball is the most comprehensive and up to date volleyball-specific training guide in the world. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round volleyball-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.\n\nNo other volleyball book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book takes you from the off-season to the in-season, and is loaded with dozens of tips and pointers to help you maximize your training and improve your performance. Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you too can Maximize Your Athletic Potential!\n\nAbout the Author\n\nRob Price has helped tens of thousands of athletes all over the world achieve their strength & conditioning goals. He is a first class certified personal trainer and a former fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is also a former national weight lifting champion and current state bench press record holder. Rob is also a contributing author to OnFitness magazine and is the founder and head trainer of SportsWorkout.com’s sport-specific online e-training program.
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i agree the internet and books.....coaches.....there are plenty of ways to find info........go out there and look for them instead of being on the computer
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I read a great book in the 80s "How to watch football", and I was already a fan, it was great! I just checked and there is a book avaliable by that name, it is listed as published in 1984 revised in 1988. \n\nIt was brilliantly written in steps so that first it explained simply about the Offensive Line, then had you watch the working of the Offensive Line for a quarter. Then it explained about the Defensive Line and had you do the same for that. Then a quarter of watching the Offence at work, QB, WR, RB etc. and so on. By the end of just one game watching the different parts separately you really learned a HUGE amount about the game! (I got a girlfriend and later my wife to watch the games with me using this book!) \n\n(Its so much more enjoyable than listening to "You're NOT going to just sit there all day watching that crap again THIS Sunday are you?)\n\nThere is also a "Football for Dummies" avaliable and a "Football for Wives." They might be helpful as well. Good Luck!
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Warrior make good performance lacrosse sticks, but they break rather easily (well the heads snap easily to be precise). I use them and love them, but they do require alot of replacement.\n\nBrine and STX are the two most respected lacrosse manufactures, and have a wide range from cheap beginner sticks to elite and expensive sticks. And they make heads that last many seasons.\n\nAs to where to buy them, well that depends on where you live and how many you need. If you need to buy alot in bulk then you could go to one of their websites and contact them. Otherwise call around to the sports retailers in your area.
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outdoor lacrosse is 10 v 10 with 3 attackmen, 3 middies, 3 defensemen and 1 goalie.  The games are 4 quarters and basically it's similar to basketball in that you're trying to get the ball in the other person's goal and you basically set picks and roll off them as well as go 1 on 1 with your defenseman in hopes to score or draw a defenseman and pass it off to the open man for a shot on goal.\n\nThe ball is thrown through the air using your lacrosse stick, and when the ball is on the ground (outside of the goalie's crease) it's fair game for whoever wants it.  You basically pick up ground balls using two hands and as long as you're not hitting someone from behind and you're both near the ball you can hit the opposing team's player away from the ball (checking).  \n\nBasic rules are no hitting below the belt and as long as you're going for the ball you can basically use your stick to check them (poke or slap check) and try to take the ball away.  If you hit him the helmet that's a penalty and the team has to play a man down.  \n\nIf you throw the ball out of bounds on the sidelines it goes to the other team.  If you shoot the ball and it goes out it's the man closest to the ball when it went out that gets possession.. so basically it's worthwhile to chase shots that the goalie or the net didn't stop because you can get the ball back for your team.  \n\nThere has to be 3 men back on the defensive side if your team is on offense, and vice-versa on defense.  You can have any combination of players on any side of the field as long as you always have 3 players back not including the goalie.  (i.e. 2 defenseman and a midfielder can stay back on defense, and a defenseman with a long pole can go up and transition with the ball on offense as long as a midfielder or attackman stay back on the defensive half of the field).  \n\nTips:  Buy a good stick and start throwing the ball around.  Unlike basketball you don't have to be a specific build to be successful.  I suggest throwing the ball against the wall and joining either a lacrosse camp to learn the basics or start playing in an indoor or outdoor league and just get started.  Once you start playing I'm sure you'll find that it was meant to be that you're not on the basketball team.  Besides, you can legally get away with taking out your frustration in lacrosse ;)\n\nGood luck to ya!
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Lacrosse was one of many varieties of indigenous stickball games being played by American Indians at the time of European contact. Almost exclusively a male team sport, it is distinguished from the others, such as field hockey or shinny, by the use of a netted racquet with which to pick the ball off the ground, throw, catch and convey it into or past a goal to score a point. The cardinal rule in all varieties of lacrosse was that the ball, with few exceptions, must not be touched with the hands.\n\nEarly data on lacrosse, from missionaries such as French Jesuits in Huron country in the 1630s and English explorers, such as Jonathan Carver in the mid-eighteenth century Great Lakes area, are scant and often conflicting. They inform us mostly about team size, equipment used, the duration of games and length of playing fields but tell us almost nothing about stickhandling, game strategy, or the rules of play. The oldest surviving sticks date only from the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and the first detailed reports on Indian lacrosse are even later. George Beers provided good information on Mohawk playing techniques in his Lacrosse (1869), while James Mooney in the American Anthropologist (1890) described in detail the "[Eastern] Cherokee Ball-Play," including its legendary basis, elaborate rituals, and the rules and manner of play.\n\nGiven the paucity of early data, we shall probably never be able to reconstruct the history of the sport. Attempts to connect it to the rubber-ball games of Meso-America or to a perhaps older game using a single post surmounted by some animal effigy and played together by men and women remain speculative. As can best be determined, the distribution of lacrosse shows it to have been played throughout the eastern half of North America, mostly by tribes in the southeast, around the western Great Lakes, and in the St. Lawrence Valley area. Its presence today in Oklahoma and other states west of the Mississippi reflects tribal removals to those areas in the nineteenth century. Although isolated reports exist of some form of lacrosse among northern California and British Columbia tribes, their late date brings into question any widespread diffusion of the sport on the west coast.\n\nOn the basis of the equipment, the type of goal used and the stick-handling techniques, it is possible to discern three basic forms of lacrosse—the southeastern, Great Lakes, and Iroquoian. Among southeastern tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, Yuchi and others), a double-stick version of the game is still practiced. A two-and-a half foot stick is held in each hand, and the soft, small deerskin ball is retrieved and cupped between them. Great Lakes players (Ojibwe, Menominee, Potawatomi, Sauk, Fox, Miami, Winnebago, Santee Dakota and others) used a single three-foot stick. It terminates in a round, closed pocket about three to four inches in diameter, scarcely larger than the ball, which was usually made of wood, charred and scraped to shape. The northeastern stick, found among Iroquoian and New England tribes, is the progenitor of all present-day sticks, both in box as well as field lacrosse. The longest of the three—usually more than three feet—it was characterized by its shaft ending in a sort of crook and a large, flat triangular surface of webbing extending as much as two-thirds the length of the stick. Where the outermost string meets the shaft, it forms the pocket of the stick.\n\nLacrosse was given its name by early French settlers, using the generic term for any game played with a curved stick (crosse) and a ball. Native terminology, however, tends to describe more the technique (cf. Onondaga DEHUNTSHIGWA'ES, "men hit a rounded object") or, especially in the southeast, to underscore the game's aspects of war surrogacy ("little brother of war"). There is no evidence of non-Indians taking up the game until the mid-nineteenth century, when English-s
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Read Chris Carmicheal's book "The Ultimate Ride".  It was very helpful for me.  He teaches periodization training.  It has helped me tremendously.
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Baseball Prospectus\nFantasy Land\nMind Games\nBaseball America\nMoneyball\n\nBaseball Prospectus is, by far, the best place to get info on players. It's based heavily on statistics and made by guys who really know what they're talking about. \n\nFantasyland is a book about a guy who decided to get into fasntasy baseball for the first time. He hires a major league scout and a mathematician to help him out and talks to a lot of major league players\n\nMind Games is a book about the 2004  Red Sox and the things they did to win the World Series. \n\nBaseball America is a book talking about the 30 top prospects from every team. It's a must for every fan of the minor leagues. \n\nMoneyball is the book that made statistics popular again.
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Field lacrosse is the greatest sport on this planet. Too many people are ignorant of this great game. It combines the aspects of every major sport.\n\nHockey - sticks, body checking, different ways of shooting, penalty box\nBasketball - pick and rolls, technical game, personal and technical fouls\nFootball - scrums for loose balls, can't hit from behind, you're allowed to kick the ball to score a point\nSoccer - ten people on the field, field is as big as a soccer pitch, goalie can use his hands to block a shot\n\nLacrosse is a thinking man's (woman's) game. Strategy, speed, strength, and power are all required to excel at this great game. Don't knock it unless you've played it.
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I have attached links to volleyball.org which has links to the rules for various forms of the game. I also have attached links to techniques.\n\nAs a rookie coach, you might want to read a book or books on coaching volleyball from a bookstore or your local library. These include:\n\n* Coaching Volleyball Successfully by Sally Kus;\n* The Volleyball Coaching Bible edited by Donald Shundell and Cecile Reynaud.\n\nBoth books are published by Human Kinetics.\n\nBest wishes to you and your team for the coming season.
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lacrosse by far. i used to be hardcore baseball and then i got a lacrosse scholarship to umass. im a redshirt freshmen now and lacrosse is so much fun. baseball is fun at times but not always like lacrosse is!
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My best advice would be skip books and ask a coach or just observe Nick Lidstrom of the Detroit Redwings for a while.
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For hockey, have you looked at usahockey.com for teams and leagues in your area? When I was a referee in central Texas, there was a couple of teams from San Antonio (boys). For lacrosse, try the web addresses on the bottom.
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I'm assuming you're a girl and you want to play...\n\nThe rules for girl's lacrosse are based on one premise: No plays or actions, defensive or offensive, that could end up hurting another player. The rules are a lot like basketball. The rules are complicated. After three years of coaching girls lacrosse, I still don't understand them all. \n\nThis is a comprehensive resource:\nhttp://www.uslacrosse.org/the_sport/girls_rules.phtml\n\nThere are 11 players on the field and one goalie:\nFirst Home, Second Home, Third Home (All-Time Offense)\nCenter, 2 Attack WIngs, 2 Defensive wings (Midfield)\nPoint, Cover Point, Third Man (All-Time Defense)\n\nThe play on the field is a lot like soccer. Almost all the players move up and down the field to the offensive side of the field and down to the defensive side of the field. Also, fouls can result in cards (Yellow, Red), depending on the severity of the offense.\nMajor fouls, such as tripping, taking a dangerous shot, Hitting a girl in the head, will result in a yellow card. Covering the ball with your stick, kicking the ball (called a "body-ball") will result in a warning and a turnover. These rules are a lot like soccer. \n\nAnyways, there are many, many more rules in girls' lacrosse. I could spend hours writing about the different rules for different situations on the field, but that would take too long. \n\nTo start you need a stick and a ball. That's it. Go to a wall and throw the ball agains the wall and catch it. It takes a while, but after about 1000 reps, it should be pretty natural to you. \n\nThe best way to learn is to play. Remember: coaches are there to teach you and a good coach won't lose his patience. \n\nGood luck