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New Basketball Content

New Basketball Content

Kudda is pleased to announce that we have some new basketball videos provided by the coaches of the Iowa Player Development Academy. We shot these over the course of a few days and are still processing them as we speak. Kudda got the first 45 drills up on the site and will continue to add [...]

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Is This True? Winning and Coaching Boys and Girls

Is This True? Winning and Coaching Boys and Girls

Is the following true?
Boys have to win to feel good
Girls have to feel good to win
This is a very simple phrase that has lots of implications.
It suggests that:

Boys play sports for the thrill of winning while girls play sports for camaraderie.
There is more psychological and emotional factors for girls before they start to play
There are [...]

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Why are Baseball Games Getting Longer?

Why are Baseball Games Getting Longer?

What has happened to the game of baseball lately? The games are getting longer and parent’s patience are getting shorter. Why do the youth games take so much longer to play? Why are games lasting well over 2 1/2 hours for a 7 inning game? Are the strike zones suddenly smaller so there are [...]

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Follow- Up to Penn Charter Hits

Follow- Up to Penn Charter Hits

Many of you have contacted Kudda expressing outrage on the dirty hits exhibited by the Penn Charter player in a game last week. There has been much discussion on various forums and the general feeling is disgust. The Penn Charter coach, Pat McDonough, did not see the actual hits and is frustrated about the subsequent [...]

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Coaches Need to Control Their Players

Kudda was at the McDonogh Penn Charter lacrosse game this afternoon which McDonogh won easily 14-5. Kudda is looking at broadcasting an MIAA lacrosse game of the week and Booker Corrigan and Kudda are getting the logistics worked out.
McDonogh had two of their first midfielders knocked out of the game by cheap [...]

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Summary of AAHPERD Presentation on Youth Sports

Summary of AAHPERD Presentation on Youth Sports

I was recently at the AAHPERD convention in Indianapolis attending some of the youth coaching workshops and presentations. I went to the “10 Things Youth Coaches Should Know” presented by Rick Howard and Jay Coakley. They were able to combine research and their own experience to convey certain areas that coaches should be aware of, [...]

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Wrestling Parents

One of the worst experiences as a sports parent was the year my son, Kyle, wrestled when he was in the 1st grade. We’d go to these all day tourneys. Get there at 6:30 am for weighins… first match starts at 8:45. Over 15 seconds later as Kyle gets pinned by a kid 7 years [...]

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Basketball Coaches: The “Latin” of Coaching

Basketball Coaches: The “Latin” of Coaching

If you go to any bookstore’s Sports section, chances are that you will see a disproportionate number of coaching books written by basketball coaches. Seriously, check it out next time you’re in Barnes and Noble. So that got me thinking, “Why is that?” Do basketball coaches have a secret formula on great coaching? What is [...]

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  • DEFINING COACHING LEADERSHIP
    The definition of coaching leadership will vary depending on who you talk to.  The definition for me is in the words.  Coaching leadership at the youth level is the ability to coach young leaders.  We are coaching football, but the reality of the situation is the percentage of players who will go onto the college [...] […]
  • PRACTICE ORGANIZATION
    I have always divided practices up into individual periods, group periods and team periods. Individual periods have players working with their own positional groups.   During these periods our players would be working on techniques and skills specific to their respective positions. Group periods can either remain with players on the same side of the football […]

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  • What Many Athletes & Coaches Are Missing: Purpose Driven Practices & Training July 31, 2010
    Throughout my sports & athletic development career I’ve consistently witnessed team practices, individual workouts with trainers, fitness classes, etc. conducted with no theme or objective. Often the athlete or student will leave the workout or practice unfulfilled & bored (just went through the motions), frustrated (experienced little to no improvem […]
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  • Lazing Tasing Days of Baseball July 31, 2010
    When 17-year-old Steve Consalvi ran onto the field during the 8th inning of a Major League Baseball game in Philadelphia http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5165782 he never would have imagined the material he was about to give to every sports talk radio host across the country. No one could have been happier than this group of broadcasters. [...] […]
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  • "What are your goals for a child playing sports?" July 31, 2010
    Peter Barston is back with another question. Peter is the remarkable teen from Darien, Connecticut who enlightened us last winter with an unusual research project. Peter, assisted by his dad, decided he had to get to the bottom of this question: Why do kids play sports? So he put together a survey and passed it out to hundreds of kid players in his hometown. […]
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  • "An unlikely source of hope in Newark, NJ" July 31, 2010
    Inspiring coach. Wonderful story.This post originally published at http://www.youthsportsparents.blogspot.com […]
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