Recreation Guy » sports http://recreationguy.com the ramblings and insights of a youth recreation professional Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:07:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Teaching Sports After School http://recreationguy.com/teaching-sports-after-school/ http://recreationguy.com/teaching-sports-after-school/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:13:25 +0000 Curt "Moose" Jackson http://recreationguy.com/?p=965 Every recreation department teaches sports to kids, whether by their own staff or through contract instructors. And why wouldn’t they, the benefits for children are many. But what if you want to offer a sport and don’t have an instructor? Maybe you can’t find a qualified contract instructor to teach the skills and nobody on your staff has the teaching experience for that particular sport.

PlaySportsTV.com is a website where you can watch free training videos and read free articles for a variety of sports including:

  • baseball
  • basketball
  • lacrosse
  • field hockey
  • football
  • hockey
  • soccer

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  • softball
  • tennis
  • volleyball
  • cheerleading
  • golf
  • gymnastics
  • skateboard
  • ultimate Frisbee
  • wrestling

PlaySportsTV.com has multimedia training programs you can purchase for football, soccer, baseball, softball, basketball, hockey, lacrosse and tennis.

I played volleyball growing up, but I’ve never taught it. When the kids at the local elementary school mentioned that they would like to learn how to play competitive volleyball so they could be ready for middle school tryouts, I thought it would make a great after school program. I really didn’t even know where to start. So I bought a few books on coaching youth volleyball. The books were really good, but I couldn’t see the drills in action.

Once I found PlaySportsTV.com I immediately began watching the videos and was hooked. Though they don’t have a training module for volleyball they do have free instructional videos.. Teaching sports is made much easier thanks to them. I have since purchased two training programs and they are fantastic. Check them out.

If you know of websites that other recreation professionals might be interested in drop me an email at curt@recreationguy.com and tell me about it. I in turn review the site and post here at RecreationGuy.com


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