Books, Sports, Other Team Sports, Field Hockey

Page 1 of 2 | next

Elizabeth Anders, Sue Myers
Field Hockey Steps to Success
by Human Kinetics Publishers (Paperback)

Enter the game with confidence, knowing you've mastered the essentials with Field Hockey: Steps to Success. The text combines a comprehensive, progressive approach with in-depth instruction, illustrations, and 86 drills. Master coach and field hockey legend Elizabeth Anders details the step-by-step program that will teach you how to develop these skills: Score more goals by developing better shooting techniques. Improve ball control and dribbling. Establish solid passing and receiving skills. Develop better footwork and balance for improved stick handling. Employ attacking and defensive tactics. Become a better goalkeeper through correct positioning and increased awareness in the net. Whether you are new to the sport or seeking new techniques to add to your arsenal, Field Hockey: Steps to Success--part of the popular Steps to Success Series that has sold more than 1.5 million copies--will help you improve every aspect of your game.

Claire Mitchell-Taverner
Field Hockey Techniques & Tactics
by Human Kinetics Publishers (Paperback)

Score more goals and shut out your opponent! In Field Hockey Techniques & Tactics, Olympic gold medalist Claire Mitchell-Taverner presents the skills and offensive and defensive systems that helped the Hockeyroos dominate the world stage for nearly a decade and revolutionize the game of field hockey. Elevate your trapping, receiving, passing, dribbling, and shooting by learning the finer technical points of each attacking skill. Perfect your defensive techniques in anticipating opponents' moves and intercepting passes, making strong tackles, and creating eliminations to regain possession and set up additional attacks. And gain firsthand insights for the communicating and decision making required for excelling as a team. Citing the aggressive attacking and defensive moves that the Hockeyroos used to win gold at every major international tournament over a 9-year span, Mitchell-Taverner places emphasis on applying the press, using man-to-man marking, and zoning up. She also ...

Dave Easter, Vern Stenlund
Winning Roller Hockey: Techniques, Tactics, Training
by Human Kinetics Publishers (Paperback)

The perfect introduction to the fastest growing team sport in the world! Featuring 68 illustrated drills, this easy-to-read guide covers equipment, conditioning, and safety precautions.

Dany Heatley
Dominant Dany Heatley
by Key Porter Books, Fenn Publishing (Paperback)

As the son of professional hockey player Murray Heatley, it was no surprise that Dany Heatley followed in his father’s footsteps. But even he could not have foreseen the level of success and fame he would achieve, from winning the Calder Memorial Trophy for Rookie of the Year to being the youngest player to earn a hat trick while tying the scoring record with four goals. Then at 22, tragedy struck. Traveling at a high speed in his Ferrari with teammate Dan Snyder, he lost control of the car, resulting in a wreck that cost Snyder his life. Heatley was injured, but it was the loss of his friend that consumed him. A brilliant player who learned some of life's hardest lessons at a young age, Dany Heatley shares those lessons with his fans in this powerful, candid memoir.

William F. Axton, Wendy Martin
Field Hockey (Spalding Sports Library)
by Masters Press (Paperback)

David Whitaker
The Hockey Workshop: A Complete Game Guide
by Crowood Pr (Hardcover)

This comprehensive, practical manual is written for players, teachers, coaches and officials at every level of the game. Divided into three sections covering "components" (players and coaches and the abilities required), the "workshop", which provides detailed information and analyses of individual and team skills, and "the support systems" with tips on practice, preparation and team management. The book is illustrated throughout with sequence photographs, detailed diagrams and action shots of the world's top players.

The Fastest Game: An Anthology of Hockey Writings
by Masters Pr (Paperback)

For the ice hockey fan/purist, there is more to hockey than simply the win or loss of a game. The game constitutes an art form of expression, as in the acceleration of Bobby Orr, the grace of Wayne Gretzky, or the power of Gordie Howe. Here, Dick Wimmer captures that expression with a collection of articles from writers such as Studs Terkel, Hugh MacLennan, Roger Kahn and Mordecai Richler.

David Whitaker
Coaching Hockey
by Crowood Pr (Paperback)

Sydney Friskin
Going for Gold: Pakistan at Hockey (Jubilee Series)
by Oxford University Press, USA (Hardcover)

Going for Gold provides a fascinating account of the ups and downs of hockey and how Pakistan has coped with the changing face of this sport over the last fifty years.

Carl Ward
Hockey (Play the Game)
by Blandford Pr (Paperback)

A revised edition, this guide to hockey is aimed at young or novice players and contains clear diagrams and explanation of the rules.

Page 1 of 2 | next