Video: "Surviving Practices: Creating a Winning Practice Environment Through Gender Understanding" by Kathleen DeBoer

Video: "Surviving Practices:
Creating a Winning Practice
Environment Through Gender
Understanding" by Kathleen DeBoer
former Division I Coach of the Year,
Olympic Team Advisor,
and successful University Fundraiser.
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Video Overview:
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......In this enlightening Five-Section
video, DeBoer takes you through a lesson
in gender response as it pertains to
practice situations. She purposefully
generalizes behavioral characteristics of
both men/boys and women/girls to help
illustrate her points.

......Section 1: Effective Motivation;
Trigger positive results in both males
and females by motivating them "in their
language."
......Section 2: Acceptance, Performance,
and Struggle; pertinent issues that relate
to peer acceptance, leadership development,
and motivational strategies to prepare an
athlete for a focused battle.
......Section 3: Action vs. Interaction;
recommendations for structuring practices
to achieve a balance between drills that
develop skills and those that teach
competitiveness.
......Section 4: Responsibility; stages
that males and females go through before
they are prepared mentally and socially
to take responsibility for their own skill
execution and competitive results.
......Section 5: Comfortableness vs.
Edginess; understand how to cycle your
athletes into and out of high pressure
situations in practice to better prepare
them for competition.
......This video will help you understand
the impact of gender differences on practice
situations thereby increasing the effectiveness
of your training. By teaching them both skills
and competitiveness you will empower your
athletes with the abilities to get things
done.
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48 minutes. 2002.
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DVD: "Surviving Practices: Creating a Winning Practice Environment Through Gender Understanding" by Kathleen DeBoer

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