Track & Field Coach's Survival Guide: Practical Techniques and Materials for Building an Effective Program and Success in Every Event: Amazon.ca: Edward L. Wallace: Books

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This comprehensive, practical resource provides practical tools for building effective programs and winning teams. Written by a coach with over 30 years' experience, the Guide provides tested techniques and strategies with scores of drawings and photos. Over 100 reproducible letters, forms, diagrams, and training schedules are also included.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensible Reference for New Coaches, May 31 2002

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This review is from: Track & Field Coach's Survival Guide: Practical Techniques and Materials for Building an Effective Program and Success in Every Event (Spiral-bound)

There are wonderful gems of wisdom in this coaching manual. I adapted the information in it to start up a grammar school track and field program and we were highly successful in our first season! Coach Wallace gives you the benefits of his 30+ years coaching and it greatly reduced the learning curve for me. This is especially useful for coaches starting up programs on a "shoestring" budget with less-than-optimal facilities. I would highly recommend it to any track and field coach.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, Mar 13 2002

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This review is from: Track & Field Coach's Survival Guide: Practical Techniques and Materials for Building an Effective Program and Success in Every Event (Spiral-bound)

Although this book has some helpful information, overall I do not feel that it is ideal for a typical high school track program (in Iowa). There is only information on 300m hurdles, not run in Iowa; we run the 400m hurdles in high school. Also the majority of high schools here do not begin track until February or March, and the training schedule in the book is for a much longer season and seems to be geared more for the college level.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Ok, But!, Nov 3 2001

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This review is from: Track & Field Coach's Survival Guide: Practical Techniques and Materials for Building an Effective Program and Success in Every Event (Spiral-bound)

I found this book to be a valuable resource. I don't like that coach Wallace offers for you to email him for additional info - and when you do, he doesn't reply. Take the offer out of the book then.

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4.0 out of 5 stars I am still learning from you.
I enjoyed reading the T&F Coaches's Survival Guide. Although I attended Lindbloom H.S. in the late 60's I was able to learn from you then and now I am learning from you in the... Read more

Published on Nov 29 1999 by Gerald Smith

4.0 out of 5 stars It will help me a lot, as I don't have an asst. coach.
I liked the practice sessions/periods broken up. We do not have indoor track and I was wondering how to use the practice sessions when we start March 8, practice for about 3 to 4... Read more

Published on Mar 3 1999