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Newcomer Kirby Childs overcomes obstacles to find his spot on a new roller hockey team. ... Read more

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inspiration
This book was an inspirational sports book because, it will make you determined to do your best. The three reasons i liked this book are, he always pushes his parents so he can play roller hockey, He showed that even the little guy can make a huge differnce,and I liked how he practices to try to get better. This books is about a kid named Kirby who plays a lot of sports but doesn't like to stick to one,and he has a hard time meeting people on his new neighborhood. I rated it a 3 out of 5 because Matt could of elaborated more what was going to happen to Kirby next to keep the reader off there seat if he made another series about Kirby. Anyone who like a thrilling sports book will be satisfied with Roller Hockey Radicals. Kirby the roller hockey radical has fun in the book learning roller hockey but what will happen next you will find out.

BY: M.Z

Roller Skating Radials
I rated it 5 stars because I love hockey. Also because it was cool how they had a hockey team. I've tried that before and it's hard to start.

sweet book!!!
This book was great, I think the moral is that kids can make a stand and should fight for what they want!!

Roller Hockey Radicals is Awesome!
It's about Kirby and he moved to a different town. He wanted to find some friends. Eventually, found a roller hockey team called, " The E-Street Skates". It was exciting! It had a lot of info about roller hockey. This book was REALLY RADICAL!

A great book for hockey enthusiasts ages 8-10
Danny Spottl, 3rd grade, The Piedmont School, High Point, NC. Kirby Childs moved with his parents from Minford to Valemont.It was summer break and most of the kids were at summer camp. So it was hard for Kirby to find kidsto play with. Anyway, Kirby met some kids that were playing roller hockeyon E Street.Soon, they invited him to play.The team played everySaturday against the Bates Avenue Bad Boys, which was the only other teamin Valemont. The Bad Boys played rough and injured the E Street Skates'captain.The parking lot where they played also needed repair.Kirby'sparents were worried and didn't want him to play. The team had a petitionto raise money for the parking lot to be fixed. They also got a referee tomake sure that the Bates Avenue Bad Boys couldn't break the rules.Now,Kirby's parents were happy that their 13-year old found friends to playwith. My favorite character is Lainie because she is the E Street Skates'goalie. I also play goalie in my team, the Jamestown Hurricanes. I like theparts in the book where they report how the games are played. And I likethe book a lot because it is about hockey which is my favorite sport. ... Read more

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Roller hockey is the hottest new team sport, and this book is your chance to learn how to be one of the game’s hottest players. Winning Roller Hockey will give you the edge on the competition.

Expert coaches Dave Easter and Vern Stenlund teach you all the important skills and strategies. Through 68 practice drills, you’ll develop your skating, puck control, passing and receiving, and shooting techniques. There’s even a special chapter on goaltending! Additional chapters include offensive, defensive, and transition strategies, plus inside tips for competition.

The best players know when to take advantage of opportunities. Winning Roller Hockey is a great chance to score big! ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

great for breaking down the game of roller hockey
As a collegiate roller hockey player and youth hockey coach this book was very helpful. It does a good job of breaking down the skill sets that are necessary to exel at roller hockey. The book also has many detailed drills specified for different team and individual goals. Would recommend to begining players, advanced players, and coaches alike.

A useful part of any coaches library
Although I have never played hockey, I coach a youth roller-hockey team and I find the descriptions and drawings of basic skills extremely useful for improving my ability to explain the core techniques of the game

Very Helpful
This book in my opinion is very helpful to first time players and people who are learning about the game. It has pratice techniques and different drills for all positions of the game which I find to be helpful. If you're a first-timer in the game or want something to give you ideas for drills this book is for you.

it is a great learning book for new players
it is the best book ive readfor learning to play hockey it teaches you everything

This book is a very drill-orientated book.

Overall, I was diappointed with this book. The
main focus was on drills and I wasn't aware
of it.The drills in it are great.They have
many drills for each individual skill.
However, the text wasn't that good.It seems
like it was written from an ice hockey
player's view point.There was little
consideration for the difference between
roller and ice hockey. ... Read more

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This second edition features the games approach to coaching hockey, which makes practice more fun for the kids and teaching more effective for you, the coach. Also included are chapters on communicating with athletes and parents, planning and conducting practice, and coaching during games.

Developed by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP), the nation’s number one coaching education program, Coaching Youth Hockey provides volunteer coaches with both an explanation of their role and concrete instructions on how to fulfill that role. ... Read more

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Coaching Youth Hockey
Excellent condition when received.This book offers detailed insight for those coaches that want to immerse themselves in the next level of coaching.Certainly not for the beginner coach.

Good for beginners
I was taking a coaching class in college and used this book to supplement my class text books.Had some very good tips for new coaches and how to get the players involved.Introduced good concepts.Would recommend.

Useless
Clearly not written by hockey people.

I could give numerous examples like pg 40 "Get Your Players' Attention""Make sure they aren't looking into the sun or at some distracting activity."

Practic plans are a joke.No way someone could run a 50 min practice based on these practice plans.

Hockey review
I needed to understand how to teach children under 10 the game of Hockey and start towards gaining a coaching award in this age group. This book gives me a greater understanding of what turns on a childs interest and haw to maintain this interest.

A Must for the Hockey Coach's Toolkit
This book offers a comprehensive set of introductory materials needed for the first time or experienced hockey coach. It is useful for either ice or roller hockey.I particularly appreciated the author's including thesocial, communication, and motivational aspects of coaching youth sports. Full of handy checklists and drills to emphasize the needed skills, thisbook provides a solid foundation for developing "your own" hockeyteaching and coaching program.The drills and progressions are excellent. The book would be better with more technical emphasis on skating skills andtechniques.But overall, I would recommend it for any coach or parent whois close to this fast-growing sport! ... Read more

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Mason dreams of spending the summer canoeing and kayaking at a camp up north with his pals from Cabbagetown Junior High. He's stuck in Toronto, though, ready to go crazy with boredom.

When hears about tryouts for a local roller hockey team, he sees a way out. But that way seems blocked at every turn: the team captain is tough on him, the coach even tougher, and finding a way to pay the league fees might be toughest of all. To top it off, his mother's new boyfriend arrives on the scene at the worst possible time. But as Mason works hard, moving from the third line to the first, he manages to work it out--with a little help from his friends.

Set against a backdrop of fast hockey action, Roller Hockey Blues follows one young man's struggle to overcome personal obstacles and stay in the game. ... Read more

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Great goaltending wins hockey games. As the sport evolves, becoming a faster, higher-scoring endeavor, goaltending becomes more critical and far more challenging. The best goaltenders combine awareness, technique, and physical conditioning to anticipate the opponent's every move.

Hockey Goaltending brings together the world's top goaltending coaches to create the premier resource for goalies and coaches at every level of play. Their expertise and insight provide comprehensive instruction on every facet of this challenging position:

• Off-ice training programs to improve reaction time, strength, flexibility, quickness, and agility
• Techniques to shut down breakaways, passouts, and wraparounds as well as power plays and odd-man rushes
• Detailed instruction on rebound control, recovery skills, and playing the puck
• Mental strategies to put you in the zone and keep you there
• On- and off-ice drills to refine your skills and elevate your play

Customer Reviews (2)

The Hockey Goaltender's Bible
This book really covers it all. From physical conditioning to being mentally strong Hockey Goaltending is stuffed with information.What I like most about this book is that it is so easy to pick up and read.You could flip to any random page, read it and feel like you learned something.I often just flip through it reading random sections the day of a game.It has full on and off season conditioning programs with all the different exercises used for it in the book.The DVD demonstrates many of the different exercises for the training program as well as most of the techniques from the book.Like I said before Hockey Goaltending covers it all and it's great for beginners and vet's of the position alike.

Netminder
This purchase was excellent. The book and DVD is an excellent reference tool to help beginners as well as advanced goaltenders become more technically sound, I highly recommend this product. ... Read more

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Great goaltending wins hockey games. Hockey Goaltending covers everything a goalie needs to stone the competition, including:

• the best goaltending styles to adopt;• techniques and tactics for every shooting situation;• 46 exercises for strength, flexibility, speed, andquickness;• tips and strategies for mental toughness; and• the latest advice on equipment.

The best goalies are in the right place at the right time to stop the puck.They know the angles and have mastered the fundamentals to perform at a consistently high level. Hockey Goaltending is the complete guide for both ice and in-line hockey players to excel at the game’s toughest position.With this book, even spectacular saves will seem easy. ... Read more

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Comprehensive Goaltending Knowledge for Ice and Inline!
I purchased this book when I first got into hockey roughly 4 years ago.It's complete with conditioning drills, information on equipment, positioning stances, and what to do in key situations.In fact, the only reason that I've given it 4 stars out of 5 is simply because the information at this point could stand to be revised.Yet it covers both butterfly goaltending (which is the standard across ice hockey today) and stand-up goaltending (less common in ice hockey, but still very necessary for inline play.)

If you're starting to play hockey and want to be a goalie, I'll tell you right now that this book is very useful to get yourself going.

A high school coach's opinion
This book along with The Hockey Goalies Handbook by Corsi and Hannon will provide enough information and differences of opinion for anyone from beginner to the high school level. Chaptes 2 and 3 on exercises and stretching are something that every goalie needs to consider.I can't recommend one book over the other because they complement each other so well.

Love, it's the best!!!!!!!!!!
A great comprehensive goaltending book.Stretching, taking care of your equipment, practicing, playing, and visualizing...this book has got tons of information and is very helpful. I'd love to see some follow-ups going even further indepth!

This book helped an aspiring goaltender
I'm 30, never played a minunte of hockey, and want to play goalie. This is the book I bought. I loved it, because of the general all around information it provides. From stretching, eqiupment, technique , to mental toughness. It also does not talk down to you, as you were ten years old.
My only complaint is the lack of depth in the equipment chapters. If it was an all encompassing book, I would have liked more information on kinds of different pads, masks, gloves, ect.
I recomend this book, they tried to help all areas, and I think it worked on me. And I now play goalie twice a week.

Hockey Goaltending is an outstanding starting book.
Offering a well writen and condensed description of both Ice and Roller/Street hockey for a person wishing to learn the How To's of Hockey Goaltending.It has great descriptions backed up with photo's to truely give the reader an idea of what is being described.

I am in my first year of a Roller Hockey league and have found this book to be outstanding for my level of play.My game has drastically improved and my understanding of the position has too.

I would recomend this book for any and beginner to intermediate levels of players. ... Read more

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When Bizz and her friends arrange a high-stakes roller hockey game with another team, Bizz is reminded about the importance of friendship. ... Read more

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Kennedy On a Roll
Kennedy has done it again!This is the definitive treatment of Hockey on Wheels.The author reveals his (presumably) lifelong devotion to sports-on-wheels, combining an encyclopedic recitation of the key facts with a narrative that makes this must reading for the casual observer, the beginner, and the grizzled veteran alike.Perfect companion to his page-turning "Skateboarding."A crowning achievement. ... Read more

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This book was very informative and helpful.
This book was very helpful.However, it gave too much advice about things I am good at.Such as skating, simple shots, etc.This is the ideal book for beginners and those who want to get started. ... Read more

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The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Roller Hockey is the most comprehensive and up-to-date roller hockey-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round roller hockey-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

No other roller hockey book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book takes you from the off-season to the in-season, and is loaded with dozens of tips and pointers to help you maximize your training and improve your performance.

Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20. ... Read more

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Ok
Ok book about inline hockey.1995 edition and some of material is out of date; for a used price around [amt] USD is a bargain hunters buy .More for the adult player or older young adult.
You still need a coach! ... Read more

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Great Pics
This book has a great illustration.Especially since my boyfriend is in it!!

Another good book
Another good book by Millar.Lots of pictures for the novice player to show techniques.Covers shooting, skating, stick handling, passing etc.A good intro book for all you players to read; makes my job easier.From an experienced ice hockey coach... ... Read more

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Packing an enormous amount of information into 64 pages, Michael Shafran gives kids an enticing introduction to the fastest-growing extreme sport among young people. The book looks at all kinds of inline skating—blading, aggressive, vert, street, speed, roller hockey, and more—presenting the fundamentals, special moves, and required gear for each. Full-color photos capture pros executing awesome stunts. Young enthusiasts will discover what “black ice” and “face plant” mean, see how to do Chad Hedrick’s hot new “double push,” and learn how to stay safe while enjoying the sport.

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The sport of roller (in-line) hockey is exploding. New leagues are being formed and existing leagues are doubling, tripling, and even quadrupling in size leading to a demand by players, coaches, parents, and league directors for educational materials that will help them understand the game, improve their knowledge of the sport, and give them confidence at the various levels of competition. Roller Hockey: Skills and Strategies for Winning on Wheels is the most in-depth publication available for both coaches and players. It contains several tools in an easy-to-understand consistent teaching format that will help coaches and players improve their performance. Anyone interested in roller hockey will find a complete guide to the the game in this book--from fundamentals to advanced techniques, from rules to equipment, as well as practical insights based on author Greg Siller's own experiences. "Every roller hockey player, parent ,and coach should own this book. It's far ahead of anything else that has been published on the sport. It's in a league of its own." -- Paul Chapey, Team USA World Roller Hockey Coach"The USAC/RS, as the Olympic National Governing Body and sponsor of amateur roller skating competitions for nearly 60 years, recommends this guide to roller hockey enthusiasts of all skill levels. Greg Siller should be commended for the strategically effective yet easy-to-follow style of this instructional guide. Everyone can learn a thing or two by taking a closer look." --George H. Pickard, Executive Director, USAC/RS"The unique benefit of this book is that it can be used by beginner youth teams through those teams competing in the RHI. Concepts are well explained from basic strategy and practice situations through defensive, transition, and offensive zone play." -- Kelly Dyer, Professional Roller and Ice Hockey Goaltender"This book deals with all of the imporatant aspects of how to win in roller hockey by stressing the ABC's of the most basic fundamentals. This book is a must read for all hockey coaches." -- Ralph Beckstrom, Commissioner, Roller Hockey InternationalAbout the Author Greg Siller has spent more than 25 years as an ice hockey player in the United States and Canada, and has more than five years of roller hockey experience as a player, coach, official, and instructor. He has written articles for Roller Hockey, Hockey Player and Inline Retailer and Industry News magazines. He currently teaches roller hockey orientation courses in Southern California through his company, Pro Learning Systems of Ridgecrest, California, and also conducts roller hockey clinics. ... Read more

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Great book for coaches
I recently started coaching roller hockey and this book has been a godsend.I use it constantly to plan practices and drills.It covers everything from specific skills to offensive and defensive strategy.You might want to have more specific books on some in depth subjects (e.g. goal tending) but this does a great job covering all the basics.I highly recommend it.

focus on drills and tactics
Roller hockey is a nice book for a coach, with the focus on tactics and drills.

This is NOT a book on stickhandling,skating en shooting instructions !

Pretty good book
Good info.The part explaining defense is especially helpful, i.e. when to defend against a shot and when to play the pass.It makes coaching ad teaching penalty killing and odd-man rushes a lot easier.
For the record, if you find yourself defending against a two-on-one, always cover the pass from inside.

great book and very thorough
This is a great book. It helped immediately just by reading it, let alone all the drills it includes. Did I mention the drills in the book? There are LOTS of them. Each is explained from a coaches standpoint and a players standpoint. This makes it obvious that this book is good for both the player and the coach. A definate must read if you're learning roller hockey.

Beginner to Expert
Short and sweet, this book is excellent for the beginner as well as the advanced roller hockey player.It clearly presents each and every aspect of the game in a way that everyone can appreciate.I like to touch and feel books when deciding on buying them, but take my word for it, this is an excellent book on Roller Hockey.It is like having a coach available 24 hours a day.It shows skills the beginner can use and drills for advanced players to enhance their play as well.You will not be disappointed. ... Read more