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About Field Hockey: The Beginner's Guide: Full Color
Product Description The Full Color Edition of "Field Hockey: The Beginner’s Guide" will help readers learn how to begin playing and coaching the great sport of field hockey. For a limited time, readers can get 30% off Phoenix field hockey sticks using discount code CHC. The Beginner’s Guide not only provides an overview of the sport but important details on, for example, how to pick a stick, player safety equipment, and goalkeeping equipment. The author also discusses playing rules, penalty plays, suspensions, and shows and explains umpiring signals. A checklist at the back of "Field Hockey: The Beginner’s Guide" allows coaches to assess players on more than 50 skills. Field hockey evangelist Cris Maloney, author of "Field Hockey: Understanding the Game", is back with another important offering for your bookshelf. "Field Hockey: The Beginner's Guide" will help readers begin how to play and coach the great sport of field hockey. Maloney provides an overview of the sport, replete with illustrations and photographs, and includes exclusive and detailed coverage of the MALONEY METHOD. The genesis of the MALONEY METHOD came from a presentation titled "Field Hockey: The First 30-Minutes" that the author made at an International Olympic Committee Olympic Solidarity course held at the US Olympic Training Center in 1985. Since that time the MALONEY METHOD has been used to train thousands of beginners in private lessons, recreation programs, and in physical education classes. Peer-to-peer teaching is great way to expand the number of participants in a sport. This is easy to do with the MALONEY METHOD because it provides teenagers with an easy to remember system they can use to teach their friends or younger children. Using MALONEY METHOD, for example, a girls’ field hockey team can, in a single afternoon, teach the boys’ soccer team how to play field hockey and have challenging opponents in their school ready to play in weekly scrimmages. Anyone who becomes skilled in the MALONEY METHOD, can use it to introduce field hockey to new players in as little as 30-minutes. About the Author Cris Maloney is the author of Field Hockey: Understanding the Game, JUMP IN! A Beginner’s Guide To Field Hockey Umpiring, Middle School Field Hockey Rules, and Field Hockey: The Beginner’s Guide. Mr. Maloney began playing field hockey while in college, where he became a nationally certified umpire in 1977, after success as a Track & Field at Moorestown High School, Moorestown, NJ (he was a 1975 All American). In the 1980s, Maloney founded New Jersey’s Garden State Games Field Hockey Event, served as an assistant coach to two undefeated, gold medal field hockey teams in United States Olympic Committee national sports festivals, attended an Olympic Solidarity Coaching seminar offered by the International Olympic Committee where he presented his paper titled Field Hockey: The First 30-Minutes, and began doing play-by-play and color announcing at international field hockey games. Later he became a nationally certified Level II Umpire Coach. Always an innovator, in 2003 Maloney was the first field hockey assigner to use web-based technology to assign umpires to field hockey games. He was the first, in 2005, to recommend, use, and supervise the use of walkie-talkies during high school games. In 2013 he organized the first Hockey5s league in the USA. In 2014, he created a version of field hockey he calls Super6s – which is a combination of the indoor and outdoor games that favors simplified rules and continuous action that can be played by children and adults. Maloney is the owner of UmpireHockey.com, and produces on online rules course for players, coaches, and umpires. Maloney runs programs to introduce field hockey to boys and girls in central New Jersey.
