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From hypercompetitiveness to pressure to fear of violence to sheer boredom, our kids have good reasons to quit youth sports -- and today they're quitting in record numbers. Fortunately, there is a proven solution to this growing problem. It's called Fair Play.

For more than seven years, the Fair Play model has been integral to the NFL's Youth Development program, used in dozens of communities. And it has dramatically changed the way youth sports are taught and played across the country. Fair Play gives parents and coaches a blueprint for youth sports where everybody plays and nobody quits. Its revolutionary principles * eliminate the scoreboard * get coaches off the sidelines * play boys...

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Overview

From hypercompetitiveness to pressure to fear of violence to sheer boredom, our kids have good reasons to quit youth sports -- and today they're quitting in record numbers. Fortunately, there is a proven solution to this growing problem. It's called Fair Play.

For more than seven years, the Fair Play model has been integral to the NFL's Youth Development program, used in dozens of communities. And it has dramatically changed the way youth sports are taught and played across the country. Fair Play gives parents and coaches a blueprint for youth sports where everybody plays and nobody quits. Its revolutionary principles * eliminate the scoreboard * get coaches off the sidelines * play boys and girls together * revoke the draft * and incorporate other changes to make sports a healthier, more positive experience that builds young athletes up instead of beating them down. It's an important philosophy, an effective set of techniques, and a new (or sometimes, old) way of playing the game, based on a single guiding principle: It's for the kids.

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If organized sports are so great, why do 75 percent of kids quit team sports by the age of 12? The answer is obvious: It's not fun. To correct that situation, the National Football League created Fair Play, a $50 million program designed to make youth football a positive, shared experience. Its principles are simple: 1. Make It Fun. 2. Limit Standing Around. 3. Everyone Plays. 4. Teach Every Position to Every Participant. 5. Emphasize the Fundamentals. 6. Incorporate a Progression of Skill Development for Every Participant. 7. Yell Encouragement, Whisper Constructive Criticism. This book, written by the program's senior director, offers step-by-step suggestions for implementing these principles in any organized sport.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780735203600
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 8/27/2002
  • Edition description: PRENTICE H
  • Pages: 208
  • Product dimensions: 6.02 (w) x 8.96 (h) x 0.65 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword: On Fair Play xi
Prologue: Starting Over 1
1 Unleash the Revolution: The Time for Change and Action in Youth Sports 17
2 Regaining the Road: Sports and the Journey Through Childhood 29
3 Blueprint for Change: The NFL Junior Player Development Model 49
4 Sports are for Kids: Eliminating Negative Coaching and Poor Parental Behavior 73
5 Everybody Plays: Produce a Democratic Experience and Eliminate Prejudgments 95
6 Keeping a Child's Interest: Proven Ways to Maintain Youth Involvement in Sports 109
7 Making Strides: Guaranteed Improvement for All--from Beginners to "Naturals" 127
8 Women Wanted: Making the Leap from the Stands to the Sidelines 139
9 What Your Daughter Needs: Experts Discuss the Facts on Girls in Sports 153
10 Skills for Life: Teaching Important Lessons Beyond the Playing Field 169
Epilogue: Head Start: A Vision for the Future 183
Index 189

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 19, 2003

    A great book for parents and coaches

    A fine book to help correct what¿s gone wrong with youth sports, professional sports and maybe our society in general: Catering to elitists at the expense of the general population. Too many parents and coaches go into youth sports with a narrow vision of the game; they look out at the field and only see their child or their team and every other kid as an obstacle to their success. Hate to break it to you Ma¿am but the chance of your kid getting into the Pros, let alone playing in college is slimmer than your chance of becoming the Pope. Let every kid play, learn the game and have fun. The cream will rise by its self and everyone will get more out of the game then bench splinters and busted egos (plenty of time for that when you grow up). Fair Play puts the kids first. Every kid, not just the ones with talent and ability, but those with potential and those with enthusiasm as well. Lancaster¿s Seven Principles of Fair Play gives more kids the opportunity to get more out of team sports than watching the coach¿s kid play quarterback or be the starting pitcher. Following the principles will be too hard of a pill for some coaches and parents who are compensating for their own inadequacies to swallow. But for a youth sports organization dedicated to the children and the community, there is no better guide. Pro sports organizations are trying to clean up their image because too many players have been pushed by overbearing coaches and parents since childhood to focus on becoming the strongest, the biggest, the fastest, and at any cost. Dedicate your life (your child¿s life?) to the game and you¿ll learn steroids, performance enhancing drugs and cheating will get you to the top faster than Fair Play. Fair Play will teach children that it is just a game and it is fun.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 2, 2003

    Great Information!

    This book give great info on how to really monitor goodness in sports, positive aspects are taught and encouraged!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 24, 2003

    FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THE DECAY OF AMERICA

    This is an absolutely frightening book, written by one who represents an organization (the NFL) that is hardly a paragon of virtue itself. Yes, there are problems with youth athletics, but this book is NOT the the solution to those problems. Rather, this book represents the current way of thinking in our nation - worry about 'feelings' before excellence, political correctness, radical feminism, communist-like condemnation of competition, etc. All these ideas will create is a generation of touchy-feely weaklings. The purpose of youth athletics is to train kids for life, not to dilute their abilities for the sake of political correctness.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 25, 2003

    NFL as a good example to youth?!? Yeah, right!

    This is an awful book. What the author is proposing is that the ages-old pursuit of bettering one's self, of pursuing excellence, of striving for one's full potential, should be cast aside. Why? Because someone might get their feelings hurt. Mr. Lancaster wants to blend boys (and girls) into one homgenous, vanilla, bland mix where everyone is the same, and everyone is mediocre. Sauron himself could not have devised a better plan for the eventual enslavement of mankind. It is natural that some kids are better athletes than others, and it is true that some youth coaches are real jerks. But neither is reason enough to end competition, that fire that tempers the soul and creates excellence out of mediocrity. Mr. Lancaster's own league, the NFL is itself a most wretched viper's nest of scum and villainy. He should worry more about fixing his own house, rather that trying to bring the shroud of darkness down upon youth athletics. Is it any suprise, by the way that he loves soccer? Soccer itself is the poster child for sameness and egalitarianism and mediocrity. Let us take this book and cast it into the fires of Mount Doom, from whence it was spawned, and destroy it utterly.

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