Step on the field and begin playing in no time! In Lacrosse Essentials, you’ll learn the fundamentals of the sport through sequential instructions, detailed photo sequences, and expert advice from coaching legend Jack Kaley and longtime coach Rich Donovan. Lacrosse Essentialstakes you inside the game, covering these essential skills and strategies: • Passing • Catching • Shooting • Riding • Clearing • Goaltending In addition to mastering the fundamentals, you’ll be challenged to expand your repertoire of skills and use those techniques and tactics for a competitive advantage. The many activities and drills will speed learning and improve performance. You’ll also get the latest information on offensive and defensive strategies, systems, and situational play to take your game to the next level. Lacrosse Essentials is the best—and quickest—way to learn, practice, and play the great sport of lacrosse.

The sport’s best guide, Lacrosse Essentials, provides instruction on the fundamentals that players need in order to start competing confidently. Coverage includes skills such as passing, catching, shooting, clearing, and goaltending; offensive and defensive plays; simple strategies; and plenty of drills and activities to speed learning and improve performance.

Eight-time national championship coach David Urick shows players and coaches the pathways to lacrosse success!

Lacrosse, a game of speed, complexity, and nuance, is fast becoming one of the most popular sports worldwide. This book details examples of the rules of lacrosse, moves, individual defense, offensive team formations, skills and drills, and more. In this thoroughly updated edition of a Sports Illustrated best-seller, ten-time national championship coach David Urick shows players and coaches the fundamental pathways that will lead to lacrosse success.

Let's play lacrosse! Ready for Sports: Lacrosse introduces young readers in prekindergarten to grade 1 to one of the most popular sports for kids. From equipment to scoring, this 16-page book teaches the basics of lacrosse and provides children with the knowledge they need to be ready to play with confidence. The Ready for Sports series provides parents with a great way to introduce young readers to a variety of kid-friendly team sports. Each book measures 8" x 8" and features a list of words to look for in the text, photo glossary definitions, and before- and after-reading activities to bolster critical thinking and comprehension skills.

Here's a list to pay close attention to. Established in 1991, Warwick Publishing Inc. is among North America's fastest-growing producers of high-quality daily interest non-fiction books, with a list of over 100 titles in print. These books are solid sellers and have attracted strong loyalty with consumers across the continent -- an asset to any store's shelves.This list includes works by internationally acclaimed nature photographer Tui De Roy; best-selling sports writers Stan Fischler, Howard Berger and Ron McCulloch; popular television personality Chef Pasquale and hip 20-something food writer Amy Rosen; renowned business futurist Frank Feather, minority rights business author Anthony Stith, and the widely popular personal finance/lifestyle writer Charles Long, whose book How to Survive Without A Salary has sold over 150,000 copies.Warwick books have won or been nominated for numerous awards nationally and internationally; most recently, Nora Gold won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for her story collection, Marrow, and photographer Tui De Roy was nominated for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Award (University of San Francisco) for her book Galapagos: Islands of Fire. Also, in 1997, Charles Long was short-listed for the Chapters/Books in Canada first novel award for Undefended Borders.Warwick principals, president James A. Williamson and publisher Nick Pitt have been part of government-initiated trade missions to China (August 1996 and September 1998) and Washington (March 1998).Profitable since its inception, Warwick went public in November 1997 on the Alberta Stock Exchange in Canada. It has seven full-time employees and an active list of regular freelancecontributors.Now, seven years and several thousands of coaching hours later, the world's foremost authority on the sport of lacrosse has further refinements to what is already the bible of the sport.Breaking down individual skills for passing, catching, cradling, and various techniques of checking and physical play, Hinkson clearly explains and illustrates the most effective ways of mastering these skills. In addition, the book contains dozens of drills, applicable to both coaches and players, that facilitate learning these techniques. Written with renowned precision (as the above reviews illustrate) and painstakingly illustrated, Lacrosse Fundamentals is ideal for coaches, parents, players and fans.

Within the past decade, lacrosse has seen explosive growth on the elementary, junior and high school, and college levels, rapidly becoming one of America's most popular playing sports. Lifelong lacrosse player and coach Daniel Morris, along with noted author Michael Morris, distill the essence of this exciting, fast-paced game into one compact volume, teaching everything the beginning and intermediate coach needs to know about the rules, equipment, skills, and drills of this venerable game. Unlike other books on lacrosse, this guide reflects recent important rule changes, as well as the latest techniques in offense and defense, stick-handling, and advances in equipment that have transformed the game as it is played today. Chapters focus on critical elements of individual and team play, conducting practices, skill-building drills, and a playbook of offensive and defensive strategies. A resource list of suppliers, camps, and additional information is included. This is a book that will find a place on every coach and player's shelf.