Derek A. "Coach" Wade
Most youth coaches are former players and fans. There’s a huge difference, as you’re about to discover, between playing football, watching football, and coaching football. As a coach, there are things you need to know, and things you need to do, long before you ever step on the field.
By reading this book, you’ll learn…
…The history of football from the Roman harpastum to the modern day H-back.
…The best three and worst three written materials available for coaching this sport.
…The best four video picks for general football coaching.
…How to organize your time and break down film efficiently, starting with getting game film you can use.
…How to deal with parents and keep them out of your hair and off your practice field while still keeping their support and respect.
…How to select and prepare a staff to help you. Who to pick, why to avoid certain people, and how to organize them into an effective coaching team.
…How to prepare for practice - putting together skill sets and getting your assistant coaches to teach them.
…How to divide your program into manageable chunks that follow a logical teaching progression for your players.
…What equipment to seek out to help you stay efficient on the practice field.
…How to select drills that efficiently reinforce the skills you need, and avoid the biggest time wasters in football.
Also includes a comprehensive practice plan for your first twenty days of practice. Build your team from the bottom up; from the coaches’ introduction to the day you win your first game of the season. Additionally contains six appendices with information on everything from drills to use at practice, to injury recognition and treatment.
With a foreword by Steve “Dipper” Popovich, creator of the Delphi Double Wing Coaches’ Forum!
Praise for Volume One of Impact!…
Derek Wade is one of the rare men that can effectively communicate to the neophyte or experienced coach the “how-to”s of successful youth coaching. He is a coach of coaches and does so with wit, humor and detailed plans and examples. His exhaustive templates do all the work to help you better select, organize, scheme, rep and train any team.
“This is required reading for my 70 plus coaches.”
Dave Cisar
President
Screaming Eagles. Omaha Nebraska www.screamingeaglefootball.com
“Coach Derek Wade has undertaken a monumental task with his multi-volume work on coaching football, IMPACT! He is attempting no less than the inclusion of an entire library''s worth of football coaching knowledge in one opus.
“Volume 1 is a terrific start: a book that an absolute beginner can pick up to learn the history, terminology, theory, and practical application of coaching the great American game of football.
“I await the next volume with great and pleasant anticipation.”
Edmund E. “Ted” Seay, III
Creator: The ‘Wild Bunch’ Offense
“Chapters four and five make the whole book worth it. …The most systematic breakdown of film I have ever read, loved it. The tips for videographers are nicely done, and the format for breaking down film is positively elegant.
“…The parents’ meeting section was very well done and handled one of the most difficult chores for the ‘average’ youth coach to deal with quite effectively.”
Stephen De Marino
Arcata High School/Arcata Youth AAA Tigers
Arcata, CA
“This is a book that a lot of coaches are going to utilize for a very long time.”
Jack Gregory
President and Founder
Youth Football Coaches’ Association
Derek Wade is a youth football coach that happens to coach at the high school level. He has been active as an Internet coach and author since 1999. His coaching experience includes two years at the 10-11 and 11-12 age groups in non-Pop-Warner affiliated programs. Since 2001 he has coached with the Tomales High School Braves where he has functioned on both the Varsity and Junior Varsity levels as head scout, position coach, tackling coach, and special teams coordinator.
Coach Wade is the author of The Gap-8: Positions and Responsibilities, a PowerPoint presentation widely disseminated on the Internet, and is also the Webmaster and editor of Football for Youth!. He has been a regular clinic speaker at the Double Wing Symposiums, and his well-received presentations have covered such topics as “Reading and Attacking Defensive Keys,” “Advanced Misdirection with the Double Wing Offense,” and “Installing a Successful Double Wing in Limited Practice Time.”
He is an active duty enlisted member of the United States Coast Guard stationed at USCG Training Center Petaluma in Northern California, where he works as a training design specialist and electronics instructor. He holds an Associate’s level degree in Electronics Technology from the University of Phoenix, and is pursuing a Bachelor’s level degree in Sports and Health Science with a focus in Coaching Studies from the American Military University.
He is married, with three dogs, and lives in Santa Rosa, California, where he divides his time between complaining about local politics and teaching young people to play football.
