This video shares activities designed to help: Teach students responsible personal and social behavior in a physical setting and demonstrate understanding and respect for differences among people in a physical activity setting. Champion shares 20 different activity variations through distinctly different Critical Thinking games, each sharing the similar basic elements of trust building, communication, teamwork, self-control, and group problem solving, but each with a creatively distinct theme. Game 1: Mine Field calls for leadership and listening strategies. Game 2: Antonyms integrates English and calls for verbal communication, assertiveness, trust and cooperation. Game 3: Survivor is an entertaining and fun fitness challenge that poses both physical and mental puzzle-like problem solving tasks for each team. Game 4: The Tarp Game offers 15 different group and team challenges using an inexpensive, easy to find plastic tarp. This video will show you how to easily incorporate critical thinking activities into your program.

44 minutes. 2002.

Are you finding your athletes to be "different" than athletes you may have coached in the past? They are. Are your frustration levels heightened by your athletes - who seem overbooked and over protected by their parents, too social, always busy on their cell phone talking or texting? Welcome to the generation of the Millenials, our post Gen-X population that is upon us. Believing that coaches can, and need, to adapt to the changing needs of today's athlete, Mike Voight provides you with techniques and strategies to help you to better connect, communicate and motivate this group of young people. Voight offers a descriptive breakdown of the characteristics of this group, along with how the implications of these characteristics relate to the athletic arena. Voight presents 10 techniques for a proactive approach of "new school coaching." In a detailed segment titled, Turning Knowledge into Action, Voight offers a "scouting report" and strategies that provides practical applications for each of the 10 techniques, which will help to reach, teach, relate and motivate you in meeting the many challenges that today's coaching presents.

67 minutes. 2009.

There are two kinds of athletes: those who are injured and those who will become injured. In the competitive arena, even the smallest injury can be absolutely devastating to an athlete - both physically and mentally. In this presentation, Sport Psychologist Dr. Jerry Lynch is joined by other professionals (coaches and trainers) who are not only charged with asking him the important questions that are on every coach's mind, but who also share their own wide range of experiences with injured athletes within their athletic programs. Lynch's insight and expertise is based on his interactions with thousands of athletes throughout his career. He sheds light on the emotional, mental and psychological components of the injury process in an effort to minimize and cope with the unavoidable injuries that arise. In addition, he shares his suggestions for the treatment of injuries, no only physiologically, but psychologically as well. Lynch, with the help of other professionals, provides you with the tools you need to create a positive, proactive management plan to help an injured athlete heal physically and mentally.

70 minutes. 2008.

Do you view each practice as a chance to get better? Are you interested in learning to make the most out of every practice? In Making Every Practice Count, Greg Dale identifies six key components to making the most out of practice opportunities: 1) Having a Purpose, 2) Compartmentalizing your Life, 3) Practice Design, 4) Working on Weaknesses, 5) Mental Toughness and 6) Preparing Yourself for Competition. Dale identifies the characteristics of each of these components and offers ideas on how you can turn practice challenges into successful habits. Dale also offers solutions to overcoming obstacles that might be standing in the way of making your practices more purposeful! Let Greg Dale help you break through to the next level!

35 minutes. 2004.

Sport Psychologist Jerry Lynch suggests that you and your team not think about "becoming" champions but rather that you decide to "be" a champion first, and begin right now to follow and practice the habits and lifestyle of champions. Champions work, play and compete with heart. The good news for athletes is that playing, competing and working with heart is something that can be taught. In Lynch's Way of the Champion Series, he will show you how to teach your athletes to incorporate the traits and habits of champions. The end result will enable your athletes to have the "the stuff of champions." Lynch also presents 10 ways to get the most out of your athletes. Being open, fair, serving, a listener and humble are a few of traits illustrated. This entire DVD compilation is set upon the mental mechanics of champions shown in live activity settings. Lynch's teaching begins with the circle. In sports the circle is a symbol of team unity and togetherness. The circle allows for communication, connectedness and openness. The mindfulness activity helps calm athletes down and gives them confidence. Meditation, visualization and affirmation are the three components of this powerful exercise. He will help you to identify inspiration in the lives of your athletes and how this inspiration can be used to enhance their athletic competition.

77 minutes. 2007.