Field Hockey: The Beginner’s Guide: Full Color Edition

Field hockey influencer, Cris Maloney, author of “Field Hockey: Understanding the Game” and developer of Skillz Machine is back with another important field hockey offering for your bookshelf. This edition is printed with a premium color interior on 60-pound white paper to create crisp, vibrant colors for the book’s illustrations and photographs. “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 Full Color Edition of “Field Hockey: The Beginner’s Guide” will help readers learn how to BEGIN understanding, playing, and coaching the great sport of field hockey. Through the narrative of the book, one finds field dimensions and playing time. There is a chapter dedicated to the Playing Rules (and the URL to where to get a free copy of the rules if that’s next on your learning list). There are important details on, for example, how to pick a stick, player safety equipment, and goalkeeping equipment. There are chapters dedicated to playing rules and penalty plays. Through 20 pages and nearly 30 photographs, you’ll see umpiring signals and a description of when the signals are used. A checklist allows coaches to assess players on more than 50 individual skills. 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.