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Lacrosse For Dummies

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Jim Hinkson's books are generally good. However, they are for box lacrosse - the indoor version of the game. Box lacrosse is not that popular in the US where field lacrosse is the dominant form of the game. If you're looking for something on field lacrosse look at Lacrosse: Fundamentals for Winning (Sports Illustrated Winner's Circle Books) or Lacrosse Technique and Tradition.

If you're coaching boys lacrosse, this is the book for you. However, if you're interested in girls or women's lacrosse, don't waste your money here. There's only a few pages on girls rules and even those are skimpy and practically useless.

This book is not about lacrosse played on grass fields. It is about indoor "box" lacrosse.

I'm sure it's a fine box lacrosse book, and some drills would cross over, but you need to be clear that this book is not about "normal" lacrosse.

I also bought "Lacrosse Technique and Tradition" by Hopkins Coach Dave Pietramala. That one is great.

This book is NOT for US field lacrosse, boys or girls. Indoor Canadian...i suspect it is great, but I have no clue.

This book is a great overview of the sport of box lacrosse. It does mention differences between box and field lacrosse and briefly discusses women's lacrosse as well. It's discussion on the equipment, positions, skills, and tactics of box lacrosse is it's strong point though. The Dummies title is misleading as there is plenty of information contained inside. Overall if your interested in learning more about box lacrosse it'd be hard to go wrong with this book.

The title is misleading. It is not about the game of lacrosse as we know it in the United States.

I assumed that I could trust the "Dummies" books to be a good general resource. However, this is not published in the U.S.

It is mostly about the game of "box lacrosse" played indoors in Canada. The section on coaching your players how to cross-check pretty much says it all about how useful it is to the U.S. youth coach or player!

The box game is growing in the US. we have teams on the west coast now. This should be called INDOOR LACROSSE for dummies.
Jim writes a good book. If you are new to box or indoor lacrosse, this is a great starter book.

As a fan of box (indoor) lacrosse, this book helped me to understand the rules of the game when I was still new to the sport. With the growing rate of intrest of box lax in the US and new teams poping up all over the country I think this will be a good thing for the players as well as the NLL(National Lacrosse League). Go Wings!

It is a great book. The only thing though, it should of had some colour pictures and from what I can see the cover has a WLA (Western Lacrosse Association) goal net and there isn't that weird green flooring there is in the NLL on the cover.

Go Vancouver Ravens!!!