summer academy training

Weekly, evening, group training for self-motivate, passionate players who desire improvement. get the repetitions and feedback needed to improve.

Our Methodology…

Core Player Attributes Model

The Core Player Attributes Model is the basis for how we build our athletes.

A soccer player is the combination of their Technical, Tactical, Physical, and Mental, skills and abilities.

Technical - 5 Foundational Skills

Receiving, Dribbling, Passing, Ball Striking, and Tackling. A player must master these 5 skills in their fundamentals and then build their own self-expression of these skills as they grow and develop.

Tactical - First Principles

Tactical ability has the greatest variance. Soccer can be played in so many ways, with no one way being the “correct” way. We focus on first principles for various age groups to help build a foundation they can apply to any team or coach. These include, scanning, communication, overloads, recycling, switching, breaking lines, build up, passing combinations, and more.

Physical - Athletic Foundation

A large topic, however, we focus on soccer specific athletic ability rather than general health and fitness in our training. Ground force reactions, single leg strength/power, dynamic core stability, torso rotation, acceleration and deceleration.

Mental - Controllables

Soccer requires dynamic problem-solving, real-time decision making, constant failure, understanding of a system, creative flair, extreme physical fatigue over time, coachability, leadership, and teamwork. Players need to be able to self-regulate, take in information, think on their feet, lead themselves and take feedback, all while in a flow state on the field. These are skills we aim to help players learn and understand during training.

Because our sessions are specifically group training sessions aimed at individual improvement, they are unlike any other sessions you would see at traditional summer camps or team practices.

Session Planning and Delivery

The Integration to Isolation Sliding Scale is the core principle in our session design that takes the goal of the session, the learning outcome, and places it somewhere along this scale. The session is then designed to move across this scale starting from isolation and working towards integration.

For example, if the learning outcome is to improve ball striking technique when finishing from outside the box, then we would start with the most isolated way to work towards this with players taking uncontested shots from outside the box with no external stimulus. As the session progresses, we will add layers of complexity in movement, timing, actions before/after, time pressures, or situational pressure, until eventually we are doing something resembling live play with a finishing outside the box focus.

This allows players to explore ideas and techniques on their own and build that skill into gameplay one step at a time, one layer at a time, so that they develop true mastery, understanding, and confidence.

• Learning Outcomes

• Situational Management

• Time Pressure

• Opposition Pressure

• Game Situations

• Individual or Team Based Problem Solving

Isolation