George Crampton's session, "Improving Speed, Agility and Reaction Time In Soccer Related Drills" presented by Kwik Goal. The excerpts of the session were taken on January 17th during the 2013 NSCAA Convention in Indy.
This is one of the biggest reasons we do not have creative soccer players in this country. They spend too much time on fitness training and less time on acutally playing the game. The problem with these drills is that cognitive abilities are not being developed. The best players in the world are not those who can run the fastest but those who can evaluate a situation in the game,make a decision on how to solve the situation and then execute the skill.
You need the cognitive but also good fitness. But yeah time is prob better spent in real situations. But the best players are also fast. But USA does not emphasize creativity like Brazil does
Bro he’s teaching them there reaction how to explode and how to pass first time, look at how Ronaldo and Messi and big players traing they train like this
I used the think that. I do practice on grass, though. I got wooden orange poles at Home Depot for $1 each. I got a ladder from amazon for $6. I used thin PVC for hurdles. I've also just tied tape or pre-wrap across the poles (eventually they step on tape and I have to retape so I went with the PVC). For the rings maybe cone-off a square. For small goals I typically used my corner flags which cost me $11 ea.
All of the critics need to look at Pep Guardiola's training manual from Barca. It's packed full of drills like this. All the people saying "don't stand in lines" need to stop regurgitating bad information. You run two sessions simultaneously so that players only have 45 second breaks between circuits. Before you comment do a little homework before embarrassing yourself.
I see a lot of people keep on talking about Spovelax Training Program (search on google). But I'm uncertain if it is good. Have you ever tried this popular training course?
Selvam G I think it's very similar. Anything that incorporates agility with technique seems to be the best option. Doing things at speed makes better decision makers on the pitch.
these exercises are horrible , feels like he just got a bunch of random exercises and put them in a program , if you wamt to get faster check out TwiceTheSpeedTV's youtube channel , ive gotten seriously fast from them
Coaches commenting on these videos, be wary of what your watching. Check the date of the videos. I'd highly recommend watching FourFourTwo performance videos, which offer upto date, modern approaches and training methods. This video demonstrates football specific fitness, from someone who's clearly a coach. Not a Fitness Coach or Strength & Conditioning coach. So don't get over excited by what you see. Allot of these exercises are very low intensity, very much unrealistic to the game. A 1v1 exercise for short bursts is a better workout for a player than most of these exercises. When I work fitness into my players, its always game based training with physical performance work, to support. Never physical development work on its own, because its unrealistic to the demands of the game. Use exercises that replicate the demands of the game. Players do not run through poles in a match, they a beat a defender. So remove that pole and put a semi-opposed defender there instead and encourage the player to beat him quickly, thus your agility exercise comes out, without a tackle occurring, to which the player has to use a quick burst of speed to break away from his man. It takes longer to beat and demands more effort, both mentally and physically of the player, than just running a ball past a pole.
Jpranks at that age you should be much better, but football is a universal game tbh. its just that he should have used players that can actually execute the drills properly.
+TheDialemma JWE How can you tell if a player is bad just by watching them do a drill for 8 minutes? If you saw Messi as a 15 year old and you didnt notice him, you would say the same.
For the people who think this is just fitness training. IT IS NOT. This IS developing the lads cognitive abilities, It IS developing the lads reaction time. There is a reason why he has spent a few grand on becoming a UEFA A licensed coach(The highest grade a coach can achieve), he knows what he is doing. He would divide the lads into smaller groups when he is doing a proper session with his team. Demos are difficult to do and he did a great job. I will be taking a lot from this video and implementing it into my teams training.
There are too many factors involving being a world class footballer. Someone below I believe it was Carlos Esquivel mentioned the cognitive side of things and being able to read the game this helps. Guardiola was slow and not very physically intimidating but he was a general orchestrating the team with passes and instructions. From my personal experience one has to start the young kids of becoming coordinated making their legs and feet quick. Some will be naturally quick/fast because (their is a difference between quick and fast.) of genetics. The ball should be central in the scheme of things always. My son plays in the youth team of a famous Spanish football team and they have virtually no fitness training. Why because young children of his age are always running and at school in their break times are always running. This is if your child has not succumb to the dreaded Playstation disease and just sits in front of a console. Anyway to conclude check out this video if you want to improve your general game and don,t forget the ball is central to everything.
I was wondering about this. What age is your son? Mine is 5 and I am coaching his team. I wonder if they need to do running, I think not, just focus on fundamentals- dribbling etc
I think we might all agree with some points or another, but that's what make coaching great because everyone has a certain vision of what he wants and I think those training sessions are here to inspire us for what we would like to apply for our teams. Teams and the way we play football is very different from countries to countries and that what's make it great. I respect the author of this training and I watched this video which helped me setting up a training changing some points and keeping others and we should respect the way he sees things and the way he wanted to apply them. Cheers
It's not like you can apply your own twist on it as a coach? That's impossible! Every drill you see must be exact! You can't change anything at all! (sarcasm)
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FISoccer.training Absolute agree with you!Combination of the technical and physical training.Some of exercise for ex.:reaction after the call is absolute not lifelike .Spectacular.
I AM FROM GHANA WEST AFRICA IF WE HAVE THIS KIND OF TRAINING IT HELP THE YOUTH A TO UNDERSTAND THE GAME OF FOOTBALL. AS PLAYERS WE DID NOT GET THIS TRAINING AND THE EQUIPMENT TO HELP US TO DEVELOP FAST.BUT WE ARE ABLE TO GET TOP PLAYERS IN THE GHANA SUCH AS BABA YARA, FRANK ODOI ,KWASI OWUSU, WILBERFORCE MFUM ,ADDO ODERMITEY, MOHAMMED POLO, KUKU DAZI,AND MANY MORE. THANKS
Horrible Session! Why don't let the player take their own decision? Look like a video game! Its that real for you coach? Nowadays this kind of session is stupid!
Would love to have the budget to buy the training gear used in this vid. :) Great tips regardless but a little modification to the "poorer" soccer/football programs out there.
The exercises are useless, the only good thing of the video is the think Slalom training Poles, I have been looking everywhere to buy the sameones, but Nothing, it is like they made them only for this video, what a shame.
yo carlos esquivel you cant be telling me that the barca/spanish national team players aren't incredibly fit as well, their style of play involves constant pressure on the opponents and movement around the player on the ball for 90 mins
training repetitions is valid, but I believe that training with ball better before this circuit. I realize that the boys at the time of the kick has difficulty. I do not approve some steps.
How can he claim this improves "reaction time". Him giving them vocal cues on what way they need to turn does not replicate anything in a match. Very basic stuff and I wouldn't use anything here to improve anything that he says this improves
Hello I'm from Tanzania in Africa i playa amateur football i would like to expand my ability of playing footballbut i have no one to help me who ever would like to help me may God bless u thank u
Creative and fun training that is a plus but nothing told about how to stand and move with your feet and toes when you move from cone to cone! Feet to wide no body control!
that´s the reason why the poor people like Messi or Ronaldinho always gonna be the best , because their don´t training in those kind of nice field , i mean they don´t trained they just play on the street
juan resendiz no offense at all ! by the way messi was recruited at the age of 13 and yes he had a hormones problems BUT he started in the argentine´s fields ... barca gave him a nice world to groove up.
notice the difficulty American players have with first touch....very noticable. We need to really work on first touch. Tab Ramos said it in 2011. The biggest difference at the international level is first touch.
idk, ive been trying to figure out a solution to that too. im wondering if every single way can be adapted with just the use of small cones and pylons. im fairly certain they can. maybe try and find a student taking athletic therapy or physio to work out a program for you. they'll do it for free because it will count to any of their practical hours. all you need to do is sign a sheet confirming that some 10 year olds have massively increased perfomance and strenght :) gotta start somewhere
Hi I didn't catch what he said as to 'why the two coloured mannequins are placed in front of the goals to shoot at', could someone please explain cheers :)
i think he put a one just inside the post so it was a good place for the lads to aim, and should they hit them , they have put the ball in the best place and its harder for the keeper to save it
Any program should start with teaching them functional movement and running mechanics. Then layer in the speed and agility. The basis of all movement is mechanics. Sorry George I believe what is lacking in a good soccer program these days are the teaching of fundamental skills in movement. It is all about winning and scoring goals which leads to poor mechanics and more injured players. From the video every single player that featured in the drills would benefit from some form of functional movement training before doing running or jumping over high hurdles..happy to come out and assist with a masterclass in athletic movement at your training sessions. Would be my privelege..
Hi Duane, I agree with your statement about movement skills being important in young kids today. And to help them play soccer and any sport in general I guess. I coach soccer so like thinking about ways to help kids become better players. And to help them move, become more coordinated and agile etc. Judging by your response, I am assuming you know a thing or two about developing movement skills. A question for you then, is what is the best way to help develop movement skills - especially in younger players up until the age of 11. Is it best to use ladders, comes etc. like above, or by letting them play in unstructured games like tag and chase games where they are moving in all different directions and stuff? Games are more like playground games of old?
Hi Emily I am happy to assist you for sure. Send me an email to duane@rapidspeed.com.au and we can start the conversation. So sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I only just saw the notification in my Google account.:(Hope to hear from you soon. Cheers Duane:)
No it's me too. What's wrong with them all being white exactly? What's wrong with them all being Asian, Hispanic, African American? Nothing. Nothing at all. Does EVERY single group have to ethically diverse for it to be acceptable?
No it's me too. What's wrong with them all being white exactly? What's wrong with them all being Asian, Hispanic, African American? Nothing. Nothing at all. Does EVERY single group have to ethically diverse for it to be acceptable?
