Coaches Clinics

08/21/2008

Dear Coaches

I hope everybody had a great summer and that you are all looking forward to another successful fall season. I would just like to introduce myself as the new Director of coaching and show you what is available in the next few months.

Coaches Clinic
I have put together a coach’s clinic, which will be running weekly, with different age groups and topics to benefit each coach. It will run for an hour and a half, 30 minute theory and 1 hour of practical. I will post a session plan on the website each week for the coaches to download. The schedule is below:

		FALL Coaches Clinic's .		Location for Theory 7:00 - 7:30	Location for Practical 7:30 to 8:30
Date	Time	Age	Topic	Location for Theory 7:00 - 7:30	Location for Practical 7:30 to 8:30
Tuesday September 23rd	7:00pm - 8:30pm	U7/U8	Dribbling / Spatial Awareness	High School Classroom 142S	High School Practice Fields
Tuesday September 30th	7:00pm - 8:30pm	U9/U10	Short passing / Control	No School - looking for location	High School Practice Fields
Tuesday October 7th	7:00pm - 8:30pm	U11/U12	One touch passing / movement off the ball	High School Classroom 142S	High School Practice Fields
Tuesday October 14th	7:00pm - 8:30pm	U7/U8	Dribbling / Turning / Change of speed	High School Classroom 142S	High School Practice Fields
Tuesday October 21st	7:00pm - 8:30pm	U9/U10	Short passing / give 'n' go pass	High School Classroom 142S	High School Practice Fields
Tuesday October 28th	7:00pm - 8:30pm	U11/U12	Passing into space / support play	High School Classroom 142S	High School Practice Fields
Tuesday November 4th	7:00pm - 8:30pm	U7/U8	Short passing / Control	No School - looking for location	High School Practice Field

The room is 142S in the High School. Walk in the front/main door and take a right. It is the second classroom on your right.

Goalie and Striker Clinics
I will be offering these two clinics Monday afternoons, and they will also run for an hour. This season we will be charging the kids $60 for the 6 week program. All information will be posted on the website in the next few weeks.

The clinics start on Monday September 22nd

Strikers - 4:00 - 5:00pm
Goalies - 5:00 - 6:00pm

There are only 16 places available in both clinics. To sign up for one of these slots – please click on this link http://www.abys.org/form-striker-goalie-clinics.htm and fill out the information and submit your form.

Team Practices
We have a new PDO this fall and will be offering both of our services to all coaches and their teams. This means you can have a MLS coach come to your practice. We can take the whole practice and show you new drills you haven’t seen before or come and watch and give you hints and tips on what to do. All you need to do is email me at coachtimhallett@gmail.com and arrange a time and date.

Also just wanted to remind all coaches how important it is to do a warm up and warm down in your practices. At U10 and below you will just need to get them moving without a ball and then with a ball (simple games of tag). Then at U11 you should introduce a more serious warm up with stretches and basic movements. At U12 and above you start doing soccer specific movements (dynamic stretching). The link below is a good video going through a dynamic warm-up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXOlbtx7DZY

I look forward to a really good fall season and wish everybody the best of luck.

Yours Sincerely

Tim Hallett
ABYS Director of Coaching