Robert Bahedry is highly recommended, he's been doing "privates" for years, he's coached several of the Boys/Girls Premier Teams At Santa Monica Surf, Santa Monica United, long time coach, very intense and can get any player to the next level and beyond (he was my older DD's asst. coach on her G98 Premier Team, helped my younger DD also, they both play college soccer in upstate NY) rbahedry@gmail.com or rbahedry@gmail.com tell him Carl (Zoe & Mia's Dad) highly recommended him
Robert Bahedry is highly recommended, he's been doing "privates" for years, he's coached several of the Boys/Girls Premier Teams At Santa Monica Surf, Santa Monica United, long time coach, very intense and can get any player to the next level and beyond (he was my older DD's asst. coach on her G98 Premier Team, helped my younger DD also, they both play college soccer in upstate NY) rbahedry@gmail.com or rbahedry@gmail.com tell him Carl (Zoe & Mia's Dad) highly recommended him
I’m not a fan of personal training because I think it’s overrated and of limited value.
My kids team provides one weekly group and one individual session for my kid so I have never had to find one on my own.
If the kid needs skill to push them over the top, then 1 x 1 is perfect and there are lots of great skill coaches. If it is mental, that is another issue. Read Michael Lewis' great book "playing to win". Either a kid will have the drive or they will not, cannot force them--doesn't work. Sadly Michael Lewis' daughter just passed a week or so ago. RIP.
www.soccerdomination.com
Thanks for sharing and dude is from my community!
I highly recommend using Dan Abrahams online academy. He's a sports psychologist and many premier league professionals use him, Harry Kane, Trent, etc. The video's are excellent and gives some great, easy to remember simple methods to improve performance. I really saw a big improvement with my son.
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Thanks. I had my son read Dan Abrahams' book but will look at the online option.I highly recommend using Dan Abrahams online academy. He's a sports psychologist and many premier league professionals use him, Harry Kane, Trent, etc. The video's are excellent and gives some great, easy to remember simple methods to improve performance. I really saw a big improvement with my son.
Dan Abrahams Soccer Academy - Online Soccer Psychology Programme
The Dan Abrahams Soccer Academy is an online sport psychology programme helping players, coaches and parents learn game-changing mental skills techniques.
the trainers I've used over the years have each brought something different to the sessions, 1 was more of a core, strength trainer, (an ex-UCLA player) we met years ago when my DD's were little. I hired her when I knew I could no longer keep my relationship as a dad and someone that was constantly pushing to make them better without losing something (mostly the Dad relationship*). They both were self motivated about their training and took a few weeks off during the summer months but, both worked very hard. That trainer was able to work on their core strength during off seasons, the goal was to avoid major knee injuries which was a success . I knew her well and could give her ideas on what I was looking for as I feel a parent will know best their own kids strengths and weaknesses. This trainer we used for 3-4 off seasons. Another was more about mental part of the game, (Robert, he was also my oldest DD's asst. coach and knew her well, having him work with our youngest was easy as they were always together and he did fill in on occasion to coach her team when her head coach had another game), he was much more intense, could get to the bottom of what they were thinking about mentally, using their drive to push them to always look at how to make their game better, how to push yourself when you didn't think you had anything left and just being a good person & teammate. Not as easy to put that one into words but, it's almost as if I was doing the training as our thoughts about the game were very similar. My personal opinion is, if your kid has the drive to push themselves, find the "right" coach to help them, don't think you can do this yourself past the age of 13-14, there's going to a lot of other things you'll need to guide them on and it will effect your relationship if you push too hard. Both my DD's have taken that self motivation on through college play, the oldest just graduated, is moving on from the game to grad school, she still has the same work ethic in her post soccer career and our youngest DD has 2 more years of college soccer left, she's self motivated and hopefully, they play this season! Best of luck to everyone, enjoy the journey and just let it happen (just make sure you're guiding it!)
you didn't mention how old your DD is however, the best thing for that is Futsal, just take her to play, sit, watch, let her make decisions, don't coach. The game is fast and decisions need to be made fast and she'll have a blast and it's as much fun watching
Thank you. Glad to hear this. She is 12 and loves futsal. I need to find her some leagues where she can join an existing team. Too many parents in her team don’t want to do futsal so I need to find her a futsal team.
I think Futsal is good if played with immigrant kids. I don’t think Futsal helps much if played with white and black kids that aren’t from immigrant communities because those kids tend to have low soccer IQ’s due the lack of soccer culture in their community.
