PRINCIPLES OF MOVEMENT:
The most valuable thing I bring to the table is that I was a young elite level athlete myself! During my playing and coaching career I have participated in and seen many conditioning sessions. Unfortunately we had to go by what we thought worked. Never did we know much about scientific measures and principles especially when it came to periodization and rest cycles or how to actually change student's bad habits that effected technical and tactical decisions on the field. Through research and development I have become an Athletic Development Specialist dedicated to those principles set down by the International Youth Conditioning Association and the International Sport Science Association (15 years).
A prerequisite of being a quality athlete is the ability to correctly and efficiently move your body. Unfortunately physical eduction is being phased out in many school systems precisely the time our students need it most. The result? We see soccer players who cannot run, accelerate, decelerate, skip or jump correctly along the three angles of movement.
- Lateral Movement
- Linear Movement
- Angular Movement
Teaching young athletes how to perform these critical elements of sporting success is the undeniable key to becoming a champion.
DEVELOPING THE COMPLETE ATHLETE is a simple and detailed plan that takes young athletes from A-Z in terms of speed and agility training. This systematic program serves as your road map for making your youngster the fastest on the field. This system is developed by the International Youth Conditioning Association founders Brian Grasso and Dr. Kwame Brown and in use world-wide. This system has been field tested on more than 15,000 young athletes worldwide and changed the lives of countless Coaches, Trainers and Parents. The program is age group appropriately designed to make enhance the student's efficiency as an athlete and to assist in the prevention of injuries through the development of:
- Balance
- Spatial Awareness
- Kinesthetic Differentiation
- Rhythm
- Movement Adequacy
Over 4.5 million kids will get injured playing sports this year in the United States alone! 45% of thee injuries will be non-contact related.
"If you don't know where you're going, you won't ever get there" - Alwyn Cosgrove
"Before you can move fast, you must be able to move first" - Brian Grasso