Goalie training programme
Falcons Hockey Academy and Spartan Hockey very proud to announce the
Falcons/Spartan Goalie training programme for the 2013/14 season.
20 weeks of full on goalie training for established club keeper and young up
and coming ones also.
This programme also looks at coaching development to be taken back to club
training.
A bit about Spartan Hockey
Spartan was founded in 2006 by Steve Bayer and Grahame Mansell-Grace (Panda)
as they worked together on a project at Loughborough University looking at
Sports Personal Protective Equipment, primarily Field Hockey Goalie gear.
Steve was coming to the end of his National League career and as Panda
coached him, they decided to set up Spartan to do things no one else was
doing. And in 2013 we are the UK’s go to company for specialist coaching
They have now both coached at International level and Steve was the GB
Women’s Goalie Coach at the London Olympics where they won the Bronze medal.
Panda have been coaching since he stopped playing 20 years ago and has
worked with England, Wales and USA at various levels in that period.
As a kid Panda loved the film “300 Spartans” and the fascination of not
letting anyone or thing pass and the strength of a Spartan warrior was an
obvious choice for the company name. The 2 main philosophies of “Simple &
Disciplined” and “No Retreat, No Surrender” are the backbone of our
coaching.
About the programme,
If you have been watching England’s Ladies in the Euros last month you would
have seen how much a team relies on a trained goalkeeper. Maddie Hinch’s
heroic keeping in the semi-final was no fluke, but years of focused training
for Maddie with specialist coaches from Spartan Hockey.
It is open to all, the young (13+) and not so young, as we are running
senior and Junior sessions (up to 17 year olds)
Senior sessions will include back to basics, fitness, game awareness and
continuous improvement to take back to their respective clubs.
Junior sessions will also include the County JDC and JAC training hopefully
directing our keepers to JRPC.
The JRPC experience shows the value of focus keeper training as their
movement and awareness has really improved, however this is only available
to a select few and if you’re under 17!
So we have great opportunity for junior goalies aged13-16 and senior goalies
aged 17 onwards to be coached by a dedicated team focused solely on goalie
improvement.
Coaching opportunities
This programme is also about coaching development. We aim to teach coaches
how to engage and training keepers so they may take what they have learnt
back to their respective clubs.
Dates and Cost
Sessions start on Monday 23rd September at Malcolm Arnold School
1930-2100hrs, and in total there will be 20 session over the season. The
cost for the whole programme is £100.
To sign up now or for further information please email:
[email protected]