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What is our Sport Prep Training Program and what is it intended to
accomplish?
Who is eligible to participate?
When will it be held?
How much does it cost and how do you join?
Who is the running the program?
Who do you contact if you have any questions?
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What is our Sport Prep Training Program and what is it intended to
accomplish?
Strength,
coordination, and flexibility are essential to all sports endeavors.
When young athletes have a firm grounding in these fundamentals, it
enhances their ability to succeed and excel at any sport they choose.
Our twenty-plus years of experience in youth sports has shown us that
children who have conquered basic athletic skills tend to learn the
mechanics of all sports more quickly, and in doing so, build a greater
degree of self-confidence and self-esteem through sports participation.
In
addition, since all sports pose some potential for injury, learning
about safety should be an important part of any sports preparation
program.
That is what our new Sport Preparation Training program is about.
With the help of experienced professionals, who have structured and will
run this program, your children will get a jump start onto a smart path
toward safe physical competency and confidence.
Using
fun games, the sessions will teach skills that apply to all athletic
endeavors - balance, weight transfer, coordination of gross motor
movements, flexibility, how to fall safely, and more. Indirectly they
will learn how to take direction and execute progressively more
complicated tasks. The games will also provide the opportunity to
teach strategy, teamwork and healthy competition. (We do not believe in
avoiding competition, but rather teaching it in a positive environment
where the competition occurs in the context of group competition or
competing against one’s previous accomplishments. We do not believe in
pitting individuals against individuals at an early age.)
The
basic elements will then be integrated into sports specific actions,
such as hand-eye coordination, ball control, and so on; giving them a
strong foundation of physical skills and the confidence to undertake any
sport.
In
the mix we will add the fundamentals of building strength, aerobic
conditioning, proper hydration, proper diet to attain the body's proper
chemical balances and to avoid obesity, and teach them how to gain
mental control through visualization and other proven state-of-the-art
techniques.
This program is part of our continuing effort to improve the experience
of our players. It is an outgrowth of our coaches’ support programs --
programs intended to help our volunteer-parent coaches enjoy their dual
role as player-parents and team coaches, and to impart meaningful
lessons to all their players.
Who is eligible to participate?
We
envision this coed program to serve boys and girls from four through ten
years old. However, we must walk before we run, so the fall 2010
sessions will be limited to 7 and 8 year old participants. We expect
this to expand rapidly (possibly as soon as this winter), so please
return to this section of our site regularly and keep an eye out for our
emails.
When will it be held?
The Sports Prep
Clinic will be comprised of eight 60 minute sessions each Saturday at
9am at PS 282 starting in September 18, 2010 and ending the week
before Thanksgiving on November 13,2010.
How much does it cost and how do you join?
Registration is now open.
Click here to register. The eight
Saturday sessions will cost a total of $150.
Who is the running the program?
We are lucky to have
obtained the leadership and participation of David Robinson to help us
create and run this program. David has been involved in the education
and physical training of children for more than fifteen years. Many of
our parents and kids know David because he was the Athletic Director and
Physical Education Teacher for a public elementary/Middle
school located in the Carroll Gardens area from 1998-2006.
David is certified
as a personal trainer by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and as a
Child Fitness Specialist through the East Coast Instructor Training
School (ECITS). He also holds NY State Child Abuse and Violence
Prevention certifications.
David is also a 7th
degree black belt who teaches Jujitsu and Aerobic Thai boxing.
Additionally, he develops self defense, and violence prevention seminars
for children and adults and creates and conducts adult fitness boot camp
classes.
Aside from his
personal training and martial arts work, he is currently a Guidance
Counselor for a Alternative public high school in Manhattan.
David will be
assisted by other highly qualified instructors.
Who do you contact if you have any questions?
If
you have any questions, feel free to email us at
sportsprep@78pyc.org
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