“To progress in sport takes practice and coaching, and to achieve mastery of a skill takes 10,000 hours of purposeful and specific practice”
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story Of Success
To make your practice purposeful and specific you need guidance from a qualified coach
International/national/club sports teams have coaches and/or managers guiding their performances and many top individual sport players have personal coaches. The Williams sisters were famously taught tennis by their father Richard, Butch Harmon taught golf to Tiger Woods, Jurgen Grobler coached Steve Redgrave and the rest of the famous four to Olympic rowing gold and Angelo Dundee was coach to Muhammad Ali.
Teams have taken specific coaching to a new level and have specialised skills coaches; American football teams have a defence coach, an offense coach and a kicking coach, the England cricket team have Graham Gooch as there batting coach and Bruce French as their wicketkeeping coach, and Ray Clemence is England’s football goalkeeping coach.
Coaching by definition is:
“A process that enables learning and development to occur and thus performance to improve”
Eric Parsloe, The Manager as Coach and Mentor
To develop our skills further we need to keep learning to be pushed out of our comfort zone and extend our boundaries to produce a more skilful performance.
Serious Cricket offers players of all ages and abilities a variety of courses and one-to-one coaching to improve their game.
Our courses include:
Masterclasses for 12+ year olds
Test your batting/bowling/fielding technique, game play and fitness on our intensive day long course. You will be in the nets, on the bowling machine and play in an indoor game. A great way to practice your skills before the season starts!
Holiday courses
These are action-packed cricket courses that will ensure all participants learn and develop a variety of batting, bowling and fielding skills. Our holiday courses include exciting drills and games and are ideally suited to school or club players.
The Complete Cricket Experience
The opportunity to practice and develop your skills on our complete cricket experience course. Your batting and bowling skills will be pushed to the max by one of our Serious Cricket coaches. The junior course involves one hour of net practice, bowling machine practice and an indoor game. The senior course involves two hours of net practice, bowling machine practice, video analysis and an indoor game.
Personal Video Coaching
Online coaching is a unique opportunity for you to access personal video coaching from our panel of highly qualified cricket coaches. You are also able to download drills and skills to improve your game.
Video Analysis Workshops
The specialist batting and bowling video analysis courses are designed to work on technical modifications to improve your game. Using video analysis the two coaches will give advice on how to take your game forward. Specialist workshops are limited to six people only and are suitable for club players and above. Wicket keeping workshops are available by request.
Our coaches are ECB level three qualified and are available throughout the year. To book a session at the Dummer Cricket Centre, Basingstoke please call us on 01256 398633 or visit our website.
If you don’t live close by, why not enjoy an on-line coaching session on-line at www.seriouscricketcoaching.com or even check out our coaching drills tips and practices?
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