The first lesson is typically a broad overview (assuming you're wanting multiple lessons), so I can get a good idea of the athletes skill in every important area in soccer. Firstly, I ask what you're looking to accomplish, and tailor the 1st session with an aim of helping a decent amount with that goal. But also incorporating a wide variety of drills. This will depend upon the skill level, but will include passing, shooting, dribbling, 1v1, juggling, skill moves, etc.
11+ is for people who are truly invested in improving. At this point and beyond, we delve into not just 1 or 2 skills, but all of them, how they intersect, how and when to use them, and how to translate them into the real game. This is where I see athletes become masters of their own skills over time. This is why I coach, so that I can witness athletes develop to a point where they no longer need me, because the lessons and skills are so ingrained that they become their own coach.
This is where you really start noticing dramatic improvements. We focus on the advanced forms of what we covered in days 1-3. We take those fundamentals learned (and fundamentals does not mean "easy" in any way), and we build upon them and refine them to be 2nd nature, muscle memory. After this point, you will have gained considerable improvements in at least a couple areas, if not more.
This will be where we first start focusing more on a single skill or a couple at a time in each lesson. This is where most of the progress will just start taking shape. I focus on whatever I've evaluated (and what the athlete or parent decides) is the most important skill to improve upon. And address any further ones in lesson 4-10.
1st I ask what you want to accomplish with private lessons. From there, I do focus on that in the 1st lesson, but I always encourage the athlete to allow me to do a broad overview for the 1st training so I can identify the strengths and areas needing improvement. This will be the foundation for the future lessons. I can teach you whatever you'd like to learn, and act as a high level competitor.
1. Fundamental forms for dribbling, passing, skill moves, shooting, defending, etc. This can be quick if they're advanced or take multiple lessons if they're not advanced.
2. Drills geared towards the athletes goals.
3. 1v1 scenarios and game like scenarios
For advanced athletes, after 10 lessons, we continue with the "broadening phase" in that we cover a wide variety of skills. However, now they become more specific into each of those broader skills. Meaning, within each category, take skill moved for instance, there are many particular moves you could master. We could have a lesson geared just towards fake shots because there's many ways to use them, many ways to make the fake, and takes a while to master and make it believe able. This is what I mean by a specific focus within the broad all encompassing skills of soccer.
This is where you start mastering a particular focus if you have one. Or it is where we start delving into a variety of different skills, and see how they connect, how to think like a pro, how to do the little things that professional players do. Once again, there's no plan, but typically this is a broadening phase of the path, where we go beyond the 1 or 2 goals the athlete has and expand their horizons and skill set to be more well rounded.
This is where we hone in on repetition for the particular goal the athlete set out to accomplish. You will begin to see decent improvements and will learn how to see your success and errors on your own more easily after these sessions.
I don't have a planned activity list, because it literally changes based on everyone I coach.
