The Best Way To Use 6 Weeks To Soccer Magic
Both On & Off Season

When kids are attempting to learn a new skill that is based on performance, they learn best by watching how it is done and then practicing it over and over until “performance patterns” have been created.  That’s Step #1.

Step #2 is perhaps the more important step.  Step #2 involves having enough repetition in a certain way that allows the performance patterns to become “automated” - so the young soccer player doesn’t have to stop and think about what to do, but rather just performs the skill on the soccer field in a way that seems effortless.

If you’re a parent or coach, you’ve seen this.  Certain soccer players perform 2-3 moves during a game that appear to be as easy for them as tying their soccer shoes.  They don’t “think” about what they’re doing... they just do it.  That’s because they’ve practiced those moves in such a way that allowed them to become unconscious, automatic patterns of movement. The moves have literally become “part of them” so to speak.

Now, you can achieve this level of automated performance the hard way... or the easy way. The hard way is to watch a live human being do a particular movement or perform a particular skill, and then try to emulate them from memory.  The easy way is to “visually” embed the memory pattern by watching the skill or movement over and over again, provided that it is demonstrated to you the EXACT same way every time WITHOUT ANY VARIATION.

That is the power of using video as a learning tool, particularly in situations where a young soccer player is trying to learn a skill or movement they have never seen or tried before.  The soccer student can watch the same, consistently-performed movement over and over, and in the process, “internalize” it until they can almost see and feel themselves performing it like the model they watched.  Again, very powerful.

When the 6 Weeks To Soccer Magic Video Soccer Training System was created, this is exactly how it was “engineered”  to be used, as a training tool by young soccer players.  Yes, for sure it can be used as a “how-to instructional tool”, and that is how many parents and coaches encourage their players to use it.  But more importantly, if a soccer player simply sits in front of the TV or computer screen and watches the video training clips more often (almost daily in the beginning), they will learn and be able to perform the demonstrated drills, skills, and movements in about half the usual time.

Here are several suggestions for the best way to use the 6 Weeks To Soccer Magic Video Soccer Training System:

1) The 6 Weeks To Soccer Magic Video Soccer Training System is used more effectively when supported with a weekly training schedule.  Each week, a parent or coach should sit down with their young soccer player(s) and actually schedule the days and times they plan on practicing with the program.  This is best done on a Sunday for preparation of the upcoming week.

2) After watching all the soccer training video clips for the upcoming Week’s Training program, take a few additional minutes and with the Weekly Progress & Assessment Chart for that week in hand, simply mark the days and times your soccer player agrees to use the program at the top of the Chart.  This helps to “seal” their commitment to using the training program on a consistent basis.

3) Each training session of the week need only last 30-40 minutes. This has been time-tested over and over again with young trainees in this age group.  Our research shows that after about 40 minutes of concentrated and focused practice, young soccer players begin to get tired, make mistakes, and begin to develop a negative attitude toward home practice.  Yet, 40 minutes provides plenty of time for the average trainee to not only learn each of the demonstrated drills and skills, but perform them to a point of “mastery” in a very short period.

4) At the end of each week of training, the trainee should complete the “assessment portion” of the Weekly Progress & Assessment Chart. If they can answer each of the questions with a “yes” response, then they are ready to move to the next week of the program.  On the other hand, if they feel they need more work on the drills and exercises for that week, then they should repeat the week.  In every instance, your young player should progress through the program at their own pace.

To start helping your daughter reach her full soccer potential in just a few short days from now...