"Hard work always overcomes natural talent, when natural talent doesn't work hard" - Sir Alex Ferguson
SESSIONS - ELITE SOCCER DEVELOPMENT
WABA offers a wide variety of technical, tactical & physical sessions that can be mixed & matched. Choose the sessions that dovetail into your Annual Development Plan or that address specific goals & challenges. WABA's sessions are built around a weekly periodization schedule that match Chicago's top soccer academies & clubs. Sessions are 60, 90, 120 & 150 minutes long with most session starting with a dynamic or plyometric warm-up. They finish with a complementary 15-30 minute balance, strength & conditioning session or myofascial release work. Athletes are encouraged to arrive 30 minutes early for self directed Ball Calibration™.
PHYSICALITY/ASSESS
Assess 60™
XA Summers™
SESSION - VIDEOS
GAMES/PRIVATES/CAMPS
PHILOSOPHIES
Experimentation, Creativity & Restraints
Player Development - 8 Sided Model Model
25/50/25 Matrix - Balancing Development Activities
Parents are The Hub
Homeostasis, OTL™, OOCZ™
Kit Promotion Levels
Sequences & Precision - Streatching Mind & Body
ADDITIONAL - VIDEOS
VISITORS
MLS Chief of Staff, Nelson Rodriguez
Author & Influencer, Tom Byer
Northwestern - Men's Head Coach, Russell Payne
NCAA D1 Coach of the Year, Marcus DiBernardo
USMNT - U19 Head Coach, Marco Mitrovic
Arsenal FC - Academy Coach, Josh Hinckson
Fulham FC - Academy Coach, Oliver Hinckson
WEEKLY INSPIRE
Monday - Back to Practice
Wednesday - Learn & Books
Friday - Game Ready
TOP-IT™
Top-It™ Skills
Top-It™ Records
Top-It™ Mastery Cards
HOLISTIC
Big Goals™ Workshop
Big Goals™ Mentor
Tactical Talk™
"Readers are Leaders"™
Mind Matters™
Social Me™
Financial Literacy
College Bound™
FASTTT says it all, the ultimate goal, be the fastest! How fast can you think, react & move. In this breakthrough session foot skill mastery meets top speeds. The idea is to push your speed OTL™ (over the line) of what you can and can't do. If you can you do 11 rollover tap taps in 10 seconds can you push it to 12, 13, oe even 15... Getting OOCZ™ (out of comfort zones) is the key to advancement in all WABA sessions.
FASTTT™ Feet combines interval training for 30 second periods focusing on Form, Accuracy & Style followed by burst anaerobic interval training for 10 second periods, trying to push Tempo OTL™. The final step in FASTTT™ is to measure Time and Touches to track results. This session also combines speed passing and small sided possession games to move your newly acquired speed to game realistic situations.
FASTTT™ FEET
Duration: 75-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 7-9
Instruction: 5 to 10-Minutes
Maximum Athletes: 9
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 8
Eyez-Up™ is a footskills mastery program designed to teach players how to attack and move on ball with their head and "Eyes-Up". The key to this is to become one with the ball, know where it is by touch, repetition & instinct. Our progressive training modules give players confidence and the tools to master Eyez-Up™ with the ultimate challenges of executing blindfolded footskills effortlessly for 60 seconds.
Duration: 75-Minutes plus Warm-Up & ConditioningIntensity: 4-6
Instruction: 10-15%
Maximum Athletes: 9
Levels: Intermediate & Above
Membership Credits: 6
Some say "Let the game be the teacher", WABA focuses on this belief heavily in the WABA Games played during most sessions. WABA's development philosophy combines skill mastery exercises to quickly learn and master moves with daily games. Cones demand precision ball control movements emulating a defenders foot. By combining the game with high repetition skills work we believe development is supercharged & success in the game is achieved quicker vs. game play alone.
Krazy Kones™ session's combine foot skill work with varying repetitive cone sequences that progress to cone attacking exercises. Freestyle landmine exercises (seen in the video) are the next step taking static exercised to the decision making stage. Ultimately the acquired skills are then transfered to fully opposed decision making situations in attacking & small sided WABA Games.
KRAZY KONES™
Duration: 75-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 6-8
Instruction: 5-10%
Maximum Athletes: 8
Recommended Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
Fake & Escape™, sounds quite simple but it's not. Deception is one of the most valuable traits a footballer can possess and one of the most artful to execute. This session is filled with highly detailed demonstration & instruction focusing on each & every touch & movement of our 25 F&E attacking skills. Footballers learn to Fake & Escape to shoot, pass & possess the ball. Progressing from learning skills to attacking on a mannequins and culminating with Traffic™ & Fake & Escape™ small sided games. Players focus on being comfortable having personal possession & being creatively deceptive.
Duration: 75-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 4-6
Instruction: 15-25%
Maximum Athletes: 8
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
Attacking, the most critical skill that is needed to score. But it is much more than a skill, that's why we call this session Total Attack™. Combine your foot skills, field awareness, decision making, creative problem solving, deception, confidence, athleticism, & finishing to triumph in 1v1, 2v1 & 1v2, 3, 4, 5 situations. With 100+ attacking sequences per session players get comfortable & confident on the attack in these intense, highly opposed exercises.
Some experts say street soccer is a missing component in US soccer global success. In Total Attack™ we fabricate street soccer situations with numbers down (underload) attacking games & situation where players are free to experiment & compete.
Duration: 75-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 7-9
Instruction: 5-15%
Maximum Athletes: 6
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
WABA's Ball Calibration™ sessions are possibly the greatest activity a young footballer can do to move the needle on their technical skills. These sessions teach athletes 15, 30 & 45 minute ball calibration routines that activate the most critical surfaces & movements. Recommended to be done with a dynamic warm-up before every practice & game.
Ball calibration has 3 main goals:
1. Preparedness - be your best at the first whistle
2. Mastery - up to 1200 hours of quality touches
3. Identification - stand out at games, trials & showcases
Session Duration: 60-Minutes
Intensity: 3-4
Instruction: 15-25%
Maximum Athletes: 4
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
BALL CALIBRATION™
Sharpen up your passing & receiving while mastering lightning fast decision making. Learn Barca's famous Tiki-Taka style of possession that they practice 125 hours annually. Every Super Rondo™ session is intense and competitive with dozens of rondo games rotated weekly. Included in these sessions footballers learn WABA's 10 ways to receive and distribute a ball focusing on body shape, bad pass correction & deceptive problem solving.
Perfect your first touch and speed of play by combing Super Rondo™, Fireball™, B-Touch™ & Whip-It™ Aerial sessions.
Duration: 75-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 5-7
Instruction: 10-15%
Maximum Athletes: 9
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
Duration: 75-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 5-7
Instruction: 10-15%
Maximum Athletes: 4
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
How do you handle a crazy hot ball? In most team practices the focus is on giving clean & smooth passes to your teammates. The problem is in games there are many crazy hot balls that come your way. This session focuses on passing & receiving with settling crazy hot balls. Fireball™ and Blaster™ small sided games are played in this session to increase the challenge and intensity of this small group session.
Perfect your first touch and speed of play by combing Fireball™, B-Touch™, Whip-It™ Aerial & Super Rondo™ sessions.
B-Touch stands for Beautiful Touch. This session focusses on taking a great first touch from a ball chipped or slammed into a rebounder and then quickly finishing. In B-Touch reaction time is as critical as a good first touch. By using the specialized markings & targets in a WABA Pitch precision touches and finishing become second nature.
Perfect your first touch and speed of play by combing B-Touch™, Fireball™, Whip-It™ Aerial & Super Rondo™ sessions.
Duration: 75-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 4-6
Instruction: 5-15%
Maximum Athletes: 6
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
One word says it all...Boom! That's the Boom! of a well struck ball, the Boom! of your heart when the ball graces the back of the net to win the championship, the Boom! of your teammates, friends & family screaming victoriously.
This is the most advance finishing instruction in the marketplace. Precise biomechanics of proper finishing techniques are detailed in each session with slow motion video feedback. Sessions start with finishing specific, balance & foot placement exercises. Followed by exercises that breakdown the details of proper technique. Then practice, practice, practice...ending with competitive finishing games.
WABA teaches power laces, impact knuckleball, inside placement, toe poke, outside foot, plus inside dipping & curling shots. Advanced players can move their game to the highest level with sidewinder, scissors & bicycle kick private sessions. Included in Boom!™ Finishing WABA teaches chips, lifts & flicks. As a bonus, a day never goes by at WABA without seeing a rainbow.
Duration: 75-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 3-5
Instruction: 15-30%
Maximum Athletes: 4
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 9
Whip-It™ Description Coming Soon
Duration: 75-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 5-7
Instruction: 5-15%
Maximum Athletes: 6
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
WHIP-IT!™ AERIAL
Airborne™ Description Coming Soon
Duration: 75-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 5-7
Instruction: 5-10%
Maximum Athletes: 9
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
AIRBORNE™
Juggling Roadmap™, the Secret to a Precise Touch & Perfect Control! Juggling Roadmap’s™ main principle is for the ball to always be in absolute control, in contrast to a player just responding to where the ball is going. Players focus on the weight of the touch, 5 different heights & direction control. Learning to juggle with all surfaces of the foot & body. At WABA players juggle 20 different types of balls on 5 different surfaces. They sometimes juggle 1, 2 and even 3 balls at a time with their boots on or barefoot. The goal is to raise the “Struggle Level” for mastery & high level success. Join a WABA juggling session & travel the road to absolute ball control success.
Duration: 60/75-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 3-5
Instruction: 5-15%
Maximum Athletes: 9
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
JUGGLING ROADMAP™
Formato™ Freestyle Description Coming Soon
Duration: 75-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 3-5
Instruction: 15-25%
Maximum Athletes: 9
Levels: All (must be able to juggle 25 times)
Membership Credits: 8
FORMATO™ FREESTYLE
Xtreme Athleticism™ Description Coming Soon
Duration: 60 & 75-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 7-9
Instruction: 5-15%
Maximum Athletes: 10
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6 & 8
XTREME ATHLETICISM™
Pilates For Soccer Description Coming Soon
PILATES FOR SOCCER™
Duration: 45-Minutes
Intensity: 6-9
Instruction: 5-15%
Maximum Athletes: 8
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
TRX Description Coming Soon
TRX
Duration: 45-Minutes
Intensity: 7-9
Instruction: 5-15%
Maximum Athletes: 8
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
Kinga Ginga™ Description Coming Soon
KINGA GINGA™
Duration: 75-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 4-6
Instruction: 5-10%
Maximum Athletes: 9
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
Skills Assess™ Description Coming Soon
Duration: 60-Minutes
Intensity: 4-6
Instruction: 15-25%
Maximum Athletes: 6
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
SKILLS ASSESS™
WABA™ Games Description Coming Soon
Duration: 90-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 7-9
Instruction: 5-10%
Maximum Athletes: 9
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
WABA™ GAMES
WABA™ Leagues Description Coming Soon
Duration: 90-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 7-9
Instruction: 5-10%
Maximum Athletes: 9
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 6
WABA™ LEAGUES
Private Lessons Description Coming Soon
PRIVATE LESSONS
Session Duration: 60/90-Minutes
Intensity: 4-8
Instruction: 10-20%
Maximum Athletes: 1
Levels: All (great for beginners-elite)
Membership Credits: 12/18 Studio & 15/22 Main Pitch
Immersion Camps™ fulfill a footballers desire to consume a full or half day of complete soccer. These amazing sessions are filled with warm-ups, skills, athletics, cognitive exercises, nutritional and recovery training. WABA camps are made complete with intense contests, competitive game & serious soccer fun.
Session Duration: 150 & 360-Minutes
Intensity: 4-8
Instruction: 5-15%
Maximum Athletes: 8
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 14 & 24
IMMERSION CAMPS™ - MINI & FULL
WABA provides unique team training experiences focusing on heightened technical skills, quicker decision making, Xtreme Athleticism™ & team building exercises. Personalized programs from one-time visits to a complete curriculum are available for U6-U19 Club, MLS Next Academy, US Club Soccer, ECNL, High School, College, Adult & Pro teams. Take your game to the next level with WABA Development - WABAON!
Session Duration: 60 to 180-Minutes
Intensity: 4-9
Instruction: 5-15%
Maximum Athletes: 12
Recommended Levels: All
Membership Credits: Call
TEAM TRAINING
WABstAcle™ Games Description Coming Soon
WABstAcles™
Session Duration: 90-Minutes
Intensity: 5-8
Instruction: 5-15%
Maximum Athletes: 6
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 8
Brazilian Beach Soccer Session
Duration: 75/90-Minutes plus Warm-Up & Conditioning
Intensity: 7-9
Instruction: 5-10%
Maximum Athletes: 15
Levels: All
Membership Credits: 8
BRAZILIAN BEACH SOCCER™