"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
