Changing how we think about football performance!
Services
We want to make speed accessible for everyone, we teach youth, high school, collegiate and professional coaches how to embrace evidence-based coaching ideas.
Membership
Our membership is designed to give you access to resources at your fingertips, allowing you to develop and up skill to create faster players.
Courses and Programs
Our courses and programs are designed for you to explore a deeper understanding of football and speed, giving you confidence in delivering speed to your players.
Coaching CPD (Consultancy)
CPD is often hard with the demands of academy football, we offer an excellent CPD program that will up-skill your staff and give them a deeper understanding and practical experience of speed development and small-sided games.
We supports club in changing the way coaches and players think about speed and performance. We do this by going into the club setting and offering CPD events to support coaches with practical and educational seminars to improve performance and speed.
We offer schools support on developing speed and athletic performance through various methods, we also offer football session that enhance decision making, coordination and overall athletic ability.
We support coaches in developing speed through support from our membership section of this website, we also offer a mentorship program where we work closely with coaches to develop key skills to make a impact.
We offer speed & football camps where we combine the two to expose players to different situations developing key skills and athletic ability along with creating better decision makers.
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Acceleration Coaching Points (Football).
SSG & The Physical Corner.
Exploring MAS in Team Sports.
Incorporating Speed in Football Specific Training.
Using constraints to encourage different movement solutions and interactions with the environment.
Use Bursts to encourage players to be more direct.
1. Players stay within there roles for a set duration, before the coaches rotates teams around. This time constraint encourages players to play at higher speeds .
Encourage movement off the ball
2. Players have to receive in a "lava space" which is identified by the coach, they can only receive the pass one touch before leaving the space to find another position to receive.
Creative play
3. Fortnite scoring encourages players to explore ways to create an advantage out of different triggers. To win the team need to score of 1 pressing trigger, 1 build up, 1 back space entry, 1 combination play. These can be created or manipulated depending on the outcome of the session.
How teams deal with imbalances.
4. Teams are created uneven this encourages players to identify areas of space that they can capitalise on.
Impacting movement solutions that subsequently emerge.
5. We add a time limit to the attacking team this encourages players to move the ball faster, coaches can keep the time away from players with players only realising as the coach counts down.
Encourage creative solutions and interaction with the environment.
6. Attacking players have one opportunity to create an advantage out of any trigger. If no advantage is created, the repetition immediately stops and turnover is made..
Testimonials
See what some of the coaches say!
Nick Botten
The Speed Mechanic provides an unparalleled resource for speed training for team sports. The courses and support provided are excellent allowing you to go through at your own pace and develop the skills in your practical environment. The combination of written, images and video content allow for you to easily consume the main points of the courses and programs.
The way The Speed Mechanic understands and simplifies complex theoretical frameworks is excellent, allowing coaches to easily digest information and practically use them within there sessions. For the price it is an amazing resources that i wouldn't be without, it has helped with the design of session, university assignments and given me confidence in allowing players to explore the environment.
Louis Birchall
Martin Hamer
The membership is excellent value for money, allowing you to explore world class content that stretches and challenges you. You can explore the content at your own pace and time and implement the content in real time. The Speed Mechanic has been very influential in my development.
Become a member today and enjoy all the benefits.
With an unparalleled commitment to developing athletic performance through SPEED. The Speed Mechanic has compiled world class resources for coaches looking to enhance there skill and impact.
