Q:  How often should we come?

A:  There is no recommended schedule or duration for training.  It is totally up to you and what you want to get out of the training.  However, with all training, repetition is important.  Improvement never comes in anything without persistence.  So will coming for two or three sessions turn your player into Michael Jordan or Candace Parker? No.  With continuous training and practice outside of training your player WILL improve without a doubt.  

Q:  What are the benefits of personal training over camp settings?

A:  Camps are great, but they have their limitations.  Being a camp presenter myself, I am well aware of the benefits as well as the shortcomings of camp settings.  Camps are designed to present tons of instruction within a short time frame.  This style of teaching is sometimes adequate for adults, who take notes etc., but for the short attention spans of kids it is not as effective.  Kids may take a small amount of what they learned over the 2-3 day span but even fifty percent retention would be asking too much.  With personal training they are given smaller amounts of information in shorter increments.  This allows them to focus and get into the details of the mechanics, which in turn will allow them to actually master the concepts instead of just glossing over them.  To make a comparison, camps are like school and training is like having a tutor.  In school you are dealing with a teacher/student ratio of 1:30. With tutoring the potential ratio is 1:1.  The environment is more suitable for focus, retention, and learning with one on one training.    

Q:  How do I pay?

A: You can pay with cash or a check.  Payment is due at the time of the session, but I will accept advance payments.  I do not carry change, so if you are paying with cash please have the exact amount.

Q:  Which session duration is more beneficial? 30 minutes or 60 minutes?

A:  Once again, it is really up to what you are trying to get out of the training.  If you are trying to get the most instruction, I would recommend the 60 minute sessions.  In the 30 minute sessions I tend to keep the subjects down to a minimum but with more focus on each subject.  Depending on how often you want to come and how much money you want to invest, we can figure out a schedule that works for you while not burning out your player.  

Q:  Do you work with girls?  What age ranges do you work within? 

A:  Yes I work with girls.  I have actually coached girl teams.  With ages I tend to go on a player-by-player basis.  I do require them to be strong enough to perform the drills properly. That is usually my measuring stick. 

Q:  On your website you speak about how training will help in other areas?  Could you shed some more light on what those areas are?

A:  Well the main attribute that training develops is DISCIPLINE.  Without it, you will not see nearly the amount of improvement if you dedicate yourself.  I like to use an analogy involving one of my favorite things in the world--food.  Training is like preparing a good steak.  When you practice and train you are seasoning the steak just how you want it to taste.  The work you do outside of training is cooking the steak how you want it to be.  Finally, the game, the season, is where you finally get to eat the steak.  That is where you see the benefits.  Improving in anything involves the same process.  You first must possess the desire to improve. Then you take action and do whatever is necessary to improve, and eventually you will see progress.  My biggest thing behind the scenes of the actual skill growth is providing a platform for the players that shows that they CAN do whatever it is they put their minds to.  As long as they dedicate themselves, it will happen.   

Q:  In your intro letter in your information packet you speak of "intuitive shooting".  Could you explain more about what that is?

A:  Basically my goal is to eventually get each player to feel their movements while they are playing so that they can determine whether they are performing the shots/moves correctly.  As you master your shot and movements, you begin to understand as a deeper level what to do and how to do it.  This will give the player greater control and confidence in their movement and shots while playing.  The exercises I create are all designed to do this.  And yes, I said CREATE.  The majority of my program was created from scratch, and I often come up with exercises days before for a specific student.  So when I say I create a custom program for your player/child, I mean that.  Anyone can get on the internet and pull up basketball drills or watch a few intructional videos and run a kid through them. Not everyone can design specific drills and movements geared to target specific areas and skill sets.  Since we are on that subject, as the player progresses I also will create exercises designed to help them with the specific offenses they run on their team.  There are thousands of drills one can do but I believe the most effective ones are the game functional ones.  My teaching is really game situation and reality focused.