PRIVATE
LESSONS
Coach White provides private lessons to kickers, punters, and snappers at all levels of football ---- youth, junior high school, senior high school, college, and professional. Private lessons for high school juniors and seniors are rarely offered during playing season, and Coach White is unavailable from May 25 through July 5 because of summer camps. The optimum time for serious evaluation is immediately after completion of the playing season. Lessons include:
- Introduction
to (or review of) theory,
- Movement
analysis, with suggestions for improvement,
- Stretching
and flexibility analysis ---- to identify level of preparedness and to
project
goals for short term and long-range development,
- Position-specific
drillwork,
- Suggestions
for practice organization, and
- Analysis
of skills by comparison to team needs and established standards of
excellence.
An
initial lesson is an all-day commitment, segmented to match the
attention span
of the player. Parents or coaches should
plan to be present and to take effective notes.
Shooting videotape of the stretching and drillwork is the best
means to
review individual strengths and weaknesses.
No lesson can produce immediate sustainable results. To make serious progress, the athlete must be
prepared to work on running, stretching, strengthening, and drills over
a
period of weeks. Follow-up lessons
usually take 2-3 hours.
With
young athletes, private lessons are more effective if they are
conducted where
the athlete actually practices. This
also gives parents and coaches better opportunity to observe and to ask
questions. Coach White is willing to
stay in private homes when on the road.
Travel expense should be figured at 30 cents per mile round-trip. Coach White does not maintain a
football field but does have access to several fields and
practice
facilities in the Atlanta and Athens area.
To arrange for private lessons, call Coach White in Athens, Georgia, at 706-549-2695.
