FootHolde Winter Clinics
Looking to improve your skills over the off-season? Looking for a high-level training environment in the winter with committed players who want to work hard AND have fun? FootHolde has run winter clinics in various locations across the metro - including Minnetonka, Woodbury, Minneapolis (Augsburg Dome), and Holy Angels. FootHolde clinics have been a huge hit with committed players, serving more than 400 players looking to take their game to the next level!
2009-2010 Winter Clinics
FootHolde winter clinics will be run from November, 2009 to March, 2010 in two separate seasons. Winter 1 will be held during November and December and Winter 2 will held from January thru March.
Winter 2 (8-10 weeks, Jan-March)
Keepers & Finishers! @ Augsburg Dome
Clinic will be limited to 1st 24 players!
- Professional Goalkeeping training indoors - technical GK instruction as well as repetitive shot-stopping situations with strikers.
- Strikers will score 100 goals a day! Learning the finer points of becoming a great finisher.
Fridays: Jan. 8, 15, 22, 29; Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26; Mar. 12, 19
Day/Times: Fridays, 6:00-7:30 pm or 7:00-8:30 pm
6:00-7:30 pm (7-8:30 on Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26; Mar. 12)
Ages: U12-U18
Cost: $225
Individual Competitive Development (ICD) Clinic @ Augsburg Dome
Fridays: Jan. 8, 15, 22, 29; Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26; Mar. 12, 19
Day/Times: Fridays, 6:00-7:30 pm or 7:00-8:30 pm
6:00-7:30 pm (7-8:30 on Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26; Mar. 12)
Location: Augsburg College (Dome Facility)
Ages: U9-U18
Training Groups: U9-U10, U11-U12, U13-U14, U15-U17
Note: Players will train in groups of similar age and level (i.e., U9's will NOT train with U12's)
Cost: $225
Curriculum will focus on individual technical (ball mastery) and tactical (decision-making) development in a competitive small-sided game environment. The ICD Clinic will include a performance (strength/fitness) component at each session.
Technical Development 2 @ Holy Angels Dome
Saturdays: 9:20 -10:40 am
Dates: Jan. 23, 30; Feb 6, 13, 20, 27; March 6, 13
Training Groups: U11-U12, U13-U14, U15-U17
Note: Players will train in groups of similar age and level (i.e., U11's will NOT train with U15's)
Cost: $170
Curriculum will focus on improving players dribbling, ball striking, and 1st touch in technical progressions and small-sided games.
Winter 1 (6 weeks, Nov-Dec)
Excellence of Attack - West @ Tonka Dome (Minnetonka HS)
Saturdays: 1:00-2:30 pm (plus 1 Sunday, Nov. 22)
Dates: Nov. 14, 21, 22; Dec. 5, 12, 19
Training Groups: U9-U10, U11-U12, U13-U14, U15-U17
Note: Players will train in groups of similar age and level (i.e., U9's will NOT train with U12's)
Cost: $135
Curriculum will focus on attacking principles - creative 1 v 1 moves
technical goal scoring, and decision making in the final third.
Excellence of Attack - East @ Bielenberg Dome
Sunday mornings: Tentatively 8:30-10:00 am
Dates: Nov. 1, 8, 15*; Dec. 6, 13, 20 (still looking to add 1 more date!)
* Nov 15 will run 1:00-2:30 pm @ Woodbury High School Activity Center
Training Groups: U9-U10, U11-U12, U13-U14, U15-U17
Note: Players will train in groups of similar age and level (i.e., U9's will NOT train with U12's)
Cost: $135
Curriculum will focus on attacking principles - creative 1 v 1 moves
technical goal scoring, and decision making in the final third.
Technical Development @ Holy Angels Dome
Saturdays: 9:20 -10:40 am
Dates: Nov. 7, 14, 21; Dec. 5, 12, 19
Training Groups: U11-U12, U13-U14, U15-U17
Note: Players will train in groups of similar age and level (i.e., U11's will NOT train with U15's)
Cost: $125
Curriculum will focus on improving players dribbling, ball striking, and 1st touch in technical progressions and small-sided games.
FootHolde's Minnesota Winter Clinics a Huge Success
FootHolde's winter soccer clinics have become a huge hit for Minnesota's committed soccer players! Excellence of Attack, held last Nov-Dec., filled to capacity at the Bielenberg Dome in Woodbury, and catered to 75+ players at its 1st clinic in Minnetonka. Individual Competitive Development (ICD), held Jan-March at the Augsburg Dome in Minneapolis, has been a big success with 75+ players attending on Friday nights.
Excellence of Attack focuses on scoring and creating goals. Players improve their ball striking technique, learn 1 v 1 attacking moves, improve their decision making skills in attacking situations, and become more comfortable in front of the goal. The creative attacking activities to big goals as well as and the small group coaching environment have been a real hit with the players! Excellence of Atack also contains a Goalkeeper Training Component for committed goalkeepers.
ICD focuses on individual player development - with a ball striking component, performance training component (strength, agility, and injury prevention techniques), and an individual competitive component. The focus of ICD is to help players become more comfortable with the ball while encouraging them to work hard in a competitive training environment.
Lastly, at FootHolde we strongly believe that player development is accentuated by PLAYING THE GAME (we start every clinic with free-play "street soccer" games) with other high-level and committed soccer players, allowing for independent problem solving, creativity and an overall passion for the game.
All FootHolde Winter Clinics cater to BOTH younger and older players - a U13-U17 group of premier and C1 level players (open to c2 players also); and U9-U12 group of younger players.
FootHolde Director Jonathan Schaefer summarizes the philosophy behind FootHolde's various curricula, stating...
"Player development is the #1 objective behind all of our training...and we feel strongly that our curricula provide the perfect combination of fitness, ball mastery, competition, and free play - in an extremely challenging and high-quality training environment. Honestly, where else can a player get in top physical shape, learn to strike a 40-yard ball, and battle in small-sided games, all while competing and having fun with other great players...IN THE WINTER?"