This week's session uses Performance Practice coaching, a theory which has come straight out of top team's dressing rooms such as England and helped them to become one of the best teams in the world.
It's a training philosophy that gets players to perform in practice as they would in a game (sharp, focused and to a high standard). It's for this reason that in this session we replicate match pressure as we get your players to cover on a wide variety of fielding skills in a high intensity environment.
Some of the skills covered in this session include reflex catching, Underarm pick up and throw and dive catching. If you work as hard in training as you do when it comes to match day then the results will be clear for all to see.
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