DST

Developing Your Deep Skill, The

1 to 1

Small groups

Goalkeepers

UEFA Qualified

PVG Certified

First Aid Trained

Meet the Coach: Richard Holmes

Richard Holmes

Experience

1 to 1 coaching specialist with 3 years of active coaching experience, having trained players as young as 5 years old to 32 years old. Players trained have ranged from professional and representing their nation to scholarship athletes at USA division 1 schools and those just starting out or playing at a recreational level.

Current Stirling Albion Academy Coach working with the U16s, U20s and Men’s First Team. Prior experience includes coaching the Junior Academy (Ages 9-14) at Dundee United Community Trust along with starting out at highly competitive grassroots teams at the U18/U13 levels in London.

Training Philosophy

The best players are the best problem solvers, for this to happen our training has to give us constant problems to solve while encouraging us to adapt to a limitless variety of situations rather than training the same repeatable problem over and over again. By training with us, you will learn that all the movements you make are forms of skill and that to reach 'deep skill' is to have the ability to perform in all environments.

Shown in the 2nd picture is the OLIVER football tracker used by the Barça Academy. Deep Skill Training uses it to benchmark and measure in-person performance from your first session with us to your last. The OLIVER football tracker records 28 metrics, giving us real data on your progress, training load and injury status.

Deep Skill Training have also introduced the Virtual Academy, where for the price of a 1 hour in-person session you receive an at home training program which can be done in your own time, working on key skills needed on the pitch.

Testimonials

Denys Garmash
Former Dynamo Kyiv &
Ukraine International
"Richard has a great character and a talent for coaching with his unique eye to details. I'm excited to see what he can do with Deep Skill Training and how many more players he can help."

Buronbek Mirzasalimov
University of Stirling & Former
Uzbekistan U19s
"What makes Deep Skill Training so different is the variability in the training, the exercises we trained felt more than just drills and the purpose of each was well explained plus the feedback at the end was really useful."

Aaron Ashley
Central Ajax (Semi Pro) & player of
the season @ Nechells Athletic
"Well executed and explained session plans is what really stood out for me with Deep Skill Training, the customised aspect is what made me be able to trust and see progress in my development."

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OLIVER SPORTS

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