Now the cricket season is into full swing it is vitally important you continue to strive to be the best you can be and grasp every opportunity that comes your way. Your team training offers you an opportunity to work at your game at your weekly sessions, but as my former Tasmania team mate and now England batting coach, Dene Hills used to say ‘….it’s not the work you do at training (everyone in the team does that) that counts, it’s the extra work you do on your own that sets you apart as a cricketer.’
Whatever your level – beginner, club, school, representative, Green Shield Shires, Grade – the extra work you do and it’s quality is critical to your success. And as the skill acquisition experts tell us, it takes around 10,000 hours or 10 years of focused practice to develop expertise in a skill!
If you aren’t getting enough batting in the nets, or need to catch some extra balls behind the stumps or would like a review and video analysis of your bowling action to help optimise your performance our individual coaching sessions offer you an opportunity for quality, focused practice under the expert eye of the Elite Cricket team and in doing so accumulate the hours of focused quality practice you will need to master your skills.
It is also vitally important to get the right advice. Our team of experienced and skilled coaches are personally trained by me in the unique and proven Elite Cricket methodology which is based on extensive professional experience as an elite player with the Tasmanian, the Prime Ministers XI, Australian XI and Australia ‘A’ teams and an array of clubs in the United Kingdom and New South Wales.
During my playing career, I developed close working relationships with a host of international cricket’s foremost players in order to study, document and understand the methods, tactics and strategies they employed to become successful at the highest level of the game.
Further studies have enabled me to apply my knowledge of bio mechanics, skill acquisition, sport psychology and learning methodologies to Elite Cricket’s coaching methods and my qualifications include Bachelor of Physical Education and Level 3 accreditation from Cricket Australia. (CA grade coaches into three levels with Level 1 being the entry level and 3 being the highest – more details see Cricket Australia – Coaching Courses
Our High Performance Individual Coaching Program focuses on acquiring and mastering critical technical skills to optimise performance.
- Great for building confidence in your own game
- Learn, improve and hone new skills away from the pressure of match play
- Correct bad techniques (particularly those that may cause injury) before they become an integral part of your game and are difficult to change
- You can book for one session or as many as you like however we recommend a minimum of 5 sessions over consecutive weeks to enable a stronger understanding and knowledge of your game
You may also like to review some of the Masterclass articles on the Elite Cricket website (there are many more), simply click on the links below:
Cheers
Mark
