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[quote=Anonymous]Hate to say it, but most kids playing a skill set sport do lots of personal training/practice.  If you can teach him yourself -- great, but repetition is an important part of the learning process.  At a practice kids might work on making and defending a cross 5 or 6 times.  With a trainer and another kid you can get 30 or more in a decent practice (taking breaks to do other things so the kids do not over do it).  Or, bringing a ball down with his chest -- same thing.  Maybe 10 times in practice before the coach has to more on to something else.  On his own with a trainer -- 30 or more times (use an underinflated ball).

The trainer can also focus on skills where your kid needs the most work.  They are young so they need to work on everything, but if your kid is weak on left foot shooting or dealing with balls in the air, or keeping proper footwork defending -- a trainer can focus on those areas in a session.

Who do you get to train -- lots of coaches train kids for extra money.  At 11 we had our daughter train with a local college player (girl).  We did it with a friend and shared the cost.  It worked with the 2 kids as they were relatively equal in athletic ability.  It made the sessions fun for them and it gave them someone to work against or with depending on what was being done.  For example -- the trainer could work on technique with my daughter on making a centering pass from the wing at full speed, and her friend could work on finishing and then returning the balls to keep things going.  Then they could switch.  We paid the trainer well so she was always willing to set aside time twice a week for an hour.  We did it with that same girl from u11 to u13 until she headed off to med school.  Funny story -- my daughter and that same friend are still very good friends (both still are playing in college now headed into their senior years).  They were together over the 4th and posted a couple of pictures of themselves together on facebook screwing around with the ball -- their old trainer posted a comment that they were not using proper form.

As an aside -- juggle.  An 11 year old boy should be able to juggle a couple hundred times pretty consistently, and should be working on a couple of tricks to show off.  Nothing better for first touch, and nothing better to do while on the field waiting for a tryout to begin -- juggling and showing off some tricks.

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