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Coach Clancy

Coach Clancy

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Mind and Body and Soul...in regards to improving in sports people 1st think ...bigger,stronger, faster, with Coach Clancy its, less is more, do it the right way 1st, slow down. You can be 6'7 220 and dribble like Kyrie Irving but if your mind is telling you that you always mess up this play the second before you shot after a timeout in which you walked out of the huddle before the coach broke it then even if you hit the shot , it probably still won't matter!

My process is simple and as intergrated as the athlete wants it to be. I wont ever begin wotkouts, action plans or guidence without a conversation about getting to know the athlete and starting to learn from the athlete what he or she wants to get out of the time.

If the athlete is 6 and never shot a free throw or 55 and wants to dominate his flag league, i need you to trust and respect me and i earn that through time and trusting and respecting you. The athletes results are only held back by how much they want to get BETTER!

The smell of the grass when you get out of the car, the sound of sneakers stopping on hardwood thats muffled by big heavy gym doors, seeing familiar faces that tells your brain, soon you will be doing what you love, the eye contact between myself and someone that i am working with,in which only we understand what the look meant and although it may have only taken a milli-second the description of what the look meant could fill a book!

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1 employee
4 years in business
Serves Chadds Ford , PA

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    I Meet the student/guardian via phone call, email or text message. During the discussion I would like to hear the student's/guardian's intentions and goals in potentially partnering up with me to get better. I will explain my process for helping the student accomplish those goals by making them our common goals! Depending on the conversation, we will then set up our first meeting at the student's/guardian's home, public park, public/private gym or field. 

    At the first in-person meeting, we will continue to get to know each othrr while the student and Coach Clancy go through, elementary level, warming up and sport exercises. The student is asked to wear athletic clothes and shoes to the first in-person meeting. The elementary warmups and exercies are designed to give Coach Clancy a strong idea of the student's skill level. If the student/guardian and Coach Clancy would like to move forward with more lessons then the discussions of an agreed upon schedule will take place either at the in-person meeting or very soon after.

    Coach Clancy will then create a, student specific, plan of action to accomplish the now common goals of the student/guarndian and Coach Clancy!! The students goals have to become common goals with Coach Clancy or it wont work. Coach Clancy will provide undivded attention, effort and enthusiasm to each lesson and loves the process of helping and getting better but, in the end, Coach Clancy can only help to a point. If the student's eyes and ears arent wide open then the routine of getting better becomes the routine of just getting it done and instead of climbing a ladder together we will be slowly coming to a stop on a plataeu. Our success will be measured only by us moving from failure to failure together with zero lack of enthusiasm!!! 

    Besides playing organized basketball and football personally up until my freshmen and sophomore year of college, my interest in coaching began immediately as my playing days ended. Both of my college teams, seeing that i wasn't getting any bigger or faster, both aloud me almost unlimited access to the locker rooms and coaching meetings throughout the rest of my college years as i became the two teams beat reporter for the school newspaper and team radio broadcaster. Being a small school there weren't any coaching interetships offered so this was my way in and the education and passion for these sports went from there. Life got in the way of coaching after college until my son Austin(currently 8 years old) was born. The passion and excitement for the process of helping and getting better was lit back up again as he began playing sports himself and i began to help. i have coached literally every organized team and all-star team that he has been on for the past 4 years in basketball football and baseball. In going through the steps to be eligible to coach youth sports as ive had, each sport requires proper background checks and sport specific coaching/teaching tuitorials to be completed before each season. While i have other experiences in coaching all different ages here and there, the importance of developing or improving the proper positive mind set, is more important than developing the proper form to shot a jump shot. If aren't working to improve your body and mind then it's a workout that any coach can guide you through i am not the Coach for you.

    I do not have a "standard" pricing system for my lessons until I recieve all of the information required. There are ALWAYS variables that are unseen before all of the information is provided to both sides. i am aware of the average rates for personal lessons but i would never classify myself as average and i would never classify someone who, is willing to sacrifice their hard earned money to help themselves or someone they love to get better at something that makes them happy, as average either. 

    I wouldn't force you to hear me drag on any more about me then the answer a few boxes above☝🏼!

    Please look up a couple boxes for the long winded answer☝🏼!

    Trying to get any 9/10/11 year olds to truly believe that running backside plays just as hard as the plays that will automatically get them the ball is never easy. So when (we will call him 'C') C has heard all game long, "great work C, i see you busting your butt trying to get open! Keep it up, im coming to you soon!!!!" And then with a minute left i call a play to his side in a big spot in the game, the look on his face was simply why i love helping/teaching!!! C, while for most of the game was either a decoy or '1 defenders attention holder', didnt realize until the end of that game and if he keeps working at it will know until long after he stops playing that sports are, in my opinion, the greatest analogies for life! C kept working hard with the same enthusiasm over and over and never gave up, whether thats on a field gym or office, it still rings just as true! If C didnt trust his coach and his teammates(the loved ones around us that we need to help us along our way), if C stopped mid way through the game and said "this is way too hard physically and mentally, im out!!( life is often 'too hard' but what makes us great people is pushing through that), if C didnt make himself better and more importantly the teammates around him better (lead by example and help when helps needed, even if not asked for ) then C doesnt win that game and life probably wont be as happyvand fulfilling as you thought it would be!

    That potential teacher will only have one chance to make a first impression on you and that's important but if you hate the joke he told, how he did his hair or how he dressed, dont let that be the end of it.  A teacher should be just as good of a listener as he is as an explainer. You may not completely understand his methods at the beginning but, if he is organized and confident in his plan to get YOU and him where YOU want to be then he may be the teacher for you. He may have looked at you at first and thought the same thing you thought of him but he pushed that aside and still wants to help YOU! So, give it a try! Also, remember that any teacher you select didn't invent the drills they will do with you or the different exercises they will get you to do or even the plays they may tell you to run, most teachers know those things and how to execute them. The right teacher for you will find the right motivation for you and let you know that you will only get the big things you want out of this sport by trying to perfect the little things over and over and over and over.

    "Why you and not the other 10 faces I saw online that were cheaper?"  "How do you hold yourself accountable for my improvement " " how will i notice myself getting better" " what are your teacher goals with me?"  " do you think you should have "made it" as an athlete yourself?"   " will i always be on the same page with you, fully understanding why we are doing what we are doing to help me improve or are there times when i may be in the dark as to the plan and execution of the plan to help me improve?"

    Services offered

    Basketball
    Football