Soccer
The speed, reactive times, and ball handling skills required in soccer lend themselves perfectly to the tests and training protocols offered by APT. Drills are designed to improve endurance, peripheral vision, cutting speed, and passing accuracy. Some examples are:
Serpentine Slalom:
Measure reaction time and dribbling skills as the player reacts to cut instructions around an obstacle.
Measure reaction time and dribbling skills as the player reacts to cut instructions around an obstacle.
Reactive Rebound Passing Drill: The player in must complete as many passes as possible in 30 seconds. The player must react to the light which turns red, and pass to that board. The light signals are completely random. This drill teaches the player the important skill of looking up and learning to control the ball without looking at it.
Offensive Repositioning Drill – Shooting Variation: This data can show strengths and weaknesses in players' abilities to pick up a visual cue and then react and accelerate. It can also show an athlete's ability to perform skills under physical pressure.
Basic 4 Gate Grid: This competition drill places two players in a four gate grid, with each player reacting to their specific visual signal. The player breaking the most gates in a specified period of time wins, and returns to the line. Last player standing is the winner.
VIDEO OPTION: At all APT Events participants will be offered the opportunity to purchase video files of their performance in specific drills. Videos will be labeled with the athlete’s name and will include split times and final times for the selected drills. These videos can be uploaded to the APT Game Improvement Center for those athletes wishing to have their performance analyzed online by our team of experts.
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Benefits
Real time results - Every session with the APT System is measured and timed automatically, giving coaches instant performance indicators and the power to motivate.
UNMATCHED ACCURACY - State of the art equipment measures speed and reactive times to within .001 seconds, surpassing the .25 second margin of error in hand timing.
More than just speed testing - Technology offers not only performance testing, but provides coaches with training protocols designed to improve speed, reactive and cognitive abilities, and overall athlete performance.
Time Saving - Reduces testing and data processing times by 70% - enables APT to test over 100 athletes in slightly over one hour.
No need to for coaches to write down results - Each athlete’s data is saved for all drills and repetitions and coaches are provided with a spread sheet of all results.
Error correction processing - Eliminates hand breaks and false starts - demonstrated by independent institute research to have unmatched measurement reliability.
Motivates athletes - Testing environment shows athletes the benefits of giving 110% effort - even in practice.
Recruiting benefits - Unparalleled testing accuracy provides verifiable data that college and professional coaches and scouts are looking for.