 Hey, it's Coach Ben from Soccer Entrepreneur. In today's video, I'm going to be breaking down the difference between private training and soccer coaching. This is a question I get from a lot of coaches because they might be high school coaches, middle school coaches, college coaches, club coaches. It doesn't really matter. But they asked me why did I start private training rather than doing team coaching. And the thing about me is I have done team coaching in the past. I used to coach club teams, high school teams. And it got to a point where I realized that players needed more individualized training. This way they could get specific help based on the position they play, based on their lack of confidence. I mean, I could go into a million reasons why players need individualized training. But once I started to notice that there was a lot of players I was coaching on teams that needed that extra help, this made me realize that I needed to transition my career from coaching club or coaching teams to private training. And this is the whole reason why I started my Soccer Academy back when I did in 2009 because I saw that there was a huge opportunity to help players one-on-one or in small groups. And I think that's the big difference is players are getting more personalized help when there's less teammates there. If there's just one or two players at the session, they're going to get 100 times more hands-on help. And that's really the thing that I focus on in my academy. And I'm sure if you are training players privately or you're wanting to do that in the future, that's something that you would want to do. You want to offer something that they're not getting in their club practices or in their high school practices. This is a common problem that players have is when there's too many other players at practice, they cannot get the one-on-one help. And that's really the core reason why I started training players privately in the first place. And this is a huge factor why players can start to develop quicker if they are getting that one-on-one help. And I know especially with players who are recreational players that are new to soccer, they need that extra help to possibly get to club soccer. I realize that if their coaching at recreational soccer is not at a high level, which in most cases it's not because these are parents who are coaching that might not have a huge understanding of the game. Technically they cannot teach players how to dribble, how to pass, how to shoot. So there's a bunch of players that are not being trained properly and if they are going through soccer between the ages of I would say 6 and 12 years old and they're not learning the right way, they will quit soccer by the age of 12 or 13 because they won't be able to go to a more competitive team at that point. And after realizing that, that made me think, okay great here's a huge opportunity to help players who need extra help and oftentimes coaches of those teams who are parents, they also want help too. So it's a great way to help those parents who are coaches help their team. And this is something that I think you should really concentrate on when you think about your own academy is who you want to help. And I know this is kind of the number one thing that I try to clarify with trainers. When I'm on the phone or if they go through a book or if they're in our mastermind I want to know who it is you want to help. If you know who to help then this whole process is a lot easier. If you're trying to help players from too many age groups, if you're too scatterbrained this is impossible. You're always going to be training players that are really not in a certain age group. And when you think about private training you need to be specific. When you're doing club coaching you might have different teams from different age groups and that's okay. And private training and I've said this a million times in my emails and my podcasts and in my newsletters that I send out every week private training is not for everybody. There's a lot of coaches out there who don't like doing one-on-one training and that's okay. I also like helping coaches who do group training, clinics, camps, those types of things. But if you are wanting to do private training then I recommend you do two things right now. So number one click that subscribe button that's below this video. All the videos that I have going forward I'm going to be really diving deeper into private training, how to set everything up. I'm going to take you behind the scenes of some of my sessions that I have so you can see what type of drills I'm doing, how I prepare for sessions. We're going to dive really deep into that. We're also going to dive deep into clinics, camps, how to get things set up. So that's the first thing I do right now. Subscribe to our channel this way you can stay up to date with everything. And if you are serious, if you want to start your own private soccer training business, go ahead and check out my book. It's down below in the description. It's called The Startup Soccer Academy and you can go click on that there. It's going to show you a free preview of all the chapters that are within the book. This is the best starting point for any trainer who's looking to turn their passion of soccer training into a profitable business. 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