 Hey, it's Coach Ben from Soccer Entrepreneur. In today's video, I'm going to be talking about demonstrating the drills to the players that you train. Now, this is something that I've really been wanting to talk about for a long time because I've gotten several emails from coaches who might be new to training. They might be, I guess, beginners to private training or group training or clinics. And they've been asking me, what are the sorts of drills I do and how do, should I demonstrate that to all the players? Does that waste time during the session? And from my experience, I've realized the better that I explain the drill, the more I demonstrate it to the player, the easier it is for them to do the drill and the easier it is for them to understand why they're doing that drill. I think that's really important to think about because if you're just doing drills in your session and the players you're training aren't understanding why they need to do that and how to do it, then it's not going to translate to the games, which is the most important. So every drill you do, you should be able to fully demonstrate that. So if you're sprinting with the ball, if you're doing a step over, if you're cutting, you got to be able to perform that first. This way, the player knows exactly how to do it. And the great thing about that too is when you're training a player and they can see that you're good, that you know how to do it, it's easier for them to understand it. And they're going to respect you more. They're going to be like, wow, this guy actually knows what he's doing. And a lot of trainers out there don't do this. They just try to tell the player what to do and then assume that the player is going to understand how to do it. And if you do it that way, there's going to be a lack of communication between the player and you and there's going to be a lack of respect that they have for you. I know for me growing up, anytime I had a coach who obviously has played at a high level and I could tell that they were good, technically they could go through drills. That always raised the level of confidence I had in them and my respect towards them was way higher. And I know now as a coach when I'm training players, I want to make sure that every drill that I tell every player to do, I'm going to go through it first. I'm going to walk them through it step by step and I'm not just going to show them that, but I'm also going to show them why that works in the games. I would rather do that, I'd rather take my time in the session to explain it completely to the player rather than just guess through it, make mistakes, not know why this is going to work in the games and that's going to create confusion. So I like to be very clear with all the players I train. This is why I demonstrate everything. So if you need ideas for training different drills, I actually created a separate YouTube channel. It's called Online Soccer Skills. We've actually created, I think now up to 250 different tutorials on drills and a lot of coaches have been asking me, hey Ben, do you have any other videos where you actually show drills? And that's what that channel is for. That channel is specific for drills and all the coaches who follow that are able to do that with their teams, they're able to do that with players individually and I think that's going to be a great free resource for you. But if you get to your next session and you're not demonstrating everything to the players like how I said and you do that over and over again, there's going to be players who are going to lose engagement with you. They're not going to be fired up to train. They're not going to be clear on what to do at this session and how that translates into the games. And that's the whole point. When you train any player privately or in a small group, you want to give them that personalized attention that you know they're not getting in club soccer or high school soccer or whatever team level that they're at. This way you can give them that added personalized training that they need. So that's it for today guys. If you have any questions for me, comment below. I'd love to hear from you. I'd love to hear what your opinion is on this and if you are a trainer who wants to take your passion of soccer training, turn that into a full-time business. You want to start your own private soccer training academy, go ahead and click on this button here. There's going to be a light that flashes across. That's going to take you to my book. It's called the Startup Soccer Academy. There you can see a free preview of everything that's included in the book. Go ahead, grab that book today. You will get started with your academy within the next 24 hours. So that's it. I'll see you next time.