Finger Lakes International Soccer Camps & Clinics

The Golden Keys are the 3 Instinctive Skills the greatest players (e.g., Messi, Pele, Maradona, etc.) all use as the basis of their exceptional technical level of play. These Golden Keys dramatically improve all the other skills of The Game (dribbling, passing, shooting, tackling, goalkeeping, etc). These same skills are not in the curricula of any soccer courses anywhere else.

Individual techniques at that highest level of play are not a thought process. They are an instinctive response to the moment. The greatest players simply never lost touch with those instincts.

Learning how to let these same instincts express themselves in technique is what you will learn in our camps & clinics.

Full refund of paid training fee will be offered at the end of the first of the six camp sessions if not satisfied for any reason.

• There are two 6-session programs, on Saturdays or Sundays, beginning September 30, 2023 (see menu links for details).

• I will provide demonstrations of the power of these instinctive skills, using attendees as subjects.

• I will then show drill sequences to apply these Golden Keys to the more conventional skills of The Game: e.g., dribbling, passing, shooting, tackling, etc..

• We will then review videos of the camp session and other pictures and videos relative to these Golden Keys as they appear in the highest levels of play.

• Finally, we will discuss how these Golden Keys are best applied to any and all techniques, concepts and drills the players may encounter with their respective teams and coaches.

Golden Key #1:

Anyone who’s played any sport for any length of time has had “perfect moments”: i.e., moments when you do something exactly right. Just like the Greatest Players do almost every touch.

In soccer, it could be a shot on goal, a pass to a teammate, a simple touch that leaves a defender completely beaten, a great “reflex” save by a goalkeeper.

Each of these “perfect moments” has one thing in common: even before you struck or touched the ball, you felt perfect balance, saw the flight of the ball to the target, and the ball did exactly what you “saw” it would do.

You weren’t imagining or "visualizing" all that, you were looking at all that. In other words, You Weren’t Looking At Just the Ball!

This the key to unlocking our sense of movement of our body relative to everything else around us. It is based on medical science, specifically the arrangement of the photosensitive cells in the eye, and is Golden Key #1 for unlocking how the GOATs play at that level. They "Never Look At Just the Ball”.

I have developed a simple demonstration of the power of this scientific fact. I take the "weakest foot" in any group of players, make it so they can’t look at just the ball, and they will then show perfect accuracy, touch and technique within 4 touches of the ball using that weakest foot!

Unless they already have perfect technique on almost every touch of the ball (ala Messi, Pele, Maradona, etc.), this same demonstration can be used with highly skilled players as well. The effect is the same, just more evident and easier to see with lesser skilled players.

Golden Keys #2 & #3:

These two skills are usually mentioned in various coaching curricula, but they are never emphasized enough, or trained properly.

FIrst of all, these skills both absolutely depend on Golden Key #1 (i.e., Never Look At Just the Ball) to be performed correctly to full effect.

You need to see them presented properly to truly understand them. Come learn from the Best Soccer Coach in Western NY.

It is for this reason that we offer a 100% full money-back guarantee at the end of the first clinic session.