Silver Membership - Youth Batting Development Program

You would of heard the phrase, ‘do as you have always done and get where you have always got’, at some time. If not, you have now.

The youth batting development program was designed to change the way we develop our youth cricketers. To be more precise it has been designed to give the whole process of developing young cricketers a structure rather than the process being very blasé.

The current methods used in the development process are very similar to the training methods used at senior levels. Batting and bowling in nets followed by some fielding and there you have it.

No definite pattern or process is followed leaving the unearthing of batting talent a hit and miss affair. There is no current development model used to develop our youth batsman. Anything our kids do in the lead up to competitive senior cricket is purely specific cricket skills practice. A big emphasis is placed on winning and scoring as many runs as possible rather than the long term development of future batsman.

Cricket Fitness realises not every child will become an elite level test cricketer or a first class level cricketer. However a child can be bought up learning more about the dynamics of batting as well as becoming a more balanced all-round athlete. This will stand them in good stead to stay in the game for the long term. The enjoyment factor will be more evident due to their increased confidence in their own abilities. They will also possess the potential to become even more skilful in their specific cricket skills because of this increased athleticism.

Your child, if involved in this program will actually focus on more unspecific cricket activities which will allow a more balanced approach to cricket development as well as becoming ambidextrous in cricket skill adoption.

Former Australian cricket coaching legend John Buchanan was very keen for Australian cricketers to possess these ambidextrous qualities and this is one of the qualities all youngsters will possess when graduating from our development program.

By having young athletes targeting a very skilled and specific program for cricket you are actually inhibiting athletic development, skill adaptation and skill mastery later on in their cricketing lives.

You also promote a very one sided athlete that can lead to potential muscle imbalances and compensations later on in their cricket and sporting lives. This in turn will leave them constantly battling injury and restrict their potential to successfully adopt other sporting interests if desired.

The program is a subtle blend of movement training, ambidexterity facilitation as well as basic batting technique training. All of this training is gradually progressed to keep the development of the participants moving along and culminates in the graduation of the batsman into senior cricket ranks with minimal technical deficiencies and a complete athletic development.

Any more specific and complex batting skills the graduate is required to learn from this point on will be easier to adopt as their will be no movement restrictions or coordination difficulties to restrict them. Leaving the young batsman to focus on expressing themselves freely by displaying their skill and making quality batting decisions instinctively. Rather than constantly trying to eradicate technical deficiencies in their batting and losing the desire to bat and strive for higher honours.

Cricket fitness has a structured developmental model that will be followed allowing the process to be reliably effective and consistently replicated for all participants. This is a long term development program so if you are looking for a quick fix and immediate short term success you are not at the right place.

If you would like to read more about this program you can Contact Us and request a PDF document detailing the process and the coaching model set out for this program.

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Silver Membership - Youth Batting Development Program

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