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World Champ Training helps prepare athletes for upcoming season
BY JUSTIN THOMAS, Staff writer
Whether you are new to the sport of football, or are just looking to sharpen your skills, World Champ Training is designed to prepare kids for their upcoming season.
Athletes, typically between the ages of 10 to 16 from around the Metroplex, including Carrollton, Frisco and Rowlett among others, have attended the camp which takes place at Josey Ranch Sports Complex in Carrollton.
“We are a football skills and conditioning camp open to all athletes who want good training,” said Andres Ruiz, a head coach at World Champ Training. “All of our trainers played high school and collegiate athletics and know the game well.”
“We want the athletes and parents to know what they want and what they are going to get out of the camp,” Ruiz said. “Instead of a camp that is a couple days or a week long and focuses on one purpose or position, our camp is four weeks long and can teach both basic fundamentals to kids of varying levels. It’s a lot more mentoring on a one-on-one level. We pinpoint faults and introduce different aspects of the game in a full training camp. We’ve had athletes who have never played football and it’s tremendous to watch some of these kids progress each week. It’s something to be proud of.”
Early in the camp the staff takes times and measurements to determine where the athlete is in terms of his development.
“We see where they have room for improvement whether it is speed or agility or fundamentals. We recently had an athlete come to our camp and drop his 40-yard-dash time from 5.22 seconds to 5.06 in four weeks.”
Ruiz added many of the trainees come to camp to learn the fundamentals to play a new position.
However, World Champ Training also increases the technique, speed and agility for experienced players.
“We try to break up the athletes based on age and ability to train together so the athlete is not doing unnecessary tasks,” Ruiz said.
In addition to skills and conditioning, an important aspect to World Champ Training is unity.
“The kids are learning how to operate as a team,” Ruiz said. “Training as a team, cooperating and working in unison.”
While the training program in the summer prepares athletes for the football season, Ruiz said they are looking to branch off into training programs for other sports as well as offering camps during other times of the year such as winter and spring break. But, for the time being Ruiz is preparing athletes for the upcoming football season.
“We teach conditioning and fundamentals but it’s more about what to do when the ball is snapped,” Ruiz said. “Our kids are more confident and ready to react rather than thinking about what to do.”
For information about World Champ Training go to www.worldchamptraining.com.
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