weald coaching
London
We want as many kids to experience cricket as possible and, ultimately, go on
play cricket as adults. In between, that means we have to develop a culture of
excellence in building participation through mass outreach, working with local
schools and the community, inspiring a lifelong love of cricket by identifying
and nurturing talents and enabling the kids to develop as far as they can. By
enjoying what they do and having fun. We have a track record of doing that over
15 years at Staplehurst Cricket & Tennis Club. Now, as Weald Coaching, we are
commiting all our time and energies to building on it. We are intent on creating
a series of programmes that cater appropriately for every child, whatever their
current level of cricket capability, from complete beginner to high performance
athlete. And attracting the dedicated resources and coaching capacity for that
to happen. But it also means doing some things differently. Our approach
pre-dated the development of ECB national programmes and we think we have more
experience and knowledge to deliver an all round offer to kids at the youngest
ages without the constraints of weekly coaching schedules and some session plans
which ignore the kids’ levels of awareness of what cricket is. Similarly, we
have created a competitive cricket offer at ages 8 through to 16 which
accommodates the kids’ capabilities, not simply their age. Where the emphasis is
on participation and development and not the strongest cricketers or simply
winning. Yet, we intend delivering more appropriate playing opportunities,
week-on-week, than has been possible previously.
