About the Performance Squad
Our junior performance squad is designed to help the development of junior players from across England and Wales by providing them regular high-quality training from top national team coaches and players. It is open to young players from 13-20 looking to improve their game. They need to have at least one year’s beach playing experience and be committed and willing to learn.
Key Parts:
The programme consists of three key elements:
Training Weekends
We will run training days at three different locations throughout the winter period: in Croyde, Cardiff and Kidbrooke. Each day generally starts at 10am and finishes around 4:30pm. We have shelter available at each venue for poor weather. Every day consists of 2 x technical sessions (90 minutes) and 1 x gameplay session (90 minutes). We have a maximum ratio of 1 coach to 8 young people. All coaches have a minimum of a Volleyball England Assistant Coach Award and are DBS checked.
Month 1 dates:
Month 2 Dates:
January-March dates will be released later in October.
Abroad Trips
We are planning two training trips to Alicante:
17th-20th November
1st-4th March
The young people would need to request time off from school for these trips; we can provide supporting documents. These are excellent chances to work on their game in warmer weather with some excellent coaches. They will stay in apartments with DBS checked, safeguarding trained staff. The young people would be expected to help with some of the cooking and cleaning during the week. The trips include accommodation, food and coaching but you are expected to book flights.
Ongoing Sports Psychology and Performance Talks
Fortnightly Zoom seminars throughout the year. One of these will be performance-linked with head coach Sam Dunbavin and other guest speakers; the other will be on sports psychology with trained sports psychologist Ryan Lark. Performance topics include sports nutrition, injury prevention, season planning, game analysis, scouting and more.
Parental Support
Parents are essential to a child’s success- whether it is planning their season, getting them to training, feeding them or more. We will run monthly Zoom calls for parents on topics such as injury management, season planning, nutrition.We will also have a parents WhatsApp group where you can ask questions.
Extras:
Mentoring
You can choose to add on regular one-to-one mentoring for your child with Sam Dunbavin or another top Fireball coach of your choice. This consists of a 30-minute video call each month and ongoing WhatsApp access.
Strength & Conditioning
Access to a 6-month programme for building strength and conditioning for beach volleyball. We have 2 programmes available: weighted and bodyweight. We recommend the unweighted programme for anyone under 16-the weighted programme is available for those above this age who have been screened OR for those who have graduated our bodyweight programme.
Individual Sports Psychology Sessions
Individual ongoing sessions with Fireball Sports Psychologist Ryan Lark (Scoob).
Prices
The performance group works on two payment models. You can either sign up on a subscription basis (recommended) or as a pay-as-you go player.
We are running the programme until the end of March 2024, when we will review it. We have two training blocks:
October-November (2 months)
January-March (3 months)
Subscriptions
This involves a monthly payment at the start of each month.We have different tiers available depending on the number of training days your child would like to attend per month. All subscriptions also come with a list of benefits detailed below.
2 days a month: £130 (additional days @ £65/day)
4 days a month: £220 (additional days @ £55/day)
6 days a month: £300 (additional days @ £50/day)
Subscription benefits: your child will receive a free Performance Squad t-shirt and free access to our monthly Zoom talks and parents get free access to our parental support package. You will also receive a 20% discount off all our extras and 10% off the price of one of our abroad trips.
Pay-As-You-Go
Training days cost £75 per day on pay-as-you-go and our online seminars cost £7.50.
Extras
Mentoring: this costs £30 per month. (£24 for subscribers)
Strength and Conditioning: £15 per month (£12 for subscribers)
Sports Psychology: POA, depending on number of sessions you book.
Alicante
Each trip to Alicante costs £480 per person (£430 for subscribers). This includes:
Accommodation, food, transfer from the airport, coaching. It does not include flights. We will send out recommended flights for you to book in advance. Children under 14 will need to be brought over by an adult.
Bursaries
We do have some limited bursaries to offer if price is a barrier to your child attending. Contact us for details.
Sign Up
You can sign up by filling out the form at the link below.
Once you have signed up you will be added to a Spond group and sent a link to start your subscription. Payment for pay-as-you-go players will be taken once they have registered for specific courses or days.
Terms and Conditions
In the case of serious injury, we will refund your whole or part of your subscription for any months your child is injured.
If you decide to cancel your subscription you must do so before the 22nd of the month by writing to hello@fireballbeachvolleyball.com or you will be charged for the following month.
You may carry over up to 2 days spare allowance from your subscription into the following month.
Anyone who has not paid for the sessions will not be allowed to train.
We reserve the right to ask players to leave the group should their behavious not fit the standards we require.
Our foreign trips can only be cancelled up to 2 weeks in advance and guarantee your money back. Any cancellations between 2 weeks and the departure date we will try to refund you as much as we can.