At Parmar Sports Training Inc. we believe in teaching our players a style of soccer which emphasizes the following:

Possession based attacking strategy with the emphasis of switching the ball across the width of the field to unbalance the opposition in order to create opportunities to play penetrating balls forward and to create confident individuals who can display their creativity and flair in the attacking third.

We will teach our players to do this through emphasizing the following:

• Attacking principles of play (width, depth/support, mobility, penetration and Improvisation)
• Play out from the defending third with quality passing as a primary option
• Combination play amongst the midfield players in the middle third of the field
• Individual creativity by using 1v1 moves in the attacking third of the field
  

Role of Our Coaches

We believe that our coaching staff have a much more valuable role to play than just being good soccer instructors who can demonstrate proper technique to our players. Our coaches are role models to the players who come through our programs and each Instructor understands their responsibility as a teacher, leader and counselor.

TEACHER

• Simple teaching points to help players learn
• Encourage skill development through games / activities
  
• Provide lots of activity at training and outside of training contributing to an active lifestyle

• Set goals that are challenging and realistic to the ability level of each player in the program Motivate players by encouraging them to achieve their best and always being positive
• Fair play and encourage being a good sport
  
• Inspire each player to be the best they can be

• Listen to players concerns, be supportive
• Make our training sessions a positive and fun place
  

COMMAND STYLE (Show and Tell)

• Stop at the correct coaching moment
  
• Coach demonstrates correction to problem
• Player rehearses correction to problem
• Resume Play  

QUESTION AND ANSWER (Players tell you)

• Stop at the correct coaching moment
• Ask the players a question relevant to that moment
• Coach demonstrates correction to problem
• Player rehearses correction to problem
• Resume play  

GUIDED DISCOVERY (Athlete shows you and the group)

• Stop at the correct coaching moment
• Ask player a question relevant to that moment (What would you do differently in this situation?) (Use follow up questions if needed)
• Ask player to show you correction to the problem
• Resume play

We like to apply the method of Guided Discovery because we feel it is the best method for engaging the player and helping them retain the most amount of information. The essence of this method is a particular coach-player relationship in which the coach's sequence of questions brings about a corresponding set of responses by the player.

Each question by the coach elicits a single correct response discovered by the player. The cumulative effect of this sequence, a converging process, leads the player to discover the sought tactical concept, principle of play or technical idea. The specific process has the following set of objectives:

1. To engage the player in a particular process of discovery – the converging process
2. To develop a precise relationship between the player's discovered response and stimulus (activity and/or question) presented by the coach
3. To develop sequential discover skills that logically leads to the discovery of a concept
   
4. To develop the patience in both the coach and the player that is required for the discovery process

During our training sessions our coaches will guide (facilitate) the players, through effective age appropriate questioning, to discovery. We believe that a good coach tries not to tell a player what to do; rather, he/she leads the player to discover how to play.