Update: Monday, 13th November 2016
"In partnership with organizations such as
VX Sport (NZ), Organic Motion (US) and others, MatchFit are building a solid reputation for delivering insightful coaching and performance to players from U-13 to adult level across all grades from grass-roots to elite levels."
- Paul Clarke CEO, Match Fit
Our programs Ready to Perform, Be Your Best and Return To Play build trust globally in areas relating to coaching, physical/athletic development, Long Term Player Development and performance monitoring and managment.
Our coaching and performance experience with all ages, grades and levels has helped us provide performance insights to clubs, teams and organisations since 2002. Our approach is based on learning the individual needs of teams and players so that we can compile effective performance programs and sustain higher performance levels.
Having worked with successful teams, players and athletes and observed their unique skill-sets, processes and plans - we understand what it takes to drive progress & success. Now, Paul, and his global team of advisers will help you build the processes and practices to fulfill your performance goals.
Recent MatchFit Networking Events
Klein Zwitserland, The Hague, Netherlands
Our most recent “Ready to Perform” workshop was held in The Hague in early November to professional coaches from the Klein Zwitserland club as well as coaches from the Netherlands Hockey Association. Having invested in VX Sport the coaches are very focused on gaining the most from the system. Our workshop was aimed at identifying their key performance “questions” so that we can use VX Sport data and insights to offer insight and direction to the coaches as they validate their programs and decide how to amend their approaches as appropriate. Looking forward to returning to Netherlands in early 2017 for part two of the “Ready to Perform” module - educating coaches in best practices in their performance monitoring.
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Words of Wisdom, Dublin, Ireland
Really great to spend some time and catch up with Nic Gill on Nov14th in Dublin. Nic was delivering a seminar on his coaching experiences with the All-Blacks over the past eight years. Hosted by Greg Muller the seminar, “Lead The Pack”, supported by Match-Fit and VX Sport, was a huge success.
Watch our Events Calendar for more great workshops and seminars across 2017. Better again…..send us an email telling us what type of content/themes you would like to see in our workshops.
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Professional Football Scouts Association, Manchester, UK
The soccer scouting profession received a timely boost some years back with the establishment of the Professional Football Scouts Association. Dave Hobson, former head scout at Manchester United, along with Purves Ali, also ex-Manchester United, moved to legitimise and professionalise the work of scouts across the world. The latest move in this direction has been to embrace the VX Sport player monitoring technology as a key cog in their Talent ID process. VX Sport offers objective feedback on the performance outputs of players on trial and so offers another layer to the scouts expertise and recommendations. Paul spent a fruitful week-end in September with the PFSA staff introducing them to VX Sport and Ready to Perform as well as laying foundations for an exciting partnership into the future.
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TRIM GAA, Co. Meath, Ireland
Last Thursday night’s launch of the Trim GAA Long Term Player Development pathway was a huge success with over 250 players, parents and members attending. With some of Ireland’s finest sports facilities Trim GAA see the absolute need to embrace the LTPD process as the best way forward for their club.
The Match-Fit “Be Your Best” program will be an integral part of this process - our experience in the area of youth development will provide the platform for the pathway. Not only will we devise age and stage appropriate physical development programs, we will also ensure coach education is a large part of our work. “Be Your Best” aims to ensure that every player has the chance to fulfill their potential and enjoy lifelong participation with their club.
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See our Match Fit calendar for updates on events