YOUTH FOOTBALL TRAINING
Who: youth football players in Portland area 8th-12th grade

What: Football skills training- our goal is to increase your skill, knowledge, confidence, fitness and improve foot speed, footwork. At the same time, the player will have a great experience (fun).

When: Sunday Evenings starting January 8th, 2012

Where: Benson High School's new football field- Buckman Field near downtown Portland. A convenient location for everyone.

Why: Football is a highly competitive sport, give yourself an edge by being more skilled than your competition.

Cost: $25 per session, this is a 1-hour training session followed by a flag football game (in the PortlandFootball.com league), flags and uniforms will be provided. You must be in the 9th grade or higher to play in this league. 8th graders, your fee will only be $20 because of not being able to play in the 2nd hour (parents- you can leave your child with us for the 2nd hour if you prefer- they will probably learn from the game and/or toss the ball around during the game).

Referral program: refer a friend to this program and you will get 2 free sessions.

About the trainer: Antonio Chandler played 4 sports- excelling in football at Portland State University. Chandler broke the record for most yards in a game by a wide receiver with 260 yards. Antonio was invited to NFL camps, dressed and played in pre-season games with the Seahawks but went on to play arena football for 5 years.

About the 1-hour training: first 10 minutes is players stretching and getting loose, the next 15 minutes is work for speed, agility and quickness. The following 20 minutes is position specific skills. The last 15 minutes is 1-on-1 competitions where the players put what they learned to work. For the most part, Antonio will be developing defensive backs and receivers and running backs- but really any player who shows up, even lineman will get a good workout and develop as an athlete. Certainly lateral speed and footwork will get better by being a part of this 2-hour program on Sundays so lineman- feel free to join up.

Offensive and Defensive lineman: it is not enough nowadays to be big and strong; today- increased foot speed is vital to both the passing game and downfield blocking. By participating on turf in drills for receivers and defensive back, your speed and coordination will increase. And at times, we will work on lineman specific technique when we know a pair of lineman will be participating.

Wide receivers and running backs: in addition to the foot speed improvements, we will be working with you to run technically sound routes, we will work on hand position as well as field alignment/awareness.

Defensive backs and linebackers: Antonio will train you and work with you to 'get in and out' and to back pedal with ease.

Quarterbacks: techniques developed will be to lengthen and quicken your drop, keep eyes downfield, get ball out on time, etc.

Contact: Antonio Chandler (phone) 503-888-4120 or actrain@gmail.com

Register/Pay: pay online by clicking on the pay/register link and when it asks you what you are paying for, simply enter football lessons or football training.

About PortlandFootball.com: Antonio Chandler's training program is hosted by PortlandFootball.com. PortlandFootball.com is a division of Peaceful Recreational Athletics, Inc.- a business that has been running basketball and football and other sporting events in the Portland metropolitan area for 19 years; Excel Athletics, Inc. is owned by Mikal Duilio- (ph) 503-380-4539 & mikalduilio@gmail.com

Next up (8 'Winter' Sundays):
Sunday January 8th- training will be at 5pm-7pm under the lights & on the turf at Benson High School (Buckman Field)
Sunday January 15th
Sunday January 22nd
Sunday January 29th
Sunday February 5th
Sunday February 12th
Sunday February 19th
Sunday February 26th

Note that in the Spring 2012 will have 8 Sundays and in Summer 2012 we will have 8 Sundays as well; basically, Antonio Chandler expects to hold 24 training Sundays per year all in an effort to make you a great football player by the time your school football program starts back up in August.