Football coach · Austin, TXCoach Christopher
Private Football CoachCoach Christopher
Trains in Austin
Works with Elementary, Middle School, High School
Available: Tues, Wed, Thurs, Sat, Sun
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Get to know Christopher
Skill position trainer who teaches the details kids can practice on their own.
I've spent over nine years developing youth athletes, starting when I was in the Air Force and never stopping. I train skill position players, and every athlete I work with runs the same three blocks: positional technique, speed and agility, and coordination. The complexity scales with the age and level, the foundation doesn't. My job is to find the one or two things holding your athlete back, break them into something they can own and repeat on their own, and rep it until it holds up at full speed against a real defender.
How I can help you improve
Every athlete I train works three blocks: positional technique, speed and agility, and coordination.
Positional technique is the sport-specific work. Footwork, hands, route running, hip mobility, eye discipline, the details that separate a player who's open from one who's covered. Speed and agility is the engine underneath it, because clean technique at half speed doesn't hold up on Friday night. Coordination is the block most trainers skip, and it's usually why an athlete can nail a drill in isolation but falls apart when the ball is in the air and a defender is closing.
Trained together, all three reinforce each other. Trained separately, you get a kid who looks great in warmups.
The other thing I do is diagnose. Most athletes aren't held back by ten things, they're held back by one or two. I find those, name them clearly so the athlete understands them, and we build from there instead of piling on volume.
A typical training session
What a typical training session looks like with me
We start with movement prep and a quick check on whatever we worked last session, so nothing gets left behind.
From there we go into speed and agility work, because that's when the legs are fresh and the mechanics are cleanest. Then we move to positional technique, working the specific skill we've targeted for that athlete, starting controlled and building up to full speed. Coordination work gets layered into both, not treated as a separate warmup.
We finish competitive. Something with a score, a rep count, or a standard to beat, because kids need to feel pressure to know whether the technique actually holds.
Before we're done, the athlete leaves with one thing to work on before the next session. Parents get a straight answer on what we did and where their kid stands. No mystery.
Career & accomplishments
Over nine years coaching and training youth athletes across multiple sports, with a focus on football skill positions. I started coaching while serving in the Air Force and have kept it going ever since.
Outside of the field, I've spent more than a decade in sales leadership, most recently as a Director of Sales overseeing a team of 200-plus. Most of that job was developing people: building training programs, coaching individuals through plateaus, and figuring out how to get someone from where they are to where they want to be. Different arena, same skill.
That combination is why I run training the way I do. I've built development systems professionally, and I bring that same structure to your athlete.
Best coach I ever had
Coach Mark Davis. He coached with me from 2011-2013. He was excellent at finding a way to get the best out of each of our athletes. He was also extremely sharp on the play calling side. If a tendency was found mid game, he was draw up a play to exploit it.
What athletes & parents should know
I'm dependable and truly just love to coach. Looking forward to working with your you and your athlete!
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25% off your 1st lesson
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$38
Then $160/mo for 4 lessons, starting 48 hours after your 1st lesson. Cancel anytime.
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