Youth soccer skills training for players 8 to 14 at The Lab in East Pasadena. The skills a player already has, now at game speed, in tight spaces, against real resistance.
Two players walk into this session from opposite directions and need the same thing: the individual work nobody else has time to teach them. Both keep their team.
Two or three seasons behind them, one of the better players on their team, loves the game, and has stopped getting better because nobody at practice is teaching technique. You don’t need a club to fix that. You need someone to coach the individual.
Team practice runs on formations and set pieces. Necessary to win games; it leaves little time for the player. We respect the load a serious club player carries and do the technical work that team training skips.
Seventy-five minutes. Tighter spaces, more decisions per minute. The skills don’t change from Foundation One; the demand does. There the question is how. Here it becomes when and where. We build chaos on purpose.
Pressure that forces a player to scan, decide, and execute before the picture changes.
Decisions under fatigue, the way a match demands. Quality of movement over mindless conditioning.
Hip mobility, scanning, weight of pass. The micro-movements large team practices skip, and the ones that separate players.
The goal is competence under pressure: a Foundation Two player can execute their skills while an opponent is trying to take the ball away. That’s the difference between knowing a move and owning it.
When: Mon–Fri 6:15pm · Placement is the coach’s call, not a birthday.
Billed monthly. Foundation One and Two share the same rates.
Once a week. A five-year-old trying it out, or a child balancing another sport. Not a development plan, and we say so.
Twice a week. The plan we recommend. The player comes back before the last session has faded.
Three times a week. Mostly Foundation Two.
Foundation Two sits alongside a club or Saturday schedule. No conflict, no loyalty test, no pressure to leave anything. Players return to their teams sharper.
The base.
The same skills, faster, under pressure.
The teams inside the training club. Coaches place players they already train, Foundation players first, when a player is ready to move from training into competition. A door, not a promise of a place.
For players competing at a good club level who want the reps team practice can’t give.
Probably not. Foundation Two is for any player who can control the ball and is ready to do it under pressure.
High, and as mental as physical. Expect your child to work hard.
Yes. We group by ability and speed of play, not age or gender.
Yes. Our staff is bilingual, and we work with families in both Spanish and English.
