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Through the years, coaches and athletes have recognized the importance of speed and quickness in all sporting endeavors but were convinced that they were “God-given’ genetic qualities that no one could do anything to improve.  As a result, speed training was usually relegated to track and field and those interested in sprinting events.  Even among sprint coaches, the emphasis was on conditioning and improving running form.  At the university and professional levels, coaches looked for athletes with superior speed and quickness as opposed to improving the speed and quickness in athletes with superior playing skills.

As long as the  United States dominated the sprinting events in the Olympic games, American training techniques went unquestioned, and the use of old methods continued.  In the 1970’s when the Eastern Europeans began to challenge America’s supremacy in the sprinting events, the United States began to realize that there was more to speed improvement than genetics and conditioning.  We recognized that sprinting speed was not only increased by improving running mechanics and speed endurance but by also improving stride length and stride frequency.

The greatest concern among today’s athletes in soccer, football, basketball, baseball, rugby, lacrosse, field hockey and most other sports is how to improve playing speed – the speed of all movements, including starting, stopping, accelerating, changing directions, delivering or avoiding a blow, sprinting, and split-second decision making during athletic competition.

Flight101 Sports Speed Development  is a complete approach to improving athletic playing speed by providing training methods that include general conditioning to develop speed endurance, plyometric drills and exercises to improve stride length and frequency and technique drills to improve running form.  Flight101 SSD is designed to train today's athletes to be tomorrows champions.  Regardless of the sport, improved playing speed is often what separates good athletes from great athletes and can make the difference between a winning season and a “championship” season.  

Individual and team training programs  will start with a Fall Session schedule to begin in September and go thru November with the Winter Session scheduled to start in January and continue through the end of March.   Sessions are held at the Sports Dome in North Canton Ohio  and are open to any athlete looking to improve their speed and quickness.  Because of tremendous interest in the speed development program additional dates maybe added in the future and sport specific training is available to teams and individual athletes upon request.  For information on Flight101 SSD  contact Coach Jay Murdock at jmurdock@flight101.org.

 Flight101 SSD participants  are responsible for all fees associated with the use of the facility.  For the most recent membership rate information contact the Sports Dome at (330) 497-3588.