Another J4K Goalkeeper Success Story

Over the pst 15 years or so, J4K has helped more goalkeepers achieve their goalkeeping dreams than any other goalkeeping coaching school in history... and we are very proud to say that we have yet again... another goalkeeping success story!

J4k have had yet another goalkeeper sign for a professional club. Young Joe Coleman from Ashford UK has joined Gillingham FC under 14's on a 2 year deal taking him up to scholarship age.

Joe has been part of Just4keepers for over four years and was given a six week trial at the start of this season, he went on to shine during these soccer games and is now their number one choice for their Centre of Excellence side for this season.

A HUGE congratulations to Joe for all the hard work he has put in during the last few years!

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J4K Goalkeeper student Joe Coleman with his J4K coach, Andy woodcock!

How to wash your goalkeeper gloves

How to clean your goalkeeper gloves
I always get asked from goalkeepers 'how do I clean my goalkeeper gloves' and 'why are more goalkeeper gloves ripping'
The easy answer to that is that they are not looking after there goalkeeper gloves properly.
Watch the video below and this will show you how to clean your goalkeeper gloves to make them last longer. Another tip to remember is to make sure your gloves are damp whilst playing and training. Do not let them dry out!

Goalkeeper Trials

Over the years, one of the most common asked question I have got asked is, ‘How do I become a professional goalkeeper?.

Running Just4keepers over the past 13 plus years has been a privilege as I have directly and indirectly helped over 300 goalkeepers get to professional football clubs. 

So I am very excited to say that we have launched www.goalkeepertrials.com to take our services to the next level in terms of helping goalkeepers achieve their dream of becoming a professional goalkeeper or get to a professional club.

Please check this website out and if you feel you are a goalkeeper who has got ability but for some reason you are not got the breaks you deserve, hopefully we can help you!

Best of goalkeeping

Ray Newland

Goalkeeper Glove Size Guide

If you are a keeper or a parent of a goalkeeper it can be so difficult trying to pick the exact goalkeeper glove for your hand, especially if you are buying online because if you make a error and get the wrong size goalkeeping glove, you

1.      Have to return these gloves at YOUR own expenditure!

2.      Get the goalkeeper Glove Company to send you right size, again at YOUR expenditure!

So by picking the incorrect size glove the extra postage alone to put this right, can cost  you a small fortune, adding a good portion of cash to this gk glove, and this extra money onto your glove, makes it a very expensive glove.

Also if you are a parent of a keeper and you are trying to choose the correct glove for your child, the chances are you will unfortunately make this expensive mistake.

As we are keepers ourselves we do not want fellow goalkeepers and or their parents to make this costly error so what J4K  has done is designed a very unique goalkeeper glove size guide.

What you basically do is look at the goalkeeper glove size chart and check out the sizes and see which matches up to your hand size. You can also print of these size guides if you wish.

So please feel free to check out the guide are goalkeeper glove size chart and use this free service from Just4keepers..

Best of goalkeeping and we hope this helps you save money!

Another Happy Just4keepers Goalkeeper

I have Just received my J4K sponsorship goalie gloves and they are some of the best keeper gloves I have used, at a quality price as well!!

Thank you for offering me such a special deal J4K, It really helps young keepers like me with great gloves and helps save me an awful lot of money !!

I cannot recommend J4K enough!

Thumbs up to J4k!

Ross Drinkell

Discounted Goalkeeper Gloves

Goalkeeping gloves are the most important parts of a keeper’s equipment. If you’re a casual GK, you may be able to get away with a pair of cheap discounted gloves. However, if you play with any degree of seriousness, cheap discounted gloves could cost you significantly more in the long run, both financially and professionally. 

Disadvantages of cheap Discounted Goalkeeper Gloves

Cheap gloves may save you a bit money up front, but that is pretty much the only benefit. If you end up having to buy new gloves constantly, then then benefit quickly dissappear.

·         Poor fit. cheap gloves tend to fit bery poorly or the palms are only 2cm thick. this is not good for a goalkeeper.

      Poor materials. on cheap gloves, nomally the materials are of poor standard. again this is no good for the keepers

·         Poor overall quality. Even if a pair of cheap discounted gloves is made with fairly decent materials, it may be poorly designed normally these gloves fall apart after just a few games.

Your gloves really aren’t the best place to be sacrificing quality to save money becasue in the long run, you will most probaby end up spending more money. 

Another tip: Always try your glove out first in your goalkeeping training. This way you can make sure its ok before you use in a game.

The below picture is J4K goalkeeper coach Wayne Brown with his new Just4keepers class in Southampton, UK. 

Wayne is one of the most experienced goalkeepers and GK coach to join  the J4K team playing professional level for over a decade in the England and also in South Africa.

He's now started goalkeeper training in Southampton and already has a waiting list for some of his classes so has opened a couple more. If you are a keeper from Southampton,contact Wayne (below) and arrange a free goalie coaching session, with him?

http://just4keepers.co.uk/goalkeepertraining-in-the-uk/goalkeeper-training-southampton

J4K Southampton

Finger Save Goalkeeper Gloves

If you are going to buy a pair finger save goalkeeper glovesand you cannot make a fist. Please DO NOT buy!

Just imaging punching someone with an open hand!!!

What is going to happen?

You will probably break your fingers. And this is what can happen if you pick the wrong type of fingersave goalie glove.

I have seen this soooo many times over the years, young keepers wearing these gloves and the gloves are that rigid they can only close their hands by 50%.

This is very very dangerous.

Imagine a cross coming over and a keeper punching the ball with all his or her strength, the chances are they are going to do some serious damage because they are technically striking with an open hand. This is bad.

Over my years as an international goalkeeper coach and founder of Just4keepers goalkeeper training schools, I have actually seen several of my students break their fingers because their fingersaves were too tight.

Finger savers can be a great glove BUT only when you get the correct ones were you can make a fist.

Last point, it is also worthwhile NOT buying the finger protected gloves that are cheap. Pay a bit more for this type of glove and you should be ok.

But remember; before you buy make sure you can make a fist!

Best of goalkeeping

Ray Newland

The J4K Goalkeeping Gloves have become one of the most popular gloves on the goalkeeping circuit with the J4K Gloves getting sold to more than 10,000 goalkeepers in 30 countries.

Check out the video blow to see how many keepers enjoy wearing our gloves!

The J4K goalkeeper residential  that is now in its third year of running has already seen goalkeepers coming from all corners of the planet!

In 2011, the furthest keepers came from as far as Singapore but this year this has been well and truly smashed by Goalies who are attending from New Zealand and Australia.

Check out www.goalkeepercamps.co.uk to see what has now become the biggest goalkeeping residential in Europe.

For non keeper residential goalkeeping camps throughout the USA, check out www.goalkeepercamps.net

The J4K Goalkeeper Challenge

Do you think you are the BEST Goalkeeper in your area who can pump our tons and tons of agility stomach goalkeeping training exercises…. well see if you can beat the Just4keepers goalkeeper student below!

If you can, why not send me a video of you beating this record!!! I will then put it on the Just4keepers website.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ09ZqbkEAc&feature=g-upl&context=G2a28244AUAAAAAAAAAA

Goalkeepers worldwide benefit from J4K

I get a lot of thank you emails re the jus4keepers goalkeeper gloves and what myself and J4K is trying to do to set the trend of offering high quality gloves at fair prices, I had to put this testimony in.

My son received his second pair of your J4K gloves the other week, along with his "sponsor me" free pair. He loves them. Jack plays for the St. John's 14a team here in Newfoundland, Canada, and your gloves are used almost every day. Thanks for making top quality gloves at an affordable price for these kids - it allows them to love the position and have confidence that the equipment they wear will back them up every time. Enclosed is Jack's photo as per your deal.

Regards,

Richard Haywood

Another J4K success story!

 

Above is ex J4K student Josh Cook. Josh trained with Just4keepers goalkeeper training schools for over 5 years with his 2 brothers Nathan and Jimmy.

Josh is now a goalkeeper for Burnley Football Club and J4K is very proud to say how well Josh is doing. Josh was taught by J4K Founder Ray Newland and Ray says, 'Its great to see a great guy make the grade, not only is Josh one hell of a goalkeeper, he is one of the nicest youngmen I have had the pleasure to know and teach!'

Josh at full stretch in action against West Brom! Good to see a young goalkeeper come for a cross!

What is the best starting position technique?

Over the past three decades as a goalie coach , I have seen so many different variations of the goalkeeping starting position, some good, so very bad!

If yu have ten different keeper coaches this year, I will GUARANTEE you that each one of your coaches will show you a different starting position technique.

So what’s right goalkeeper starting position technique and what do I teach?

I have been taught by five ex international goalkeepers, and because of my proven results of the past 30 years for my students, my techniques are better than 99.9% of other goalkeeper coaches.

But I would not state my starting position technique is the right!

I think one of the BIGGEST errors coaches make is to think their technique is the best, and then make their students clones of themselves.

What a lot of in experienced keeper coaches do not understand is their students are all different and are individuals, so what is correct for one student, will not be right for another student. So a Gk coach should adapt is coaching to each students individuals needs.

Any goalkeeper trainer that states to his students, ‘You HAVE to stand like this, or you HAVE to put your hands in this position etc” in my opinion is either very in experienced or does not know what he is talking about.

As you grow and get older you will develop your own goalkeeping style, and it is up to your GK coach to murge his goalkeeping knowledge and experience with your personal style... this will then make you the complete goalkeeper that is suitable to you and your body.

Goalkeeper Coaching for Children

If you are a parent or grandparent looking for goalkeeper training for children there are a few very important pointers to look out for.

1: Make sure the keeper coach is who he states he is because some goalkeeping coaches exaggerate their claims regarding their goalkeeping career.

These GK coaches say they played for a professional soccer club but reading between the lines, they only had a  trial with a particular pro club, so they have NOT been a former professional keeper like they state..
  
So as a parent looking for goalkeeper training for children, IS DO YOUR RESEARCH ON YOUR GOALKEEPER COACH!

The only problem is when a soccer club employs a goalkeeper coach all the goalkeepers HAVE TO attend his sessions. I have seen many of these goalkeeper coaches in action and its very worrying as these coaches are un intentionally doing more harm than good.

Most parents ask me what I would do in that situation, and I say I would not allow my child to attend the coaches sessions! However, some parents sadly are frightened by the club and let their child attend these classes, then wonder why their child does not develop as a keeper.

I understand why soccer clubs hire a keeper coach as they want to do the right thing for their keepers. But if the club do not get the correct goalkeeper coach, in my opion it is a waste of time, especially for the goalkeeper.

2: Make sure he is qualified.
I have seen a few times over the year’s GK coaches who actually  lie about their qualifications. So make sure they have the qualifications they state! 

3: The next thing to do, is check out the GK coaches classes BEFORE you hand over your cash. What you want to see, is the coach training his students in a relaxed and friendly environment. If the gk coach is screaming and shouting at his students, stay away!

You also want to see all the keepers doing something. If you see keepers standing about doing nothing or waiting for the next directions from the gk coach, the chances are the coach does not know what he is doing, and or is very inexperienced.

4: Check your coach out online If this coach is making claims about his experiences etc, google him. If you cannot find anything about this coach online, I would be asking him some very serious questions!

5: What has he done for his current students? 
If he has helped his students succeed, the chances are he can do this with your child. You want to see  some decent success stories though, like his students getting a career opportunites because most gk coaches cannot do this for their students.

6: How much does he charge: I have seen some goalkeeper coaches and they charge a small fortune. Some of these coaches, I would not have them working for me for free because they are not very good, yet they are asking for ALOT of money for medicore coaching.


A good soccer keeper coach, coaches chidren to give something back to the next generation of goalkeepers so his coaching fees will always be fair

So if you are looking for Goalkeeper coaching for children I hope this article helps you pick the correct goalie coach because even though there are a lot of poor goalkeeper coaches coaching, there is thankfully a lot of very good keeper coaches out there… so it is up to you as a parent or grandparent to make sure you find the correct one for your child or grandchild.

Best of goalkeeping

Ray Newland