How Do You Judge Your Session? It is a question we all face: How do you measure a good session? - Is it about making incredible saves? - Is it consistency and minimal mistakes? - Is it how you compare to the players around you? - Or is it how you feel looking back at the end? The Shift in Approach Up to age 11/12: Keep sessions flowing. Enjoy the game, learn from mistakes in the moment with a smile, and build your love for the sport. Be ready for the hard push when it comes. Age 12/13 and beyond: This is when you need to start pushing and preparing to be truly challenged if you want to develop and chase being the best. At this stage, the key to progress changes. It comes down to two steps: 1. Define the focus: Understand what you are doing at the start of the session and why. 2. Judge yourself on that alone: Rate your session based strictly on that exact focus—and nothing else. Hope that helps

Every Thursday, I share part of my journey trying to become a professional goalkeeper as a kid — and the lessons I understand now that I wish I knew back then. My hope is that you can learn from my experiences and use them in your own journey. THURSDAY THOUGHTS 🧤⚽ I remember going for a trial at Everton when I was around 14 or 15 years old. I was nervous. Really nervous. I remember looking around at the other goalkeepers and players thinking: “Everyone here looks so confident… except me.” But looking back now, I realise something important. A lot of those players were probably feeling exactly the same as me. They were nervous too. They were just trying not to show it. And this is the lesson I want to give you today: STOP worrying about what everyone else is doing. At a trial, match or training session, you cannot control: - How good another goalkeeper is - How confident they look - What saves they make - What coaches think of somebody else - Whether another player makes a mistake You can only control YOU. Your attitude. Your communication. Your effort. Your decisions. Your next save. The moment you truly understand this, your mind becomes much calmer. You get more clarity. More focus. And you give yourself a much better chance of performing at your best. If you are serious about developing as a goalkeeper, then developing your mindset and confidence is NOT optional. There is no negotiation. That is why I developed the FREE Goalkeeper Mindset Mastery App for goalkeepers and parents. It is designed to help goalkeepers learn to: THINK like a professional goalkeeper. TALK like a professional goalkeeper. PERFORM like a professional goalkeeper. And it is completely FREE. 👉 https://mastery.j4ksports.com/ You cannot control everybody around you. But you can learn to control your own mind, confidence and performance. I hope this helps. Your friend, Ray Newland

I am thinking about Christmas gift ideas for my goalkeeper daugther, I know there are some obvious things like Gloves and Boots, but I have been thinking about more interesting gifts. I would be interested to hear from you about the best GK related gifts you have received or would like to receive that are a bit different. I am looking at these 2 ideas to start us off: 1 - Reflex sticks, where the sticks fall randomly and the game is to catch them. I imagine this gets pretty easy pretty quickly for goalkeepers with good reflexes though. 2- Boulderball, which looks like a fun way to build finger dexterity and strength. It is aimed at climbers, but I think Goalkeepers can also benefit from dexterity and strength in fingers. What do you think, are these good gifts for a GK, or have you got any better ideas?

Had my first training session on Monday after dislocating my knee on monday Was a very good training session and felt reallly good to be back with the girls I'm also back in net from sunday im so excited but nervous to be back Anyway if you all dont mind could you pop over to my tiktok and follow and like and I will return the favor let's grow together. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdX5pQVg/

As some of you know Logan is a defender, but loves being in goal. At the moment there is no opportunity for him to get game time in goal but he still trains with Wilson’s goal keeper coach just for the pure love of it. Watching his dedication to a position he doesn’t play, going out in the rain and cold just so he can practice something he loves makes it even more enjoyable to watch 🥰