Age 9
Foundations
Build movement quality, coordination and the first acceleration patterns — without rushing the athlete.
Speed training · Johannesburg
Speed matters at every level. How you develop it should change.
Acceleration. Game speed. Agility. Quickness. Mechanics. Speed training for young athletes at Wanderers Club, Illovo — measured, then coached.
Parents in Johannesburg usually don't mean a 100m time when they say their child needs to be faster. They mean the first metres, the recoveries, the close-out, the miss. That is game speed.
ASP treats speed as a quality that is trained differently at 9, 13 and 17. Foundations, development, performance. Same destination. Different work.
Age 13
Development
Turn talent into repeatable speed: mechanics, change of direction, and strength that supports sprinting.
Age 17
Performance
Sharpen game speed for higher-level competition — measured, coached, and progressed with data.
What we mean by speed
Acceleration
How quickly can the athlete get moving?
Game speed
Can they use their speed effectively in competition?
Agility
Can they decelerate and change direction efficiently?
Quickness
Can they react and move before their opponent?
Mechanics
Is the way they run helping or limiting them?
Speed that shows up in the sport
Running technique can be coached. Acceleration can be trained. Agility is not a ladder drill. We start by measuring which of those is the actual limiter — then we take the sport into account.
Want your child to be faster? Start with the facts.
A Sports Science Assessment at Wanderers Club is how we find out whether the limiter is acceleration, mechanics, strength — or something else.