PRIME Athletes Australia

M-V-P... M-V-P...
Congrats to the YL women on their 2024 Championship!
And HUGE congrats to our own .tayylorr on captaining a great team win, and being named GF MVP!..
Always great to see so many of our program athletes (and coaches) at the game!
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We're adding to our coaching team!..
We're looking for aspiring coaches who want to take lead roles in helping to shape both athletes and programs!..
Our new coaches will:
- help continue the growth of our existing programs,
- play key parts in developing and launching our upcoming program...
Ideal candidates will:
✅️ be ASCA certified,
✅️ have experience leading both novice and experienced athletes,
✅️ have current insurances,
✅️ have current WWC card...
These are paid roles.
Starting with a competitive hourly rate,
PLUS opportunities for for added commission $ as we grow...
The roles will be based in the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne...
Link in Bio, or send us a message for more info.

An ENORMOUS Thank You! 💪🙏..
Our fantastic coach, Simon has moved on to do more study and more great things closer to home out West...
We'll miss:
The important philosophical questions 🎄🎬,
The outstanding music selections 🤘,
The elite coaching 💪,
The fantastic atmosphere you helped maintain in our program 😁👍,
And much more!..
Thank You, ! 🙏

BIG DEBATE 🎄🎥 🎬 THIS WEEK!..
What's your favourite Christmas movie?....
The correct answer is Die Hard, but leave your vote anyway. 😁

Join us in SF & SAC! 🇦🇺🏀🇺🇸..
Expressions of interest are coming in from players & teams for our JUNE 2024 tour...
Register your spot for our Zoom info session this month!..
INFO LINK IN BIO.
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What a year! 💪🤠🏀👍..
Congratulations to the whole group!..
Lots of hard work by the boys & their support crew!..
We're particularly proud of the great work done by our program athletes, BEEF, Evan & Net!..
📸 : KommunityTV

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We're excited to offer our next USA DEVELOPMENT TOUR...
Our 2024 tour to
SAN FRANCISCO and SACRAMENTO will include
LOTS of BASKETBALL,
LOTS of EXPERIENCES,
and LOTS of FUN!..
We're inviting
INDIVIDUAL PLAYERS and
TEAMS...
Get in touch for more info.

WE'RE BACK for 2023!..
Our Program is ready for another HUGE YEAR!..
Group sessions resume Monday 16th...
NEW ATHLETE ENROLMENTS ARE NOW OPEN!

It's simple, but not easy...
New seasons are coming up.
Invest time & energy into getting better, and getting more ready...
Our Performance program can help.

Our TOUGHEST OPPONENTS in sport usually have the same characteristics. They're typically:
✔ HIGHLY SKILLED: they are technically very sound & can perform a variety of fundamental skills very well...
✔ FAST: they get their body organised quickly and can move in all directions with great speed...
✔ STRONG: they can establish & maintain position very well, they make it very difficult for you to make position, and they can still perform skills very well through contact...
✔ SMART: they have a high game I.Q.. They seem to know exactly what to do and where to go at just the right times...
So we know what "tough" opponents are like.
We know what makes them difficult to play against.
Invest more time & energy in more of the things that make YOU the tough opponent...
➡️ Skills are vital, keep working on them, but they're not the only thing!..
🏃🏻‍♂️🏃‍♀️ MOVEMENT IS A SKILL, treat it that way. Learn to move well, move often, learn to move fast!..
💪GET STRONGER. Strength will not only make you faster and hard to move on the field/court, it supports you getting better at everything else. It will allow you to train your for your sport at higher intensity, for longer, more often.
THAT is how your skills really improve...
🎬 STUDY YOUR SPORT. Spend time watching your games, watch your opponents, watch the professionals/elites of your sport, but watch them analytically.
Don't just watch highlights!
Get to really know the decisions, movements & skills that consistently lead to scoring and good defensive plays...
We know what makes a TOUGH OPPONENT. Do more of that stuff!

Great to have some of our U16 boys in to our DBA program last night.
We reviewed some
PREPARATION & RECOVERY techniques and how STRENGTH plays a HUGE role in their goals to play high level sport.
Thanks to .mihai for seeing the importance of this for his teams.
Really looking forward to having these guys involved in our program.
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💪 Back to work for 2021!!..
😀 We're excited that our program at Dandenong Basketball starts back up today!..
⛹️‍♀️ Domestic & Rep athletes are getting a head start on preparing themselves for great 2021 seasons and beyond...
🏃🏻‍♂️ New athlete inductions are also available from today!
By appointment, https://primeathletes.com.au/contact-us/..
NEW PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING SOON! 👍👍

What a year...
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A very difficult year for a lot of us!..
THANK YOU to the athletes who invested time & effort with us...
THANK YOU to the families who are part of our community...
THANK YOU to our great partners for providing more support and opportunities to your athletes...
Bring on 2021!
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Get more ready!..
The next TWO Sundays as part of our Dandenong Basketball program...
All Domestic & Rep players invited...
Places are strictly limited by COVID rules, so BOOK YOUR PLACE QUICKLY!
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Chasing the goals of US college or Pro sport...
LOTS of players around the world have those same goals!..
Maybe you don't need ANOTHER highlight video, or
ANOTHER "exposure" camp
that show more people the SAME player.
🤔..
Maybe those hours can be spent building a BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER player.
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Prepare. Work. Recover. Repeat.

More Sunday work. 🐊🏀..
More athletes improving:
✔ Movement Quality
✔ Strength
✔ Workload Capacity..
All aimed at getting back on court READY and BETTER...
Prepare. Work. Recover. REPEAT!

Proud Coach post...
We love hearing about the successes of our athletes along their journey...
We know the numbers in our athletes' programs, we know they're getting stronger, faster. Hearing about them FEELING STRONG and FEELING CONFIDENT is awesome!
It's one of the main reasons we do what we do!..
Consistent quality work builds a great foundation for wherever your sporting goals may be...
What are YOU preparing for❓

There is a HUGE difference...
To BE GREAT is the end result of the long, disciplined and challenging process to BECOME GREAT...
There are NO shortcuts around it.

Sunday work! 💪🐊🏀..
A great Sunday session for our program!..
More & more athletes working, learning, IMPROVING!..
They're preparing to come back to sport stronger, faster, better.
Are YOU ❓

Gators getting better!..
It was great to start working with this week! It's awesome to see more athletes wanting to not only stay active but invest time into GETTING BETTER.
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BIG Thank Yous to Randy and Kate for helping to get our program going!

How much do you want it?..
Coaches are definitely here to help, but your goal is YOUR goal...
Yep, COVID isolation is very tough!
It is testing a lot of people's genuine drive and motivation...
Sport will be back, and opportunities will still be there...
Motivation is temporary, we can't rely on it.
We all have good days and crap days.
Build HABITS.
Habits are things we do all the time regardless of how we're feeling...
Coaches can absolutely help with WHAT DO and HOW TO DO IT, but most of the WHY is on YOU.

Staying ready! 💪🏀..
HUGE Thank You to all the athletes from for a great first Strength & Skills session...
It's awesome to see so many players genuinely wanting to learn & improve!..
More HUGE Thank Yous to and for putting the session together! 👍

Athletes, guess what.....
Strength Coaches can help you improve ALL THREE! 🤯..
(with some tactical & technical input from your team coaches of course!)..
Keep improving how you move.
Keep adding some strength.
Keep improving your capacity to be great.
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Who are we, really?..
Behaviours, habits, work ethic, manners, are they different when we think we have an audience?..
COVID isolation is testing what athletes are really like. It's a very difficult time, absolutely it is. Our eventual return to sport will clearly show which athletes are genuine about their desire to improve and which just talk about it...
Typically, what we're like when nobody is watching, eventually becomes obvious when they are...
We WILL get back to sport, we will. Keep working so you're ready when we do.

What's in a logo?..
Part Three.
The Runner - the athlete...
In it's simplest form, the symbol of a runner represents athleticism, it represents MOVEMENT...
It is an essential part of the PRIME logo because we work with athletes.
It has an essential position in our logo, FIRST, because quality movement is the foundation on which we build our athletes...
The way we move, our ability to MOVE WELL is the necessary first step in developing athletes.
Flexibilty, mobility and viewing movement as a SKILL comes before adding strength, speed or power...
Passing, kicking and shooting are all skills we practice regularly to improve.
Running, jumping and landing are also skills we should practice regularly to improve...
One of the many quotes we embrace from my time at Core Advantage Athletic Development:
"Thinking of an athlete like the driver of their own sports car, we should teach them how to steer, brake and handle the car well BEFORE we supercharge their engine."..
Step one, move well.

What’s in a logo?..
Part Two.
The Dumbell - Weights, Resistance, STRENGTH...
The centrepiece of any athletic development program (and therefore our logo) is building strength.
Whether it is increasing our athletes' ability to:

- absorb more force
- express more force
- change direction more safely and quickly
- build a physical foundation for the journey toward a higher level of sport
- or to simply be able to handle their typical sporting workload easier,

building some variety of STRENGTH IS KEY...
Once our athletes move well, we introduce the key WHATs, HOWs and WHYs of strength.
We provide our athletes WHAT exercises to do and HOW to do them safely and effectively.
The real power lies in the WHY.
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Once our athletes understand WHY these exercises work and they begin to feel the changes, that itself is a powerful tool in building successful preparation, training and recovery habits...
Move well. Move often. Get STRONGER! @ Melbourne, Victoria, Australia