Join the Gary Kirsten Cricket team of experienced and accredited coaches for an action-packed, comprehensive, cricketing experience.
Our school holiday coaching clinics provide junior cricketers, girls, and boys, aged 8 to 13yrs, with the opportunity to be involved in a professional coaching program, focusing on the physical and psychological elements of batting and bowling, strategy, and team culture. Our aim is to improve the player’s skills while having fun!
Without a doubt, the best place to enhance your skills in a supportive environment, a team of fully qualified, highly skilled coaches deliver an unparalleled cricketing experience for all individuals and teams to help provide the greatest opportunity of success.
1 on 1 Coaching facilitates a well-rounded experience that allows individuals to express themselves in their own style of play, while also encouraging flair, technical experience, growth, and leadership.
- 10-week program
- Monday to Friday
- 1 x player to a coach
- 30min, 45min, or 60min sessions available
High Performance
High-Performance Academy
Aimed to meet the holistic needs of players looking to take their game into the professional realm. The High-Performance Academy is a 10-week, full-time program, offering a unique blend of structure and flexibility through “One-One sessions”, nets and middle training, and masterclasses combined with access to High-Performance facilities and services. Offering once-in-a-lifetime experiences in Cape Town including being involved in the Gary Kirsten Foundation.
- 10-weeks
- Full-time program (Monday to Friday)
- One on One Sessions with High-Performance Coaches
- 2 x nets and fielding sessions
- 1 x Masterclass session per week on a specific aspect of the game by GKC Specialist Consultants
- 1 x Middle Session per week (Match Scenarios and Matches)
- Access to Virgin Active Gym (Constantia)
- Full physical assessment and conditioning program through Sports Science Institute of South Africa – SSISA
- Sessions with Performance Psychologist – Tom Dawson Squibb
- Coaches Corner – Tactical and video analysis sessions
- Weekly excursions and experiences
High-Performance Mini Camps
Aimed to meet the holistic needs of players looking to take their game into the professional realm. The High-Performance Mini Camps are highly intense and focused, 5 days of training, 3 hours a day with a break in between. The experience includes High-Performance training for teams and individuals in picturesque Cape Town. These include sessions with Gary Kirsten and the High-Performance Coaching team, sharing their experience and knowledge through unique interventions which provide all-around learning and an opportunity to advance and upskill each player’s game.
- 5-days
- Training sessions with Gary Kirsten and the High-Performance Coaching team
- Video analysis and feedback
- Full physical assessment and conditioning program through Sports Science Institute of South Africa – SSISA
- Sessions with Performance Psychologist – Tom Dawson Squibb
High Performance 1 on 1 Coaching
Aimed to meet the holistic needs of players looking to take their game into the professional realm. The Gary Kirsten Cricket High-Performance coaching team offers individualized 1 on 1 Coaching to players in South Africa and abroad at our world-class facilities in Cape Town. Players can select bundles of sessions dependent on their specific needs.
This offering is popular with elite players who live in Cape Town and remote locations around South Africa, as well as those overseas who are preparing for their season ahead for a given period of time.
The GKC High-Performance coaching team includes Gary himself, as well as international and local specialist coaches who use best practice coaching methods to take your game to the next level.
- 10-session or 20-session bundles available
- Full physical assessment and conditioning program through Sports Science Institute of South Africa – SSISA
- Sessions with Performance Psychologist – Tom Dawson Squibb
A SPECIALIST PROGRAM FOR FIRST CLASS BATSMAN
With years of experience both playing and coaching at the highest levels, Gary and his High-Performance coaching team have crafted a bespoke 7-week program that will cover the comprehensive needs of the modern batsman in all formats of the game. With the expertise of Gary Kirsten, specialist High-Performance consultants, and International and First Class coaches combined with world-class facilities, Gary Kirsten Cricket offers a program that is individualized and specific to work on all the elements of your game through various interventions including One on One Sessions, Masterclasses, Middle Scenarios, and Pressure Sessions.
This holistic approach aims to develop and upskill batsmen in an environment tailor-made for enhancing performance. GKC will provide constant feedback to the players and their respective countries and counties through our player management system which will ensure seamless communication for an integrated process.
This course is only for players who have reached or are currently playing at a first-class level and offers a perfect opportunity for professionals to take responsibility for their own games whilst receiving tuition from top coaches to prepare for the upcoming northern hemisphere season.
PROFESSIONAL COACHES
GKC also welcomes professional coaches an opportunity to develop and contribute to the program for any duration to ensure integration with the player and continuity of learning for both players and coaches. Under the guidance and mentorship of Gary Kirsten, coaches will have access to workshops covering topics of leadership and player management as well as opportunities to manage sessions to allow for a holistic coaching experience.
- 7-weeks
- Full-time program (Monday to Friday)
- Max. 12 Players
- Full access to Virgin Active Gym (Constantia)
- Full GKC Adidas Training Kit
- Alternative skills and training sessions including fielding
- Tactical & video analysis sessions (made available on Player Management System)
- Weekly off-field excursions and experiences
COACH EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT
Whilst coaching cricket around the world, the Gary Kirsten Coaching Team found an increasing number of coaches wishing to upgrade their skills and toolkits of their trade without having a platform to achieve it.
In many countries, the coach education pipeline is thwarted with red tape and barriers to entry and hence we have set out to create a platform for coaches to develop and learn their profession with a deeper understanding through an accessible online course that aims to teach coaches the basics and intricacies of the game in a holistic manner to maximize the potential of the players they are working with.