Why Spend Hundreds Or Thousands of
Dollars Going To Summer Camps and Tournaments With NO Guarantee That
You’re Going To Learn Anything
When You Can Work With Me One-on-One
Without Leaving Your Living Room

Dear Friend,

At first I was stunned.

When I tallied up the amount of money my family spent on me going to
lacrosse camps and tournaments during high-school I nearly choked.

I mean, I could have bought a small car for that amount of money.

Luckily for me it worked out. I did become an All-American, and I was
recruited by a number of Division One schools. Even flown out to
visit some of them.

But when I look back on it I’d say half…maybe two-thirds of the
camps I attended were a waste of time and money.

Well, maybe not a complete waste of time. You always learning something
at those camps. Even if it’s learning not to try and sneak back into the
dorm at two a.m. with those kids from Long Island. Some of those kids
aren’t at these camps to learn. They are there to party and it’s a huge distraction.

What If You Could Save All That Money

That’s why I started helping goalies without them having to leave their house.
Mom and Dad could save the money on travel and expenses. And you could
even turn around and take the money you saved and put it to better equipment
that could help you play better. Does that sound like a good idea?

That’s why I started Digital Goalie Critiques.

A few years ago I had a goalie make a really cool suggestion. She said,
“Hey Coach, could I send you my game tape and have your coach me?”

What a great idea! So she sent me her game tape. It was kinda funny actually.
I think her mom was in the stands doingnthe video so the camera was pretty
wonky. Sometimes it was zoomed way in, other times zoomed way out. And her mom
couldn’t help but yell and scream every time she made a save or let a goal in. I
had to turn the volume way down.

But she did get to video part of the warm up. So that was cool. I got to see how
this goalie plays with her team. On her field. With her coaches. That’s just something
you can’t do at camp.

I used to hate going to camps when I was starting out. I didn’t want to embarrass myself.
I mean seriously, there are All-Americans at some of these camps. And coaches
who’ve seen lots of goalies. I didn’t know how I was going to stack up and
I sure as hell didn’t want to screw up. It took me a couple years to get up my
courage to go to a camp let alone really shine so I would get “noticed.”

I also hated when coach would give me advice that didn’t make sense for me when I got back
home with my team.

Yeah, great. Well, I don’t play in Maryland with all these kids that know what’s going on. My team
sucks. My defense can’t catch. My middies don’t play defense. And my attack never see the
ball because it’s usually in the back of the cage because I see forty to sixty shots…a game!

It would piss me off when a coach would recommend something that just wasn’t right for me.

The problem is that coach never sees you playing with your team. Unless he’s from your
home town. So he doesn’t know that your coach doesn’t use you on the clear and that’s
why you aren’t any good at them yet. Or he doesn’t see that you’ve
got the fourth attackman warming you up because your coach has no time for you.

You Also Don’t Know How Much You’re Going To Play At a Camp

I got lucky at some of the camps I went to. You know how they would split you
up into teams? Well a lot of times you’d have two, maybe three goalies on a
team. I managaed to get on teams that only had two goalies. But I would
remember some goalies that played less than a half of all games because they
had three goalies on their teams. Sometimes they only played a quarter!

And you won’t know that until you get to camp. You’ll sign up, hoping to
play a ton and get a lot of coaching, but once you get there you’ll find out
there are four goalies on your team and you’ll only get to play one quarter
each game.

It sucks when you’ve paid a few hundred bucks to go to camp and you find out
you’re going to be on the end-line shagging balls for three-quarters of the time.

Why Coaches Won’t Do What I Do

Coaches make a lot of money running camps. For some of them they make
more money in the summer than they do all year coaching or teaching. Some
of these camps are cash cows!

And for those coaches they want you to come to their camp. That’s what
they are set up to do.

Now I’ll say it again. Don’t get me wrong. There are some camps that are
solid. And no matter what camp you go to you will learn something. It’s like
going to school. It will become what you make of it.

Also, if you are at that point in your career that you need to get seen you
will want to go to a camp. Now that’s a pretty complex topic but let’s leave it
at that. If you need to get recruited you are going to want to go to camp. But
even if that is your situation you can still benefit from my critiques.

So Here’s How I Can Help You

When I do a goalie critique here is a list of some of the things you’re going to
learn. I’ll be able to tell you…

• how much you will benefit by getting in better shape and how it will affect your game.
• if you should make the pocket in your stick shallower, not deeper and how it will affect your game.
• why your team is leaving you out to dry on your clears.
• how your equipment is hurting, or helping your game and what you should do to make it even better.
• why your stance is keeping you from making certain saves and what you need to do to fix that.
• how to hold your stick so you make more off-stick hip saves. These are the toughest shots to stop.
• how your foot position is keeping you from moving faster to the ball.
• why saves you’re making now will make you lazy and keep you from getting to the next level.
• how to maximize your crease play. No one talks about this stuff.
• and much more!

Usually in one goalie critique I can identify a bunch of things that you’ve never been
taught. I recently helped a goalie who is already going to a Division One school and
was able to identify three things that no coach had ever talked to him about.

These weren’t little things either. These were MAJOR changes that even the
high-priced camps missed.

We made a stick tweak. We focused on some clearing techniques that make him
more dangerous on the clear. And we concentrated on a little appearance thing
that doesn’t seem like a problem but it was probably turning off a lot of coaches.

Who Buys A Goalie Critique?

Well, I have all sorts of people who buy these critiques. They are…

• Goalies who aren’t going to camps this off-season.
• Goalies who are going to camps this off-season.
• Parents of goalies who care deeply and want to see their kids succeed.
• Relatives of goalies who want to help be part of a goalies dream of playing in college.
• Coaches who are overwhelmed with other details and want help with the
  most valuable kid on their team.
• Offensive players and coaches who want to scout the opposition goalies weaknesses.
• College Coaches who want my opinion on a potential recruit.
• There are more types of people who invest in these critiques but I think you get my point.

As you can see, there are a lot of people who invest in these. And I can help you
solve the mysteries of being a goalie but you’re going to have to act fast.

Now Here’s What You Need To Do

So do you have a video of you playing? (If you don’t just read a bit and I’ll tell
you how to get this done in a minute.)

Goalies from around the World send me video of them playing in a number of
ways. They either send me game footage, footage of their warm-up, or footage
of themselves shooting in the back yard with their buddies. I’ve even seen footage
of mom and dad shooting on their daughter in the back yard. You’re
going to be surprised how much I can tell you with such little footage if
that’s all you’ve got.

The Best Way

The best way that goalies send footage to me is via You Tube. They will upload
footage to You Tube. Send me the link. And I’ll take a look at the footage and
send them back a critique.

Now if you don’t have footage of yourself you can literally go in your backyard
with the digital camera and shoot some right now. That’s all we need to make
some serious progress with your game.

I’ve been able to give a goalie one small tweak that drastically changed their
game and how they played. Sometimes even just one play from one game and
show me something that makes a huge difference.

So Here’s What I’ve Got For You

Because I’m feeling generous at the launch of the new site. And I’m still getting
the kinks out, I’m going to make a special deal for you.

You see. I normally charge $157 for each critique that I do. This is just a
fraction of what it really costs to go to a camp with tuition and travel and foot, etc.

But because we’re just finishing the season and we’re almost into my
busy period I want to do something special for the first 50 people who take
advantage of the 2009 Goalie Critique Season.

For the first 50 people to sign up you’ll get the Critique AND a copy of my
audio How To Make The Most of Your Off-Season (Which normally sells
for $69). You’ll get both the critique AND the audio file for $97.

“But Jonathan what if I don’t have a video right now?”

No problem, just go ahead and reserve your Goalie Critique so you can take advantage
of the $50 off plus the free audio. When you’re ready to shoot the video we’ll do
it then. It’s simple.

I’ve had coaches and parents buy multiples of these critiques. They use them
throughout the year to work on a goalies progress. They use one now going into
the off-season, then they use another one at the end of the summer after camps
and tournaments have gone by. They use one for winter lacrosse and then
prior to the season.

Parents and coaches will also use a Critique when their goalie is coming
off a particularly bad game and they need a pick me up. Usually I can find
some positives even in a really bad game so goalies,
parents and coaches find this particularly helpful.

And the fact that these Critiques are the cheapest they’re ever going to
be it’s a steal to buy more than just one.

So Here’s What You Need To Do

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