Testimonials

« I had the chance to discover SenseBall and its exercises. It is a great tool. Even for me who is a pro, SenseBall allows to improve my ball mastery with both feet and accelerate my decision-making. I wish I had discovered it younger. For me, the practice of SenseBall must be included in all football training center. »

Sport Voetbal Magazine: « At the Leuven Football Academy, you were trained by Michel Bruyninckx, a trainer you had already met at previous training camps. Bruyninckx trains young players innovatively; he even uses music during his training sessions. What does he do, exactly? »

Dries Mertens: « All the players were given a football on the end of a string with a handle, you had to hold the handle, juggle and kick the ball permanently with both feet. I am convinced I have mastered playing with both feet thanks to those exercises. Sometimes we did exercises to music so there was a beat urging the players to keep up the same rhythm. These training sessions are not to be underestimated! They are very difficult and demanding. And no one could lose the rhythm! »

« At the age of 7, like all the other young players at Ajax, I was given a football on the end of a string to practise with at home. “You must train every evening with both feet” the trainer would say, and that’s what I did. Without missing a single evening. Today I reap the benefits of all those extra training sessions. »

« SenseBall greatly helped me to become a professional footballer. My first impression was: what’s the point in kicking a football on the end of a piece of string? I now know how precious it was and I can only recommend it to anyone who wants to improve his or her technique. When I started at Leuven Football Academy all I used my left foot for was to get on the bus. Today I can play with both feet equally well. »

Yesterday the Expo 'Goal! The Football Experience' has organised a unique football training session in Nekkerhal Mechelen. Red Flame Imke Courtois and the internationally renowned football coach Michel Bruyninckx gave an initiation to SenseBall, exclusively for girls. More and more professional football clubs such as AC Milan, FC Metz, Lille, Anderlecht, KRC Genk and Juventus, train with SenseBall. Dries Mertens, but also former Golden Boot-winner Sven Kums, are fine examples of Belgian players who trained at a young age with SenseBall and currently still reap the rewards.

Those who watched the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup will have observed this strange choreography: children playing with a soccer ball on a string (rope). A bit like a jokari. These football dance steps were wonderfully - and quickly - synchronized to the rhythm of a symphony orchestra. Behind this achievement lies a Belgian: Michel Bruyninckx, international coach. This funny soccer ball is called senseball and is one of the tools used by Bruyninckx to develop a young footballer's skills with a key principle: everything starts from the brain! And his method pays out. Applied for about seven years in Anderlecht football club, the method allowed the youth team to beat their English or Spanish comrades; future champions of the best clubs in the world.

Geoff Noonan, coordinator at Fulham Academy for 7 to 11 year-old players, has decided to order 150 SenseBall for his players after meeting Bruyninckx at a conference in May. « SenseBall helps open the hips, it’s good for crosses, volleys, and to improve the player’s weaker foot. It also enables children to train at home and helps them to balance the right and left-hand sides of the body. The idea of training at home is really useful - we’ve lost this culture in which children spontaneously play matches among themselves and SenseBall provides a means of replacing that. »