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NEWS<br />
Jets continue with Club Investment<br />
The Coventry Jets have made a major<br />
investment in upgrading their training<br />
equipment. The purchase of over<br />
£4,000 worth of tackle dummies, sleds<br />
and other equipment that wouldn’t<br />
look out of place at an NFL facility<br />
backs up the Jets commitment to<br />
improving their younger players and<br />
investing in the club’s on field future.<br />
“The equipment we have is the same<br />
sort that a lot of high schools and<br />
colleges use to improve their athletes<br />
in the US.” Said cornerback Adam<br />
Biggs, continuing “No other team in<br />
Britain and very few on the continent<br />
have what we have here at Pinley.”<br />
The Jets train at Pinley Rugby Club in<br />
the Wyken area of the City and have<br />
recently moved their new equipment<br />
there as it becomes their permanent<br />
training base.<br />
Biggs went on to say that “the<br />
equipment allows you to develop<br />
players on a wide range of football<br />
fundamentals that cones can not. Use<br />
of the 240lb hydraulic tackle sled is<br />
helping our rookie players learn to<br />
drive their feet more in tackles and<br />
lineman are learning to drive better<br />
with the large shimmer sled. There’s<br />
more equipment we have that the<br />
pros use and as a player who has been<br />
involved with GB training for the past<br />
7 years, I can honestly say that I’ve<br />
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never had so much fun and at the same<br />
time better development in my training<br />
and that’s due to this equipment.”<br />
Coventry’s General Manager and<br />
Head Coach Gerry McManus is also<br />
a fan of the new investment, “I can<br />
teach players so much more with this<br />
equipment, I can get more players<br />
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Photo courtesy coveNtry Jets<br />
involved in more challenging drills and<br />
work them harder than before. We’ll<br />
see the benefit of this equipment on the<br />
field of play for decades to come.”
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