Photo Sakari Sunila

Pertti Kemppinen

Tanoke is the pioneer of skill training. Direct translation from the Finnish abbreviation is skill, speed, and agility.

Tanoke is a versitile skill training system developed by Pertti Kemppinen who has been a football coach for 25 years. All the drills have been carefully designed based on research and development of several years.

With Tanoke you can learn new skills, body control and flexibility of nerve functions faster than before. You will also develop a bigger movement databank resulting in better ball control.

Thousands of hours have been used to developed movement databank. About thousand carefully selected moves, professional trainers and systematically forward moving teaching system will guarantee the quality of the Tanoke skill schools. Our trainers are experts of skill training: they have professional player's background, sufficient trainer education and have experience working with children and young people.

"The ones who go behind the group are never followed by the group."
(John Maxwell)

In addition to the trainer, the young player's own parents can best support and encourage the growing athletic. The network of family, relatives and friends can increase the practice motivation in many ways. This network can give him sensible objectives and can be genuinely interested in his hobby.

The support and spurring of parents facilitate young player motivation. Jari Litmanen's, Alexei Eremenko jr.'s and Mikael Forssell's parents have been encouraging their children's football, just to mention a few. We hope that the parents would get acquainted with main principles of the Tanoke training.

The significance of friends is exceptionally big in a youth. The friends have especially a central role in the basing of the young identity because the young mirrors his/hers own behaviour with his/hers friends. So it matters with whom the young people spend their time. In the Tanoke groups you will find friends who emphasise honest sporty values which is not at all an insignificant point when thinking of the future.

In the Tanoke training getting to the objective requires modelling of the mind in a target oriented way and a positive attitude. To reach his/hers goals, determined and focused Tanoke player uses modelling of the top skill in which the consciousness can be moved to new skills and become more skilful. The transition from the explaining to the describing is the first step of the modelling. The modelling zeroes in on what the model does when he performs a successful performance.

The Tanoke trainers' task is to lead the young players to skill training from which they can learn with the help of movements. In the Tanoke training the subject of the competition is expanding of personal skills of own. It is a question of self-development in that one should be better today than yesterday.

The development of the Maso plant is suitable for describing the Tanoke principle well. Maso is a bamboo species that grows in China and India. After the planting nothing seems to happen to the plant for five years, in spite of ideal growth conditions. Then the plant begins suddenly to grow like magic. The growth rate is so enormous that the stem lengthens more than half a metre per day. In six weeks the stem has reached the height of nearly 30 metres.

It is not a question of the magic. The phenomenal growth of Maso is the result of kilometres long roots, which the plant grew during the first five years.

Also in Tanoke training one wants to expand an exceptionally good movement database "roots” which would make it easier for the player to grow to his full measure as a football player and as a human being.

The individual know-how premises and top premises have already been programmed to every one of us to the neural network, to the body, language and images. In the Tanoke training an attempt is made to reflect the route for the good know-how from the present state. This way the route is realised and the new movements can be consciously reached. In that case trained and the trainer observe changes in body and image and also in focusing the observations and thinking.

The Tanoke system consists of five separate skill level modules each of which contains 15 different parts, in other words the central sectors of the skill training. This system consists of thousands of movements that are systematically practised in the Tanoke trainings. We have estimated that the learning of all these movements takes about 10 years, which, of course, depends on the player's start level. The motion picture models of the fifth level consist of models so difficult that the majority of the present professional league players are not able to do them.

Tanoke training is based on enhancing the sensitive period when a child’s motor skills develop during the age of 6 to 12. This is known as "children's best learning age". We have had good learning results with children of this age group. There’s been a definite improvement in skill, speed and co-ordination.

Tanoke training also improves your self-esteem and personality. Pertti Kemppisen has developed a system of educational visualization methods that use visualisation, goals setting and mind programming and is used to improve mental attributes. The more powerful the mental picture is the more it will act as “guiding prognosis”.

The Tanoke player tries to adopt movements. The progress principle of the system has been built so that the movements that have been learned earlier will support new ones. The Tanoke system consists of ball control, body control and mind control.

The learning of Tanoke principles requires self-discipline and perseverance. The player should clarify to himself/herself how much he/she is ready to use time to the skill training. If one intends to progress, objectives cannot be changed every day. Sports are long-range operation. The visible results are obtained often only after several years of training. In skill training one cannot develop in one bang. Given time a small brook can turn into a river.