"It just makes me a lot better every year I come back," said Ohashi, 15, who will be a junior.

Bob Barry, who has been coaching soccer for more than 35 years, said he holds the clinics to help players like Ohashi, who often don't have coaches for their position.

"When I started these, they never really had goalkeeper training, they were just left on their own, and in many ways they still are," said Barry, who has been holding goalkeeping clinics for almost 20 years.

"I don't want them left on their own, I want them to feel comfortable with what they are doing," he said.

His next clinic is July 23 to 25 at the Kealohi Neighborhood Park in Mililani.

Barry, 64, has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and is a three-time honoree as a NSCAA Region Coach of the Year.

He was recently inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame, which includes former Saint Louis football coach Cal Lee.

Barry was surprised by the award.

"My credentials don't necessarily stand out," he said. "I was very honored."

He honed his coaching techniques at posts at Iolani School, where he led the Raiders to five state titles, Willamette (Ore.), Brigham Young-Hawai'i, Massachusetts, Richmond and Hawai'i.

He is also a volunteer assistant coach for the Hawaiian Islanders of arenafootball2 as a kicking coach.

At his clinics, he teaches technical and tactical aspects of goalkeeping to players 8 years and older.

In the session for regular and advanced players, he teaches players how to catch, dive, box (punch a ball out with a closed fist) and deal with penalty kicks. The next session, for advanced players only, deals with decision making and when and where to play different situations, using actual game competition.

He incorporates agility drills and plyometrics in his sessions, and advanced goalkeepers are videotaped and analyzed.

Ohashi, who has been to Barry's clinics five times, said she relies on what she learns at the clinics to help herself and teammates.

She said aside from the drills and fundamentals, the most important lesson she has learned is to "keep working on the basics, and keeping your head in the game."

Barry said the most important thing is for goalkeepers to be comfortable, consistent and safe.

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He said he also hopes his attendees leave with the feeling that "it is a great position, not that they are doing it because there is no one else to do it."

Instructor Vito Higgins, a former clinic attendee, said the main thing he learned was building confidence, and that is gained by repetition of basic skills such as diving, catching and throwing.

"Practice doesn't make perfect, but it makes permanence," said Higgins, who will be a sophomore for Gonzaga's men's soccer team in the fall.

However, it was the more advanced portion of the clinic that stood out for Mililani Middle School student Travis Goto, 13, who was named the Most Outstanding Player of a clinic in June.

"I learned how to do breakaways and angles, how angles help you out, what position the striker is in," he said. "I learned a lot, it's a good clinic."

Barry said some of the players who attend his clinics are so new to goalkeeping that they don't know where to stand or what to do. For those players, he said he just introduces them to the concept of goalkeeping; "that it really is a team effort, even if it looks like you are the last man," he said.

He said he hopes that his attendees leave the clinic with a sense of confidence and pride in their position.

"It isn't the slowest or the biggest guys in the goal, but one of your best athletes," he said.