AAU IS JUST REC BASKETBALL 

WITH A VERY LOW RETURN INVESTMENT 

So the “fundamentals” are the essentials.

 (Ah, so … The Fundamental Man teaches kids the essentials).

Yes… but there is something else really important that you should know. 

The Solution for You Right Now:  

Right now…. Your child may be 7 or 8, 9 or 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15-16…

But you haven’t seen it all play out yet.

More kids than I can list on this page have DEVELOPED from the time that they were in elementary and middle school to the time that they have gone on to become HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE BASKETBALL SUPERSTARS.  100’s of players that I have trained have gone on to become 1,000 point scorers, Captains of their Varsity Teams, All-Conference, All-State, All-Americans. Conference Players of the Year. National Players of the Year.  

These are all local kids just like your child is right now. 

They are now 25, 26, 27, 28, 29,…. 30!

Some of them even have KIDS of their OWN now.

Whoa!!! Talk about March Madness.

Haha. Yea,…

What’s most important is that I take you backward from their viewpoint… because I knew them when they were 10 years old,…. 12 years old,… before they were high school and college superstars.

So let’s not get caught up in the short term thinking of today, today, today,…

I know how things end up when you take different paths. I know what the most important factors are for your child to be in the best position to be successful in high school and beyond high school.

Remember: What is best for your child?

I have spent many many years dedicated to figuring out the answer to the question: “What is best for your child?”

The answer is very simple to me now.  The simple answer is: because the path that we take helps them to become better.

Way better.

Better players, Better students, Better athletes, Better citizens, Better kids, Better people.  

The kids just end up way better this way.

A couple of years ago, nearly every single player that was All-Conference in the entire area did our “fundamental“ “developmental” “thingy.” AAU programs cannot compete with what we are doing in the gym to get kids better because their model is flawed.

I worked very hard for many years to find a better way.

If there was a better way, I would do it that way. But there isn’t. Because the ways that you are told, and the ways that are offered to you within youth basketball development are not the best answers.

Over the years,… I have gone through it all, and seen it all, at the grassroots level (pretty much).

So,… I thought about it.

Year after year. What was good. What was bad about the whole “AAU” scene.   

It just became more and more clear how much the “AAU” model was broken. How much it wasn’t helping kids much. How low the short and long term return on investment was for most all of the kids and their parents.   

Kids would come back to us after playing “AAU” and many didn’t improve at all.  Some were even worse than before. We would just want to shake our heads. Their skills didn’t improve. Shooting ball handling didn’t improve. Confidence with the ball and with new skills wasn’t there. Just running up and down the floor 5 on 5 in “AAU” club basketball is not the model that is going to improve your scoring or shooting ability.

It’s a flawed model. It’s not intended for the purposes of youth player development. It was intended for high level high school juniors to play, compete and become recruited to play in college.  

Here is what I will tell you: You need the “essentials”  in order to develop your skills and play the game of basketball better.  The things that we are teaching are the essentials of the game. 

Year after year, we have always done it better than “AAU.” And have always improved on what we have done from each year.

BUT I HAVE TO TELL YOU: It’s never been as good as how we are doing it now.  

The intention behind this new model was to take into account all of the variables to make everything better and easier for you so that it works with your schedule and so you and your child receive the absolute best experience. 

We teach the essential concepts and skills to kids in a format that is organized, structured, teachable, learnable, and palatable – so that the players that we work with continue to move their skills forward, learn the game, and play way better basketball. 

THE DECIDING FACTOR IS WHAT WE DO IN THE GYM!

The purity of the game is in the gym.

I still love being in the gym and working with the kids. I still love helping the kids get better. That is the purity of the game. That is the where it all happens. That is where parents and players find out that they BENEFIT THE MOST! That has always been the case. That is also what parents and players realize about the the kids that work with us. That is what they get the most out of. That is the deciding factor in what makes the biggest difference for the kids. That is the MISSING PIECE!  

THE NEW CONCEPT

I piloted this new Player Development Concept last year with 80 kids. It was $1,000 / kid.

Made it 3 payments of $335 (very affordable… but it was a trial)… let’s see how this goes.

No ages. No teams. Just train as much as you want to get better.

We sub-grouped the kids into 3 different tiers of instruction. Which makes basketball instruction more like teaching martial arts. Continuity. Groupings. Structure. IMPROVEMENT! (Amazing improvements)!

Kids are all visual learners, so we use video every night to help the kids understand the techniques, while getting thousands of reps with feedback to constantly improve.

The BEST WAY FOR KIDS TO LEARN

The system of player development instruction is perfectly coordinated to match their current level of ability, meet them where they are, and move them forward incrementally. Everything is connected. Everything is progression based.  Skill based. Assessment based. Very technical. It’s all implemented into a crystal clear curriculum of challenging (but fun) player development progressions.