How we actually teach.
Four sport-specific coaching frameworks, grounded in three youth development models: the PCA Double-Goal Coach (win games, yes — but the bigger goal is building confident kids), ELM (praising Effort, Learning, and bouncing back from Mistakes over the scoreboard), and TDEQ-5 (a research-backed check that training develops the whole athlete, not just the season's record). Free to read, free to print, free to share.
The guides
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Soccer
Technical, tactical, physical, psychological — all four domains of long-term development.
Our complete framework for soccer development, from foundational ball mastery at age four through the tactical understanding that separates good club players from great ones.
We're building athletes for age 25, not just age 8.
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Basketball
Shooting form, ball handling, defense, and the game intelligence that wins fourth quarters.
Research-grounded basketball development built on motor learning science. We teach skills in the order the body can actually absorb them — not in the order a drill sheet prescribes.
Talent is developed, not discovered.
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Hockey
Skating, stickhandling, shooting, passing — and the defensive positioning that keeps you on the ice.
A progression that treats skating as the foundation it actually is. The kid who can skate confidently backward at age nine is the kid still playing at seventeen. We start there.
Winning takes care of itself when athletes develop properly.
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Baseball
Hitting, fielding, pitching, baserunning — age-appropriate progressions, honest about what kids can absorb.
Baseball development that respects how kids learn. Long-term athlete development applied to a sport that too often sacrifices long-term player health for short-term travel-ball glory.
We never sacrifice long-term development for short-term results.
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Youth sports development research shouldn't sit behind a paywall, or a coach's certification class, or inside a travel-team newsletter.
These guides document exactly how we teach the four sports we run. Every progression, every drill, every principle is grounded in published motor learning research and real-world coaching experience. We publish them because parents deserve to see what their kids are actually being taught — and because other coaches who want to do the work should have a starting point that doesn't cost anything.
You are welcome to read, print, share, and adapt these guides for your own organization. Attribution appreciated, not required.
For coaches
A shared language across every coach in the organization. Same philosophy, same progressions, same expectations.
For parents
See exactly how we approach your child's sport. When you ask "how do you teach shooting?" the answer is a page in the guide.
For the community
A body of free, credible, evidence-based material any coach or organization can apply.