My Journey
GRIT Player Development started as individual training with local players after my college practices. These were people I knew who wanted their kids to get "college" coaching. After graduation, it began to grow into something my college self would not have dreamed of.
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Today, I have worked with thousands of athletes through training and camps throughout the US. I have been hired by boys varsity teams such as Vandercook Lake, Western, and Lenawee Christian. As well as girl's teams at Western, Homer, and Spring Arbor University. I believe that an athlete can find a way to succeed at the game of basketball with enough intentional work to grow their game.
The GRIT Difference
The words "player development" were chosen for a reason to represent what we do. We are not simply teaching skills in our workouts because the most important thing in basketball is not how to do things, it's when and why. It is this understanding that separates the good from great
The GRIT Method
Phase 1: How
The how of any basketball skill invovles the technique. This encompasses teaching ahtletes the right form so that they can perform the skill against air. At GRIT, this is the shortest phase of learning.
Phase 2: Why
Once an athlete reaches 70% profeciency in a skill, we move to the why. This phase of learning invovles ahtletes going against defense who reacts in predetermined fashion. This helps ahtletes see why the use a certain skill.
Phase 3: When
The when is the most diffucult phase to master when learning a new skill. At GRIT, we spend the most amount of time on this phase. We place ahteltes in scaniors that will likely requrie them to use their new skills, this allows them to practice reasding the defense to enage their new skill.