The BLUEPRINT To Building An Elite Athlete From Age 0-21
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video, I discuss the blueprint to building a high-level basketball player from the ground up. How should we develop a youth athlete as a parent and coach from youth to becoming the best athlete they possibly can, this video breaks that all down. If you want to build a pro athlete this video will give you the recipe. Also, genetics plays a major role in actually reaching the highest level. So even if you do everything right it may still not be enough.
There are so many different factors that go into becoming a high-level athlete, and most of it is highly misunderstood, most parents and coaches think the best recipe for building a prodigy "child" and superstar athlete is to start them on one sport very young, focus on only that sport, get them training very specific skills early on, etc. It is usually quite the opposite.
In my opinion through research and seeing what the best athletes in the world did as kids it looks much more like this.
Play multiple sports throughout their entire childhood.
Have lots of unstructured and unsupervised practice and play early on.
The child chooses to focus on the sport or practice not be forced too
A parent that praises effort over performance, especially early on.
A parent that encourages them to make mistakes and allows them to learn through it
Playing on a team and for a coach in their youth that cares about development over winning
The list can go on even longer than that, but those were a few very important keys for just about every high-level athlete in any sport you see. A lot of these are done in the complete opposite manner. If you want to give someone the best chance to succeed in the long run follow the advice listed above and in the video. This is my blueprint if I was to take a child from age 0-21 with the goal of developing the best athlete possible.
Let me know your thoughts below.
Great points. Playing multiple sports has so many benefits.
Aside from soccer, what sports do you think complement basketball the best?
I think sports like jiu jitsu, ideally some form of park core, tennis are all extremely good
I think sports like jiu jitsu, ideally some form of park core, tennis are all extremely good
If you let kids decide when, and what practice they want to go to, sounds great, and all, but you’re not gonna have any sort of team because everybody’s at home playing Pokémon and their oculus.
Let’s use some common sense.. cause that is definitely what I mean
@@tjltraining Nah I know man, I was partially joking.. but there really is a balancing act.. There are going to be practices kids don't want to go to because they want to play COD.. I am bringing this up because I am trying to find that balance and that spot of no your going etc.
Im a burn out parent. push my kid too hard. Ive watched so many vids that say back off... so hard to do. I need a way for me to chill out, figured if i started playing again my attention wouldn't be on them so hard (sport is hockey) I definitely see the benefit to everything said in this video.
What about teaching young kids the very, very basic fundamentals, like shooting form, basic dribbling, basic defense and rebounding? I agree with literally everything else you said except I do think it's valuable to give them basic tools to have good basketball habits as long as it's not overbearing and taking away from the fun of basketball. If young kids have the foundational habits to play well , it makes it more fun when they play on their own and with their friends. Also allows them to be more creative, I think.
That is a very common mindset to have and I disagree here’s why..
How many high level players can you name that spent time building “fundamentals” at a young age, 99% of players just spent there youth playing and exploring, even steph with a father in the nba spent his time just hooping, usually giving them fundamentals makes them robots. And in terms of teaching them shooting form that will change naturally anyways as they get older so I wouldn’t touch it until they are at least in high school
Can you please make more videos explaining what makes a good coach for a youth athlete? Talking more about what would benefit a youth athlete. Do you have specific examples of professional athletes who didn’t train when they were younger? Youth sports has become very competitive and if kids don’t make a team it also makes them lose confidence. Although I think it’s a good lesson to learn. 😊
For sure!
Great video. I very rarely give a video a like but i did for this one.
From what i understand of your approach, there isnt much emphasis on skills development or game IQ in the first age group or even the second age group to a lesser extent. I think you made an important point about resentment and burnout when it comes to pushing a kid too hard and criticism.
I also agree that fun and competition should be the main drivers. But i do think there are ways to develop skills and game IQ that can be fun.
For example, sometimes as the kids come into practice i would have a play drawn up on the whiteboard and before they get a ball, they tell me what they would do and why. Would literally last less than 10 seconds for each kid and get them thinking about game (this is more for the second age group). Then in their free play theyll spend the next 10 mins trying to hit a half court shot😂.
And at the end of practice we’ll have a contest based on either dribbling passing or shooting. Sometimes the kids go home and practice those skills so they can come back next time and win. During the two drills i wouldnt correct the kids answers or form.
So when would you start thinking about introducing these concepts assuming the kids arent forced or critiqued?
For me skills development can start at any age. I would argue you have more fun with the sport if youre good at it. With game IQ that could start during the second age group. But as you said gametime, fun and competition are the most important things especially in early ages.
Really appreciate the like and comment, definitely agree kids will enjoy it more if they are good at it but that doesn’t need to come through the typical “skills training”, repping out certain moves, so many ways to do it though the games based approach so personally would focus heavily on that up until about 14. Which is also at the same time building decision making, game iq and competitiveness all while being more enjoyable
@@tjltraining Thanks for the response.
Nice to see that we agree, gametime is what improves kids the most. Yeah ‘skills training’ only really comes into play when they are training by themselves at home.
Havent seen many people talk about this topic and you did a great job.
Keep up the good work. Look forward to see what else you got going in the future.
One topic i would like to hear your opinion on is how you would deal with a kid who has spent their whole life on a sport but failed to make it.
Worked for tiger woods
1 out of a billion, wouldn’t bank on that strategy
Great video! As a player it’s helpful too. Can you make a video on how to create an off-season schedule? I am having trouble deciding what to do etc(aside from school workouts).
For sure I’ll put that on the content list
If you wait until 15-18 to start seriously focusing on your sport it’s going to be too late for the vast majority of people. You will never be able to make up for the 5-8 years of practice that other kids have on you. Plus, if you need to get a d1 scholarship to have a chance to get to that next level and you don’t start until you’re in 10th, or especially 12th grade good luck even making your local team let alone getting any school offers.
Just because you aren’t doing detailed isolated “skill” work doesn’t mean you aren’t seriously focusing on your sport. You still have your main focus but you don’t exclude everything else from a young age, look at all of the best athletes and most kids who get scholarships and this is exactly the route they take. Lebron, Kobe, MJ, all player other sports up and through high school, doesn’t mean they weren’t focused on their sport
Good video way to stress that burnout of the sport that what so many people get burnt out in or after high school
Absolutely!! A lot of kids never even make it that far!
This video is different! Really appreciate the content you always release bro🔥
Thank you brodie!!
Really good stuff
Thank you
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Thank you!!!
You have no clue on how to develop an athlete. Lmao 🤣
And why’s that 😂😂you right I’ve only read hundreds of book, studies and trained literally thousands of players, please enlighten to where I could be better