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Game-based training sessions for your U8–U12 team

What if
basketball
felt
like play again?

Playr✦ picks tonight's games for your age group and plans your whole season. Stop worrying about Tuesday and start watching them play.

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Training plan · U8 · Session 7Tonight

Ball is my friend

TUE · 18:00–19:00
Focus Dribbling Passing Shooting Defense ~60 min

An example U8 training, as Playr✦ plans it.

Somewhere between the ages of 5 and 12, kids decide whether basketball is their sport.

Across hundreds of youth training sessions, experts noticed the same thing. For about a third of the time, nobody is moving. Every new activity takes minutes before anyone touches a ball again.

Nobody thinks their own session looks like that. I didn't either.

A gym full of play doesn't happen by itself. It takes the right plan.

Usually the one making that plan is a volunteer. A parent with a whistle, a bag of balls and a gym booked for 6 o'clock. I'm one of them, and I got tired of coming up with a plan for the Tuesday session on a Tuesday afternoon.

So I built something for the coach standing on the court at 6pm on a Tuesday.

It's called Playr✦.

Playr✦is play first

At this age, the ball is not optional. So everything in Playr✦ is a game: small teams, one new rule at a time. No long explanations.

Playr✦has the Arc

The Arc decides how much dribbling, passing, shooting and defending goes into each phase of your season, and how complex the games get, so session seven builds on session six.

Anyone can plan a good Tuesday. The hard part is making fifty Tuesdays add up for your team.

Playr✦brings every game to life

Every drill in the season plays out in 3D. Where the cones go, who has the ball, where everyone runs. You watch it before you even need to read a description.

Drag to look around

The Floor is Lava

Pairs pass only from cone islands, no dribbling allowed.

“Can we play a game now?”
Every kid, at every practice

Let them play.

Joy and Play · 50 sec
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Questions coaches ask

Who is it for?

Anyone coaching a U8, U10 or U12 team: volunteers, parents, club coaches. U8 and U10 have the deepest library today, and U12 is growing.

Do I need coaching experience?

No. Every game comes with the setup, the rules and what to watch for, and you can see it run before you try it with the team.

How is this different from drills I find online?

A drill on its own is one evening. Playr✦ gives you the season: which game, in which week, for which age, and how each one builds on the last.

Can I change the training session?

Yes. Drag a game to move it, tap ✕ to take it out. It's your training.

Does it work on my phone?

Yes. It runs in the browser at app.playr.coach, so there's nothing to install.

Research on this page: O'Connor, Larkin & Williams (2018) on how much of a youth session is spent active.

Hi, I'm Balázs. I coach a U8 team in Switzerland, now in my fourth season, and I design software for a living. Playr✦ is the tool I wish I'd had in my hands a few years ago.

I'm building it with passion, for coaches like me. Every bit of feedback helps shape where Playr✦ goes next.

Balázs

See you on Tuesday.

Tonight's training will already be there.

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