Blacktop AcademyNo shortcuts. Just development.

Newport, Bellevue, Fort Thomas

Nobody gets
better in a
showcase.

AAU shows what a player already has. Skill gets built somewhere else: on a court, on a plan, in volume.

Alex Grant. Eight years coaching middle school, high school and college. Three year college player and captain. Multiple 1,000 point scorers.

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Painted blue key and backboard on the outdoor court at Bellevue Beach Park
200Game speed reps per session, minimum
1 on 1 and small group•$200 per session•Bellevue Beach Park•Newport•Swope•Middle school through college•Boys and girls• 1 on 1 and small group•$200 per session•Bellevue Beach Park•Newport•Swope•Middle school through college•Boys and girls•

01 / The session

What a plan actually looks like

Built around the player in front of me. Position, body, and the way they already play.

Assess how they play nowSession 01

What they reach for under pressure, and what they quietly avoid.

Drill the gapEvery session

Volume on the missing thing, at the pace the game will demand it.

Add a defender and a clockFrom week two

Skill that only works unguarded is not skill yet. Reads, pace, live ball decisions.

Repeat it until it holds up tiredOngoing

The rep that counts is the one made in the fourth quarter with the legs gone.

02 / Where we train

Three outdoor courts, no climate control

Two outdoor courts with painted blue keys at Bellevue Beach ParkBellevue Beach
Blue and green hard court with basketball hoop in Newport, KentuckyNewport
Concrete court and hoop backed by a wooded hillside at SwopeSwope

Tile B

Count The Reps

A training log made into a website. Ruled boards with dotted leaders, a rep count committed at full size to the photograph, and a marquee that carries logistics and a price instead of borrowed logos. Court blue comes off the painted key at Bellevue.

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Type ramp

Bricolage 800

Display two, 60px

Display three, 31px

Lede, Barlow 500 at 21px, leading 1.5

Body, Barlow 400 at 17px, leading 1.6. Long form copy sits here and stays readable across a full measure.

Label, Barlow 700, 11px, tracked 0.2em

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