What a busy three weeks – I apologize for the lack of new posts.  Many of you have been asking what is up, and the simple answer is that travel and testing across the country has been consuming our time.

With that said, California now has a number of athletes in the system, and New England continues to bring its best to the table.  How about a little competition for Thanksgiving dinner?

We are just about to launch a much anticipated part of our website – which is the first ever virtual basketball competition based on real world skill.  Players will be able to see how they fare against teammates, others in their league, or across the country. Pretty exciting, we are looking forward to getting the information up for the teams that have signed up.

But what we see again and again, regardless of where we test – at rural high schools or urban, with 5th graders or college athletes, male or female, is the amazing natural instinct we as humans have to compete.    Our goal was to make a simple part of the game become competitive, and to see the reaction of players when a live scoreboard appears on the wall and scores start to appear continues to show us we have hit a home run.  We tested a number of top high school programs last week in Southern California, and each time, each location, there was instant competition to be at the top of that Board.   It’s what makes this business so fun:  If you love competition, we can bring it to your gym, your tournament, your team with something that is directly related to how hard you are willing to work.

For players and coaches, we finally have a way to set a standard for what used to be boring.   Competition is what makes us want to improve, and what gets measured, gets improved.   What gets measured also is what allows us to compete.   Just think what Basketball would be like if we didn’t keep score?   It would be more like an interpretive dance rather than a sport.  It just doesn’t work.   Add a score, and now you have a game.

That is what we do and love to do.  We can’t stress enough to those coaches and players out there how much improvement will occur when you turn the parts of the game into competitions.    Now – you will start to see the results online – be on the lookout as they appear.

Keep practicing.   The season is upon us!