Skills Academy

Skills Academy

Coach Kyle Manary has recently teamed up with Katy native and former Division I College basketball player Matt Hall and together they will Co-Direct the 2^nd Annual Learn To Be A Pro Skills Academy in Katy, Texas. This season they have added two new Skills Academies……one for Jr. High Boys and another for Jr. High Girls.

Do you want to dominate your opponents? Then this is definitely for you!

The Youth Skills Academy is available to boys and girls 7 to 12 years of age. It is run every Sunday afternoon from 1:00pm to 4:00 pm in Katy. The Jr. High Boys and Jr. High girls Academies will follow the youth academy. The player to coach/instructor ratio will be especially small, allowing every player to get the most individual attention possible for maximum growth. The Academy is divided into 3 levels: Beginners, Intermediate, and Advanced. Players will be evaluated and placed according to their skill level. The Academy will run in several different sessions throughout the year. A session will contain four workouts, with each workout lasting an hour and a half. Players can sign up at any time for the Academy. The cost of each workout is only $25 per player for the Youth Academy(or $100 for full session) and $30 per player for the Jr. High Boys and Girls Academies ($120 for full session). The Learn To Be A Pro staff encourages campers to sign up for the full session (4 workouts) because The Skills Academy program is designed to progress weekly from certain individual and team drills to more complex drill work to allow the player to develop an overall game. The Academy will follow a strict A to Z development program designed by Coach Kyle. He believes that given the proper form, technique, and drill work, a young player can structure a solid fundamental foundation with a lot of repetition and hard work.

The Learn To Be A Pro Skills Academy prides itself on developing the player on both sides of the ball…. individually and within the team setting. Every player must learn and understand both parts if he or she wishes to get the most out of his/her abilities. Individual offensive work will include the young players being taught the fundamental and advanced skill work in ball handling, passing, rebounding, lay-ups, runners/floaters, shooting, separation moves, 1 on 1 moves, attack reads, penetration breakdown moves, reading defenders and making different cuts, and playing out of 2 man games. Individual defensive work will teach players to learn on ball techniques, containing penetration, defensive angles, jumping off ball, form slides, closeouts, charges, steal positions, and challenges with block outs. The Team offensive work will focus on screening – (setting the defender up, reading the defense, and the actual angle of setting a screen), spacing so we don’t crowd other teammates, movement with out the ball, making reads the defense gives you, cuts, playing off of other teammates, offense vs. man to man defense, and also offense vs. zone defenses. Team defensive work will cover positioning on and off the ball, rotations from weak side, check downs, rebounding, scrambles, closeouts, doubles, all defensive man to man principles, and all defensive zone principals.

The Learn To Be A Pro Skills Academy will provide young players with the instruction Division I players are getting when they reach college. Everyone always says, “Man I wish I knew that back when I played” now for the first time ever we will make that saying disappear. Every player, progressing through The Academy will be exposed to the same knowledge that is given to some of the best athletes in the world. Coach Kyle and Coach Matt have an unbelievable passion and love for the game. Come see for yourself. You will be absolutely amazed at the high energy, detailed teaching techniques, and the incredible coaching staff that Learn To Be A Pro Skills Academy has assembled to help young players in Katy develop their games.

To register email: kyle@learntobeapro.com call: Kyle 713.320.2108, Matt 281.788.4842