basketball · ages 12+ · free to start
Every athlete should know what to do next.
YouthPerformance is building the development system for young athletes.
Not a drill feed. Not a highlight reel. A path — thirty short sessions across six weeks, for the hours between team practices. You don’t have to design it, coach it, or know basketball.
basketball // phase 1
foundation first. better reps between practices. one fixed program with a defined weekly rhythm.
6 weeks
five workout days, then two rest days
Free
to start // no card required
30 sessions
foundation → progression → mastery
JamesScott
co-founder & head of performance
author of the R3™ Method
Jimmy Butler’s performance coach — ten years, going on eleven, and still today.
Fifteen-plus years with professional athletes across basketball, football, soccer and tennis.
He authored the R3™ Method behind YP Fundamentals: Release. Restore. Re-engineer.
> we don’t publish an athlete count or a star rating. the intake never asks who your child is, so we couldn’t count them honestly. we publish the person accountable for the training instead.
> movements from the published library. Final session details are coming soon.
workout 01, drill 03
Split Squat Iso Holdrestore
- What I'm watching
- Not the depth. The foot. Whether the arch holds when the athlete stops moving and has to stay there.
- What this tells me
- Whether there is a base under the speed we want to add. A foot that leaks under a hold will leak under a cut.
- What it doesn't
- Anything about strength. A hold shows control; it cannot show output. I do not read power off a still picture.
- What I'd do next
- Hold it longer before making it harder. Time under control first, then load, then the change of direction it was for.
> draft // written in his voice, awaiting his words
Three things parents ask first.
01
“How long is this going to take?”
The curriculum lays out five workouts and two rest days each week. Preview a session to see how it could fit around team practice, homework and family time.
02
“Do I have to run it?”
No. The program says what tonight is. You don’t design it, you don’t coach it, and you don’t have to know basketball. Your job is to drive them there and to notice.
03
“What do you do with my kid’s information?”
You make the account, not your athlete. And the intake asks about training, not about a person — sport, goal, nights a week, equipment, age band. No name, no birthday, no school.
The six-week foundation.
Five workout days, then two rest days. Repeat across six weeks for thirty workouts. Session details are being finalized; the movements below are a preview from the current catalog.
the_program // 30 workouts in three acts
- 01session 01, Foundation: Beast Rock Backs · Low Squat Walks · Split Squat Iso Hold · Forefoot Wall Sits · Rotational Squats w/ Step · Massai Jumps
- 02session 02, Foundation
- 03session 03, Foundation
- 04session 04, Foundation
- 05session 05, Foundation
- 06session 06, Foundation
- 07session 07, Foundation
- 08session 08, Foundation
- 09session 09, Foundation
- 10session 10, Foundation
- 11session 11, Progression
- 12session 12, Progression
- 13session 13, Progression
- 14session 14, Progression
- 15session 15, Progression
- 16session 16, Progression
- 17session 17, Progression
- 18session 18, Progression
- 19session 19, Progression
- 20session 20, Progression
- 21session 21, Mastery
- 22session 22, Mastery
- 23session 23, Mastery
- 24session 24, Mastery
- 25session 25, Mastery
- 26session 26, Mastery
- 27session 27, Mastery
- 28session 28, Mastery
- 29session 29, Mastery
- 30session 30, Mastery
Foundation · workouts 1–10
Progression · workouts 11–20
Mastery · workouts 21–30
rest_ // two days after every five workouts
Barefoot Reset is the free six-week foundation. The planned paid programs include six weeks of sport-specific training after completing the foundation — and NeoBall Basketball Training System, with a paid YP Academy subscription. Paid program details are coming soon.
6 weeks. Free. Built on the R3™ Method.
YP Fundamentals is the Barefoot Reset — a 6-week program with 30 workouts covering Release, Restore, and Re-engineer phases. Start with foundational movement work.
method by James Scott, co-founder & head of performance
01
Start
open the YP Fundamentals catalog and browse 30 workouts covering foundation through mastery.
02
Train
follow the 6-week barefoot program built on the R3™ Method — Release, Restore, Re-engineer.
03
Progress
complete the foundational phase. Progress tracking and parent views are planned after Phase 1.
R3™ Method
Release. Restore. Re-engineer.
The R3™ Method is the framework behind every YP plan: release restrictions, restore control, then re-engineer sport-specific movement.
R3 is his progression: release what limits movement, restore control, then re-engineer it back into the sport. Every session in the six weeks comes from it.
R1
Release
Explore available movement and prepare for the session ahead.
- Beast Rock Backs
- Low Squat Walks
R2
Restore
Rebuild control, rhythm, balance, and confidence.
- Split Squat Iso Hold
- Forefoot Wall Sits
R3
Re-engineer
Connect the work back to sport-specific movement and skill.
- Rotational Squats w/ Step
- Massai Jumps
Practice ends. Training doesn’t.
The hours between practices are where consistency is built. They are also the hours nobody plans.
The drills come from a group chat.
Three different people send three different videos, none of them build on each other, and by Thursday nobody remembers Monday.
Nobody knows what tonight is.
So it becomes shooting around, or it becomes nothing.
You’re paying for the practices, not the days between them.
Camps, lessons, shoes, gas. The five nights a week in between are the part nobody planned.
Week three is where it dies.
Not because they stopped caring — because there was nothing telling them what came next.
> Phase 1 starts with YP Fundamentals — a fixed 6-week program. Progress, parent visibility, and coach support are planned later layers.
A program. Not a playlist.
YP Fundamentals is a 6-week Barefoot Reset with 30 workouts spanning Foundation, Progression, and Mastery. The R3™ Method is the framework: release restrictions, restore control, then re-engineer sport-specific movement.
this_week // r3_plan
illustrative plan view // tracking planned
- monRelease // mobility + prep14 min
- tueRestore // balance + control18 min
- thuRe-engineer // first-step speed22 min
- satChallenge // skill ladder12 min
6 weeks with a shape.
not random workouts — a progression through foundation, progression, and mastery phases.
- wk 01–02Releaseprepare movement for the work ahead
- wk 03–04Restorerebuild control, rhythm, balance
- wk 05–06Re-engineerconnect it back to sport
Planned // not available in Phase 1
Planned challenges beyond the plan.
A future training layer is intended to let athletes log reps and compare only against their own prior scores. Challenges, credits, and streaks are not available in Phase 1.
> planned: credits for completed sessions and personal-best scores.
> challenges stay private — no public leaderboards, no athlete names.
[ challenge // private ]
example challenge
6-Week Skill Ladder
- w3this weekset 9
- w2last weekset 8
- w1week 1set 7
illustrative only → credits and tracking are not yet available.
Visibility, not another job.
Today: the whole curriculum is open to read before you sign up, and the program tells your athlete what tonight is. You set up the account; they just train. You don’t have to be the coach.
Planned // not available in Phase 1
What the parent view will add. Completed sessions, weekly rhythm, streaks and reviewed coach notes in one place. Not available yet. This page will say so the day that changes.
Challenges stay private either way — no public leaderboards, no athlete names.
84%
consistency_
4.2
sessions / wk_
06
weeks active_
planned parent view — illustrative, not a live dashboard.
athlete_07 — g12 basketball
planned parent view // illustrative data
consistency // last 7 weeks
coach_note // example
> first-step rhythm is improving. keep the same weekly rhythm next block and add one coach-reviewed challenge.
— example coach note
neoball // matte
Quieter reps. At home.
NeoBall by YP is designed for quieter indoor skill work and daily touches between practices.
Planned // not available in Phase 1
Ask YP is a planned intelligence layer.
The planned Ask YP layer is intended to explain sessions, adjust missed days, summarize progress, and support coach handoffs. Those adjustment and summary features are not available in Phase 1.
> planned inputs: sessions an athlete chooses to log.
>reviewing week_03 // completed sessions
>focus: first-step rhythm + balance under speed
>update: add 2 restore sessions before next challenge
>planned parent summary preview
>planned coach handoff preview
↳illustrative output only
Preview your next 6 weeks.
Browse YP Fundamentals — the Barefoot Reset, a 6-week program with 30 workouts built on the R3™ Method. This is a curriculum preview; some drill footage is still pending. Progress tracking and support layers are planned after Phase 1.
Not ready tonight?
Week one, in your inbox.
The first three sessions written out, plus the 30-second size test for picking their ball. One email. Unsubscribe in a click. We don’t ask for your kid’s name.
free to start // no card required
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