Announcing Breakthrough Basketball's Youth Coaching Clinic on Saturday, Oct 8, 2011 -- ALL Proceeds Go to Charity

For Beginner & Veteran Youth Coaches - You'll Learn New Drills, Tactics, and Training Techniques Based on Breakthrough Basketball's Worldwide Research

What You'll Learn at this Clinic

• New drills to use with your youth team.
• Age appropriate drills.
• A different (and better way) to teach skills, practice team offense, improve mentality, and condition players all at the same time.
• A different (and better way) to motivate players, teach lessons, and develop your basketball team.
• How to deal with difficult parents and avoid problems.
• How to get everything done in only one hour of practice per week (learn how to get more done in one hour than most coaches do in five).
• The MOST important things that ALL youth coaches need to focus on.
• How to maximize the development of your players and their skills.
• How to make a positive impact on your players and develop them the right way.
• How to better handle game situations.
• How to more efficiently organize practices and get more done in less time. (Learn tricks from the PROS).
• What skills to teach your players and how to develop those skills faster.
• Learn how a child's mind is wired different than an adult -- and how you can use that knowledge to become a better youth coach (this alone will make the clinic more than worth it).
• How to develop and teach a better youth defense.
• How to develop and teach a better youth offense.
• The right way to coach youth basketball.

Bottom line, you will learn the most important and most effective things we have learned through our research at Breakthrough Basketball. You will get our BEST STUFF. We only have so much time (2 hours) and we want to make a positive impact and help you out as much as possible. So we are picking out the best, most impactful, and useful drills for this clinic.

New and Unique

This clinic will NOT give you the same old stuff you can learn in any coaching book at the store. The information you'll learn will be new, unique, thought provoking, and exactly what any youth coach needs.

Who Should Attend?

Any boys or girls youth basketball coach working with players between the ages of 5 and 13 should attend this clinic. Experienced coaches, beginner coaches, and volunteer parent coaches will get something out of this clinic.

VERY FEW coaches use these tactics -- so there is something here for everyone, both veteran youth coaches and complete beginners.

Parents Can Attend Too

This clinic will also be valuable for parents of youth basketball players who want to better understand their role, learn how youth development works, or if you want to work on your kids' skills at home.

Where?

Springville High School Gym
400 Academy Street
Springville, Iowa 52336

When?

Saturday, October 8, 2011 - 11:30 to 1:30

Our Way of Giving Back

This clinic is our way of giving back -- both by helping coaches make a positive impact on their players and by raising money for a good cause.

ALL proceeds go to The Adventure Project, which is an incredible charity organization that helps children and families in Africa and all over the world. Their mission is to end extreme poverty by supporting the world's most effective social ventures. They focus on one humanitarian issue affecting global poverty, & then present innovative, low-cost solutions to help.

Coach Sanderson personally knows the people that run TAP and is very familiar with their organization. So we know that the money raised will be put to very good use!

TAP identifies groups that make the most efficient use of donations. In other words, your money goes directly to helping people with very little, if any, being diverted to "administrative costs". When they say that $42 is enough to provide medical supplies to one expectant mother in Uganda, that's the truth, and that's where the money goes.

TAP is also different from many charities because they are not simply giving things away. Rather, they attempt to provide capital to create money-making ventures that benefit local workers. For example, their current campaign employs women in Uganda to provide medical information and to sell basic supplies at greatly reduced rates to expectant mothers. This is not simply giving money away, but it empowers people, creates jobs, and combats a very serious need in the area. The goal is to provide for extreme needs while helping people escape the cycle of poverty.

How Much?

The cost of the clinic is an absolute bargain at only $10. All proceeds go to charity.

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If you have any questions, you can email or call Jeff Haefner at 319-360-0314.

Head Clinicians

Jeff Haefner

Jeff Haefner is a basketball trainer and coach in the Cedar Rapids / Marion area. He is also the co-founder of BreakthroughBasketball.com, which is currently the most visited basketball coaching website in the world (with over 4000 unique visitors each day).

Jeff has written and developed hundreds of articles, books, videos, and instructional resources about coaching basketball. Over 60,000 coaches around the world subscribe to and read the Breakthrough Basketball Newsletter that Jeff and his brother Joe publish.

Jeff has also been fortunate to learn from some of the best basketball trainers in the world over the last several years...

Jeff's job over the last 5 years has been to study the game of basketball and develop content for Breakthrough Basketball. He has viewed and studied thousands of articles, books, DVDs, and resources about player development.

He has also been very lucky to become friends with and get mentoring from some top college and PRO coaches in the country...

One of the biggest influences on Jeff's training program has been professional player development coach Don Kelbick. Many of Jeff's teaching methods come from Don Kelbick, a pro coach that works with NBA players like Raja Bell, Carlos Boozer, Guillermo Diaz, Rasual Butler, Carlos Arroyo, Tim Hardaway, Bruce Bowen, and others. Don also works with younger players and gives training camps all over the world. Jeff has been fortunate enough to become good friends with Don and learn his training techniques. Don has probably been the most influential person on Jeff's training program.

In addition, Jeff has learned from dozens of player development coaches around the country. BreakthroughBasketball.com has allowed him to meet and become friends with player development coaches from all over.

Because of Jeff's unique experience he is able to offer a very distinctive training program that is very precise, efficient, and effective.

But what Jeff enjoys the most is teaching young players the fundamentals of basketball, how to gain confidence, and how to be successful in life. That is his passion! To him, practice is more fun than the games because that's where he gets the opportunity to teach and have a positive impact on young player's lives.

Jeff graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with his Coaching Certificate and a Degree in Computer Science. Jeff grew up in Iowa and currently lives there today with his wife and two kids. In his spare time Jeff enjoys boating, water skiing, wakeboarding, traveling to sunny places, working out, and playing with his kids as much he can!

Nate Sanderson

Nate Sanderson is entering his second season as the head girls' basketball coach at Springville High School. Prior to taking over at Springville, Nate was the Varsity Girls' Basketball Coach at Louisa-Muscatine where, in 2003, he took over a program in the midst of a 33-game losing streak. Six years later, the program set the school record for wins in three consecutive seasons. His 2008-2009 team won 16 games and set over 20 school records. His 2009-2010 team reached the Regional Semi-Finals for the first time in school history while winning a school-record 18 games.

Sanderson graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in 2002 with a degree in Social Studies Education, and a minor in Leadership Studies. He taught junior high and high school social studies, and various leadership courses at Lousia-Muscatine for seven years. He has coached numerous sports including basketball, volleyball, and track. Nate has facilitated a number of basketball & leadership experiences for youth through a variety of organizations (Franklin Covey, The Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Point Guard College, as well as his own summer sports camps). Nate is currently working on a masters degree in organizational leadership through Gonzaga University. In addition to coaching, he works closely with The Adventure Project, a non-profit organization working to combat global poverty by increasing investments in projects that create jobs, and increase educational opportunities for children around the world. He has been married for six years, and is the proud owner of three very energetic dogs.