A couple of years ago, I was asked to coach my son Jack’s second-grade basketball team.  I was totally excited about it.

On my way to the first practice, I thought, “Okay, I’ll start by teaching them about box-and-1 defenses.”  When I got to the court, reality hit me in the face.  I had almost a dozen little kids staring up at me, wondering what the heck I was doing. 

Not surprisingly—as these were 8-year-olds—they knew almost nothing about the game.  I was totally clueless.  I decided to start with the basics—dribbling the ball.  But, I actually didn’t know how to demonstrate the right way to put your fingertips on the ball and all of that.

After that first practice, I realized I had to start from scratch.  I started looking for resources that would help me—the new parent-coach.  And so I went to Barnes & Noble, I went Amazon.com, and I searched online.  I couldn’t find anything that was geared toward instructing younger players.  All of the materials were meant for older players—high-school and college—and their coaches.  I figured that if I found it a challenge to find materials to help me teach youth sports, other parents and coaches were, as well.  From that one experience, the seed for PlaySportsTV—a comprehensive website for youth sports instruction and coaching—was planted in my mind.

Doug