Break Away
Fundamentals-first youth football, taught safely and in order.
A structured learning platform that sequences fundamentals, technique, safety, and position skills into progressions players, parents, and coaches follow together.
- Original ITS DAD Creation
- Updated Regularly
Guided walkthrough of the practice planner and progression map, roughly 15 minutes.
The problem
What's broken today.
Youth football knowledge is scattered across video platforms, sideline advice, and coaches with wildly different training. Parents cannot tell good instruction from bad, and players skip the fundamentals that keep them safe.
The approach
How this fixes it.
Break Away treats the sport like a curriculum. Every skill has prerequisites, every drill has a safety gate, and every player has a visible path from where they are to where they are trying to get. Coaches plan practices from the same library parents use to understand the game.
Features
Skill progressions
Every technique sequenced by age and position, with prerequisites enforced.
Safety gates
Contact work unlocks only after form and footwork standards are met.
Practice planner
Coaches build a timed practice from the library in under ten minutes.
Parent view
Plain-language explanations of what is being taught and why.
Player progress
Visible mastery tracking that motivates without turning into a leaderboard.
Offline field mode
Practice plans and drill cards work with no signal at the field.
Inside the app
Progression map
A player's path through fundamentals, with the next unlock highlighted.
Practice planner
Drag drills into timed blocks; the plan prints to a field card.
Parent dashboard
What your player is learning this week, explained without jargon.
Pricing
Priced for the person actually paying.
No enterprise-only tiers, no quote-to-find-out.
Parent
$9per month
Follow along and understand the game your kid is playing.
- Full technique library
- Parent explanations
- Safety guidance
- One player profile
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Coach
$29per month
Plan a full season without making it up on the drive over.
- Everything in Parent
- Practice planner
- Season curriculum
- Roster up to 35 players
- Printable field cards
Program
Customper season
League-wide consistency across every team and coach.
- Everything in Coach
- Unlimited teams
- Program-wide standards
- Coach onboarding
- Admin reporting
Roadmap
What's shipped, what's next.
Updated as things move. No dates I can't keep.
Shipped
Core curriculum and planner
- Technique library
- Practice planner
- Safety gate system
- Printable field cards
Now building
Player progress and parent view
- Mastery tracking
- Parent dashboard
- Weekly summary emails
Next
Video and program tools
- Technique video library
- Film upload and annotation
- League admin reporting
- Spanish translation
Questions
- Is this flag or tackle football?
- Both. Flag programs skip the contact module entirely and everything else applies.
- Do I need a team to use it?
- No. Parents and individual players can use the technique library on its own.
- When does it leave beta?
- When coach practice planning holds up across a full season without support tickets. We are not committing to a date we cannot keep.
- Is there a free trial?
- Beta access is free while we are in beta. Pricing begins at general availability, and beta users get their first year at the beta rate.
I haven't written this one's history down yet. When I do, it goes here — what it was built from, what it was made to solve, and every revision since. I'd rather leave this blank than invent a history for it.
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Interested in Break Away?
Tell me how you'd use it. Early cohorts are small, and I read every request myself.