Organizational Partnerships
Scoreboards and sideline comparisons push kids out of sport and put your coaches on the defensive. The Speed Window gives every coach in your program the same tool: a developmental framework that moves parents off the scoreboard and onto their child's biological clock. Kids on different clocks stay engaged, parents understand that the goal is development, and your coaches finally have a language families accept.
The Organizational Case
The problem in most organizations is not that coaches don't believe in development. It is that without a shared framework, belief does not translate into consistent practice.
Coaches
When a coach understands the window they are working in, they can explain why a nine-year-old is doing coordination work instead of strength work, and why that is right. That explanation is worth more to a parent than any result on a scoreboard. The book gives coaches the language. The drill library gives them the sessions.
Parents
Most parent pressure in youth sports comes from families who don't understand what development looks like. They measure by playing time, stats, and tournament results because no one has given them a better lens. The Speed Window gives families that lens, and every parent who reads it becomes a better advocate for what your coaches are trying to build.
The Program
A framework that lives inside one coach's head is fragile. A framework written in a book, deployed through a training library, and reinforced through parent education is an organizational asset. It survives staff turnover. It scales to new age groups. It gives your program something most competitors in your market cannot point to: a system with a name and a rationale.
Building the Evidence
LTAD methodology is not proprietary. The science has been public for twenty years. What no competitor can replicate is longitudinal data from your athletes.
Organizations that implement The Speed Window framework and track athlete outcomes over time are building the only kind of evidence that matters to parents, boards, and governing bodies: proof that it works in practice, with real athletes, in their community.
Foundations First Athletics works with partner organizations to establish simple assessment protocols. No specialized equipment, no complicated testing infrastructure. Baseline coordination and movement quality assessments, tracked over one to three training years, produce the kind of data that makes a developmental philosophy credible at scale.
This is not a requirement for working with us. It is an option for organizations that want to invest in their own long-term positioning. The book and the framework are available independently of any outcomes agreement.
30–50
Athletes tracked longitudinally over a single training year produce meaningful outcomes data: enough to demonstrate developmental trends and inform program decisions.
3 yrs
Three years of consistent tracking produces what no methodology document can provide: evidence that a specific framework produces specific results in a specific context.
Year 1
Organizations that begin tracking alongside book launch will have a full training year of data before the market catches up to the conversation.
Where This Comes From
Long-term athlete development is not a new idea. The research on trainability windows, nervous system periodization, and developmental sequencing has been established in sport science for more than twenty years. What has been missing is a version of it that coaches can implement on a Tuesday morning, that parents can understand in a conversation, and that organizations can adopt without a full curriculum overhaul.
The Speed Window is that version. It is a published framework: a full-length book backed by decades of research, grounded in the author's own developmental history, and organized around three trainability windows that every effective long-term development system is built on. The book is the foundation. The training library, the coaching resources, and the organizational partnership all extend from it.
Organizations that bring this framework in are not adopting an experiment. They are giving their staff a shared vocabulary for what they are already trying to do.
The Book
Written by Matthieu Brunelle. Published by Foundations First Athletics. Available now. The foundational text behind every resource on this site, and the most practical entry point for any coach or organization adopting the framework.
Who This Is For
The framework works at any organizational scale. What differs is how implementation is structured, and what a partnership with Foundations First Athletics looks like in practice.
Multi-sport or single-sport clubs serving athletes ages 7 to 18. The framework aligns age groups under one developmental philosophy and gives coaches across your entire staff a shared training language. Bulk book programs put the methodology in the hands of every family you serve.
Middle and high school athletic departments, including district-wide offices, that want a developmental framework spanning the full 7-to-18 continuum. The book works as required reading for coaching staff and as a parent education resource for every program in your system.
Regional leagues, national sport associations, and governing bodies that want to codify a developmental philosophy across affiliated clubs. The Speed Window can serve as the foundational text for a coach education curriculum or a league-wide parent communication initiative.
The Book in Bulk
Putting the book in the hands of every coach on your staff and making it available to your families creates the shared language immediately. Volume pricing makes that practical at any organizational scale.
Single Copy
Retail
Available at launch via foundationsfirstathletics.com and Amazon
For individual coaches and families getting started with the framework.
2 to 20 Copies
Retail
Order through Amazon or your coach’s referral link. No minimums, ships immediately.
The right path for individual coaches, families, and small staffs.
20 + Copies
From $7
Negotiated directly, fulfilled by Foundations First. Send an inquiry.
Every bulk order above 20 books is handled directly: better pricing than any retail channel, one invoice, one delivery.
League / Institutional
Custom
Multi-program and league-wide deployments, arranged directly with volume pricing.
For organizations deploying across programs, age groups, or affiliated clubs.
On the math: Equipping a staff of 20 coaches at negotiated bulk pricing costs less than a single hour of private training. Deploying to 50 families costs less than one tournament entry fee. The book does not expire and does not require renewal.
The book is available now. Contact us to arrange volume pricing for your staff or families.
Strategic Partnerships
If you are thinking about something larger: a league-wide rollout, a co-branded curriculum, or an ongoing relationship. We want to hear about it.
Strategic partnerships are built around what each organization actually needs. There is no standard package at this level. The conversation is the starting point.
What Working Together Looks Like
There is no fixed package. Organizational partnerships are designed around your program's size, structure, and goals. The conversation determines the shape of the engagement.
The most direct entry point. Organizations that put the book in the hands of every coach on their staff and make it available to families create the shared language immediately. Bulk pricing is available for orders of 10 or more copies. Contact us to discuss volume arrangements ahead of the August 1 launch.
Partner organizations receive drill cards, window reference guides, and parent education materials co-branded with their program name alongside the Foundations First framework. Resources your coaches can use in sessions and your families can take home. Your credibility, backed by the methodology in the book.
For organizations that want to build the evidence layer: a structured outcome tracking protocol, baseline and follow-up assessment design, and a co-authored report at the end of each training year. This is how organizations that are serious about developmental methodology build the only credential that lasts: outcomes data from their own athletes, in their own program, over time. This tier is designed for organizations committed to a multi-year engagement and willing to dedicate a staff member as the internal point of contact for the framework.
Start the Conversation
Every organizational partnership begins with a conversation, not a contract. Tell us where you are and what you are trying to build. We will respond within a week.
Prefer email? Reach us directly at mattheubrunelle@foundationsfirstathletics.com.