The Key to Playing at Any Competitive Level

What we guarantee (and what we don’t)

We don’t guarantee you will be a professional player.
We don’t guarantee you will be a collegiate player.

But we do guarantee two things:

1. If you don’t master the fundamentals by the age of 15, you won’t be able to play later at any level.

2. If you do master the fundamentals by the age of 15, you give yourself a real CHANCE to play later.

That’s the whole mission.

Are you planning to play after the age of 15? If you do, you need to master the fundamentals. If you are planning to play after the age of 15 at any competitive level—any level—you need to master the fundamentals.

Why is this so true?

Water polo is like a chain. If you don’t know how to eggbeater properly, you won’t be able to pass properly, you won’t be able to receive the ball properly, and you won’t be able to shoot properly. And in the game, that becomes very simple: you’re not catching the ball, you’re not passing it well, you’re not scoring—and you’re not playing. You don’t get time, you don’t get opportunities, and that’s exactly what happens when you build your game on weak fundamentals.

It doesn’t have to be that way, but you need to understand this: every fundamental is connected to every drill and every skill you’ll ever do in your development. You don’t really have the choice of not mastering it. You can try to “get away with it” for a little while—maybe right now you can survive even if your receiving isn’t clean—but very soon, when you’re 14, it becomes obvious. Same with shooting: if you don’t have the correct shooting position after one slide, it might not look like a big issue today, but when you’re 14, it will be. That’s why fundamentals are non-negotiable. If you want to give yourself a real chance to play later, you must master them.

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