About Team Esface Athletics

Team Esface Athletics Movement (“TEAM ESFACE”) is an athletic-based youth training and development organization aimed at providing the best athletics coaching to boys and girls in order to achieve positive returns on and off the training arena. Founded in 2005 as a natural offshoot of Esface, Inc, TEAM ESFACE started as an individual training program and has since developed into sponsoring and hosting camps, clinics and high school/NJB/AAU teams along the peninsula of the SF Bay Area.

TEAM ESFACE camps and clinics include Matt Lottich Life Skills Basketball Camp (MLLS), Offense University, and the After School Club. TEAM ESFACE sponsored teams include 2010 CCS Champions Eastside College Prep Panthers, National Champion Sequoia NJB 7th Grade All Net team, National Runner-up Sequoia NJB 5th Grade All Net team and the National Runner-up Redwood NJB All Net 5th Grade team. Click the following links for information on CLINICS, CAMPS, AAU CLUB TEAMS, PRIVATE TRAINING. For all Upcoming Events, please CLICK HERE.

TEAM ESFACE Athletics Movement Philosophy

All training is aimed at achieving A+ (the highest mark) in Athletics, Academics and Attitude.

A+ Athletics

TEAM ESFACE promotes individually-tailored goals and skill drills to achieve the best athletic outcomes. Adopted from the research of “Talent is Overrated” and “Outliers,” athletes are encouraged to put quality time (“deliberate practice”) in practice as opposed to focusing on early signs of “talent.” Our coaching is designed to help athletes develop “the right way to practice” so when they practice away from camps, clinics or individual sessions, they are equipped with skill drills and routines to help them get better at “the right way.” (A common maxim coached is “If you practice the right thing, you get better at the right thing; if you practice the wrong thing, you get better at the wrong thing.”)

A+ Academics

TEAM ESFACE emphasizes the “student” in student-athlete. Through anecdotes and games as well as through personal relationships and an interest in their off-court academic performance, coaches are trained to instill a value in academics. Furthermore, our emphasis in academics promotes young athletes becoming true students of the game: learning the historical, factual and mental forms of the game. The birthplace of basketball, the length of a high school court and the NBA leader in assists are example facts that are encouraged in our coaching philosophy.

A+ Attitude

TEAM ESFACE believes athletics and high-stakes competition is a ripe environment to coach positive attitude. The true test of an athlete is not where he or she stands in times of comfort, but in times of conflict and adversity. Losing, poor performance, and interpersonal conflict are regular opportunities TEAM ESFACE coaches seize to teach valuable life lessons on attitude. The lessons encouraging a positive attitude are the longest lasting lessons that our athletes learn.

TEAM ESFACE READER (taken right now from the Positive Coaching Bookshelf)