Sports is the most underrated talent development system in America. - Harvard/NBER tracked 400,000 Ivy grads over 25 years. Athletes earned 3.4% more and reached more senior positions, even after controlling for school, major, and industry. - Ohio State: Adults who played youth sports scored significantly higher on grit. Adults who quit scored lower. - Gallup: 42% of former college athletes are “highly engaged” at work vs. 38% of non-athletes. This is the thesis behind Texas Sports Academy. Sports develop winners in life, not just on the field

Elite-level athletic analysis used to require a lab. Now it fits in your pocket. This is Daito Manabe's work. Rhizomatiks in Tokyo. He's the rare artist-engineer operating at the exact seam of computer vision, AR, and human sensing. He built AR for the Rio 2016 closing ceremony. Bjork's VR concerts. Perfume's Tokyo Dome laser shows. Drone choreography. EEG-driven music. And he's pointed all of it at a fencing blade. A sabre tip moves at 30 m/s, too fast for a coach's eye to reconstruct the path. 100 years of fencing coaching has been half-guessing at what the blade actually did. Before Rhizomatiks, tracking something this fast required putting reflective dots on the object, surrounding a room with a bunch of high-speed cameras, and running it all through a six-figure system (Vicon rigs start at $50K, Hawk-Eye installations run $100K per court). You could not do it on a fencing blade bc the blade is too thin, moves too fast, and flexes mid-swing. Rhizomatiks did it with no dots. No sensors. Just cameras and a deep learning model trained to find a sword tip a few pixels wide, in real time, against a chaotic arena background. They debuted it at the 2019 All Japan Championship and ran it again at the Tokyo Olympics. Nobody had shipped that before. Five years later the same class of computer vision runs on a phone. HomeCourt reads shot arc for $8/month. MediaPipe is free and open source. Youth sports development is still gated by geography and income. The kid with access to a $200/hr biomechanics coach gets a real feedback loop. Everyone else gets a dad with a phone and a hunch. Rhizomatiks proved the vision stack works on a sabre tip moving at 30 m/s. A baseball swing is a slower problem. The hard part is already solved. Someone just has to ship it for parents. At Texas Sports Academy, we're building the apps that put a D1-level coach in every parent's pocket.

Just started building this with @arpangup @PalmerTheDev & @malekaimischke It's called Texas Sports Academy Online Our goal is to create the #1 sports + academics solution for the modern student-athlete. sportsacademy.school/tsa-onl…

Texas Sports Academy x Dynamic Prep coming in January! We're partnering with Jermaine O'Neal and the #1 team in the nation, Dynamic Prep, to create the best middle school in DFW for serious athletes. We've already created an amazing facility. We remodeled a traditional school to turn it into a D1 athlete-producing factory. Dynamic Prep plays there already: - We've hosted their Faze games in the OTE league - This gym is already becoming one of the most exciting places in Texas to watch elite athletes hoop The facility has a state-of-the-art weight room, gym, film room, and podcast room. But here's what really sets us apart, our 4 Commitments: 1. Double Your D1 Odds: Every student gets an athletic assessment and personalized skill development plan. We focus on fundamentals that other programs ignore... fixing weaknesses, not just playing to strengths. 2. Long-Term Athletic Development: We train well-rounded, holistic athletes through speed & agility training, balance, coordination, and LTAD principles. All our coaches have sent athletes to D1 programs. 3. Learn 2x in 2 Hours: Powered by Alpha School's proven model, we use personalized learning, mastery-based learning, and learning science principles so students crush academics and training by 4pm - with no homework and more family dinners. 4. Kids Love School: We make sports fun again. No burnout from excessive competitive games. Instead, we focus on skill development, life skills (nutrition, sports psychology, financial literacy, public speaking), and teaching kids to build their audience early. This is the future of elite athletics.

Your kids' favorite athletes didn't get great by accident. They wrote it down. They visualized it. They built systems around it. • Michael Phelps - Started writing goals at age 11, posts them in his closet • Emmitt Smith - Famous for writing and hitting 22 specific career goals • Katie Ledecky - Keeps detailed journals of practices and wellness metrics • Simone Biles - Writes down yearly goals with her mother • Venus Williams - Visualization by walking empty major courts • Kobe Bryant - Big goals broken into daily 1% improvements • Arnold Schwarzenegger - Clear vision + specific, measurable goals • Muhammad Ali - Vivid fight visualizations + spoken affirmations • Steph Curry - Pre-game visualization ritual + 6-step mental preparation process • LeBron James - Constant visualization + photographic memory for plays + clear verbal goal commitment The method varies. The discipline doesn't.