In this first‑person testimonial, a 26‑year‑old former college basketball player explains how attending Point Guard College (PGC) the summer before his freshman year transformed his approach to training and ultimately enabled him to make varsity as a freshman. He contrasts two athlete mindsets—those who merely feel productive versus those who are truly productive—and describes how PGC taught him intentional practice: planning specific shot counts, focusing on shot selection, and incorporating film study and a growth mindset. The speaker credits these principles for his immediate success and for the continued impact they have on his training as an adult. He strongly recommends PGC to basketball players and even non‑basketball athletes, noting the camp’s emphasis on mindset and film analysis, and urges viewers to check the link in the description before spots fill up.
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I achieved my dream of playing college basketball, and I believe that I achieved that dream because of how freaking hard I worked as a young athlete. Now, I've worked with thousands of athletes, and there are two types of athletes: the athletes who want to feel productive and feel like they're getting better, and then the athletes who are productive and who actually are getting better. The turning point that I had in my basketball career was the summer of my incoming freshman year. I went to a camp called Point Guard College, PGC, where they taught me how to become that second athlete. No longer was I just showing up to the gym without a plan, putting up shots. I was showing up to the gym wanting to get better at my jump shot and knowing exactly what shots I needed to be putting up, how many shots I needed to be putting up. That summer, not only did I achieve my goal of becoming a better athlete and being able to play varsity as a freshman, but I ingrained the skill that PGC taught me of the intentionality, the actually being productive with my workouts and planning them out so that I could become the athlete that I wanted to be, not just hoping that I'd become that athlete by putting up shots and putting the time in. Now I'd say go to PGC even if you're not a basketball player because it's so freaking good. They teach you the mindset side of the game. They teach you how to watch film. It was career-changing for me. But if you are a basketball player and you have not been to one of those camps, I highly, highly, highly recommend it because like I said, that was the point in my career that I can look back on and say everything changed after that. And, I am still using the principles and the things that I learned from that time, my incoming freshman year, to this day as a 26-year-old. We tagged them in the description below. Go check 'em out. I think their spots are filling up pretty quick.
