Our Mission
The best* lesson experiences in the world
- 🏈 American Football
- 🏹 Archery
- 🏸 Badminton
- ⚾️ Baseball
- 🏀 Basketball
- 🥊 Boxing
- 🧗♂️ Climbing
- 🏏 Cricket
- 🚴 Cycling
- 🐎 Equestrian Sports
- 🏑 Field Hockey
- ⛳ Golf
- 🤸 Gymnastics
- 🏒 Ice Hockey
- 🥋 Martial Arts
- 🏍️ Motorcross
- 🛶 Paddling
- 🥒 Pickleball
- 🏉 Rugby
- 🎿 Skiing
- ⚽ Soccer
- 🥎 Softball
- 🏊 Swimming
- 🏓 Table Tennis
- 🎾 Tennis
- 🏃 Track and Field
- 🏐 Volleyball
- 🏋️ Weightlifting
- 🤼 Wrestling
* We define “BEST” as:
- Personalized
- Results-Driven
- Available to All
Parents need a safe and straightforward process for finding, vetting, and connecting with professional instructors.
Coaches need a steady stream of new clients, along with a way to better manage and retain their old ones.
Both athletes and coaches looking to grow either found incomplete or outright bad options.
Coaches
For coaches, we started by going radically against the heavy profit-sharing models of other companies that often left instructors holding the short-end of the financial stick in every lesson transaction. Instead, we made all the tools coaches need to leverage their expertise while expanding their brands completely free.
We are committed to solving the challenges of well-known former or current pros and college coaches who have so much value to pass on to budding athletes but little time and no previous platform to connect them in a meaningful way with their fans.
And are equally committed to the local league coach looking to give back or the recently-finished-playing up and comer new to private instruction and all this personal branding stuff, but hungry to teach.
The best lesson experiences in the world entail measurable growth for both athletes and coaches, and this is what we are after—relentlessly.
Parents & Athletes
For parents and their athletes, we started with not asking for a $20 placement fee just to connect them with a local in-person coach—we made it free. But we didn’t stop there, of course.
Online lessons had gotten a bad wrap, as coaches were forced to hack together sub-par solutions using 3-5 different pieces of software to touch base, give feedback, and collect payment for a single private lesson. Many parents doubted how effective sports lessons could even be.
So, aside from creating a single, simple solution to all types of in-person and remote training, we built Coachly’s online lessons specifically to take advantage of the newest scientific research around how people learn.
Insights from the literature on mobile, micro, and delayed learning, expert modeling, video analysis, and both the spacing and Zeigarnik effects are baked into our DNA.
Coachly Team
Mike Rogers
CEO | Co-FounderMike has spent a lifetime entrenched in baseball and softball as a player, a private instructor, a training facility owner, and the son of two college-level coaches. Previously, he headed marketing at Athpro360 and founded Applied Vision Softball.
He has also co-owned and operated a large indoor baseball and softball training facility with his family for over 15 years, giving him the opportunity to work with hundreds of private instructors—including former major leaguers, softball Olympians and pros, and innumerable college coaches of all divisions.
He’s helped many of these coaches with systems and frameworks to leverage their success in the game into successful businesses. During grad school, he became enamored with the science of learning and educational theory. Long after graduating, this passion has continued and found its expression in the vision of Coachly.
Anton Anisimov
CTO | Co-FounderAnton has been the founder and CEO of the software development company InVooDoo for the past 19 years. Throughout his career, Anton has passionately created more than fifty software products and applied "soon- to-take-over" technologies to develop innovative solutions ahead of industry adoption.
A product and technical visionary, Anton invents the future integration of online and offline sporting experiences. He contributes his five-plus years of work with Silicon Valley startups and corporations for the benefit of athletes and coaches.
At Coachly, Anton leads a team of talented product design and development professionals who revolutionize the experience of remote interactions in an expanding range of sports.
