1. Non-profit organization

2. Full Force History
• Full Force Basketball was founded by
Michael Gayle and Ib Belou.
• Its main location is in Montrose, CA.
• This non-profit organization has their
members take part in the Amateur Athletic
Union (AAU).

3. Their Mission
• Full Force Basketball’s mission is to
provide an environment that fosters
leadership, sportsmanship, honesty, and
integrity with a strong focus on teamwork
and family.

4. Personal Basketball Connection
• My connection with basketball
is that I used to play basketball
all 4 years at Canyon high
school. I started at the bottom
not knowing how to play, soon
loving the sport and improving
each year making it to varsity.
I’ve been an athlete all my life
and I know each child can be
too. I believe ever child can
accomplish their dreams like I
did, to set your goals high and
strive to be the best.

5. Community Need
• Each year 20 million kids register for sports such as hockey,
baseball, football, basketball and more.
• The National sports Alliance reports that about 70 percent of all kids
by the age of 13, quit playing sports and don’t play again.
• The number one reason is because the sport is not fun to them
anymore.
• The community needs sports that we watch and play everyday to be
enjoyable to kids and to motivate them to exercise.
• Awareness needs to be shown through the coaches and parents of the
accomplishments they can meet by developing emotionally, socially,
physically, and intellectually.
• Full Force Basketball can meet all these needs by their mission to
make their sessions enjoyable and provide a good environment for
the athletes to d5evelop these skills completely.

6. Get Involved in Basketball!
• Come to our clinics where kids of
all ages can join to improve and
develop their individual skills.
• If the kids are more advanced they
can tryout for the travel teams that
compete in local, regional and
national tournaments throughout
the year. The travel teams are
provided with uniformity of black,
white and gold colors at each
game and tournament they
compete in.
• People can also donate money to
support Full Force Basketball
online or by mailing in your
donation.

7. Process
Michael Gayle and Ib Belou have a passion to provide great basketball
instructions to the players the appropriate training based on the levels to
aspiring young athletes.
Inspiring and talented coaching staff that make up Full Force Academy were
high school alumni, college athletes or former coaches of high school or
college teams.
They help young athletes improve as people, students and basketball players to
be the best they can be by their clinics, programs, and simple instructions.

8. Inputs
• Full Force Basketball has many programs and resources
that develop this organization like…
• Michael Gayle is the founder of Full Force Basketball
that teaches the players in clinics and its travel teams.
• Ib Belou, he is the head clinician who engages actively
in the clinics throughout the year.
• Athletic Amateur Union (AAU) is one of the top, largest
non-profit organization for volunteer sports in the U.S.
today that supports Full Force Academy.

9. Outputs
Full Force Basketball Academy offers clinics all
year around for kids ages 5-17.
• All of the clinics have beginner, intermediate and
advanced levels with talented staff to lead players
for success.
• Advanced players can have “One on One” private
lessons or group sessions that are available for up
to 15 players.

10. Outcomes
• Athletes will learn the fundamental skills of basketball at
any level even if they are beginners.
• Players must start by being fair-mindedness as they can
achieve the highest level of personal success when placed
in the right level based on their skills.
• In the sessions athletes will focus, seek meaning in what
they do and become more advanced on passing the ball,
shooting, ball handling, rebounding, agility, defensive
positions, play based on positions, lifting to produce
strength and conditioning.

11. Specific Full Force Programs…
• “Nothin’ But Net” is a clinic
that focuses on shooting for all
grade levels.
• “Triple Threat” is the second
clinic that focuses on the
basics like shooting, passing
and ball handling skills.
Beginning players must
evaluate, analyze and
understand each concept to
know how to do it correctly
and improve as a person and
player.
• “Future Stars” is the last clinic
Full Force offers to 1-4 grade
levels that focus on the basic
and beginning basketball
skills.

12. Critical Thinking Critical Action
• Full Force resembles critical • Full Force presents critical
thinking by how the players action by how players perform
learn the basic basketball skills those basic skills, plays they
and how they perform them by are taught for the games, and
using their bodies. succeed to their potential as a
• Critical thinking is also used basketball player.
by designing plays in a game, • Players also use critical action
coaches to have a strategy on in their tournament games as
how to get the basket and score they make and perform plays
points to win the game. to make a score at the basket.
• Coaches use critical thinking in • Coaches use critical action by
making and developing drills showing players the correct
for players to practice certain way to play and the original
skills to help them improve in fundamental skills that partake
different ways. in being a basketball player in
their clinics, academy and one
on one’s.

13. The Foundation for Critical Thinking/ Full Force
Basketball
• The Foundation for Critical • Full Force Basketball provides its
Thinking mission is to promote programs, sessions and clinics for
change in education, society and kids to establish skills that make
educational reform through the up a team and develop their
cultivation of fair minded critical individual identities as justifying
thinking. results to becoming or being more
• Foundation for Critical Thinking advanced basketball players.
wants to improve education • The experienced and talented staff
through elementary school, are dedicated to produce
colleges, universities, etc. excellence in academics and
• They include workshops, athleticism. They want to help
development programs, standards, players discover your own mind
strategies based on instructions, with strengths and weaknesses
assessments for higher critical because players can always use
thinking and more. improvements to be better players.
• Learning the fundamental skills
and provided informative sessions
are important to help the players
learn and succeed to the fullest.

14. The Foundation for Critical Thinking/Full Force Basketball
continued…
• Full Force Basketball has many year-
• This foundation every year travels round clinics that explicate their
to multiple universities to give available programs that are very
lectures for people who are new or informative to parents and basketball
players who want to join the basketball
support their foundation. academy.
• The Foundation for Critical • This organization provides one on one
Thinking creates events and sessions by their experienced
instructors to help advanced players
resources designed to help and other specific programs to help
educators improve their new players with fundamental or
instruction. practice skills they need to improve on.
• The instructors also help with players
The International Center for the dispositions by showing discipline and
Assessment of Higher Order support by pushing them to their
Thinking (ICAT) is a center to potential.
help universities ways to help • The foundations one on one program
students critical thinking abilities. or the specific programs help players
think critically about what they are
doing, to improve in their playing and
aggrandize their movements to become
more advanced.

15. The End