POWLAX · For youth lacrosse coaches

Ten minutes from now, your first drill could be moving on your screen.

Not a description of POWLAX. The actual thing. Create a free account, open the Play Designer, and draw a drill that animates — players moving, ball moving, exactly what you want your team to do.

The moving design is just the start. Add a teaching video — a YouTube link, a clip of your own — plus photos, a notebook sketch, and a written description, and that drill becomes a complete, reusable item you build once and run all season.

Then drop it into a real practice plan and open it on your phone like you would at the field. This page walks you through it, minute by minute.

Free to start. No card required.

Real POWLAX Moving Play Designer on a tablet: a phased play diagram with player movement arrows and a phase timeline

The real Moving Play Designer — a phased play with player movement, mid-animation.

Step 1 · Draw

Minutes 1–4: Draw a drill that actually moves.

Open the Play Designer and place your X's and O's. Now press play — they move.

Here's why that matters. A static diagram makes you the translator: you sketch it, then you spend the first five minutes of every drill explaining what the arrows mean while ten-year-olds squint. A moving diagram does the explaining for you — every kid sees exactly where to go and when, before anyone lines up.

Free accounts get the full Moving Play Designer, including Read & React Mode: build plays with branching decision points, so players learn ‘if the defender slides, you do this — if he doesn't, you do that.’ That's not a teaser version. It's the same designer paying coaches use.

Draw the drill you already run at every practice. Watching it move for the first time is the moment most coaches get it.

Step 2 · Plan

Minutes 5–8: Drop your drill into a real practice plan.

Your drill doesn't sit in a folder. It flows straight into the Practice Planner — the same planner you'd use the night before practice. Add your drill, set the time blocks, and you're looking at a practice plan you built, with a moving diagram attached, instead of a note on your phone that says ‘ground balls, then 3v2.’

Free accounts get5 custom drills & strategies1 practice plan1 playbook

Enough to build a real plan and feel exactly how Tuesday night goes from stressful to done.

Real POWLAX practice plan open in the Practices view on a phone
Step 3 · Run

Minutes 9–10: Open Run Practice and see field view.

Pull up your plan in the Run Practice view — the screen you'd have in your hand at the field. Your drills in order, your diagrams ready to show players, no shuffling papers on a clipboard in the wind.

That's the whole loop: draw it, plan it, run it. You just did in ten minutes what most volunteer coaches spend Sunday night dreading. And everything you built stays in your account.

POWLAX Moving Play Designer open on a tablet beside a phone showing a practice plan, on a turf field in front of a goal

After your first ten minutes

Then you'll want more drills than you have time to invent.

Here's where every coach hits the same wall: drawing your own drills works, but you don't have 135 drills in your head. You have the handful you remember from when you played — or none at all, if you never played and got handed a whistle and a roster anyway.

That's not a you problem.

You're not underprepared — you're under-equipped.

The free account proves the tool works. What it can't give you is the library, or the answer to the harder question: am I even teaching the right things for this age group?

That's what Coaching Kit Confidence is for.

THE UNLOCK

Coaching Kit Confidence: the library, the education, and no limits.

Everything from your first ten minutes stays — and the walls come down.

135+ POWLAX drills with moving diagrams, ready to drop into any plan. You stop inventing practices from scratch and start choosing from drills that already animate, many with real drill videos linked to the diagrams.

80+ age-appropriate strategies — the answer to “what do I actually run?” For every age band, you get the offenses, defenses, and rides that fit what your players can handle, so you’re never guessing what to call.

Unlimited custom drills, plays, and strategies. The 5-creation cap disappears. Build your whole system in your own language, with your own playbook.

The full Youth Lacrosse Coaching Master Class. This is the confidence part — how the game works and how to run a practice, so the drills and strategies aren’t just a list but a season you understand. Not just what to run, but why.

A Skills Academy Basic preview, so you can see the player training experience POWLAX teams use — useful the day you start wondering whether your players should be training at home too.

It's the same Practice Planner, Playbook builder, and Moving Play Designer with Read & React you just used — with the content and education that turn a tool into a coaching system.

RUN THE COMPARISON

The same five jobs, side by side.

Right now you're doing this job with a stack that's free in dollars and expensive everywhere else — YouTube at 9pm, a clipboard sketch, screenshots in the group chat.

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Finding drills

YouTube roulette — random levels, random quality, nothing organized for your team.

135+ POWLAX drills with moving diagrams, inside the same planner you build practice in.

Drawing plays

Static X’s and O’s you have to narrate.

The Moving Play Designer — animated diagrams with Read & React decision points, and real drill videos linked to the diagram.

Planning practice

A notes app and a guess at timing.

A content-integrated Practice Planner you run from your phone at the field — or print for the clipboard.

Keeping your team’s stuff

Screenshots scattered across your camera roll and the group chat.

Your own drill bank and Playbook — unlimited custom drills, plays, and strategies in one usable place.

Getting better as a coach

Trial and error on someone else’s kids.

The full Youth Lacrosse Coaching Master Class.

One stack is duct tape. The other was built for exactly this.

PRICING

Start free. Upgrade when the free account feels small.

Free

$0

  • The Moving Play Designer with Read & React
  • Up to 5 custom drills/strategies
  • 1 practice plan and 1 playbook
  • The free Weekly Workout

Build first, decide later. No card required.

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Coaching Kit Confidence Annual

$299/yr

The same kit, billed once — about $25 a month, two months cheaper than paying monthly all year.

For the coach who's decided this is how they coach now.

And when you're ready to give your players access to the training, your playbook, and your practice plans — guided workouts, points, and ranks they can study before practice — that's Team HQ. When you upgrade, we pro-rate what you've already paid on your annual Confidence subscription toward it, so you move up smoothly instead of paying twice. It's there when you want it, and invisible until you do.

“What if I pay and it doesn't fit how I coach?”

Then don't pay yet. That's the honest answer.

The free account isn't a brochure — it's the real product with caps. Draw your drills. Build your plan. Open the Run Practice view at the field. If it doesn't make next Tuesday easier, close the tab and you've lost nothing. And when you do upgrade, you're not betting on a sales page — you're upgrading something you've already built in.

“I’m not tech-savvy.”

If you can drag a magnet on a whiteboard, you can drag a player icon on a screen. You place the players — the app makes them move.

“I already have drills I like.”

Keep them. Custom creation is unlimited, and your drills sit right alongside the POWLAX library in your plans and playbook, with the same moving diagrams.

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Still skeptical? Good. Skeptical coaches test before they buy.

You can keep planning practices the night before with a search engine and a notes app — or you can open the Play Designer right now and watch your first drill move.

If your next practice runs smoother, you'll know exactly what the paid kit is worth. If it doesn't, you got a free drill out of us.

Free account. Real tools. Ten minutes. Then decide.

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