Level 1 is FLG’s own coaching course. It is not a governing-body clinic and does not replace one. It teaches the specific way we run practices across every FLG age band, from Love Lax through high school select, so a player gets a consistent experience whichever coach she draws.
What “certified” means here
Every coach on our staff completes Level 1 before their first session and renews it every season. It isn’t a governing-body clinic and doesn’t replace one — it’s our own course in the specific way we run practices.
- 11
- sections
- 29
- knowledge checks
- 18
- exam questions
- $0
- cost to coaches
Online and self-paced, on a phone or laptop. Level 1 doesn’t cover background screening or safety requirements; the Program Director confirms what applies to each coach separately.
Level 1 Every coach
The system: dials, loop, blueprint, questioning, cueing. Completed before a coach’s first paid FLG event, and renewed every season.
- The four core ideas behind the FLG approach
- The Six Dials
- The Design Loop — observe, adjust, repeat
- The Practice Blueprint
- The constraint library
- Scaling a session across age bands
- The Questioning Ladder
- External cueing
- Peer observation and feedback
- Building and running your own session plan
Level 2 Assistant and position coaches
Designing your own sessions from a game problem; running a position track inside a team week.
Opened by the Program Director once a coach has a season of Level 1 coaching behind her.
Level 3 Head coaches
Season design, staffing a team week, observing and developing other coaches.
Opened by the Program Director once a coach has a season of Level 1 coaching behind her.
The limits, stated plainly
Not a governing-body certification
Level 1 does not certify you with any league or governing body.
Not background screening
It does not cover screening or safety requirements. The Program Director confirms what applies to you separately.
Only how FLG coaches
That is the whole subject: the dials, the loop, the blueprint, questioning and cueing.
Turn a dial, change the game
Every FLG coach learns to make a game harder or easier using six dials. Turn one at a time.
Space
Make the field bigger or smaller, wider or narrower.
A tight box forces quick hands; a long field forces decisions on the move.
Time
Add a clock or take one away.
Three seconds to shoot changes what a player looks for before she catches.
Numbers
3v2, 4v4, 5v4.
Give the offense an extra player and they learn to find her. Take one away and they learn to keep the ball.
Rules
Change what scores.
A goal only counts off a feed. The defense wins the rep if they force a turnover in ten seconds.
Tools
Change the equipment or the target.
A smaller goal, a bigger ball, two goals instead of one.
Info
Change what players can see or hear.
No talking. Cutters wear pinnies. The coach calls the direction late.
Parents sometimes ask why a practice looked “weird.” Usually a dial was turned.
Your certification lives in the dashboard
Certification, practice plans, the drill library, your hours and payouts are all behind the coach sign-in.