Read This Before You Lock It In

This build shows what a literal 13 hr/week (age = hours) target looks like for Luke, per the original ask. It's a lot for a 13-year-old carrying school and weekend reffing on top of soccer — Tue/Thu become long days (school 8–4, technical ~4:20–5:35, practice 7–8:30, home ~9 PM), and most weeks now have no true rest day until Sunday. Watch sleep, appetite, soreness, and mood closely, especially given the recent Renew PT history. If anything looks off after a couple weeks, dial back the technical blocks first — they're the newest, most cuttable layer.

Hour Audit — Where The Extra ~5.5 Hrs Came From

• Corrected the baseline math: footwork is daily (7 × 20 min = 2.33 hr, not 1 hr), Tony is 1:15 not 1:00. True starting point was ~7.6 hrs, not 5.
• Film study during the Fire practice commute doesn't count toward the 13 hrs — it's passive, not physical training.
• Added a solo technical/ball-mastery block Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu afternoons (before existing commitments), plus a light Friday session on non-game weeks.
• Competitive match minutes (Fire games, tournaments) are also not counted in the 13 — same convention as the original math. Game weeks and ODP weeks naturally run higher than 13 once those are added.

Focus Philosophy

No specific tryout feedback to target, so this is built around the three things that most often separate a "solid rec player" from a competitive-team selection at 10U, in priority order:

1. Speed & explosive athleticism — in a short tryout window, visible quickness reads as talent faster than anything else. First-step acceleration, sprint speed, and change of direction get real emphasis here.
2. 1v1 ability & close control under pressure — the technical trait most visible in the scrimmage-style evaluations most tryouts actually run.
3. Game-speed decision-making — trained through small-sided/pressure situations, not isolated cone work. Often the real gap between "looks fine in practice" and "doesn't show up in games."

Why This Isn't Scaled To "10 Hours" Like Luke's 13

If the same age = hours logic were applied literally, Reed's number would be 10 hrs/week. This build intentionally doesn't hit that. He's 10, he's had two disappointing tryout cycles already, and piling on volume right now risks making this feel like a chore instead of building the confidence and love of the game that actually helps at tryouts. This build lands around ~6.8 hrs/week (4.5 hrs structured afternoon/weekend work + 2.33 hrs daily footwork) — a real step up from nothing, with room to grow, but still leaving unstructured free-play time and full rest on Sundays.

A Few Notes

• No fixed tryout date to build toward right now — this is meant as a sustainable, ongoing program rather than a peaking cycle. Revisit in 6–8 weeks to see what's working.
• The single biggest lever if it can be arranged: regular access to a training partner (sibling, friend, small group) for the pressure-game elements in the Tue/Fri technical sessions.
• Sunday is intentionally empty. Free, unstructured play matters for a 10-year-old's relationship with the sport — especially one who's had two tough tryout cycles already.
• If Reed wants to be around Luke's higher-intensity sessions for camaraderie, that's fine to layer in socially, but his own program stays as listed here.