# Sitting beside your player

How Pivot turns a ten-minute conversation between a parent or youth coach and a young player into concrete football habits.

Last updated: October 24, 2026
Source: https://krkic.netlify.app/docs/

## Tactical diagram

> Four-step parent and child workflow: Coach sets the board, hides guidance for the learner, learner commits one pass or move, then both compare before and after.

- Step 01 (Coach role): Pick a 7v7, 9v9, or 11v11 board and read the one-sentence question above the pitch together.
- Step 02 (Guidance hidden): Lane arrows disappear and setup locks so your child scans player positions without hints.
- Step 03 (Learner role): Preview and confirm one pass, or drag the named player into better space.
- Step 04 (Before / after): Toggle between the starting snapshot and the new shape to talk through what opened up.

## One screen, two chairs, no joystick

Most kids play Saturday morning football in a blur of shouting from both touchlines. By the car ride home, telling an eight-year-old to "check your shoulder and find width" sounds like homework in a foreign language.

Pivot puts a calm 3D pitch between the two of you. You set a situation or pick one of the five built-in lessons, read a one-sentence question aloud, hide the coaching arrows, and hand over the mouse or tablet. After your child passes or moves a player, you flip between Before and After and talk about what opened up.

- Runs entirely in the browser with React, Three.js, and local storage (`krkic:v1`).
- No accounts, no cloud sync, no chat prompts, and no match-engine randomness.
- Supports 7v7, 9v9, and 11v11 formats with Foundations (plain kid-friendly language) and Competitive coaching notes.

## Run the board locally

If you want to run Pivot offline on a laptop before training or inspect how the geometric rules evaluate a lesson, clone the repository and start the Vite server.

```sh
npm ci
npm run dev
# Coaching board: http://localhost:5173/app/
# Unit & E2E checks:
npm run typecheck && npm run lint && npm test
```

## What the board refuses to fake

Pivot measures distances, passing corridors, and goal-side angles. It does not simulate ball flight, goalkeeper dives, stamina, offside traps, or a percentage chance of scoring.

That restraint is deliberate. When a young player drags a midfielder four metres wider and sees a blocked red corridor turn into a green open lane, they understand the geometry right away because nothing random happened behind the curtain.