Guides, FAQs, and behind-the-curriculum notes for players, coaches, and educators using Foundation Moves. Everything is on this one page — jump straight to any topic below.
FAQ
How Long Does Foundation Moves Actually Take? A Realistic Timeline
One of the most common questions we hear before someone registers is simple: how long is this actually going to take me? Here's the real answer — not just "it depends," but the actual training structure behind each move and what a realistic week looks like.
The recommended 4-phase progression
Every feint and move in the IPPT and Training Section 1 series is designed to be trained through four progressive phases, each one adding more realistic pressure than the last:
Warm-up phase — no pressure, pure repetition. You're the only player with the ball. No defenders, no obstacles. The entire point of this phase is grooving the movement itself until it's clean and repeatable.
Obstacles and passive players. Now you're executing the move while navigating cones, markers, or other physical obstacles, and with a player present but not actively pressuring you — adding spatial awareness and the presence of an opponent without the full speed and unpredictability of real defensive pressure.
Dynamic pressure. You're now the attacking player executing the move against a defender who is actively, realistically pressuring you — simulating game-like conditions.
Game/match conditions. The attacking player is encouraged to execute the feints and moves learned against opposing and defending players under full match-pressure conditions — the real, final test of whether a move actually holds up in competition.
That progression — no pressure, to obstacles and passive opposition, to dynamic pressure, to full match conditions — is what actually builds a move from "I can technically do this in isolation" to "I can pull this off in a real game."
What a realistic week looks like
Each move you're training should be worked through 2 to 3 separate times during a given week to see real improvement. That doesn't mean 2-3 minutes — it means 2-3 distinct training sessions where you're deliberately running that move through the phases above, not just once and moving on.
How long until mastery?
Mastery isn't a single-week outcome for any move — it comes from periodic repetition spread over weeks and months, not a single intensive push. A move you drill 2-3 times a week and keep revisiting periodically over time is one you'll genuinely own, not just recognize.
The short version
Run each move through all 4 phases, hit it 2-3 times a week, and keep coming back to it over weeks and months rather than treating it as "done" after one good session. Foundation Moves is entirely self-paced — there's no camp or cohort schedule forcing your timeline — so the real pace-setter is how consistently you put in those 2-3 sessions per move, week after week.
No Camps, No Waitlists: Why Skills 2 Score Works Differently
If you've looked into technical-skills credentials for soccer before, you've probably noticed a pattern: most of them are gated behind something. A camp you have to attend in person. A club or academy partnership you need to already be part of. A waitlist. We built Foundation Moves specifically to avoid that pattern, and it's worth explaining why.
Why we built this
Our team loves this game. We wouldn't be doing this if we didn't. And for soccer to get better, its players have to get better — but too much of today's game has drifted from what it was meant to be. Coaching and quality development are often needlessly expensive. Genuinely good coaching is hard to access for most players. Academy programs frequently treat technical skill development — and the tactical training that should go with it — as an afterthought rather than the foundation it should be. And honestly, too few coaches, and too few coaching-education systems within federations, are actually equipped to teach these fundamentals in the first place.
That's the gap we set out to close. We did the research. We have the experience. And we kept running into the same problem across the space: plenty of soccer skills videos look great, but almost none of them offer a real, complete development pathway — just isolated clips with nowhere to go next. So we built one. Foundation Moves is the world's first complete feints-and-moves technical skills curriculum, built to genuinely advance players, coaches, and the federations that train them — not just look good on a highlight reel.
What the landscape actually looks like
When we researched the space, we found skill-assessment products that compare a player's performance against a large historical database of results — genuinely useful tools, but ones distributed through in-person camps, individual trainings, or partner clubs rather than as something anyone can pick up and start on their own. We also found large, well-established training apps with a big library of drills and instructional content, but nothing resembling a graded certification exam or a shareable credential at the end of it.
What we didn't find, across everything we looked at, was a product offering a fully remote, self-serve path — video training plus a graded certification exam plus a real shareable certificate — open to anyone who downloads the app, with no camp, club, or waitlist required to get started.
Why that gap matters
Not everyone has a camp nearby. Not everyone is already connected to a club or academy. A player in a small town, a parent looking for something structured for their kid, an aspiring coach who wants a credential before they've found a program to work for — none of them should have to wait for an in-person opportunity to start building a real, documented skill foundation.
What "no waitlist" actually means here
Registration is free and takes about 30 seconds. From there, you work through the IPPT and Training Section 1 video series at your own pace, and when you're ready, you sit the Level III Coaching Certificate exam for a flat $100 fee. Nobody has to approve your enrollment, and there's no cohort you have to wait to join. You start when you decide to start.
Frequently Asked Questions About the Level III Certification
The Level III "C" Certification covers the foundational feints and moves every beginner player needs to know and incorporate — and that advanced players still return to whenever they're picking up something new. Mastering these fundamentals is what lets a player progress toward real mastery and eventually develop their own signature moves, the kind that actually distinguish one player from another.
For coaches, the certificate verifies something specific: that you're equipped to prepare beginner players in these feints and movements. That matters more than it might sound like at first. Very few coaches, at any level, are actually capable of arming their players with the moves suited to their field position — in fact, most coaches can effectively teach only a handful of moves, often four or fewer. So this certification is also for coaches willing to be humble enough to learn to teach feints and moves technical skills beyond what's typically available in most soccer, coaching, or federation training environments today.
What does the certificate actually verify?
The Level III Coaching Certificate verifies that you've completed the Foundation Moves curriculum and passed the graded certification exam covering the feints and moves taught in the IPPT and Training Section 1 series. It's a technical-skills credential, not a general coaching license — it documents a specific, defined body of knowledge rather than a broad qualification.
Who is it for?
Foundation Moves is built for players, coaches, and educators. Players use it to build and document a real technical foundation. Coaches and educators use it as a credential accepted by clubs, academies, and coaching programs, and as a way to assign structured training to their own players.
How much does it cost?
The exam is a flat $100 fee. There's no subscription tied to the certification itself, and the fee is the same regardless of which platform (web or native app) you access the program through. Registration for the training videos themselves is free.
Do I need any prior experience?
No. The curriculum is built to take you through the moves step by step, so it works whether you're just starting out or already play and want a documented, structured foundation.
Is the certificate shareable?
Yes — it's meant to be something you can show a coach, a club, or an academy, not just a private record. If you're pursuing coaching or educator placement opportunities, it's built to serve as real, checkable evidence of completion.
What happens after Foundation Moves?
Foundation Moves is the first program in a planned series, and it awards the Level III certification. It's the one available today, and it's built to stand on its own as a complete technical foundation — you don't need to wait on anything else to get real value from it.
From there, there's a real path to keep advancing. Level III certification holders who want to progress further will be able to access Skills 2 Score — Advanced Moves, which contains the Level II certification exam. And those who complete the Level II exam will be able to access Skills 2 Score — Elite Moves, which contains the Level I certification exam — the top of the pathway. Each level builds on the last, so the certifications get more advanced as the number gets lower: Level III, then Level II, then Level I.
Pricing a brand-new kind of credential is genuinely hard — there wasn't an obvious existing category to copy from, so we looked at what comparable certifications actually charge before landing on $100 for the Foundation Moves exam.
Why this matters to us personally
The Skills 2 Score team includes current and former amateur and professional players, alongside professional coaches — people who've seen firsthand how exorbitant coaching-education fees repel deserving, experienced coaching candidates from ever getting certified, and leave countless players without proper development and training guidance as a result. We built our pricing to be achievable for almost any coaching candidate, without pushing them into serious debt or requiring the kind of access that most coaching-education facilities and opportunities demand.
What we compared it against
Established professional coaching and fitness certifications sit well above where we priced this exam. The NSCA's CSCS certification, for example, runs $340 for members and $475 for non-members. UESCA's Running Coach Certification runs $499. Those are real, respected professional credentials — and they're priced for people entering or advancing a coaching career, often with employer or institutional support behind the cost.
Why we didn't price Foundation Moves the same way
Foundation Moves is a feints/moves technical skills professional certification aimed at players, coaches, parents, and educators who want a real, documented professional foundation, which is currently unavailable in most privately and federation operated coaching education and licensing programs, and is accessible without committing several hundred dollars. Pricing it at $340–$499 would have priced out most of the people it's actually meant for: individual players, parents supporting a young player, and coaches who want a credential without committing to a multi-hundred-dollar professional program first.
Where that leaves $100
$100 sits meaningfully below other professional-certification pricing while still reflecting that this is a real, graded exam — not a free download or a participation badge. We check this pricing periodically against new comparables as we find them, and so far nothing we've found has changed the conclusion that $100 is the right number for what this credential actually is.