About

John is a Professional Skill Developer/Coach with a demonstrated history of working in the sports industry who focuses on the development of athletes and teams using highly skilled training techniques that develop players skills and train basketball proprioception.

His skill and strategy development prowess landed him jobs training teams for the Olympics as well as the G League. The HARDWORK24/7 brand also holds NBA Pre-Draft, and combine workouts for both NBA and FIBA. As part of John’s community involvement, he still serves as the Player Development Trainer for Riverside Church Hawks on the UA circuit.

Mission

HARDWORK24/7 is a relentless lifestyle that incorporates an around the clock work ethic and mentality to yield superior basketball performance.

Our methodology focuses on the development of athletes and teams using highly skilled cross training techniques that develop high motor skills and train basketball proprioception, the brain’s ability to sense the body’s spatial positioning relative to the basketball and court.

Our athletes are taught professional level footwork for their respective positions, drills to increase mastery of ball handling control, and the physics of proper shooting mechanics, all within our stamina and plyometrics training framework.

Specific tests and skill drills are used to evaluate and recognize players’ progress throughout the course of our training. Assessment results can be made available to coaches, general managers, scouts, and sponsors.

Success is not a secret.

ITS A SYSTEM.

One must know what the formula and pattern is.

JOHN HAWTHORNE

Professional Basketball Trainer

I start with impressions I have from my everyday life. An ambient atmosphere or an energy. Suddenly I form an idea and begin to develop the translation of this idea through basketball. It can be from within, a landscape, it’s my nuance memories in my head that help me to create a detailed creation. It’s all about movement in the composition. I see myself as a stage director, an empty page when I’m going to write my formula, choosing all the actors or on the contrary, putting things into the shadow. For me, the focus is made on the quality of material I present. I decided to create something very authentic, elegant, and of course work around beautiful qualities of raw material. Something very simple, very easy to understand yet upscale. Having this power to create something with nuance and detail is something so magical. Basketball is magic. You need to feel that you are moving to places you need to move to in dreams. The result has to be enlightening.

The Story

With the discipline, commitment, work ethic, passion, and love that is embedded in my systematic approach being from the streets of New York, plus the experience as a player at a high level, I embodied that drive and HARDWORK which molds the foundation where this unique approach to training athletes now reside. The essential ingredients needed to make your dreams a reality proving an athletes desire.

Dreams don’t WORK unless you do. HARDWORK24/7 is set to prove that there is no such thing as unrealistic dreams, only unrealistic plans for achieving them. Through my training innovation and expertise, years of training/coaching experience, in addition to your HARDWORK, you will be able to plan properly against poor performance.

Provided are the resources and knowledge you need to succeed with confidence along with the tools and gear you need to train in style and prepare with an edge. And through your HARDWORK and determination, you will be able to say with confidence, “I earned this through HARDWORK!”

Simply put, with HARDWORK24/7 the phrase “HARDWORK” will never be the same again. #DOTHEWORK