You have to remain true to your self. If your a loud passionate guy like me you can’t coach like Brad Stevens and be naturally calm. You have to believe in every element of your system. Players can smell it when you’re not sure of yourself and they won’t respect you. You have to maintain continuity year to year. You can’t teach one offense and defense one year and a completely different one the next year. Players need to know what to expect on a daily basis in order to be consistent on the floor. My rule of thumb is stick to what you know best. In my case that’s pure Motion Offense and Pressure Man To Man Defense. If your system is flexible and simple you can adapt it to fit any personnel while maintaining continuity so is not to confuse your players.
One of the key points you made that is so important is making sure every concept you implement works together. Coaches don't think in the macro enough when it comes to this, at least in my experience. Throwing together different offensive and defensive concepts won't always work unless they flow together. Basketball is a continuous game of: transition defense -->half court defense --> transition offense --> half court offense --> repeat. By thinking of the game in these terms can really help imo. Great video!
If God willing I'll graduate college with a bachelor's degree in Biology. I do want to coach, it's always been my passion to motivate others with sportlike material. As im getting closer to my goal, i want to start my career with a good understanding of the basics. I've done my research , I've looked how coaches work with athletes and its amazing. But one thing i did noticed and asked myself confused until i watched your video is why are some coaches really quiet and others really aggresive. I just thought maybe they did not had it in them. But now i understand and i agree is that you need to coach based on your personality. Once you accept yourself for who you are, that's when you will reveal your own unique self. Thank you for this video it opened up my eyes.
Must watch for coaches at all levels. I think if you aren't trying to evaluate your philosophy and find ways to tweak it, after every season, you are wrong. Great point on different coaching styles win, and example of this years final four. As a coaching profession we are doing ourselves an injustice to rip other coaches for playing a certain style. There are going to be flaws in every style of play. I love the quote It's not what you preach its what you tolerate! So true, I have been guilty of this, you wonder why things don't always work, its not always the players fault...if you allowed them to get by with certain things against inferior teams, you shouldn't blame them for getting exposed when you play against the best teams on your schedule.
The one thing I will add here is no matter how much experience you have, get you an assistant coach. Get somebody who can keep you honest and give you that unbiased third party perspective especially on the bench. Someone to keep you honest on timeouts , playing time etc . That’s key. Also… even though you may be a coach and may have the experience with coaching the game… don’t forget that you’re going to have to deal with Parents at the youth level. Have faith in yourself and know that criticism and comments are going to be made. Don’t let it distract you from what you’re trying to do even if you don’t win a single game. You’re the one taking the time to coach and give your best effort and if you show love and have fun and allow flexibility the kids will work hard.
My favorite things you said were about coaches developing their identity and note taking. It took me years of practice to develop my identity but I did it. Note taking is something I recently have been implementing bu has helped a lot. I write the date and my thoughts then I look at them the next day
Great video! As a former HC - these are the questions you have to have answered so the team can know what to expect and what are the expectations as a player.
It is very useful video, I have a dream to be a basketball coach. I watch countless matches and sets, I memorise and know many Nba and Euroleague team's sets. But you explain coaching philosophy, it is a different dimension. So thanks for this video, this channel is very underrated.
I hope you found a coaching job and are still doing it! I have tryouts for my first JV season next week. Excited, nervous, and wanting/willing to learn!!
How did your 1st year go? Are you still sticking with it? My first year coaching JV girls in high school starts next week with tryouts! Very excited and nervous, but more so excited!!!
I appreciate this post coach! Your channel is very underrated and deserves more subscribers. You have opened up the game of basketball to a whole new perspective for me! Thanks for your hard work!
Thank you, this is helping me to clear my mind. This was my first year coaching elementary school kids and highschoolers (junior year) and I´m young. It was a hard year because they won a lot last season with the old coach, but he left and we losed playing senior year guys. It was tough but I hope next year can be better aplying all this knowledge
Program Philosophy 1. Four to the glass, one back. 2. Pack Line M2M 3. We push & pitch ahead searching for under 7 sec. scores in transition. 4. Secondary break. 5. Set play (20 man and 16 zone) 6. Flow into continuity ball screens or our read and react motion concepts. 7. Will utilize zones, traps, combos and presses, but are used sparingly.
I am a brand new coach and I am studying everything I can with drills, plays etc this helped I a completely different way than I expected. Some things I am doing right, and others need attention. Thanks for the video very helpful
Hey man, I’m 19 years old and I wanna become a basketball coach but I was taking notes on this video and it really helped me out alot because it’ll set me up for success and I watch a lot of college basketball preferably Texas Tech, North Carolina, but this helped me out and gave me ideas so when I I do become I’ll be ready for what I want my program to be abt 🙏🏽
Great advice here. I admired Bob Knight and took on his personality, which isn’t my personality at all. My second time around I was more thoughtful. I coached to my natural personality and instincts.
Be Simple and Versatile from Day 1 and expand from there. For me... I teach my Press Breaker, my Zone Buster, 4 Corner and 2 Out of Bounds Plays that can be used anywhere in the court 1st. And during that Process I teach 1 Press Defense, 1 Zone Defense and the basic Principles on Man-to-Man. I want to have all of that for the 1st game no matter what. If we have to Fast Break and Score off a Stall Offense all day... that is what we will do until they finally go into a Zone Defense. Clearly I want more than that... but that is a great start and gives me some time to figure out what kind of team I will have so that I can determine what is most likely to work with this team. If you come in to much about you and your system you might be trying to fit square pegs into round holes. You can't run a 5 Out Offense if you only really have 1 Guard. You can't run a 4 Around 1 with no one that can play in the Post. Yes you can develop someone (hopefully). But on Day 1 you have to go with what you've got. If I am taking over a team (rather than starting a new team) I want to know what they did the year before. Did they run a solid press... keep it. Were they effectively running a Motion Offense... keep it. There is no sense in throwing out all of the training the previous coach installed if the players still remember it and it works. I make my changes in the GAPS left behind and i make my changes as the season goes along.
I think those are awesome points. I really like the point about what the team did the year before and figuring out what worked and what didn't'! Thank you!
I totally agree with keeping things simple. I teach my basic Motion Offense rules and concepts as well as our man to man principals on day 1 and from there we just drill the techniques and build our read and react habits over the course of the year through 2/2 then 3/3 and finally 4/4 live drills with offensive restrictions and different defensive coverages so that come tournament time we're at out highest level of mental sharpness both offensively and defensively. All those reps in practice usually give us an edge in the tournament because it's just muscle memory and taking what the defense gives you.
@@HalfCourtHoops I built this offense through breakdown drills and concepts found or on fastdraw watched on film. Drills can be like pieces to a jigsaw puzzle. I'm always looking for new stuff so the offense is constantly evolving. Right now motion is very similar to Mike Brey's motion at Notre Dame.
Great video! I especially liked what you said about alignment, it's something I think not a lot of people necessarily think about (including myself) but it really does make sense.
This video was awesome!!! Since I have a lot of time on my hands without any sports I feel like I need to keep my basketball knowledge base growing so I think that building my coaching philosophy is a great way to help. I am going to figure out what kind of coach I can be.
Thank you. This was very helpful to me. Thinking about coaching philosophy brought me to your video. I have never sat and wrote out one. Will be thinking and writing about it.
I coach youth basketball 5/6th and I’ve based my coaching around Pete Carroll/Jon Gruden. Players coach but I set the bar with my toughness the first practices.
Man my biggest question to you is how did you get started. I have a hard to with just getting started because I dont know how to get my career started.
ball All day I have a little brother that played. The coach needed an assistant so I volunteered. That was when he was in 7th grade. I was his assistant on and off until my brother graduated from high school. Then I volunteered to be a head coach for my son the last year and again this year. So to get started I’d say volunteer in local rec or club leagues. If you have playing experience you can find a local club league and see what it takes for you to be an assistant. I recommend being an assistant for a few years to hands on knowledge and training.
I agree about how caching zone doesn't make you soft, but the only thing I truly can not get behind is stall ball. I have seen a lot of teams this year play stall ball from the tip and playing that way most certainly hinders player development and fan excitement. I hated playing and now coaching against stall ball. WE NEED A SHOTCLOCK!
Can you share your horns set? I’m looking for a simple horns set I can run as a one off to my Dribble Drive. Yours sound interesting with built in counters and multiple looks
I played high school basketball but I was just average many years ago. I plan on taking a step into coaching , should I start by volunteering at my old high school and help the basketball coach or what’s the first step you recommend? Second, how do I gain Hs players respect when I was just average with no major achievements in basketball? The head coach at my old school was like a legend for the school and my old coach was a legend in a different city. Thanks for your help!
I hope you have gotten into coaching! Even some of the best athletes make mediocre coaches. Just because you were not a star player doesn't mean you will not be a hall of fame coach. Be confident and be yourself!! Do not compare yourself to those before you, you are excellent in your own ways. I wish you good luck!
Hi Coach, I am a young basketball coach located in New Zealand struggling to get parents of teenage kids to pay for my training sessions following covid. Before last year all was well. Can you offer any advice?
Anyone who thinks zone defense is soft, don't know what they are talking about. My school team only has 2 bigs, and I need them on the lower blocks, so playing zone is ideal, so they are there to box out and rebound instead at the 3 point line defending their man while their team mates who are short are trying to rebound against taller opponents. The dynamics of your team should influence what style of play you choose to play. Because of this, my team will be a fast break team who will press and trap and press out to the side lines away from the paint. If I had a tall team, it would be the opposite.
I have a hard time allowing "feeder" programs (7th thru 10th grade) run the highs school offense. I think it is important to run the offense to the skill level and physicality of the players. I would rarely want the other coach to predict my tendencies from year to year. Hell I have a hard time if the opposing coach predicts my tendencies half to half. Just to be fare if an opposing player is playing defense against my core offensive concepts in 10th and 11th grade, they should know the general concept of the offense you are running. Now the opposing coach can have less time on scouting live practice and work on hiding or changes my tendencies. This is my coaching philosophy. I like kids that know how to play basketball not how to run a play. They don't like to lose, they work hard and they are coach able. That is my culture.
This is a very late comment, but I wanted to ask for advice. I'm currently 15 years of age, but I am really interested in coaching a basketball team for my year as a student coach, I don't have much experience coaching however I have played the game of basketball for a long duration of my life. Any tips?
Hey coach! I’m a jv coach, and I try to utilize the schemes offensively and defensively that the varsity uses. I feel this will best prepare the players for the jump to the varsity level. The problem is that the varsity coach changes his schemes every season. Any tips on forming my own philosophy in this situation? Should I let the varsity coach decide what my schemes will be from year to year and focus on things like effort and fundamentals?
Hi! What did you decide 3 years ago? I am a new V girls coach. Same dilemma. So far (tryouts haven't begun they are next week), I have noticed an uncertainty in style of the V coach. He was my freshman coach more than a decade ago, I think I was his first team and I an 31 years old. In his 5th year as Varsity coach. He has asked myself and the freshman coach to bring plays and offense. In my interview I asked if this material would be provided and I was told yes. Long story short, I am planning to do things how he wants somewhat, but once I get my team and learn my girl's style of play, I will tweak things to benefit them and their style of play, while staying true to my coaching style. I am vocal and energetic. He is not. That will not deter me from being the coach I am that represents me. I am here to change/impact lives and hopefully bring some of the best memories to these young girl's lives that they will tell their kids about in the future. :D
Romans 3:23-24 (NIV): 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
What are some of the things you guys have done to build your coaching philosophy?
watch a lot of basketball. Don't forget about what kids you have. The style has to also fit your team.
You have to remain true to your self. If your a loud passionate guy like me you can’t coach like Brad Stevens and be naturally calm. You have to believe in every element of your system. Players can smell it when you’re not sure of yourself and they won’t respect you. You have to maintain continuity year to year. You can’t teach one offense and defense one year and a completely different one the next year. Players need to know what to expect on a daily basis in order to be consistent on the floor. My rule of thumb is stick to what you know best. In my case that’s pure Motion Offense and Pressure Man To Man Defense. If your system is flexible and simple you can adapt it to fit any personnel while maintaining continuity so is not to confuse your players.
I agree with those for sure!!
I think being yourself is the biggest one for me. Like you said, stick to what you know best!!
Half Court Hoops it’s paid off for me. I’ve coached mostly middle school C team basketball with minimal talent but I’ve never had a loosing season.
One of the key points you made that is so important is making sure every concept you implement works together. Coaches don't think in the macro enough when it comes to this, at least in my experience. Throwing together different offensive and defensive concepts won't always work unless they flow together. Basketball is a continuous game of: transition defense -->half court defense --> transition offense --> half court offense --> repeat. By thinking of the game in these terms can really help imo. Great video!
This goes with every situation, press, press breaking, different defense you might see, coaches should try to prepare you for everything
If God willing I'll graduate college with a bachelor's degree in Biology. I do want to coach, it's always been my passion to motivate others with sportlike material. As im getting closer to my goal, i want to start my career with a good understanding of the basics. I've done my research , I've looked how coaches work with athletes and its amazing. But one thing i did noticed and asked myself confused until i watched your video is why are some coaches really quiet and others really aggresive. I just thought maybe they did not had it in them. But now i understand and i agree is that you need to coach based on your personality. Once you accept yourself for who you are, that's when you will reveal your own unique self. Thank you for this video it opened up my eyes.
Must watch for coaches at all levels. I think if you aren't trying to evaluate your philosophy and find ways to tweak it, after every season, you are wrong. Great point on different coaching styles win, and example of this years final four. As a coaching profession we are doing ourselves an injustice to rip other coaches for playing a certain style. There are going to be flaws in every style of play. I love the quote It's not what you preach its what you tolerate! So true, I have been guilty of this, you wonder why things don't always work, its not always the players fault...if you allowed them to get by with certain things against inferior teams, you shouldn't blame them for getting exposed when you play against the best teams on your schedule.
Thanks again, Pat :)
The one thing I will add here is no matter how much experience you have, get you an assistant coach. Get somebody who can keep you honest and give you that unbiased third party perspective especially on the bench. Someone to keep you honest on timeouts , playing time etc . That’s key.
Also… even though you may be a coach and may have the experience with coaching the game… don’t forget that you’re going to have to deal with Parents at the youth level. Have faith in yourself and know that criticism and comments are going to be made. Don’t let it distract you from what you’re trying to do even if you don’t win a single game. You’re the one taking the time to coach and give your best effort and if you show love and have fun and allow flexibility the kids will work hard.
Probably the best “coaching philosophy” video I’ve seen yet. All good points. Thank you
My favorite things you said were about coaches developing their identity and note taking. It took me years of practice to develop my identity but I did it. Note taking is something I recently have been implementing bu has helped a lot. I write the date and my thoughts then I look at them the next day
Great video! As a former HC - these are the questions you have to have answered so the team can know what to expect and what are the expectations as a player.
It is very useful video, I have a dream to be a basketball coach. I watch countless matches and sets, I memorise and know many Nba and Euroleague team's sets. But you explain coaching philosophy, it is a different dimension. So thanks for this video, this channel is very underrated.
Thank you so much! I am glad I can help!
I hope you found a coaching job and are still doing it! I have tryouts for my first JV season next week. Excited, nervous, and wanting/willing to learn!!
Thanks this is my first year coaching middle school boys I’m trying to soak up as much as I can
How did your 1st year go? Are you still sticking with it? My first year coaching JV girls in high school starts next week with tryouts! Very excited and nervous, but more so excited!!!
I feel the style of play really depends on the current roster you have and what works best for them! Great advice overall, thanks for sharing!
I appreciate this post coach! Your channel is very underrated and deserves more subscribers. You have opened up the game of basketball to a whole new perspective for me! Thanks for your hard work!
Thank you. Subscribers are great - but impact is better!! I am glad I can help!
Thank you, this is helping me to clear my mind. This was my first year coaching elementary school kids and highschoolers (junior year) and I´m young. It was a hard year because they won a lot last season with the old coach, but he left and we losed playing senior year guys. It was tough but I hope next year can be better aplying all this knowledge
Program Philosophy
1. Four to the glass, one back.
2. Pack Line M2M
3. We push & pitch ahead searching for under 7 sec. scores in transition.
4. Secondary break.
5. Set play (20 man and 16 zone)
6. Flow into continuity ball screens or our read and react motion concepts.
7. Will utilize zones, traps, combos and presses, but are used sparingly.
I am a brand new coach and I am studying everything I can with drills, plays etc this helped I a completely different way than I expected. Some things I am doing right, and others need attention. Thanks for the video very helpful
How did you become a coach?
Watching this late at night trying to be a better coach for my guys. Thank you for your input and guidance coach!
Hey man, I’m 19 years old and I wanna become a basketball coach but I was taking notes on this video and it really helped me out alot because it’ll set me up for success and I watch a lot of college basketball preferably Texas Tech, North Carolina, but this helped me out and gave me ideas so when I I do become I’ll be ready for what I want my program to be abt 🙏🏽
I hope you found a coaching job or are close to finding one!!! it is such a rewarding job to have
Great advice here. I admired Bob Knight and took on his personality, which isn’t my personality at all.
My second time around I was more thoughtful. I coached to my natural personality and instincts.
Be Simple and Versatile from Day 1 and expand from there. For me... I teach my Press Breaker, my Zone Buster, 4 Corner and 2 Out of Bounds Plays that can be used anywhere in the court 1st. And during that Process I teach 1 Press Defense, 1 Zone Defense and the basic Principles on Man-to-Man.
I want to have all of that for the 1st game no matter what. If we have to Fast Break and Score off a Stall Offense all day... that is what we will do until they finally go into a Zone Defense.
Clearly I want more than that... but that is a great start and gives me some time to figure out what kind of team I will have so that I can determine what is most likely to work with this team.
If you come in to much about you and your system you might be trying to fit square pegs into round holes. You can't run a 5 Out Offense if you only really have 1 Guard. You can't run a 4 Around 1 with no one that can play in the Post. Yes you can develop someone (hopefully). But on Day 1 you have to go with what you've got.
If I am taking over a team (rather than starting a new team) I want to know what they did the year before. Did they run a solid press... keep it. Were they effectively running a Motion Offense... keep it. There is no sense in throwing out all of the training the previous coach installed if the players still remember it and it works. I make my changes in the GAPS left behind and i make my changes as the season goes along.
I think those are awesome points. I really like the point about what the team did the year before and figuring out what worked and what didn't'!
Thank you!
I totally agree with keeping things simple. I teach my basic Motion Offense rules and concepts as well as our man to man principals on day 1 and from there we just drill the techniques and build our read and react habits over the course of the year through 2/2 then 3/3 and finally 4/4 live drills with offensive restrictions and different defensive coverages so that come tournament time we're at out highest level of mental sharpness both offensively and defensively. All those reps in practice usually give us an edge in the tournament because it's just muscle memory and taking what the defense gives you.
Can't wait to see what you send me!
@@HalfCourtHoops I built this offense through breakdown drills and concepts found or on fastdraw watched on film. Drills can be like pieces to a jigsaw puzzle. I'm always looking for new stuff so the offense is constantly evolving. Right now motion is very similar to Mike Brey's motion at Notre Dame.
@@HalfCourtHoops what is your fastdraw email so i can send it to you?
Great video! I especially liked what you said about alignment, it's something I think not a lot of people necessarily think about (including myself) but it really does make sense.
Thank you! I agree I think it is one of the most important things!
Thank you, sir. This was very helpful!!
This video was awesome!!! Since I have a lot of time on my hands without any sports I feel like I need to keep my basketball knowledge base growing so I think that building my coaching philosophy is a great way to help. I am going to figure out what kind of coach I can be.
Great video.
I found it to be very informative and helpful.
Netbal can learn such a lot from basketball they coach on another level,like what was said regarding what do you tolerate
Thank you. This was very helpful to me. Thinking about coaching philosophy brought me to your video. I have never sat and wrote out one. Will be thinking and writing about it.
I coach youth basketball 5/6th and I’ve based my coaching around Pete Carroll/Jon Gruden. Players coach but I set the bar with my toughness the first practices.
Good vid. I’ve got 4 years of coaching experience and 15+ years of playing experience and have been struggling with this
Man my biggest question to you is how did you get started. I have a hard to with just getting started because I dont know how to get my career started.
ball All day I have a little brother that played. The coach needed an assistant so I volunteered. That was when he was in 7th grade. I was his assistant on and off until my brother graduated from high school. Then I volunteered to be a head coach for my son the last year and again this year. So to get started I’d say volunteer in local rec or club leagues. If you have playing experience you can find a local club league and see what it takes for you to be an assistant. I recommend being an assistant for a few years to hands on knowledge and training.
@@fletchmoney2486 I appreciate that bro. Each one teach one god bless
I agree about how caching zone doesn't make you soft, but the only thing I truly can not get behind is stall ball. I have seen a lot of teams this year play stall ball from the tip and playing that way most certainly hinders player development and fan excitement. I hated playing and now coaching against stall ball. WE NEED A SHOTCLOCK!
They added it now for middle school and high school
Can you share your horns set? I’m looking for a simple horns set I can run as a one off to my Dribble Drive. Yours sound interesting with built in counters and multiple looks
love this thanks
Great video, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'm still trying to figure out my coaching philosophy, this video definitely gives me some ideas.
That is great to hear! If there is anything I can do to help please let me know!
I played high school basketball but I was just average many years ago. I plan on taking a step into coaching , should I start by volunteering at my old high school and help the basketball coach or what’s the first step you recommend? Second, how do I gain Hs players respect when I was just average with no major achievements in basketball? The head coach at my old school was like a legend for the school and my old coach was a legend in a different city. Thanks for your help!
I hope you have gotten into coaching! Even some of the best athletes make mediocre coaches. Just because you were not a star player doesn't mean you will not be a hall of fame coach. Be confident and be yourself!! Do not compare yourself to those before you, you are excellent in your own ways. I wish you good luck!
My name is Todd ❤
Hi Coach, I am a young basketball coach located in New Zealand struggling to get parents of teenage kids to pay for my training sessions following covid. Before last year all was well. Can you offer any advice?
I’m about to start coaching
Thanks for this!!!!
Anyone who thinks zone defense is soft, don't know what they are talking about. My school team only has 2 bigs, and I need them on the lower blocks, so playing zone is ideal, so they are there to box out and rebound instead at the 3 point line defending their man while their team mates who are short are trying to rebound against taller opponents. The dynamics of your team should influence what style of play you choose to play. Because of this, my team will be a fast break team who will press and trap and press out to the side lines away from the paint. If I had a tall team, it would be the opposite.
What tips do you have for understanding X’s and O’s?
Good to hear that other coaches think similar.
Could you apply this to football as well
I have a hard time allowing "feeder" programs (7th thru 10th grade) run the highs school offense. I think it is important to run the offense to the skill level and physicality of the players. I would rarely want the other coach to predict my tendencies from year to year. Hell I have a hard time if the opposing coach predicts my tendencies half to half. Just to be fare if an opposing player is playing defense against my core offensive concepts in 10th and 11th grade, they should know the general concept of the offense you are running. Now the opposing coach can have less time on scouting live practice and work on hiding or changes my tendencies. This is my coaching philosophy. I like kids that know how to play basketball not how to run a play. They don't like to lose, they work hard and they are coach able. That is my culture.
How did you become a coach?
This is a very late comment, but I wanted to ask for advice. I'm currently 15 years of age, but I am really interested in coaching a basketball team for my year as a student coach, I don't have much experience coaching however I have played the game of basketball for a long duration of my life. Any tips?
Hey coach! I’m a jv coach, and I try to utilize the schemes offensively and defensively that the varsity uses. I feel this will best prepare the players for the jump to the varsity level. The problem is that the varsity coach changes his schemes every season. Any tips on forming my own philosophy in this situation? Should I let the varsity coach decide what my schemes will be from year to year and focus on things like effort and fundamentals?
How did you become a coach?
@@louieb1218 by being a teacher in a very small town
@@JD-ke3xb went to school to study?
Hi! What did you decide 3 years ago? I am a new V girls coach. Same dilemma. So far (tryouts haven't begun they are next week), I have noticed an uncertainty in style of the V coach. He was my freshman coach more than a decade ago, I think I was his first team and I an 31 years old. In his 5th year as Varsity coach. He has asked myself and the freshman coach to bring plays and offense. In my interview I asked if this material would be provided and I was told yes. Long story short, I am planning to do things how he wants somewhat, but once I get my team and learn my girl's style of play, I will tweak things to benefit them and their style of play, while staying true to my coaching style. I am vocal and energetic. He is not. That will not deter me from being the coach I am that represents me. I am here to change/impact lives and hopefully bring some of the best memories to these young girl's lives that they will tell their kids about in the future. :D
Fast draw? What is that?
Romans 3:23-24 (NIV): 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
I have done very similar with Woodglut designs.