Terms
Terms of service.
The commercial terms below are real and current. The legal language around them is not written yet.
Draft, pending legal review
This document is a working draft. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer, and no part of it should be read as legal advice or relied on as a finished agreement. It is published in this state so that the commercial terms are visible to anyone considering applying, and so that the gaps are visible to whoever fills them.
Sections marked awaiting review name what a qualified reviewer still has to supply. They are questions, not clauses, and they were deliberately not written as prose that resembles a contract.
1.Who this agreement is between
Vanguard Training Systems, a remote pitching development service run by Jackson Thorne, and the athlete who has been accepted into it after applying.
Coaching is by application only. Submitting an application is not an agreement and creates no obligation on either side. This document takes effect when an athlete is accepted and starts paying.
2.What is provided
Individual remote programming: throwing, lifting, mobility and recovery work, delivered through this application one day at a time, with the coach reading the logged work and adjusting it.
This is coaching, not medical care. Nothing provided diagnoses, treats or manages any injury or condition, and nothing in it replaces a physician, a physical therapist or an athletic trainer. An athlete who needs a diagnosis is told to get one.
Awaiting review
A reviewer should decide how tightly the deliverable is defined here. Describing it too precisely turns individual coaching into a fixed specification; describing it too loosely leaves nothing to point at in a dispute.
3.Eligibility
Acceptance is at the coach's discretion. Applications are read individually and most are declined.
Awaiting review
Two questions for a reviewer. First, whether a minimum age is set here or enforced only at acceptance: the application form currently accepts ages from 5 to 40, while the service is intended for adults, and those two facts have to be reconciled in one direction or the other. Second, what a parent or guardian has to sign if an athlete under 18 is ever accepted.
4.Fees
Coaching is $500 per month. That is the whole fee. There is no separate assessment charge, onboarding charge or platform charge.
Awaiting review
A reviewer needs to add the billing mechanics: what date payment is taken, which processor holds the card, what happens on a failed charge, how much notice is given before a price change, and whether an existing athlete is held at the price they started on.
5.Minimum term
The minimum commitment is 6 months. Development on this timescale is the reason for it. Meaningful change in a throwing program is measured in months rather than weeks, and a shorter commitment would mean programming for a result that cannot arrive inside it.
After the minimum term, coaching continues month to month unless an athlete says otherwise.
Awaiting review
A reviewer needs to state what happens if an athlete stops paying inside the minimum term: whether the remaining months are owed, and what the practical remedy is.
6.Discounts
Two discounts are available, and they stack. Paying a term in full rather than monthly takes 5% off it. Committing to a twelve month term rather than the six month minimum takes 5% off it. Doing both, a twelve month term paid up front, takes 10% off.
| Term | Price | Discount |
|---|---|---|
| Month to month, after the minimum term | $500 per month | None |
| Six months, paid monthly | $500 per month | None |
| Six months, paid in full | $2,850 | 5% off $3,000 |
| Twelve months, paid monthly | $475 per month | 5% off $500 |
| Twelve months, paid in full | $5,400 | 10% off $6,000 |
Awaiting review
A reviewer needs to decide what happens to a discount already taken if an athlete leaves early: whether a twelve month term paid in full is refunded in part, credited, or neither, which interacts directly with clause 7.
7.Refunds
Payments are not refunded. Coaching is a service delivered week by week, and a week that has been programmed, read and adjusted has been delivered.
Awaiting review
A reviewer needs to check this against the consumer protection rules of every jurisdiction an athlete might be in, and against the card networks' own chargeback rules, which do not care what a terms page says. It also has to be reconciled with clause 6: a twelve month term paid in full is a large single payment, and a flat no-refund rule on it is the clause most likely to be challenged.
8.Ending coaching
Either side can end coaching after the minimum term. The coach may also end it earlier if an athlete is not doing the work, which is stated here because it happens and because it is fairer than continuing to bill someone who has stopped.
Awaiting review
A reviewer needs to set the notice period, the method that counts as notice, and what access an athlete keeps to their own training history after leaving. The last of those is a product decision as much as a legal one and has not been made.
9.Your account and your data
An athlete's account is theirs alone and is not to be shared. What is collected and how it is handled is set out in the privacy policy.
Awaiting review
A reviewer needs to align this clause with the privacy policy, which is also a draft, and decide which of the two is the controlling document where they overlap.
10.The program itself
Programs are written for one athlete and are licensed to that athlete for their own use while they are being coached.
Awaiting review
A reviewer needs to write the intellectual property clause: what an athlete may keep, print or continue using after leaving, and what happens if a program is passed to another coach or resold.
11.Risk
Awaiting review
This clause is empty and it is the most important missing one. Training at high intent carries a real risk of injury, and an assumption of risk clause, a warranty disclaimer and a limitation of liability all belong here. None of them is drafted, and none of them should be drafted by anyone but a lawyer.
12.Changes to these terms
Awaiting review
A reviewer needs to set how changes are notified, how much notice is given, and whether an athlete mid-term is bound by a change or held on the version they agreed to.
13.Governing law and disputes
Awaiting review
Nothing is decided here: not the governing jurisdiction, not the venue, not whether disputes go to arbitration. It matters more than it looks, because this is a remote service whose athletes will not all be in the same state.
14.Contact
Questions about these terms go to 27jthorne@gmail.com.
Before this page can ship
A qualified reviewer supplies clauses 11, 12 and 13 in full and fills the gaps named in the rest. Until then this document has no effective date and is not an agreement.