ABOUT US
Project Pure Athlete was founded in 2009 by Tyler Ray with the goal of helping others become the athletes they had always dreamed of being. He started by training local athletes out of his home and nearby parks. Then he built the first online version of PPA training, as a way to reach a larger audience.
Coach Chase was one of those early athletes to find the first online program, and used it as a part of the training that would end up transforming him into a professional dunker. In 2016, the business was moved into a local training facility where Tyler with the support of his friend and colleague Mike Patella began to expand the business via social media. Project Pure Athlete training and jump technique methods began to be shared around the world and were quickly adopted as the standard of vertical jump technique.
Project Pure Athlete was founded in 2009 by Tyler Ray with the goal of helping others become the athletes they had always dreamed of being. He started by training local athletes out of his home and nearby parks. Then he built the first online version of PPA training, as a way to reach a larger audience.
Coach Chase was one of those early athletes to find the first online program, and used it as a part of the training that would end up transforming him into a professional dunker. In 2016, the business was moved into a local training facility where Tyler with the support of his friend and colleague Mike Patella began to expand the business via social media. Project Pure Athlete training and jump technique methods began to be shared around the world and were quickly adopted as the standard of vertical jump technique.
During this time Coach Chase was working with athletes locally as well as coaching/consulting with athletes online. He worked alongside Chuck Millan of Team Flight Brothers on multiple major projects (including the NBA dunk contest!), helping professional dunkers and basketball players perform their best at many of the most competitive contests in the world. He and Tyler remained friends since meeting in 2011 at a dunk exhibition in California.
Through their separate experiences working with athletes of all types, and from countless hours studying their craft, Tyler and Chase came to have similar training philosophies. They both stressed to their athletes the benefits of an approach that went well beyond the weight room. They both applied jump technique work with their athletes to great success. Each coach, through working independently at the time, came to the same conclusion about the effectiveness optimal jumping positions and behaviours can have on athletes across the board. In 2020, Chase partnered with Tyler at PPA to help them both further spread the message and methods that have helped so many athletes become better than they ever imagined possible.
COACH TYLER
Tyler is the founder and co-owner of Project Pure Athlete Inc. and currently lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada with his wife Kelly and son Jordan. Tyler has a rich athletic background in Track and Field as a Team Canada multi event athlete, professional dunker and volleyball player, which has contributed largely to his success as a sport performance coach and vertical jump expert.
Tyler has dual degrees in Human Kinetics and Education from the University of Windsor. He is currently recognised as one of the foremost authorities on vertical jump training and technique world-wide. Tyler now spends his time travelling around the world teaching both athletes and coaches PPA methods. Personally, Tyler is still pursuing his own athleticism daily and continuing to challenge himself each year with new goals. His ultimate dream is to one day see the PPA Methods and principles used and cited all over the world.
COACH TYLER
Tyler is the founder and co-owner of Project Pure Athlete Inc. and currently lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada with his wife Kelly and son Jordan. Tyler has a rich athletic background in Track and Field as a Team Canada multi event athlete, professional dunker and volleyball player, which has contributed largely to his success as a sport performance coach and vertical jump expert.
Tyler has dual degrees in Human Kinetics and Education from the University of Windsor. He is currently recognised as one of the foremost authorities on vertical jump training and technique world-wide. Tyler now spends his time travelling around the world teaching both athletes and coaches PPA methods. Personally, Tyler is still pursuing his own athleticism daily and continuing to challenge himself each year with new goals. His ultimate dream is to one day see the PPA Methods and principles used and cited all over the world.
MEET THE JUMP GUYS
COACH CHASE
Chase is based out of Las Vegas, Nevada where he lives with his family. He is the ‘underdog’ who made it to his goals through hard work and perseverance.
A basketball player who couldn’t dunk in high school, he worked his way from average to world class athlete while simultaneously having a family and working full time for an engineering firm and laboratory. His athletic transformation led to many experiences that would have previously been well beyond his reach. In his late 20’s and into his 30’s Coach Chase would get recognized by Nike, Sprite, the NBA and more for his basketball game. He would play at events for them around the country featuring many of the NBA’s best (Kobe, Lebron, Harden, Durant to name a few). He competed in the biggest, most competitive slam dunk contests around the globe. Not bad for one of the only kids on his high school team that couldn’t dunk! These include the City Slam World Championships (ESPN, where he was the internet champion), Dunk King season 1 (TNT, NBAtv), Moscow Open (FIBA Championship), Nike LA 3 on 3 Slam Dunk Contest, Nike Uncontainable online dunk contest, Nike Hyperdunk contest LA, and more.
Chase's passion for becoming the best athlete he could be has lead to a never ending education on how to move better, get stronger, become faster, more powerful and of course jump higher. Sharing Tyler’s passion to help other’s achieve those same amazing results brought Chase to Project Pure Athlete after years of working with athletes of all ages and abilities. Chase has most notably worked with the NBA since 2017 helping prepare 4 straight NBA dunk contest champions.
COACH CHASE
Chase is based out of Las Vegas, Nevada where he lives with his family. He is the ‘underdog’ who made it to his goals through hard work and perseverance.
A basketball player who couldn’t dunk in high school, he worked his way from average to world class athlete while simultaneously having a family and working full time for an engineering firm and laboratory. His athletic transformation led to many experiences that would have previously been well beyond his reach. In his late 20’s and into his 30’s Coach Chase would get recognized by Nike, Sprite, the NBA and more for his basketball game. He would play at events for them around the country featuring many of the NBA’s best (Kobe, Lebron, Harden, Durant to name a few). He competed in the biggest, most competitive slam dunk contests around the globe. Not bad for one of the only kids on his high school team that couldn’t dunk! These include the City Slam World Championships (ESPN, where he was the internet champion), Dunk King season 1 (TNT, NBAtv), Moscow Open (FIBA Championship), Nike LA 3 on 3 Slam Dunk Contest, Nike Uncontainable online dunk contest, Nike Hyperdunk contest LA, and more.
Chase's passion for becoming the best athlete he could be has lead to a never ending education on how to move better, get stronger, become faster, more powerful and of course jump higher. Sharing Tyler’s passion to help other’s achieve those same amazing results brought Chase to Project Pure Athlete after years of working with athletes of all ages and abilities. Chase has most notably worked with the NBA since 2017 helping prepare 4 straight NBA dunk contest champions.