The ideas and ethos of Coachsmart systems was founded by Garry Ramsay, a well-known local sporting figure within the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne. 

As a player, Garry had a senior career spanning 15 seasons and being a part of 3 premierships. As a coach, he has reached over 20 years of experience at Auskick, Junior, School and Senior levels, reach premiership sucess in Divisions 1 and 2 of the Northern Football League.

Over his career, Garry developed his own methods of planning systems and philosophies that he believed were not only keys to in-game success but to also building a strong, positive and healthy environment for an entire sports club, as well as engaging with other coaches about their own planning, systems and philosophies they emplyed for success. He also discovered the reasons that coaches and players stopped participating, with the main causes coming from the preparation time required for coaching and a lack of game time for players at the junior level.

From these experiences and conversations, Garry was inspired to create coaching tools that would promote professionalism, reduce preparation time for coaches, and create a system where all players at junior level would share equal game time in multiple positions on the ground. Garry's original philosophy of "Everyone Should Enjoy Football" has now extended to "Everyone Should Enjoy Sport", and this is what these tools aim to encourage.