Before the apparel pop-ups, the publishing entity and the detailing trophy, there was a training arm. CBA Speed Agility LLC was the first LLC Daniel Dajai Stewart-Handy, known as DAJAI, ever formed, and it was built as the youth athletic training side of Code Black Associates (CBA), the Las Vegas brand he founded in 2012 at Bishop Gorman High School. Alongside it sits Code Black Athletics, described in the brand record as a speed and agility training pipeline that sent kids to the NFL, a claim the brand lists as CBA INTL verified. This post looks at that athletics side of the brand, where it came from, and why speed work was the first thing the operator chose to put a company name on.
A Training Company Before Anything Else
Most founders start with the product they are best known for later. DAJAI started with youth athletic training. CBA Speed Agility LLC is on record as his first LLC, which makes it the earliest formal business entity in a brand family that now spans athletics, apparel, music publishing and more.
That order matters for anyone reading the CBA story from the outside. Code Black Associates is presented as 14 years of work, 20+ D1 and NFL athletes, and one brand. The training arm sits at the start of that timeline, not as a side project added later. Speed and agility work was the foundation the rest was built on, and CBA Speed Agility was the legal container for it.
Code Black Athletics carries the same idea forward. Its description in the brand record is short and specific: a speed and agility training pipeline that sent kids to the NFL. The word pipeline is doing real work there. It describes a path from youth training in Las Vegas toward college and professional football, rather than a single camp or a one-time clinic.
Where The Coach Came From
A speed and agility program is only as credible as the person running it, and the founder's own athletic record is public. DAJAI took part in the USATF Junior Olympic Track and Field program in 2007, with Day 3 and Day 4 results archived in Dyestat. That was his first national athletic credential, five years before Bishop Gorman.
At Bishop Gorman he played CB, RB and ATH. His career rushing total was 1,452 yards with 22 touchdowns, at 5.88 yards per carry as a senior and 11.49 yards per carry as a junior, listed at 5'10" and 170 pounds. Those numbers sit on MaxPreps under athlete ID dub7om655e2i2 with verified stats.
The single play most tied to his name is a 96-yard kickoff return touchdown against Servite on August 30, 2013. Servite was nationally ranked at the time. The play was a Las Vegas Sun headline in a story dated 8/31/2013, and it is featured in the NFHS Network video archive. A kickoff return of that length is a speed play from start to finish, which is exactly the skill a speed and agility business teaches.
The Network Around The Pipeline
Code Black Associates did not grow as a one-person operation. Armand Perry and Nicco Fertitta are both listed as CBA co-founders, and Tajon Allen is part of the founding crew from Bishop Gorman. CxdeBlVck, the original crew aesthetic with matching shirts, came out of the same hallways.
The brand presents its athletes as one roster with no tiers, and this post follows that rule. The roster spans programs including USC, UCLA, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Arizona State, San Diego State, Colorado, Nebraska, Oregon State, Utah, BYU, UNLV, Nevada, San Jose State and the University of Northern Colorado, with several members going on to the NFL. The brand record does not assign each of those athletes to a specific training program, so this post does not claim which ones trained under CBA Speed Agility. What it does show is the scale of the network the training arm belongs to: 20+ D1 and NFL athletes under one brand.
The wider community is documented as partnerships, not endorsements. The Cunningham family is part of that network, including Randall Cunningham Sr., a Pro Bowl quarterback and pastor, and Randall Cunningham II, who moved from Bishop Gorman to USC. Those relationships are part of the community around Code Black, and they are presented here as exactly that.
Why Speed Work Fits Las Vegas
Bishop Gorman is where the brand's own football story began, and that history shows how much a single fast play can carry from a local field to a regional headline. A training company focused on speed and agility addresses the part of the game that shows up on film first: acceleration, change of direction and the ability to finish a long run.
For families looking at youth athletic training in Las Vegas, the CBA story offers a simple lesson. The training arm was built by someone who ran the track meets, carried the ball and returned the kicks himself, and it was formed before any of the brand's other businesses. The same operator later ran The Wash Club, voted Gold for Best Auto Detailing in the 2024 Best of Las Vegas, but the first entity on the books was the training company.
FAQ
What is CBA Speed Agility LLC?
CBA Speed Agility LLC is the youth athletic training arm of Code Black Associates. It was the first LLC founded by Daniel Dajai Stewart-Handy.
Who founded Code Black Associates?
Code Black Associates was founded in 2012 by Daniel Dajai Stewart-Handy at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas. Armand Perry and Nicco Fertitta are listed as co-founders.
What is Code Black Athletics?
Code Black Athletics is the brand's speed and agility training pipeline. The brand record describes it as having sent kids to the NFL and lists it as CBA INTL verified.
What was DAJAI's best-known play at Bishop Gorman?
He returned a kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown against a nationally ranked Servite team on August 30, 2013. The Las Vegas Sun covered the play the next day.
When did DAJAI first compete nationally?
His first national athletic credential was the 2007 USATF Junior Olympic Track and Field program, which predates his Bishop Gorman career by five years.