Archive for July, 2009

Basketball Defense Advice, Tips, and Drills

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Drills which will help you to build your quickness

Lines- jump over back and forth, as well as from side to side over the lines first with both feet and then with one foot at a time.

5 dots- Go ahead and make five dots in the shape of an x, that is, one in the middle and then four around it. Work out every combination possible as well as different patterns possible jumping on from one dot to another dot.

Bounding- This will teach you to bound as well as rebound on defense like all of the great defenders. In this process, you go on one foot and then jump on for a horizontal distance as far as you can and then land on to one foot, and then from that one foot jump once more as far as you horizontally can. Now do this in various random directions for extremely small durations of time. This is done in order to train the muscles and not in order to exhaust them. Hence go really hard for a really short duration of time.

Situations which might arise in a basketball game

Shuffle- Adopt the push slide step technique, and do not overlap your feet. The push slid step technique is to basically push using one leg, then slide the other leg on it and then the step. Go back and forth across the whole lane keeping to the defensive stance. While you are at it, you should have at least one hand inches from the floor whereas the other hand should be up.  This one hand which is up has to be in the players face in a game so that you are always prepared to block or even to distract a shot while the low hand gets the job of being the pesky hand which will prevent all the crossovers and hence, force the player whom you are guarding in one direction and hence, always making him really uncomfortable.

Ball Drill- Shuffle on along the wall whilst you pass it off the wall at the same time back to your own self. Keep in mind that in all of these drills the most important thing to do is to stay in your defensive stance at all points of time and that is basically regarding the technique and not about the speed in which you go.

Basketball Strength Training - Secrets of the world famous Pro’s

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

The only difference that might be present there between a basketball game played by a pro and the basketball game that you normally play is the strength training. It is a necessity for you to train really hard in order to attain that ultimate goal and you too can be a part of the league of players like Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James as well as Michael Jordan. The basketball strength conditioning can be initialized at an age as early as you begin to get a little enthusiastic about your game and the way you play basketball. There is one thing that is certain and that is the love of the game, the passion that is there or this particular sport, the amount of patience as well as the dedication, and also the practice that will bring you a whole lot closer to your dream of being able to play like the Pro’s do. With the amount of dedication as well as the perseverance, you might also become a major basketball star one day.

By this process of combining basketball jumping training along with basketball endurance training with the utilization of the proven basketball training drills that you will see fiery as well as successful results in the game that you play as you will be able to move along more swiftly as well as more confidently around the court. However, obviously, the other benefits that you will obtain from really proper basketball strength training are the remarkable increase in your ability to rebound, jump and even shoot. The not so obvious benefit that you will attain is that you will also end up improving your nimbleness as a result of which you will be bale to make much better steals, dribble better as well as avoid fouling because your moves will be really smooth and you will moves will go on really easily with an exhilarating velocity.

However not every person gets the opportunity to have professional basketball coaches teaching them the things that they should do, the techniques as well as putting them through the drills. The key ingredient that is necessary for a player to excel is their very own self-instilled disciple so that you can follow, maintain as well as devote their time as well as effort in order to doing the drills which are required.