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PERFECT BASKETBALL PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT What I want to know, and ultimately what you want to know is; are you practicing correctly? Most of a basketball player's practice time is solitary and most of the basketball games are "pick-up" games. Do you know a basketball player's solitary practice time can make a basketball player better or worse? Are you creating and/or reinforcing good habits or creating and/or reinforcing bad habits? How do you know?
Video! What are you looking to discover while reviewing your basketball practice, basketball practice drills, basketball training, basketball coaching, and basketball game videos? Change hats, remove your basketball uniform, don a basketball coaches' whistle and stage your own basketball camp. Now, as a basketball coach how will you train that basketball player and/or that basketball team to add, remove, or improve behaviors and habits? Often you'll find, removing bad habits and poor behaviors produces faster results than adding or improving good habits and good behaviors. Allow me to repeat that last nugget; often, you'll find removing bad habits and poor behaviors produces faster results than adding or improving good habits and good behaviors. Always look to simplify; "Occam's Razor,' one should not increase, beyond what is [absolutely] necessary, the number of entities [or movements] required to explain [or do] anything." When a basketball player is coaching basketball two grandiose things happen for you, your basketball team, and your basketball coach. You and your team get better and become empathetic with your coaches. You also become more aware of the basketball positions that you normally do not play. When you're more aware of the other basketball positions you become a better basketball team player. Now, because you are videoing your basketball practice; your basketball skills, your teammates' basketball skills, and your teams' basketball skills are growing rapidly, and simultaneously you're becoming easier to coach. One feeds upon the other in perpetual motion. There are literally thousands of solitary basket ball practice routines a player can adopt. I propose you explore many basketball systems at your local library. In one afternoon, pulling books from the basketball section, a player, or coach, can find solitary basketball practice systems to rapidly improve any basketball skill, from any level to any level. See the list of books below to help you get started. Look, basketball is an easy game. On offense a player looks to score, or advance the basketball to a scoring position by passing or dribbling, or place one's self or one's teammate into an optimal position to score or to receive a pass and score. On defense, as individual players and as a team, stopping the offense from scoring or advancing the basketball to an optimal scoring position, the exact opposite of offense, is the objective. So study yourself and your team using introspective study and video; find the weakest areas, whether that be basketball skill levels or basketball education / theory, and find a book, a video, a basketball camp, or a routine that increases your skill level and / or education. If you are unable to locate the information you need on your own contact me, "Your Personal Basketball Shooting Coach," I'll do what ever researh is necessary and spoon feed you the informaation. Then, as Nike says, "Just Do It!"
Mental practice is one of the fastest roads for improving basketball skills, teamwork and a basketball system. And on this road there exists no need to reinvent the proverbial wheel. If you want to improve your shooting, for example, study a player you think has the perfect shot for YOU to emulate. It's best to study a video of the player, and it's probably best to emulate someone close to your height, weight, and skeletal structure, or your future height, weight, and / or skeletal structure. When you have studied the shooting technique so thoroughly that you can imagine the player shooting, and you're not looking at the video, that's a good thing, that's exactly what you want. The next step is to imagine your head, and your uniform, and your feet and hands on that shooter as that shooter is shooting; you are now watching a mental video of you shooting and your perfect shooting form, over and over, literally thousands of times. Now after mentally viewing those thousands of times the image of you shooting (and this can happen in an afternoon or even in an hour or less), using that perfect technique, it's time to really make it your own. Feel how it feels looking out through the eyes of that shooter that is you; seeing the basket as you elevate in that perfect form, gripping and feeling the weight of the ball, the weight of your arms, your legs and feet; feel that smooth effortless release of the basketball; landing on your toes while watching the basketball's flight up, out, and through the hoop. Perfectly imagining a perfect shot using perfect form; it feels perfectly great. After studying this perfect shooting technique in your mind, until it's ingrained (again this will happen quick, extremely quick) begin to slow this imagination video down using an imagined slow motion setting, even using the stop frame, so you can really see how it feels to study this shooting technique; how it feels, inside and out. Learning to shoot this way will allow you to understand the difference of actually taking a shot and imagining the shot, when you go out and practice. You'll actually know, feel, and sense what you're doing right and wrong. Then practice, practice, practice, and video, video, video.
The above technique can be used for basketball practice, all basketball skills, drills, and plays, and from all basketball positions. Perfect Basketball Practice Makes Perfect
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