Proper Footwork and Its Impact on Your Child’s Game Teaching proper footwork to young players is one of the most important fundamental skills that will help them improve their game in the long run. Footwork is an integral aspect of basketball or any other sport. Almost everything that players do on the court requires good …
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The 2019-2020 basketball season is here! High School and Middle School basketball teams are preparing to play their first games in the coming weeks. As we are fast approaching the season we wanted to give you a list of our 5 Best In Season Shooting Tips for you to have success throughout the season. Understand …
PSB Co-founder Logan Kosmalski is the creator of the PSB Ultimate Shooting Guide. He is a former All-Conference player at Davidson College went on to play multiple seasons professionally overseas in multiple different countries. Logan has taken his invaluable experience to create the Pro Skills Basketball Ultimate Shooting Guide. To find out more about this …
Pro Skills Basketball has put together the 10 Best Youth Basketball Strength Drills. In July, ESPN released an article written by Baxter Holmes titled “‘These kids are ticking time bombs’: The threat of youth basketball”. However, In the light of this article, Pro Skills Basketball has decided to take even more action. We are also …
Off-season in basketball is a period of downtime for basketball players. Some players use this time to rest from a very rigorous season, while some use this time to recover from an injury sustained during a game. Most players, however, use this time to improve their basketball fundamentals and skills. Off-season is the best time …
Pirate Basketball Shooting Drill Series (Videos Included) In June, we released the 3 main parts of our Pirate Basketball Shooting Drills series, in which Pro Skills Basketball Denver Director Ross Schraeder teaches and demonstrates layups in part 1, “runners” in part 2, and reverse layups in part 3. The drill is called the “Pirate” Basketball …
Basketball Lay-up Drill (Video) The focus for this week’s basketball Drill is layups. This is a great drill for players to work on finishing around the rim. Players can do it by themselves or it can be done with a group or team. Step #1: The drill begins with two lines on each of the …
Footwork Pivot Basketball Drill Pt. 2 In our first basketball Drill of the Month, I explained how to do the “footwork-pivot-line” drill but mainly focused on the simple forward pivot. In part 2, we’ll focus on the more complicated reverse pivot, which surprisingly many players struggle to do … even in high school! To recap, the …
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Footwork Pivot Basketball Drill This month’s youth basketball drill is the “footwork-line-pivot” drill. I got this drill from Coach Don Showalter of USA Basketball, and I first implemented it at the USA Basketball Youth Charlotte Boys Regional Camp that I directed back in August. At that basketball camp, we did it very effectively with 100 …
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By: Brendan Winters NOTE: This blog was updated on 3/25/20 from it’s original version to include better videos and more up to date information. Ten years after co-founding Pro Skills Basketball and coaching kids from 2nd grade through 12th grade year-round through our AAU basketball teams, summer camps, and clinics, I have a pretty good grasp on …
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