As you know, I am a big advocate of combining basketball skills with speed and agility drills especially when it comes to the agility ladder. I make sure that I incorporate a few variations of these drills into all of my workouts as I feel it is vital to your success on the court.
In this post you will see a video of several sequences of one of the agility ladder drills that we did at one of my recent clinics.
Basketball Agility Drill (Video)
Do You Communicate on the Court?
By now, most of you know that I am the proud father of an almost two year old baby girl. You may remember her from my post last week when she had to hang with me at one of my group strength training sessions and started doing pushups with the high school guys. Honestly, I never taught her to do them, she just happens to see me do them quite often and started to do them herself.
Weak Hand Development
Last friday, I registered once again for the Garden State Coaches Clinic at St. Benedict’s Prep. in Newark, N.J. I have attended this clinic for about five years now and it has never once been a let down. Each year they bring in some of the top basketball minds from around the country and I am able to gather tons of useful information that I use for my basketball season as well as Elite Basketball Training.
Using 3 on 3 to Develop Team Defense
Team defense is a very difficult concept for a young player to understand let alone execute. Young players are often so determined to stop their own man, that they forget to play defense as a team. Simplifying team defense and breaking it down into three on three drills can facilitate the process of developing a solid team defense. At the same time, it will also still allow you to work on all of the facets of individual and team defense that you need to.
Thoughts from Bill Russell and Bill Walton
The following are some thoughts from Bill Russell and Bill Walton that were taken from the Double Pump Coaches Clinic in 2007.
-Never give a scholarship to a person who you wouldn’t want to come to your house.
-Everything starts with personal integrity.
