Sunday, March 5, 2017

Teaching Alexa How To Shoot A Basketball

So Alexa just finished her first season playing basketball yesterday!  She had a lot of fun, did very well, and grew a lot in the process.

One thing we will work on his her shooting the correct way.  Right now, she shoots with both hands.  Not a big deal, but as a basketball coach, I am always looking for ways to help her change this.  Today, we were shooting around on our goal, and I wanted to work with her a little on changing her shot so that she is shooting with 1 hand and have her wrist flexed and back.

The teaching points that I made were:

1 – Wrist back
2 – Shoot with one hand
3 – Shoot from your elbow, through your arm, through your wrist.


Of course, legs are important too, but I wanted to break this down instead of giving her everything.

See the video below: