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What We Did With Our 4th Grade Youth Basketball Team – Offense, Defense, Skills and More

What We Did With Our 4th Grade Youth Basketball Team – Offense, Defense, Skills and More My daughter’s 4th grade team had a great year. Tremendous improvement, lots of fun, and lots of life lessons learned…

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6 New Articles – SLOB, Lay Up Drill, Agility Drill, Golf Shooting Drill, Vertical Jump Exercises, and Youth Basketball Tips

New Multi-Option Sideline Inbounds Play The following sideline inbounds play is a simple, yet effective play that is dictated on spacing and creates scoring options all over the court. This play is easy to teach and implement at any age group… 2-Man Layup Drill: Combines Conditioning with Layups From my perspective, there are way too

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The 10 Commandments of Youth Sports for Parents (with apologies to the Bible)

Here is a great article from Jim Bado on 10 great guidelines that all adults should follow pertaining to youth sports. 1) You shall support and encourage your child, attend games and cheer for all the players, including the opposition. 2) You shall play the sport with your child outside practices if the child wants

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NEW DVD – Coaching Youth Basketball the RIGHT Way (By Bob Bigelow)‏

Hi All, We’re super excited to announce our NEW DVD developed by Bob Bigelow – one of the world’s leading authorities on youth basketball and training youth coaches!! Bob is a former NBA player who has spent the last 20 years studying youth sports and youth basketball, and has given hundreds of clinics to youth

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Should You Teach Youth Players To Shoot A Basketball With Both Hands Equally?

While listening to audio interview from Complete Athlete Development between Erin Perry (Physical Therapist) and Brian Grasso (Athletic Development Trainer), they discuss young athletes using both hands equally to perform athletic tasks and why it’s a good thing. Shooting a basketball equally with the left hand and right hand. Swinging the bat from each side

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Four Great Ways To Keep Your Team’s Attention

Want to get your player’s attention or find a useful way to handle large groups of kids at practice or camps? Having problems with kids messing around during practice? Check out the tips below. Many coaches struggle keeping their player’s attention throughout practice, especially at the youth level because they have really short attention spans

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