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Announcing! Basketball Camp in Nampa, Idaho

Name: Breakthrough Basketball Ball Handling and Scoring Skills Basketball Camp
Start: 2026-12-21
End: 2026-12-23
Location: Columbia High School

Register Now for a 20% Discount

Rapidly improve your skills at a basketball camp in Nampa, Idaho.

These 2026 basketball camps focus on developing better scoring moves, ball handling, shooting, confidence, decision making, and playmaking ability!

Camps Available:

Click on a camp or scroll down to learn more about each camp and register.

October 3-4, 2026 - Attack & Counter - 6th - 12th Grade Sold Out
December 21-23, 2026 - Ball Handling and Scoring Skills - 3rd - 8th Grade
June 21-24, 2027 - Ball Handling and Scoring Skills - 3rd - 8th Grade

At these basketball camps, you improve your ability to:

Beat your defender with better dribble moves

Shoot better and extend your range

Score at the rim

Footwork moves to beat the defense off the catch

Make better decisions with improved basketball IQ and more…

Breakthrough Basketball Camp for Youth Players in Nampa

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What Players Will Learn

What will players get out of the basketball camp?

Attending a Breakthrough Basketball Camp offers a comprehensive experience designed to elevate every player's game, regardless of their current skill level.

For each camp, you can find exact details in the next section. This includes camp emphasis, age level, location, dates, and more!

However, here’s a general overview of what participants can expect:

Comprehensive Skill Development

Fundamental to Advanced Techniques: Whether you're mastering the basics or refining advanced moves, our camps provide tailored instruction in shooting, ball handling, passing, footwork, defense, and more.

Skill Level Progressions: Instruction and drills based on each player's current skill level.

Fun! Enjoyment and Passion for the Game

Fun Environment: You get experience positive and supportive coaches that create an enjoyable, fun atmosphere that fosters a love for basketball.

Lifelong Memories: You will also build friendships and memories that extend beyond the hardwood.

Enhanced Basketball IQ

Strategic Understanding: You will learn to read the game better, anticipate opponents' moves, and make smarter decisions during play.

Game Situations: You will engage in drills that simulate game-like scenarios, improving your game performance and on-court awareness.

Mental Toughness and Confidence

Resilience Training: You will develop the mentality tactics to handle pressure and bounce back from setbacks.

Confidence Building: Through skill development and positive reinforcement from our coaches, you will gain the confidence to take your game to the next level.

Exposure to Top-Rated Coaches

Expert Guidance: You get to learn from top-rated camp coaches with a proven track record in developing players at various levels.

Teamwork, Character Development, Leadership, and Communication

Teamwork and Communication: Breakthrough coaches emphasize the importance of teamwork, communication, and understanding team dynamics.

Character Development and Leadership Skills: You will also learn life lessons to develop character and leadership skills that help players succeed on and off the court.

Our camps are committed to providing a holistic basketball education, ensuring that each player leaves with improved skills, a deeper understanding of the game, and an enriched passion for basketball… While developing essential character, life, and leadership skills.

Coach Jordan Whittenburg

15+ Years of Basketball Coaching Experience: Coached at the youth, AAU, high school, and collegiate levels, including serving as Associate Head Men's Basketball Coach at Las Positas College from 2015–2020.

Championship Basketball Coach: Helped lead Ambrose High School to the 2024 Idaho State Championship and guided the team to a conference championship and state tournament semifinals in 2025.

Shooting & Player Development Specialist: Founder of Green Light Mentality, specializing in basketball shooting fundamentals, skill development, confidence, and athlete mindset. Former Nike Basketball Camp Director.

Former Collegiate & Professional Player: Scored over 1,000 collegiate career points, earned Academic All-Conference honors, and holds a master's degree in Exercise Science with a concentration in Sports Psychology.

Coach Christopher Dendinger

Chris Dendinger joined the Northwest Nazarene men’s Basketball staff in May 2024. Previously, he spent four years as the Associate Head Men’s Basketball Coach or Assistant Coach at Colorado Christian University

Before Chris was at CCU, he spent two years on the Men’s Basketball staff at Oral Roberts University and one season as an Assistant Coach at John Brown University. He also spent one season at Cedarville University as a volunteer assistant coach

While earning his undergraduate degree in Sports Sciences from Ohio University, he was student manager for the conference champion women's basketball team

Camp Details

Basketball Camp Details

Camps Available:

Click on a camp or scroll down to learn more about each camp and register.

October 3-4, 2026 - Attack & Counter - 6th - 12th Grade Sold Out
December 21-23, 2026 - Ball Handling and Scoring Skills - 3rd - 8th Grade
June 21-24, 2027 - Ball Handling and Scoring Skills - 3rd - 8th Grade

Attack & Counter Camp: October 3-4, 2026

Sold Out

GRADE LEVEL: 6th - 12th Grade for Boys & Girls

INSTRUCTOR: Christopher Dendinger

WHEN:

Saturday, October 3, 2026 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Sunday, October 4, 2026 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

WHERE:
Mettle Sports
3001 E Badger Dr.
Nampa, ID 83687

PLAYER LIMIT:
Each session is limited to 40 Players to ensure a high number of repetitions and improvement.

PRICE: $195

This skill development camp teaches players and coaches the same skills and strategies that have been used with pro players like Joe Johnson, Raja Bell, Bruce Bowen, Carlos Arroyo, and dozens of other NBA and European players.
This camp uses the Attack & Counter Skill Development System to help you develop the KEY skills that you need to become a great basketball player.

You will learn the same critical and universal skills that have been taught to NBA players. These fundamental skills are universal for all levels. They will help you no matter what defense or offense you use. That's the great thing about fundamentals. They help you in all situations. Here's a brief summary of the skills and topics that will be covered...

Footwork

You will learn how to improve your footwork. This is probably the most under-practiced, misunderstood, and most important skill of all. You will learn how to practice footwork in a completely new (and simpler) way. You'll also learn how footwork carries over into games and how it makes you better.

Mentality

During the camp, players will learn Don Kelbick's Attack and Counter Strategy. As the name implies, this system encourages an aggressive mentality. Players will learn important mental aspects of the game including aggressiveness, building confidence, reducing the fear of failure, shooting mentality, work ethic, how to be mentally tough, more focused, and get an edge on the competition.

Post Moves and Finishing Inside

Learn the proper footwork, mentality, and strategies to score in the post and various situations near the basket. This applies to both guard and post players. There is a heavy emphasis on footwork and you'll learn how to become a more dominate scorer inside.

Guard Play

You will learn how the Attack and Counter Fundamentals allow you to easily beat defenders off the dribble, create space for your shot, and score off the dribble. This allows you to create space, make good decisions, and get your shot off when you want.

Ball handling

Learn how to improve your ball-handling skills -- this includes dribbling, passing, decision making, and reducing turnovers.

Fast Break Skills

Learn proper footwork in fast break situations and improve your ability to score in transition. You'll improve footwork, mentality, and ability to score on the run.

Shooting

Learn how to improve your footwork and mentality to increase your shooting percentage. Through high rep shooting drills, we will teach you how to be more consistent and effective with your feet, how to be more confident, how to be mentally tough, and how to become a better shooter.

Screening and Cutting - Getting Open

Learn how to move without the ball and get open so you can score more points. Coach will teach you proper footwork and concepts when using screens and cutting. No matter what team you play for, learning how to read screens and move without the ball will help you get more easy scoring opportunities. This is an important skill for all players to learn. Coach will teach you how to move without the ball, get open for easy shots, and score on the move.

As you can see, this clinic focuses heavily on footwork and mentality, which we believe are the two most important aspects to becoming a better player.

We promise that players and coaches will learn dozens of new tips and techniques that will make them better. These techniques, based on methodology created by Coach Don Kelbick, are very simple, yet unique. You just won't get this stuff in other places.

It's all about helping you develop the KEY skills that you need to become a great basketball player.

Format of the Camp

You will learn these fundamental skills by participating in a "Show and Go" format...

Show - During the camp Coach Dendinger will show you the key drills and the skills you need to work on. He will explain and demonstrate the key details of each specific skill to the entire group. He will teach you the skills, strategies, and concepts. He'll show the "little things" that are important.

Go - Then you'll break off into groups to work with designated coaches in your area. There will be other coaches helping you with break down drills. Coach will also walk around working with players and coaches at this time. You will work hard at practicing the new skill and learning how to incorporate the skill into games.

This will be repeated throughout most of the camp as we introduce new skills and concepts.

We will run lots of drills and players will get lots of repetitions. You'll get LOTS of touches with the ball and it will be fast paced.

After skills are practiced, we will also put players in competitive break down drills. This allows players to apply and refine their newly-learned skills. Most of the competitive break downs are lots of fun, but they are different (and we believe more effective) than the standard 5-on-5 games that you see at other camps.

What Will Coaches Learn?

You will learn the same things as the players. As an "observing coach" you can view the entire camp and take notes. You'll pick up lots of new drills, fundamentals, and strategies that will give you an edge over the competition. We guarantee you will learn lots of new things from our Lead Director.

How is This Camp Different Than Other Camps?

You'll experience 5 key differences in this camp:

You get to work with top rated, skill development coach. How many players get to do that?!!

99% of the camp is focused on skill development and competitive situations. Many of the camps these days play a lot of 5-on-5 games and do little skill development. Sure that can be fun and you need to get game experience... BUT do you really think most of your improvement happens during games? Of course not. You still need to play in game-like situations to apply your newly-learned skills, but most of the off-season should be spent on skill development.

Great players became great by practicing skills. We want you to get better so we focus on skills and put you in competitive situations. Most of the competitive break downs are lots of fun, but it's different than the standard 5-on-5 games that you see at other camps.

You will learn how to practice on your own! We are firm believers that it's important to teach you how to practice on your own. He believes that "knowledge is power". He strives to teach drills that you can use at home or in the gym on your own.

You will learn about new and unique drills, concepts, and skills that you probably won't see anywhere else. This curriculum has a unique, out-of-the-box method to teaching basketball skills. Not to mention he understands a lot of critical concepts that few coaches, players, and parents understand. He will teach you something new, guaranteed.

You learn about footwork and mentality which is rarely taught or understood by players and coaches. You will learn a very unique and simple way to apply the same footwork to post moves, perimeter moves, dribbling moves, getting open, using screens, playing defense, and more.

Who can attend?

The camp is for male and female high school players, and mature 7th & 8th graders. No exceptions are made for younger players.

This is for SERIOUS basketball players that want to get better. You can play games anywhere, so we focus on things you can't just pick up anywhere. We focus on developing skills that will make you better!

Coaches that want to learn and pick up new drills can also observe (coaches can find more info below).

The October 3-4, 2026 camp registration has closed.

Ball Handling and Scoring Skills Camp: December 21-23, 2026

GRADE LEVEL: 3rd - 8th Grade for Boys & Girls

INSTRUCTOR: Jordan Whittenburg

WHEN:

Monday, December 21, 2026 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Tuesday, December 22, 2026 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Wednesday, December 23, 2026 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

WHERE:
Columbia High School
301 S Happy Valley Rd
Nampa, ID 83687

PLAYER LIMIT:
Each session is limited to 40 Players to ensure a high number of repetitions and improvement.

PRICE: ~~$255~~ $204 (Register Now for a 20% Discount)

Have fun and rapidly improve your skills at this youth basketball camp in Nampa, Idaho at Columbia High School.

This 2026 Summer basketball camp focuses on developing better scoring moves, ball handling, and playmaking ability!

At these basketball camps, you improve your scoring, ball handling, shooting, passing, athleticism, footwork, decision-making, and 1 on 1 moves to take your game to the next level!

These basketball camps are for boys and girls in grades 3rd to 8th.
You will improve your shooting, ball handling, passing, athleticism, footwork, decision-making, and 1 on 1 moves to take your game to the next level.

At this basketball camp you will learn:

Explosive dribble moves that make you hard to guard.

Highly effective scoring moves that work at any level.

Game like shooting drills to drive up your shooting percentage.

How to create 2-3 feet of separation from any defender for better scoring opportunities.

The best hand-eye coordination and ball handling drills that will accelerate your feel for the basketball. These drills will make dribbling during game situations feel easy.

How to develop an explosive first step. The secrets behind the proper shin angle, head position, shoulder position, and hip position.

Critical components of basketball IQ required to become a great offensive player from an individual and team aspect.

How the top pros create advantages which allow them to make plays for themselves and their teammates.

The most efficient scoring moves around the basket that helps you finish against any defender.

Here are some of the topics covered throughout the basketball camp:

Ball handling

Stationary ball handling routine that improves rhythm, feel, and coordination with the basketball.

Live ball moves to help you blow by the defense at will. You will learn how to shift (or setup) the defender with your body and feet.

Critical progressions to ensure that your dribble moves are effective and explosive.

How to stay in attack mode, dictate the tempo, and control the defense.

Shooting

How to position your feet and align your body to increase the chance of shooting the ball straight.

A form shooting routine that almost every great shooter has utilized that can be done at home.

Proper footwork and how to develop a quick release.

How to shoot game shots from game spots at game speeds.

Finishing

Finishing techniques used to reduce turnovers, finish over larger players in the paint, and make more shots.

How to finish through contact.

1 on 1 finishing drills that ingrain good habits while competing in a fun way.

Offense

How to cut and get open. You will learn v-cuts, basket cuts, l-cuts, backdoor cuts, and more.

Attacking down screens, back screens, and more.

How to score and make plays using ball screens. Learn how to run defenders into screens and make lightning quick decisions.

How to use dribble hand off actions to attack the defense and put them in a constant disadvantage.

Footwork

How to use your feet to gain a better position to score from almost anywhere on the floor.

Utilize front pivots, reverse pivots, step throughs, sweeps, drop steps, and hops to make you an elite player.

Passing

Improve hand eye-coordination and passing skills that make players like Chris Paul one of the best playmakers in the game.

Competitive passing drills to develop game-like passing with head and pass fakes.

How to be strong and pass out of double teams and traps.

Who Can Participate?

This basketball camp is for 3rd-8th grade, ages/skill levels will be separated.

Ball Handling and Scoring Skills Camp: June 21-24, 2027

GRADE LEVEL: 3rd - 8th Grade for Boys & Girls

INSTRUCTOR:

WHEN:

Monday, June 21, 2027 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Tuesday, June 22, 2027 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Wednesday, June 23, 2027 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Thursday, June 24, 2027 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

WHERE:
Northwest Nazarene University - Johnson Sports Center
313 E Dewey Ave
Nampa, ID 83686

PLAYER LIMIT:
Each session is limited to 60 Players to ensure a high number of repetitions and improvement.

PRICE: ~~$340~~ $272 (Register Now For a 20% Discount)

Have fun and rapidly improve your skills at this youth basketball camp in Nampa, Idaho at Northwest Nazarene University - Johnson Sports Center.

This 2027 Summer basketball camp focuses on developing better scoring moves, ball handling, and playmaking ability!