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Announcing! Basketball Camp in Rio Rancho, New Mexico at McDermott Athletic Center

Name: Breakthrough Basketball Attack & Counter Basketball Camp
Start: 2026-07-21
End: 2026-07-23
Location: McDermott Athletic Center

Rapidly improve your skills at a basketball camp in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

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

Future camp dates are coming soon. Get notified when new camps are announced.

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…

Location Details:

McDermott Athletic Center
801 Loma Colorado Blvd NE
Rio Rancho, NM 87124

Breakthrough Basketball Camp for Youth Players in Rio Rancho

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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 Martin Apodaca

Coach Martin Apodaca has been a girls' basketball coach for 15 years. During this time, he has advanced from 8th grade head coach to his current position of Girls Varsity Head Coach at Menaul School in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

He is also the head coach for New Mexico Flash (Metro), a Grassroots/AAU girls' basketball club; a program designed to help and prepare athletes for high school and the next level.

His passion for teaching and coaching his players stems from his days of playing basketball and his love of the game. He has been a very successful lead clinician with Breakthrough Basketball for over five years

Camp Details

Basketball Camp Details

Future camp dates are coming soon. Get notified when new camps are announced.

Essential Skills Camp: June 23-25

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

INSTRUCTOR: Martin Apodaca

WHEN:

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Thursday, June 25, 2026 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

WHERE:
McDermott Athletic Center
801 Loma Colorado Blvd NE
Rio Rancho, NM 87124

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

PRICE: $255

Have fun and rapidly improve your skills at this youth basketball camp in Rio Rancho, New Mexico at McDermott Athletic Center.

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 learn the techniques and skill needed to become a great shooter.

You will learn the essential skills to becoming a great ball handler… no fluff.

You will learn how to make more lay ups.

You will learn how to become a defensive stopper and rebounding machine.

You will learn the critical components of basketball IQ required to become a great offensive player from an individual and team aspect.

We will teach you all of the critical skills and concepts that coaches love and help players excel.

Ball Handling

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

Dribbles move to help you blow by the defense at will.

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

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.

Lay Ups / Finishing

Finishing techniques used to reduce turnovers and make more shots.

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.

How to attack down screens, back screens, and more.

Defense and Rebounding

How to improve quickness and play better on-ball defense.

How to improve speed with hip-turns, push step, and better movement fundamentals.

5 fundamental keys to effective close-outs.

How position away from the ball and be a great team defensive player.

How to effectively box out your man every time.

Footwork

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

How to 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 with the Steve Nash passing series.

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

Competitive Play and Controlled Scrimmages

Players will also get to take the skills they practiced and apply them in a game setting. This is fun and intense.

The games are set up, so the players have to give maximum effort and execute proper fundamentals. Players earn points for proper play and are deducted points for poor effort and execution.

Who Can Participate?

This camp is for boys & girls 3rd-8th grades, ages/skill levels will be separated.

The June 23-25 camp registration has closed.

Attack & Counter Camp: July 21-23

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GRADE LEVEL: 7th - 12th Grade for Boys & Girls

INSTRUCTOR: Martin Apodaca

WHEN:

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Thursday, July 23, 2026 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

WHERE:
McDermott Athletic Center
801 Loma Colorado Blvd NE
Rio Rancho, NM 87124

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

PRICE: $310

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 Apodaca 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 July 21-23 camp registration has closed.

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Observing Coaches

Coaches can attend for free by working the basketball camp. Email us with your coaching/playing experience if you're interested in helping with the basketball camp.

Otherwise there is a $97 fee to attend as an "observing coach". You will get to learn new drills and techniques from Martin Apodaca, just like all the players and other coaches in attendance. Visit this link to reserve your spot as an observing coach.

This fee is not necessary for parents or individuals of paid campers.