Sure - No problem.

B: BALANCE
E: Elbow under the ball
E: Eye on the target
F: Follow through

Lol..jumping halfway across the court, are you coaching the same kids that I am, Jim?

I'm so accustomed to calling them jump stops that when I first covered quick stops with the current group of kids I am working with, I accidentally called them a jump stop a couple of times.

I think there is still a very low jump involved with the quick stop, but the terminology I think helps prevent the high, out-of-control jumps. I like to teach quick stops to get under control with the ball.

With that being said, I still do like to teach jump stops, because there are situations where the player is driving to the basket and needs to create space and/or change directions with the jump.

I'm still experimenting with the current group that I'm working with on quick stop/jump stop for lay ups. When I taught the lay ups last practice, I told them to use a jump stop and they did quite well.

I believe that when they get both of their feet planted before a lay up, the shooting percentage sky-rockets. The lay up is difficult shot for young kids, because they can't LAY the ball up. They have to launch it up. Then, you add running into the mix. Balls are flying everywhere.

I haven't seen the FLYING jump stop yet you guys but that is funny.... maybe not if you're the coach :-)

I know what you're saying about lay ups, I've seen that at the high school level from time to time.... told them we would have to replace the glass if you keep that up. I used to tell them to imagine that there are a dozen eggs up there... try not to break any.... lay the ball up softly.

The only time I taught the jump stop lay ups was when I coached the girls that one year... that seemed to work for them.

We were going across the court sideways so I guess that makes a difference. I demonstrated a jump stop. My demo was like, step, jump, stop. Went over bending at the knees and waist and all that. When it was their turn it was more like step, step, big step, huge jump, shuffle, shuffle, stop. By the end of the season, most of the kids had the concept down, but they were still trying to jump halfway across the court every time. I guess that's another one of those funny things kids do now that I think about it.

Joe, I thought about teaching jump stop lay-ups, but never found anything online to support the idea. Which lay-up would you recommend teaching first or would you teach both simultaneously? Or would you ommit the regular lay-up completely? By the end of the season, I had three 5th graders out of 17 that could do a regular lay-up with decent form and about an 85% success rate. Maybe I should teach jump-stop lay-ups first and then teach regular lay-ups to my more skilled kids once they have the jump-stop lay-up down. What are your thoughts on that?

I got the idea for jump stops on the lay up from my old high school coach. We always did this during practice when I played. Also, I like it because it aligns with Don Kelbick's mantra of success breeds confidence. I try to create as much success for the kids as possible. That's why we preach 3on3, lower rims, & smaller balls. On average, I believe kids have more success making lay ups off of the jump stop.

Right now, I'm having the kids do both type of lay ups. First, I had them do the lay up off of one foot. Then, I had them do the lay up with the jump stop.

I'm a little late in joining this topic, but I thought it is better late than never. The B in BEEF stands for balance. If you don't have balance, you are not going to get in the proper rhythm to shoot. This brings me to another thing you can do for working with players of all ages on their shot. Have the players stand in their universal basketball stance (knees bent near 90 degrees, back straight) and work on their footwork from this stance. First, you can have them stand with either their left foot or right foot forward. Then have them take a quick step to get in their shooting stance. It is important that they have their shooting foot landing in the same spot every time to learn consistency. You can put them on a line so they know if their feet are parallel or not. Have them do this and then look at their feet after they step. Then give them a ball and have them do the same thing. As you progress you can incorporate a whistle, ball and a hoops. On the first whistle they take a step forward with either their left or their right foot and get in their universal stance with the ball cocked and ready to be shot. On the second whistle, they take a quick step with their feet parallel. On the third whistle they shoot the ball. Vary the speed of your whistles so they don't cheat. you can also pause between the second and third whistles to make sure the players are balanced and that they are in their universal stance (now in the traditional triple threat). These are some easy drills players of any age can do but it will help establish a good, strong, quick base before shooting.

Here is a drill that I did with younger kids in my summer shooting camps.....

Standing on the sideline.. every player has a ball that is on the line.... we started with simple dribbling drills.... (lets start with a basic right hand down - left hand back) They would dribble to the other side line, come to a jump stop, do a reverse pivot and come to a triple threat position... I would they say "shot fake, pass fake, shot fake and each time they come back to the triple threat position..... then they would come back the other way dribbling with their opposite hand and repeat what they just did. We did that for all dribble moves so they got the idea of the JUMP STOP and REVERSE PIVOT.

Then we incorporated that into our lay up drills.... we taught the jump stop to them and the traditional move off of one foot.

The first year the camp ran 6 WEEKS, as the years progressed we cut it down to 3 weeks going 5 days a week. We developed some pretty good shooters, we needed to do that since we rarely had a post player. This worked for us.