The James Harden / Steph Curry Dead Leg Move

Here is a video compilation of the "Dead Leg Move". The video shows Stephen Curry and James Harden using the move.

It's a very effective move to create space from the defender and quickly pull up for a shot.

Don Kelbick has his own version of the move that he teaches here in his Attack & Counter Skill Development System. He also shows a great counter move to the "Dead Leg" move.

Something you won't realize by watching the video clip is that Don taught this "NBA-level" move to this player in just one day.

How did he do this?

When Don teaches the new move or skill, he simply applies previously learned principles.

Since Don already taught this player a drop step, an inside pivot, and a sweep, he showed him how all of the same footwork is applied to this new situation.

This greatly accelerates learning and skill development.

Here is an excerpt from this article that explains this concept in more depth…

If you can refer to previous learned principles and apply it to a new situation, it greatly increases your rate of learning.

Just like if you walk up to a new set of stairs. A set of stairs that you've never seen before. You don't have to relearn how to walk up the stairs. You've done this before, but in a different situation.

Because of this, it's easy for you to figure out how to walk up the stairs.

And this is exactly how Don teaches in his Attack and Counter Skill Development System.

If you take the previous drop step example, you don't teach 5 different moves.

You teach the player one footwork move in 5 different situations. You tell them that they've already learned this. The only difference is that it's in a new situation.

You would be amazed at how quickly players are able to pick up this up.

You spend less time teaching the skills...

And it greatly accelerates your players' development.

This gives you more time to work on other things and develop better skills!

And as you can tell, the transfer was very quick in the video above.

That is part of the reason that you hear will hear Don say... "Rather than teach 100 different moves, I'm going to teach you 3 pivots and 3 counters and how to apply them in 100 different situations."

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Attack & Counter Skill Development System - How To Teach It Step By Step

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