Youth Basketball DVDs - Learn The Proper Skills, Drills, Progressions, & Coaching Style To Use With Youth Players

I like that he shows some drills I'd never done before, and he does them very age-appropriately. I love the triangle and screen section of motion ofense drills. It was the concept that I tried and failed to teach last year, and will be able to get across this fall.

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Excellent DVD with loads of practical suggestions for successful youth b-ball player development. We will use the wall, triangle and 3-on-3 more next season. Only change: come down even harder on coaches about playing time. Kids "win" by learning fundamentals, getting to play in games, having fun and developing a love for the game, rather than on the scoreboard.

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A great video. The triangle concept and 3 on 3 ideas are excellent and easy to communicate to the kids--that alone was worth the purchase.

I would have liked to see his "shooting mechanics", which he referred to but did not detail. His comments on basket height and ball size were great for the various age groups was very helpful.

The various dribbling, passing drills were very helpful.

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Loved it. Particularly liked the parts on pivoting/footwork, running a motion offense (vs. structured/set offense), and running lots of 2on2 and 3on3 during practice.
Also appreciated the emphasis on skill development and fun vs winning games.
Anyway, thanks for the DVD and the other valuable information on your website.

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This is a great DVD for youth. Will help them get started and also develop their skills. Bob shows great drills for any coaches to use. He also explains why he is using them. It is easy for parents and kids to understand Bob. I will refer to this DVD when coaching youth and running clinics.

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Entering my 5th year coaching youth from 5-10 years old, and having read a ton of books and seen a bunch of dvds, i can without question say this is the best coaching advice I seen. Bob's philosophy is right on and he shares a few pearls of wisdom that every youth coach should know. That being said, most of the drills and offensive ideas (Vol 1 does not cover defense) are most helpful to 4th graders and up. Younger than that, creating a fun experience for kids requires some shortcuts like a simple 3-2 zone D and games focused on real fundamentals. For instance, the Steve Nash vid has great ball handling drills you can begin at 5 or 6. But once kids get a little sentient and develop more patience than a hamster, follow Bob's advice. It's brilliant.

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The DVD offers lots of good ideas on how to teach basic fundamentals to youth players. Quite often youth coaches take for granted that kids know how to do this stuff, and as a consequence they are never taught the basics. This DVD should be viewed by anyone wishing to coach youth hoops.

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Very good DVD.
Well explained.
Easy to understand.
EXCELLENT points made about the right ways to teach young kids.
Also shows how NOT to teach them.
All the drills in the DVD will be beneficial to all young players.

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Dissapointed - not in the video but myself for buying it. This is VERY fundamental. Great information if you have never played the game.
I was hoping for more coaching tips centered around creating and running an offence for youngsters as well as some half court defence. I should have spent my money on a different video. I'll sell mine back to you?

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Really great product! A long time ago I coached 8th and 9th grade and now I am coaching my son's 4th grade team. Obviously there is a big difference from a physical and maturity standpoint between 9 yr old's and 14 yr old's and Bob's DVD's really helps youth coaches with a philosophy and structure for coaching, teaching and developing youths in basketball.
This is a great DVD, especially if you are completely new to coaching youth basketball, or even if you have coached older kids and are embarking on coaching younger kids for the first time.

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These videos are a good option for inexperienced youth coaches. They provide the basics in an easy to understand format.

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This DVD is GREAT! I will be using Coach Bigelow's drills and philosophy with my 9-10 year old players I am currently coaching. Thanks also to Breakthrough Basketball for all the good insights on how to coach youth basketball.

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Great video. Nicely put together. Gives really well thought out tips and ideas for workig with this age group. Gets back to the fundamentals. Can't wait to put these ideas into practice next year.

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It was well done. And at the corect level.
Some additional fun/compeitive drills would have been good.
We are using it with our AAU U10's.

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Excellent!!! Started to install Rick Torbett's Read and React system last season. This video is a wealth of ideas to help with our fundamentals to fine tune our offense. Gives great ideas for "quick hitters" to initiate the offense.

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This is an excellent part 1 to youth coaching. I would like to see part 2 teaching team concepts and play at this level. Keep up the good work.

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All I want is to prepare my players for Middle/High School. This DVD will give me even more tools to accomplish that. It's nice to get a few wins along the way. I believe these fundamentals will help to accomplish that too. Thanx Bob, and thanx Breakthrough Basketball for making it available.

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I was (and remain) very impressed with the content. I am currently coaching 7th grade boys and will be stepping back and working with 5th graders in the coming years, and I am absolutely going to incorporate much of this into our practice routines.

Probably one of the top 3 purchases I've made as I strive to become a better youth coach!

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Great DVD. We utilized Breakthrough Basketball.com heavily in this last season of 10 yr old girls basketball and it really paid off, but we often struggled to find age-appropriate drills to teach key fundamentals. I wish I'd had this DVD @ the beginning of the season as it provides great drills and priorities for those of us who start with kids who have very few skills.
The DVD would be even better if it included a little more on defensive drills and skills development. That said, I'd strongly, strongly recommend it for any youth coach.

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I have not reviewed all of the DVD yet. The sections that I have checked out have been quite helpful and age appropriate for my 6th grade girls team. I wish it would have came with a hard copy of the different drills - then I could refer to it during practice.

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Great subject matter and presented in a nice format. Very easy to take this straight to the court and practice effectively with your kids. Could use some better editing, as a few times the camera focused too much on Bob, while the kids were demonstrating a skill. I would love to see more!

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Great video it's everything that's need to become a great coach!

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Great way to teach fundamentals. I will be recommending our rec department give this dvd to all the 3rd and 4th grade coaches. It will really help teach the kids the rihgt way

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This was an excellent DVD. Although I don't coach @ this level it was very informative in regards to the progression that is needed in order to master certain fundamentals. I coach in an HS inner city setting and some of the basic drills could assist some of the players. Nevertheless, the one thing that stands out in my mind is that we all crawl before we walk and we walk before we run.

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This was a great DVD for coaches working with young players. While I have coached for many years, I was looking for some good ideas for a group of nine year old boys. This DVD had a lot of good information on all aspects of the game. I particularly liked the section on footwork and pivoting. The analogy of the basketball being like a medicine ball for a child, gave me a good perspective for working with these younger age groups. Coach Bigelow did an awesome job with this video and I would recommend it to other coaches. I would be very interested in one of his clinics or future videos if they are produced. Nice job!!!

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Excellent DVD coach Bigelow. Nice tool for youth coaching. It is plenty of good ideas to guide our young players and gives us a important lesson : we have to respect their level.

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great dvd would recomend for any coach .Bob breaks down all the fudamental tells you what you should teach and what the kids comprehend . will help me in making my summer camp for grades 1st- 8th better.

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Sorry, but I am a little bit disapponted.
I expected a DVD for Youth to get better in fundamentals. Not to start learning fundamentals.

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This is a treasure for the coaches who handle the very young enthusiastic students. Certain things even though we know and know how to teach, sometime we forgot teach. This DVD makes me understand how important the correct basic fundamentals are. By seeing this DVD at least once in a month may make me refresh. I personally feel this is a treasure for me.
Thanks for the coaches and all involved in this.

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The DVD is very low quality - especially the sound. That is too bad since the substance of it is very nice and it kinda ruins the whole experience of learning from bob.

I like the way he simplifies things and his philosophy on kids and kids basketball.

I try these ideas in my practices and think the concepts of bob's DVD are right on the spot.

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A valuable input to the discussion surrounding "youth" basketball. I'm just getting back into bball coaching, with my grandson as motivation. (He's nine). I agree with most of Bob's conclusions and advice. The balance of his ideas is not a matter of disagreement, but rather hypothesis which I'm now testing. For example, use of weak hand for lay ups is completely out of the question for nine year olds on 10 foot baskets. Who could argue the eight foot baskets proposition? He's also right about zone presses and zones in general. With limited gym time, any time spent countering the zone is doable at the high price of fewer reps on what I consider essential fundamentals. An example of the undecided and testable is his notion of 3 on 3 and half court. I lean toward his opinion, but think the concept of weak side help and transition defense are important to introduce too. All in all, with other inputs available, Bob Bigelow is a must in the mix.

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Very helpful! I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned an incredible amount. However, I was very disappointed with the shooting aspect of this video. I coach a girls 9-10 year old team and understand the real need to lower the basketball rims to a more acceptable height. This video does not help with the immediate problem of trying to teach these young ladies how to shoot a ball every day at practice or during the game. Very frustrating!

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Liked the drills. Wish I could purchase second video separately. Take advantage and buy both a same time..... This guy has a lot of good ideas....

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Great video. I coach 7-8 year olds and the video really let's you know what to focus your practice on. I have played and coached for many years but learned so much from this video.

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I cannot say enough on how much I learned from the DVDs and how much the elementary girls are enjoying our practices. The drills are so suited to them and the thought process Bob gives really shines through when you can actually see progress in development with skills and their enthusiasm to keep practicing. I have girls asking me all summer when does basketball practice start...and we dont start until November. Thanks Bob. You are truly a sports ICON.

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An interesting reminder of the Life of a youngster on a basketball court.

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Great resource for me as a first time coach (of any sport). After watching the video, I came to the court with five 6 year olds ready to help them develop appropriate skills with fun drills. The video helped me organize my practice, conceptualize some viable goals for the 3 month season and begin to execute them during the time on the court. Bob's philosophy about youth sports is invaluable. His ideas and methods make for a sound and sane introduction to BBall, but still can/should be transfered to many other sports. Some of the other coaches have also subscribed to the Breakthrough newsletters and we are now "diciples". I hope to attend a coaching seminar with Bob, he really has the knowledge and passion for the sport, but most of all, for what is right for our children.

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Excellent coaching aide. As a first time coach for a 3rd grade team, volume 1 been very helpful. I plan on ordering volume 2 soon.

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This DVD helped me to understand the capabilities youth basketball players have and how to develop drills that can compliment them developmentally.

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Excellent instruction on coaching youth players. Every coach should watch to understand the developmental needs of young players and how to best teach them the fundamentals of the game. I played basketball but not at the young level I'm coaching (9 and 10 year olds) and the game really should be introduced and practiced differently than the way many of us might remember our varsity playing days. I will be recommending some changes to our local rec center league and have already shifted my focus as a coach of young players. Highly recommend!

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I have played basketball nearly my entire life, however, when it came to teaching 6-8yr olds how to play the sport, I felt I was at a loss on where to begin and what aspects of the game to focus on. Bob Bigelow does a great job in this DVD of giving you ideas on how to introduce the fundamentals of basketball to young children and telling you exactly what to focus on in your coaching. It's a GREAT resource!

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This video presents a perfect framework for teaching young players and even older players needing work in fundamental technique. I feel much better prepared to coach the 3 teams I will have this season!

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The most informative DVD for a cioach to have in his/her library. I found this DVD easy to use and it helped me with a variety of practices.

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Great help for a new basketball coach such as myself! The first DVD is full of good ideas and simple tips that I never would have figured out on my own. Highly recommend this to coaches looking for some guidance on the right way to help children learn the game.

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What a fabulous resource for any youth basketball coach. The focus is where it should be - on teaching the fundamentals properly and on introducing them in the correct order. Bob does a masterful job of simplifying subjects that might otherwise be complex. He's got a ton of great ideas for how to teach this stuff, and his philosophy on coaches not obsessing about winning with such young kids is very admirable. This is my go-to guide. Thanks, Bob!

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I loved these DVD's. I have coached for many years at multiple levels and I have to say the instruction in the video explains exactly the best way to help kids understand and learn the basics without them thinking about it. If you are a first time coach this will take out all the fear and anxiety of if you are doing the correct things for the children.

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I love it. It has given me so many different options to use when teaching basektball. I am already incorporating a lot of the first two disc into my practice.. The kids seem to really enjoy it. Win all the way around.

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These DVD's were wonderful! I volunteered to coach my daughter's team of 2nd and 3rd graders, and this gave me a great place to start for coaching ideas, drills, etc. The jump stop drills, and dribbling drills were particularly helpful.

The one thing I wish though, is that there was more specific instruction for really younger kids. Last season, I coached Kindergartners, and now I am coaching 2nd and 3rd graders, so what they can do physically and mentally differs from that of a 5th grader. I found doing the passing drills much harder with this group. I'd love some more age appropriate rebounding drills. And of course, the kids want to shoot - but Bob says not to teach them shooting yet - so what to do?

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It is very informative, great drill ideas for hands on coaching, I like his philosophy on coaching children.

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Coach Bigelow's strong point is helping the youth coach go back to his childhood and remember that kids basically care more about playing than winning, and that they are not "little adults" when it comes to motor skills and strengths. I would have liked to see more in the way of how to teach offensive and defensive strategies to 10-11 year olds. Would also have liked advice about how to "coach" the parents in youth leagues as they can be both extremely helpful and sometimes extremely unrealistic regarding their children's skills and playing times. Perhaps he could share the rules and regulations for his youth league to give us something to base ours on.

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Thank you for such a fine product. I would never have been able to coach my youth basketball team without these videos. I have been a basketball fan since I was a kid but never actually played the sport to know the ins and outs. Your videos are an excellent resource. That being said, I would really love a video or eBook showing the court layout, what the "key" is, how to line up for foul shots, where exactly the "wings" are, how and where to inbound from, what and where the post position is, everything that a person who has never stepped onto a basketball court would need to know. I look forward to ordering this item when it is ready. Thank you again for all the excellent products that you currently offer. I have really gained a better understanding of the game from using them.

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Great resource for individuals who have no background in coaching youth basketball.

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Absolutely the best videos for youth basketball coaches. As a head coach it is not always easy (availability of head coach & youth coach) to effectively communicate and demonstrate the proper teaching and teaching progression of skills. These videos do it clearly. Another voice (Bob's) reinforces my beliefs and thoughts exactly. Well done!

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I'm a first time head coach for an 8 and under basketball team. I purchased both sets of Bob's videos and they've been a great help for me to understand which elements of the game to focus on for my young players. The videos also give you plenty of drills for practice and will help you develop plans for structuring your practices.

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Only made it through the first video so far, but it alone is helping immensely. There is allot of wisdom that can be learned from what Mr. Bigelow teaches. Not just what to coach, but how to coach. Dont explain fundamentals, let this kids play ball. Get it in their hands for more minutes. I love it.

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Great Video and Content.

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Very well done. Love his perspective on focusing on the fundamentals and the process of developing players and not winning and losing. Focus on the day to day improvement and winning takes care of itself. Failure is part of everything we do and we only fail if we don’t learn and we stop trying to improve.

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I’ve played and now coached nearly every sport but basketball. I was recruited to coach my son’s 3rd and 4th grade team. This DVD has giving me plenty of effective drills to keep the players engaged and keep the practice going which is critical. Most importantly to me, I can see the improvement in their footwork and ball handling. I’ve learned a lot from this DVD and I feel confident teaching the kids the fundamentals covered in these videos. So far I’ve followed his recommendations on using man to man defense and sitting down to coach and let the kids play. It’s worked like a charm. I would definitely recommend this to any first time coach!

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