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hi my name is Joseph Martinez a former
international basketball player and CEO
of basketball specialists and OC rain
basketball now I get a lot of questions
from a lot of parents a lot of the times
asking me what they should do at home
with their kids now one of the main
things that they should focus on with
their kids is having them master certain
drills and once they master those drills
just moving them onto the next drills
okay so I'm going to demonstrate today
in this video some drills you can do at
home with your kids or they if they're
watching this video they can be doing
this at home as well and then once they
can do these drills it's going to allow
them to you know get better on the court
and and come to practice a lot more
advanced and a lot more skill okay so
let's start with the first drill now the
first drill is getting a proper warmup
okay a lot of these kids they go into
dribbling and they go into doing all
this stuff and their body's not ready to
you know to to start dribbling so having
a proper warm-up is crucial okay so one
of the first one of one of the main
warm-ups that I have a lot of the kids
do is just going just strictly around
the ankles like this but instead of
integrating this you're gonna you're
going to stand up and you're going to go
around the ankles and then the waist
just like this okay so you're going
around just like that
okay just like that you'll have the kids
do that for about a minute to 30 seconds
and then they'll switch directions so if
they're going this way now they're gonna
go the other way just like this okay all
right now once that's done now you can
move on to the dribbling drills okay so
I'll start them doing a pound dribble
just like this okay now a lot of like
stereotypically a lot of the little kids
they'll be taught to start with an arm
bar up and dribble just like that okay
when in reality that's kind of hard to
do in the games because the whole the
whole purpose of you dribbling is to
read and react on what the defender is
doing and if you're like this protecting
the ball the whole time you can never
react to the defender it's a lot harder
because you only have limited amount of
things you can do okay now if you're
square up to the defender like this and
you're dribbling
if the defender reaches you can cross
over and go this way right away and go
past them okay but if you're like this
you can't do anything especially if they
come that way there's only so much you
can do all right so that's one thing to
practice this is just pound dribble head
up chest up and when their pound
dribbling there's there's very detail
there's a lot of detail involved in it
peso when their pounds uplink you want
to use your entire arm and your shoulder
you're not just using your hands so
you're pounding just like this you'll be
able to pound for days because you're
generating force from your arm and
you're using your entire body rather
than just using your hand like that okay
so you can do that both both both sides
next one is just a regular cross over
just like this back and forth okay do
that for 30 seconds then it's
integrating rhythmic moves okay so when
you when you when you integrate a
rhythmic move it's teaching the kid how
to be rhythmic and read and really dance
with the ball and move so like some of
the crossovers I have the kids do is
just skipping like this back and forth
so this way the defender comes they can
make a move if they're stiff like that
it's going to be very hard
rather than being deceptive to a
defender and going like that okay so
I'll have them do that for a minute just
like that back and forth
okay then once they master that then
it's through the legs back and forth
like this okay then if they want to
you can skip with it like this just like
that okay then it's the other way same
thing so those are some drills that kids
can start integrating I mean they can do
it thick a lot of kids can do a lot of
moves behind the back to the legs all
these crazy moves but they don't have
the rhythm and they don't even have the
IQ to read the defender that's one of
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