I stumbled across these Nike Pro Basketball Skills Training Camp videos and, although this kind of stuff is typically very gimmicky and superficial, these are worth checking out as there are a few nuggets in them (if you can move beyond being star struck). For full disclosures sake, Keith D’Amelio (Nike Sports Performance & Athletic …
THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A MOMENT… Your coach says, ‘‘We’re going to do some grand slam training, so I want you to do 1100 sprints for eight to 10 seconds over the next six hours.” Sounds crazy, doesn’t in? Well, that’s exactly what Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal did in their five hour, 53 minute 2012 Australian …
Wrapping up the 2009 U16 FIBA Americas Championship in Mendoza, Argentina, by sharing some pics from our time there. These will do far greater justice to the experience of this national team than anything I could ever put in written word… 2009 U16 Canadian Men’s National Team, Bronze Medal (back l-r) Sefu Bernard, Kriby Schepp, …
The science of sport training and athlete development are two areas that most coaches definitely lag behind the rest of the world in basketball. Sportskool.com is a website dedicated to delivering in-depth sports instruction and coaching for a wide range of sports and athletic activities. I can’t say that I was overwhelmed with the basketball …
The Sport Canada has updated its Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) and Canadian Sport For Life website: www.ltad.ca. A parent recently asked me to post the links to the theLLaBB, so here you go: Competition is a Good Servant, but a Poor Master – NEW! This document addresses the issues associated with the current structure of …