Thursday, January 17, 2019

Hoops and Dreams: Crafting Your Basketball Journey at Camp

Basketball camps are a great place to learn the skills and elevate your own personal experience in the sport. But what is the best way to get the successful outcomes that you want in basketball? Well, we’ll give you everything that you need to know, in order to craft success. 

Drills for Skills 

Good camps are filled with different activities for skills.

Whether it’s passing, shooting, dribbling, or even scoring three-points and slam dunks, you should have drills for each of these outlined.

When they’re in place, players will follow what you say, and listen to exactly what you tell them.  Players like it when they’re given something to do.   there’s less standing around like a bump on a log and keeps them going over a longer period of time.

Good camps organize their players, and also work to engage with them at all times. 

Talking about Plays 

You can do all the drills that you want, but if there’s no means to connect through listening and talking, it’s really just blowing hot air.

Good instructors at basketball camps give players a chance to talk.   Don’t just sit around and lecture them, but instead show them plays, strategies, and ask them how they can be incorporated. 



This captures their attention and teaches them the right development that’s necessary for them to succeed. 

Individual aspirations 

Not every player is looking to be the next Michael Jordan. Instead, they need to have aspirations and understanding on where they need to go.

What you want to do is work with each of the athletes. Sit down and get a feel for the separations that they want. 

Do they wish to get stronger at dribbling and passing? or maybe they want to be better at defensive plays. 

When you talk with them, you get a feeling of what they want out of their basketball camp. This gives you a chance to put together the right types of means to provide them with great success.

Remember, each athlete is different, so celebrate those differences with unique strategies that will achieve the best success possible. 

Developmental Progress 

You always want to work towards progress. 

Good camps teach not just the fundamentals, but also the right ethics of basketball, and proper athleticism needed to give you exactly what you want.



While basketball is a physical game, there is also a mental development that comes with this.   Many times, basketball is a unique combination of both. Players must work to ensure that this is possible on all fronts.

[camp counselors should be willing to record progress. Whether it’s through personal feedback from campers, or even enforcement of different parts of the development, you want to make sure that during camp, this is all enforced in the right manner. 

Lots of Reps!

Basketball is a sport where you repeat things. a lot, actually. If you want to get good at a sport like basketball, you have to be willing to play again and again. 

The best way to learn basketball is to listen to what others do, watch them, and hear them too.  These people know the importance of the reps done.

Reps are used to understand weaknesses, build muscle memory, and also help with figuring out strengths.

So yes, if you want to be a good camp, do those reps! 

Basketball camps contain all these things along with good fun and good friends. Don’t be afraid to use what you learned here to build the ideal basketball camp and give your campers the best time possible with this fun sport. 


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