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Hi, this is Sean Hobson, and what we're talking about right now is the proper mechanics used
when making a layup. We want to talk about first of all the fundamentals of a layup.
Just like everything else, you want to go into a layup with a good balanced base, and
good fundamental set in order to be consistent on your layup. So when you first come into
a layup, the first important thing you want to do, is when you come in to make a layup,
you want to get your footwork right. You don't want to come into a layup and have to lay
it up off the wrong foot. You always want to step, and you always want to go up with
the leg that you're going to shoot with. If you go up on the right hand side, you're going
to go up with your right foot. Therefore, you want to get your left foot planted so
that you can go up in the proper way. So when you're coming down sometimes you'll see people
kind of stutter step in order to get their feet right. And you also don't want to be
too far under the basket. Also, what we want to show you--go ahead and get your foot set
and get ready. It's almost like you have a rope attached from your elbow to your knee.
As you lift your arm up to go up for the layup, you're knee is also going to come up as well.
They have to be in sync. You can't go up with an arm and then your leg, or you're going
to be thrown off balance. So it's all going to happen at one time. The last thing that
we want to think about here with the layup is, as you go up Ben you want to pick up with
your eyes the backboard, and you want to try to lay it in off the backboard, and not throw
it up over the rim. Look up, find it, follow through, up off the glass. Ben's going to
demonstrate what it looks like at full speed to do a good right-handed layup. Good. You can see that he went up, opened
up that leg, he got as high as he possibly could, nice and soft off the backboard. That's
how you make a right-handed layup.