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Speaker 1: All right. Next thing we're going to talk about is basketball. It doesn't matter
if it's basketball, football, or baseball, but I have a basketball on my hands. Let's
just talk about that. A lot of kids I deal with, everybody wants to be quick. Everybody
wants to be able to get to the hole, and that's important. Let's be realistic. The fundamentals
are great, but let's teach the kids how to be quicker and take a ball, put it in their
hands, and make them quicker, all right? A lot of kids I train for basketball will
train for shooting, proper technique, how to shoot, how to release. How do they explode?
Okay? If you got a kid and you're teaching him the triple threat where you're here and
you drive off the back foot, if you're standing straight up again, it's harder to explode
to that corner to shoot. What we do is put the ball here, keep it away, and we take that
first step. Bam! We're going to take that first step. It's very important to take a
basketball step and explode. You need to get past that defense. It's just [inaudible 0:01:05]
inches and some of the shots that we get on when we play basketball. It's our job to get
quicker to the spot. You pull up for the jumper. Get a proper form where the defender can't
get to, okay? Again, left, right. I take that ball around here and I work on that first
step, okay? When we get to the point, we get that first step, you square up, ball up, release,
release point, okay? We need for the same thing to hold true for
our defensive players. Defensive players need to do the same thing. They're taking a first
step on. You need to take your first step. I want to equate some of our training of our
gaining ground to both defense and offense, okay? For every action, there's a reaction.
Our defender here, the defender needs to take that first step too. If the offensive player
is taking that first step and they're driving off of there, that first step is here, okay?
As a defender, it's up facing this guy, I have to open up that hip and stay with him
on that step. I need to stay belly to belly with that offensive player, okay? What I'm
doing is I'm just taking a little bit of fun here with a basketball, but I want to show
you how it's important and how the bands can work for you in a functional manner for basketball.
Now, I'll train my kids, but also a little warm up before a game and I'll let them use
the bands for a few minutes. Even in the locker room if they don't want to be seen with the
bands on. Somehow, someway, I let them use the band because they train with the bands
and we want them to perform like they've had the bands on and open up those hips. If you
train with the kinetic bands and you do a kinetic stretch, and then you do a couple
of drill specific in the locker room or on the court, you're going to have the advantage
on that other team. That means if you're wrestling and you're
in the pit ready to come on the mat and you have five, 10 minutes of warm up, you've got
the advantage on your competitors. Football is the same way. If your muscles come out
firing, it's going to take those guys two to three minutes to catch up with you, all
right? I want you to keep that in mind. Kinetic band training is a whole another level. It
makes you feel better. It makes you feel faster. Your body is more responsive, more explosive,
and we reduce the risk of injury by giving you range of motion and flexibility. This
is the stuff something every coach needs to start instilling in their program and start
getting back to the fundamentals. ??
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