In 2 days - This "low confidence player" turned into a scoring machine
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By Joe Haefner
One of the biggest frustrations of coaching is when you have skilled yet timid players with no confidence.
You know if they were more assertive and aggressive, they would help your team win more games. They might even turn into one of your best players.
I believe I have the solution to this problem. Ive seen players transform quite quickly.these same timid players turn into aggressive and assertive players.
My ah-ha moment happened nearly a decade ago.
We hosted a local basketball camp with Don Kelbick, so he could show us his Attack & Counter Skill Development System.
In two days, I saw Don take a kid named Cody that lacked confidence and transformed him into an aggressive, assertive player. Well get back to this story and how Don did this in a second.
But first let me explain who Don Kelbick is if you already know Don, you can just skip down to the next section.
Who is Don Kelbick?
Prior to the camp, when I first read and listened to Dons principles within his Attack & Counter System, Im going to be truthful I thought it sounded a bit strange because it went against conventional coaching. At the same time, I was intrigued.
And Don has a pedigree. He coached for over 20 years at the college level. Hes also trained numerous NBA players...
Raja Bell who was initially undrafted and turned into a 12-year NBA vet and one of the top 3-point shooters in NBA history. Hes ranked 23rd in 3-point shooting percentage for NBA/ABA history.
Bruce Bowen who was a defensive specialist, NBA champion, and also developed into an elite 3-point shooter. He led the NBA in 3-point shooting percentage in the 2002-03 season.
Joe Johnson who is a 7-time NBA All Star and Olympic Gold Medalists.
And hes trained other players like NBA champion JJ Barea, Rasual Butler, Omri Casspi, Tim Hardaway, and more.
So I thought I would listen.
Never did I think that what I saw that weekend would completely change the way I teach the game for the better.
Back to Codys transformation into an aggressive, confident player...
I didnt know Cody before the camp. However, I quickly realized that Cody was very easy to like. He worked hard, looked you in the eyes when you spoke to him, and did little polite things like opening doors for you. So it was easy to root for Cody.
After some conversations, I found out that Cody played on the 2nd team for a local elite AAU team. His friend Tyler, also at the camp, had always been on the first team.
On their school team, Tyler was the star. Cody was a role player off the bench.
After two days, Don made it look like Cody was the star.
You could even see that Tyler was a little taken back during a one-on-one drill on the second day.
After a quick, aggressive move by Cody that ended in And 1, you could see it on Tylers face. His eyes got big, eyebrows lifted up, and he said, Whoa. Nice move, man.
And this wasnt a lucky play. It was happening over and over again.
And you could see it in Cody's body language. The first day he walked around with a slightly sunken posture when competing against the better players. The last day he was walking tall with his shoulders back. He was playing confident and looked confident.
On the last day of the training, I remember Don talking to Cody on the sidelines. Don said to him, "You've never been able to take it to Tyler like that before. Have you?"
Cody replied with a big ole' grin... "Nope."
Don just said, You sure can now.
From that moment on... I knew we needed to share Don's system with the basketball world.
How Don Transformed Cody
While this is simplified and I recommend seeing this in person, this is basically what Don does...
Removes fear of failure.
He tells players that basketball is not a game of perfect. He gives examples of some of the best players in the game missed more shots than they made. He lets them know that the only way to improve is to make mistakes and get outside your comfort zone.
Simplifies the mental game and speeds up decision-making.
He does through his Think Shot mentality and mapping.
Teaches players the importance of attacking immediately.
In addition to mapping, this removes indecision and speeds up reaction time. This allows you to take advantage of the defense being out of position.
Teaches counter moves that help players take advantage of where the help defense is typically located.
His counter moves take the player away from the defense. There are fewer defenders and they have to cover more ground. This gives the offense more success.
Steers players towards success...
Don steers players towards shots and moves that result in higher percentage shots. Success breeds confidence. Confidence breeds more success.
Getting in thousands of repetitions.
Don believes that you improve through repetition. You improve your skill set and your moves become instinctual which makes you quicker on the court.
He also does with coaching cues that make players better as theyre doing the drill.
Don teaches you how to be great with your feet.
Your feet are the foundation for everything you do in basketball shooting, ball handling, triple threat moves, ball handling moves, moving without the ball, etc.
He shows how certain movements with your feet happen over and over again just with different situations on the floor. Hes able to teach NBA-level moves to 5th graders because hes mastered simplifying and connecting footwork.
Here are some articles and videos that explain these concepts in more detail.
How To Accelerate and Simplify Player Development To Win More Games
This Instantly Improves Decision-Making, Aggressiveness, & Makes You a Better Scorer
The Most Dangerous LIE In Basketball?
This Secret To Counter Moves Improves Shooting Percentages & Offensive Efficiency
How This Surprising 79% NBA Study Can Dramatically Improve Your Drills, Practices, and Workouts
The Best Way To Get Your Players (or Children) To Rapidly Improve Like Cody
Quite simply, attend his camps first. After that, watch his videos.
Personally, I dont know why but his concepts didnt resonate with me completely until I assisted with one of his camps. Well, they resonated quite well and Ive attended about a dozen of his camps. And Im continuously picking something up new.
So if youre a coach, if youre a parent who works with their children, if you have a team of players, if you have children who play basketball, attend the Attack & Counter Basketball Camps.
The worst case is that you pick up better ways to teach footwork, shooting, ball handling and finishing. The best case is that you also completely change your approach to the mental game like I did.
Then if youre a believer like me and many other coaches and players you buy his videos and review them periodically.
Register soon...7 of his 12 Attack & Counter Camps are already sold out or just have a few spots left.
Also, if you could get 60+ players to come to a camp, you can inquire about fundraising and hosting a camp.
What do you think? Let us know by leaving your comments, suggestions, and questions...
How to Build Permanent Confidence on the Basketball Court
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NBC Basketball Camps train athletes from the inside out. If you want to be a great player, you have to have confidence that no one can take away.
Picture a moment when a coach commented on something you did well. You felt like you could rule the world. Then, maybe even in the same practice, your coach said something that sapped your confidence and you felt like getting angry or worse, giving up. This roller coaster of temporary confidence causes us to feel out of control. Permanent confidence is something no one can take away because compliments don't inflate us and criticism doesn't shake us.
We are calling permanent confidence a skill because it requires purposeful effort to develop. The difference between permanent confidence and temporary confidence is temporary confidence means confidence which can be given quickly and taken away quickly.
Here are three ways to help you build permanent confidence.
1. If possible, especially when developing a new skill, choose an encouraging environment. Not all environments are equal. The best place to grow is in an environment where you are given grace for mistakes, kind correction and courage to keep going. It's possible to survive in Antarctica with harsh wind and violent weather, but it's very tough and few make it. Similarly,confidence has a hard time becoming permanent in an environment of criticism, perfectionism and/or insult. One of the key pursuits of NBC Camps for 40 years has been to create an environment where maximum growth can happen. A climate where athletes feel "believed in." An environment of encouragement is especially crucial when confidence has not become permanent.
2. Practice, practice, practice! The truly confident person loves hard work and is willing to do the work necessary to become great. The difference between a confident person and a cocky person is that the confident person is able and open to looking at, talking about, and working on his or her weaknesses. When you have permanent confidence, you don't become crushed by mistakes. You can grow and learn and even be thankful for mistakes because they will show you ways you can improve.
3. Not all thoughts are equal. A person with permanent confidence doesn't allow certain thoughts to have any time in his or her head. Thoughts of bitterness, self-pity, condemnation or grandiosity are met at the door of the mind. If they are destructive thoughts, they are not allowed entrance. Truly confident people understand each of us has a choice to think something or throw it out.
7 Ways to End Games with Greater Confidence
Confidence, execution, fitness level and skills are key to the final moments of a game but above all you have to have confidence. You have to have the type of confidence that knows you are going to win, the type that wills the ball into the basket. You have to be able to execute what is necessary in the final moments. You need to be fit, don't let fatigue cost you the game. Finally, you need the skills in place to make the split second choices when it matters most--that means being a student of the game. Watch film, study, and know what the great play makers do when they are behind, when they are up, when they need to foul, when they need to score. Here are several practical ways to end the game well.
1. Be ready to catch the ball, be mentally focused and 100% dialed in. Slips happen near the end of the game through too much confidence or lack of confidence.
2. Make certain your passes are easy to catch and are thrown with strength and precision. Avoid dangerous passes. Give your teammates confidence in your passing decisions.
3. Monitor your level of nerves. If you are nervous, you will have the tendency to shoot hard, to pass too hard. When the tempo and pressure increases, remain calm. Discipline yourself to stay mentally alert.
4. While on defense, interrupt your opponent. Don't make anything easy . Give them no rest, hound every shot, block out every time. Mentally tire them out.
5. Take only a quality shot, never a risky or suspect shot. Make your bunnies (short shots near the basket).
6. Speak confidence. Focus on feeling like you are a great shooter, say mentally to yourself that you are on fire, you love to score, it's going in.
7. Go get the ball and secure it. Love the ball, want the ball, protect the ball. Your confidence and the confidence of the team will remain secure when you take care of the ball.
Confidence is a mindset skill that requires discipline to protect and maintain. Work on it every practice and protect yourself from mentally letting down your guard which comparison, assumption, or negative thinking. As you think, so you become.
About NBC Basketball Camps NBC Camps has grown to become the largest overnight basketball program in the world with locations around the United States, Canada, the UK, Austria, Italy and now Thailand. Campers have gone on to play in the NBA, WBNA, professionally overseas, and play or coach at many colleges and university programs. NBC Camps is a member of US Sports Camps network of outstanding summer sports camps throughout the world. Players, coaches, parents and members of the media interested in learning more about NBC Camps are invited to visit www.nbccamps.com or phone 1-800-406-3926.
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What should be in an ideal film about basketball - Lantern - Blogs
An indispensable tool for writing sports scenarios.
The boom in basketball movies happened in the mid-90s and completely closed this topic forever.
Drugged players trying to eat marijuana so they don't get set on fire by the police?
Think of something more original.
Moral shock from being attracted to a teammate and an outright fagot?
Original, but it also happened.
Fighting a live bear as a promotion?
As old as LeBron's hair jokes.
A referee-priest who doubts that a player's mother has gone to heaven and provokes his team to leave the court?
Yes it was, try to surprise me.
An alcoholic struggles with the craving for drinking right on the bench and draws a winning combination?
Is your imagination really bad? More ideas?…
Three seconds for the decisive shot?
Captured back in 1975.
Dunks filmed from the most awkward angles?
I have to disappoint you...
Does the husband root for his wife's romantic relationship with his beloved player and, taking off his pants, empathizes with them even at the moment when they make love?
Oh, even that WAS.
And so on.
A subtle perversion has also appeared in basketball movies: the father of the future star is released from prison so that he can influence his son. At the same time, he is serving a sentence for the murder of his wife and, accordingly, the mother of the protagonist. A joke more outrageous than Goethe's Faust.
In general, everything was there.
Even Leonardo DiCaprio felt like a basketball player and didn't get an Oscar for it.
But since the fashion for basketball post-postmodernism has reappeared in nature, it is necessary to make life easier for screenwriters-hack-workers by competently ranking all the clichés known to the world, without which no film about basketball can do.
So, in order to create a perfect film about basketball, you need to...
Problem #1. Decide on a colorful coach
Here you are immediately faced with an unsolvable problem.
On the one hand, the coach is an absolutely far-fetched figure. Any Del Negro can draw arrows on a tablet, it is better to invite Zhirinovsky to make fiery speeches with delusional messages, and 75 percent of Kashchenko's patients are able to portray fits of rage and spit spit 75 percent more convincingly. The functions of a coach are completely obscure from the outside, and even sports fans believe that the suit, whistle and wild gestures are such a modern form of ancient magic that pays well.
In general, really Milli Vanilli from basketball.
On the other hand, the coach is the central figure who, if not moving your monumental opus, at least ennobles it. All quotes that make any sense should be uttered by this particular modern shaman, armed with Oscar Wilde, Schopenhauer, Seneca and the collection "The Best Quotes of Russian Chanson". If you set yourself the most important task of encrypting into a grandiose canvas some intricate statement about victories, overcoming, the vanity of all things and the meaning of life, then you need to make your specialist both colorful, authoritative, attractive and not boring.
In general, you need a Nietzsche like yourself, only without syphilis and intimidating mustaches, in a fashionable suit and with a pathological passion for basketball.
Seven classic types that I would definitely not recommend to you.
7. Bobby Finstock (“Teen Wolf”)
An inexplicable prophecy from 1985: The most selfish basketball player in movie history is being coached by the top Zen coach in movie history.
“It doesn't matter how you play. It matters whether you win or lose. Even though it doesn't really matter."
Finstock is the reincarnation of Seneca from one-story America.
He does not try to inspire anyone with his speeches, he is not going to influence anyone, he does not want to teach others and generally does not express the slightest interest in what is happening around him, including the results of the team he trains.
Even the transformation of the leader of his own team into a werewolf does not bother him at all. How does not care about how they can affect the outcome of the game.
The main task of Finstock's coach - which, of course, he does not think of setting himself - is to show students that you need to remain cool in any situation, not worry about trifles (and everything around is trifles) and believe in a successful outcome (although may or may not be believed).
“Three big rules: never sleep less than 12 hours, never play cards with a dude with a city name, and never mess with a woman with a dagger tattoo. Follow them and everything will be tip-top.”
It's hard to imagine Phil Jackson not watching this movie every time he went to work. But for all the genius of the type, you won’t squeeze much out of it. Phil Jackson works exclusively in conjunction with Michael and Kobe. If your star is a little more modest, then you will lose in the conference finals to some Patrick Ewing.
6. Vladimir Petrovich Garanzhin (“Movement Up”)
The idea of taking on David Gotsman as a coach is really nice. But only if you do not pull the cat for all the details.
In fact, the basketball Gotsman is trying to be at the same time an intellectual and a little psycho, a strategist and a motivator, a democrat and an overseer, an alpha male and a modest Soviet citizen.
This can only be good if you are going to shoot an awkward picture with a bunch of logical inconsistencies. Today you can legally thump to the prone position, tomorrow they will ask you why you run slowly. Today you give all the money for the treatment of a player, tomorrow you drive him half to death. Today you sacrifice your health and the future of your son for the sake of the team, tomorrow you are ruining the team before the final.
It's so bad it's brilliant.
David Markovich himself would have reasonably asked the screenwriter: “Are you sho, shlimazl, sick or hit?”
But at least it would have turned out delicious, otherwise.
– Got it?
- No.
– Well, it will pass.
…
Where to go if it still doesn't work? Anything could be taken out of such a self-contradictory coaching bouquet. But even more likely to drown yourself in contradictions.
David Gotsman, go throw your head in the manure - I don't know you. I'm not interested in walking with you along Odessa alone.
5. Ray McCormack ("Rebound")
Martin Lawrence behaves in much the same way as in "Bad Boys", but there he was considered a slightly inadequate cop, and here he is diagnosed with anger management problems and kicked out of all jobs.
The only thing the man did was to kill the fucking mascot. He did a perfectly rational thing.
What follows is a terrific logical chain: naturally, it turns out that such people are needed in an American school. The psychopathic coach begins to educate impudent, fat and sometimes simply disgusting schoolchildren and at the same time tries to regain his love for the game and not inadvertently strangle someone.
"Rebound" is a complete failure. But the hero Lawrence still has more potential than the previous ones. He's crazy, he's stylish, he's black, he's attracted to women, action and dubious types with dreadlocks, he's a little shibzdik with a brilliant head.
There is something to work with here, but still not worth it.
4. Ken Carter ("Coach Carter")
Another manifestation of the genius of Samuel L. Jackson - to create something cult out of any bullshit.
Coach Carter himself is a rather sketchy figure. Such an army sergeant, who one fine day decided that learning is light, and with all available army methods began to hammer this truth into the local ohlamons.
One Chekhov's janitor was doing about the same until he dozed off at his post.
Jackson throughout the film repeats common truths with a defiant face and manages not only not to doze off, but even to make the audience listen to this inexhaustible stream of platitudes.
As a result, his energy pulls out another bad movie with Jackson. But if your consciousness works not only in the two-part paradigm “fell-wrung out”, “learning is good”, “quieter ride - wider muzzle”, “If a lion is at the head of lions - this is typical, if a lion is at the head of donkeys, then - 50 by 50, if the donkey is at the head of the lions, then there is no chance, ”then this general Black Swan does not suit you.
3. Samson Groznyak (“Central from the Sky”)
The type of coach that Vasily Aksenov loved so much is a miniature but groovy Caucasian, ready to wake up any tree, a bizarre symbiosis of Napoleon, Don Quixote and Frunzik Mkrtchyan.
“And then, you know,” Yura continued, “sports coaches pester me all the time,” he laughed. - For example, I'm just fed up with this idiotic basketball ... You were born for basketball! What's wrong with you, comrades?
- Don't you like basketball? Groznyak said slowly, getting up from his cloak. It seemed that he was now ... Eggplant grabbed his hands and turned a ferocious face to Yura.
— I hate basketball, but what's the matter, comrades? Yura was innocently surprised.
- Do you understand what you are saying? Eggplant yelled at him. Do you want to go to the conservatory?
- Let's go, Grigory, we have nothing more to do here! - Groznyak escaped from the hands of a friend and rapidly rolled down, cutting the flock.
Eggplant, of course — a bunch — rolled after him…
— You blew everything, jan. How is that possible? Eggplant scolded him.
“I don’t need such a player,” Groznyak chattered his teeth. - Grisha, if a player like Alcindor, Chosich, Chamberlain, Belov, taken together, comes to me, and it turns out that he does not like basketball, but plays it, say, for money or for fame, I will show him the door. Grisha, when I enter the subway or a trolleybus and see the players there, I know that they all either loved, or love, or will love basketball. Basketball is the best human game. I like basketball!
Grozniak can put on top even with his modest height, sing and at the same time pull a huge barbell, flirt with stewardesses and make fiery speeches. He loves basketball in a way that no movie coach loves. At the same time, he is hairy like an orangutan, and this alone provokes keen interest.
But the world has changed. He became stylish, majorist and superficial. With such a frightening hairiness, you can only act in comedies, otherwise all this is hardly perceived.
Too bad.
2. Phyllis Sharoka (Sunset Park)
Sharoka is the perfect coach in the minds of fans.
A fizruchka leads a basketball team to earn some money, has no idea about the game, studies it from books and dealing with troubled blacks, and even gets a job through blatant connections.
Just a walking stereotype that can be found every day under any news.
As a result, she becomes the female version of Coach Carter - clumsy, but fighting aunt with a pleasant hoarseness. She protects the players from the terrible world, disciplines them, helps to solve everyday hardships and at the same time manages to develop an understanding of basketball in herself.
In a famous combination - well, next to a superstar played by the most colorful rap star - Denis DeVito's wife can pull your picture. But it has a lot of cons: not so easy to capture charm, your 60-year-old aunt's outfits, a slightly absurd story that is not helped by the sign "based on a true story", the absence of other advantages, except for mentoring ...
This is almost satisfactory, but it is possible better.
1. Norman Dale (Hoogiers)
Dale reminds me too much of the Gregg Popovich we knew until about 2013.
An ideal coach both as a strategist and as a motivator. A harsh past that forced a lot to reconsider. Artificially induced fits of rage, ending in permanent deletions. The ability to create a family atmosphere in the team, but at the same time the maximum turn on the result. A pose full of inner dignity that ennobles any uttered platitudes, any manifestations of intemperance, any shortcomings in the script. One has an alcoholic as an assistant, the other has Jacque Vaughn ... And wild despondency.
During the fight for the fifth championship, Popovic himself seemed to feel that he was repeating the film double in a not very attractive aspect, and changed dramatically. Fighting behavior with journalists, chiseled quotes oozing with venomous humor, an ironic attitude towards himself and eternal references to his preferred brands of alcohol - all this created a completely different image. The Spurs coach did something that few people actually appreciate - he manages to focus on himself and constantly surprise, without resorting to cigars, or wormwood, or Native American mythology, or Zen Buddhism, or mafia costumes. and bryolin. This is the first absolutely normal coach in the history of mankind who refutes the concept of "dullness".
But Dale can't change. This is an ideal coach, better than which it is simply impossible to portray in the cinema.
But my God, what a bore...
The only reason you need the perfect coach is if you want to kill him in the first stanzas of your sweet romance.
***
So listen to me and choose one of the following three.
Even if you remove the complete bullshit, they will make it so that no one will understand it.
3. Pete Bell (Blue Chips)
Bell embodies the concept of wholeness. This is a character who is obsessed with basketball, obsessed with teaching players, obsessed with winning, and yet obsessed with the basic understanding of exactly how things should work.
Everything else comes from this foundation.
Bell is blowing the locker room to hell. Bell goes crazy on the touchline and strangles the judges. Bell hates himself for having to bend to the system. Bell wins and utters a powerful philippic that takes everything from him, but returns his love for basketball.
The stuffing seems simple, but you can squeeze a lot out of it, because no matter what happens in your movie, Bell and sincerity go hand in hand.
2. Eddie ("Eddie")
- You seem to have screwed up, Mr. Rodman? Exactly...
- Your team doesn't know how to play. Terrible shots... terrible coach...
- Terrible hair.
– Well, at least I look good.
- This is now. Put on your earrings, baby. You look naked.
…
Is the coach a cheerleader?
Is the coach a limousine driver?
A coach who constantly thrashes opponents?
A trainer who has a sense of humor and tries to use it on everyone?
Does the coach flirt with real NBA players and look natural?
Trainer with dreadlocks?
Is the trainer a black woman?
Coach - Whoopi Goldberg?
It's been 20+ years, and it's still clear why the creators of "Eddie" seized on this idea so zealously.
Because nothing else matters at all.
Delusional scenario. Brave situation. Crazy development of events. Crazy idea about moving out of New York. Crazy Russian giant.
But with Whoopi you can get involved in any adventure and feel superior.
In terms of color and room for maneuver, this is generally a human maximum.
But there is also the superhuman.
1. Birdie ("Above the Ring")
It's just not fair.
Tupac in all his films and music is traditionally convincing in romanticizing the image of a gangster: "his image of a gangster, revolutionary and poet forever changed the understanding of how a rapper should look, how a rapper should sound, how a rapper should act."
In this case, he also changed the understanding of what an ideal film coach should be.
Birdie finds the player himself and instantly recognizes his talent.
Birdie courts a young player with the dexterity of a tempting snake.
Birdy practically wins - he is an excellent psychologist, a brilliant motivator, a real leader.
Birdie is a competent manipulator who presses on all vulnerable points at the same time.
Birdie does everything for the result, and in his case it is much more thorough than that of any of his civilian film competitors.
Birdie drills his crew to bend to his will like the most expensive car in the world.
Birdie has the ability to legally “fuck” the referee and opponents, which makes his speeches on the sidelines five times more convincing and colorful.
Birdie doesn't bother with principles and fairplays. For him, victory is of absolute value.
Even on the basis of purely basketball merit, any normal manager would choose Birdie.
And if you consider that this is at the same time a real gangsta rapper who plays in such a way that he adds weight to an absolutely helpless picture . .. And who moves everyone, being the embodiment of basketball evil.
No options here.
Problem #2. An arbiter is a natural enemy of any living being, therefore, at least a moral victory over him is also necessary. Even coach Birdie does not go beyond foul language, although the unfortunate referee is clearly running into trouble.
But we're not going to tie ourselves down with any limits of tolerance in relation to these striped citizens?
No one has ever dealt with judges better than Jackie Moon.
Great attack “SUCK ###, I'll kill your whole family” and the legendary reply “Maybe your mother didn't go to heaven at all”…
Problem #3. Choose a superstar and understand what her conflict with the coach is
So, you have decided on the coach. The next step is to find an ideal couple for him, which, by their interaction, would give rise to a conflict that moves the plot.
You must pursue three goals:
1. Make sure that the conflict is not banal. This story about an individualist player who does not notice everyone around has been watched by everyone for forty years. Well!
2. Make sure that everything is not far-fetched. History must develop and receive logically justified nourishment.
3. Super task. Try to push all the predecessors and make sure that your superstar is the best ever to enter the basketball courts. (Well, at the same time without too implausible distortions).
Worst to best.
Do-Heroin Jim ("Basketball Diary")
Three plus points: DiCaprio, uniquely captured finesse of white basketball, rooftop masturbation scene.
Minus: basketball is quickly over, and the coach is unable to keep the ward from all kinds of burning life.
Earl Monigault (Recruitment: Earl "The Goat" Monigault)
Plus: A true outdoor legend hailed by 1970s NBA superstars
Minus: basketball was also over pretty quickly, Monigault could not agree with any coach
Sergey Belov ("Movement Up")
From the point of view of the canon, Belov's figure in "Movement" is a failure.
First of all, he never comes across as the best basketball player in amateur basketball.
Tournament in Brazil is won without him. With student teams, he remains one of the. 20 points in the final is not impressive, since the key moment is dispensed with without his participation at all.
We only know that he is the best by the arrogant look and the phrase “I score 30 points each”.
Weak.
Secondly, the conflict with Petrovich looks somehow far-fetched and is also far-fetched resolved.
Why did he dislike the coach? Why did he fall in love with the coach over time?
– Got it?
- No.
– Well, it will pass.
Thirdly, the main player of the team in the film is almost less than the rest.
We can assume that the desire to look historical strangled the writers. But there is too much humor in this phrase.
Scott Howard ("Teen Wolf")
The case of the selfish superstar self-employed is so powerfully described that Simmons' Basketball Book is half the story of Kobe. No other basketball film has penetrated NBA history so unceremoniously.
But "Twilight" destroyed the fashion for any werewolf fantasy for thirty years ahead, so it's best to save it until they return to popular culture.
Jimmy Chitwood (Hoogers)
Chitwood is a legend in Indiana, the most basketball state.
He is idolized. He is being taken care of. They believe in him. They are admired.
This is Larry Bird before Larry Bird.
Great white, taciturn and dominant, solving all issues with one throw.
Chitwood is by far one of the best movie basketball players of all time.
The rest is rather weak.
An individualist player begins to blindly believe in the team principles of a boring coach.
Defends him in a meeting where his authority helps convince everyone present.
Then he makes a key throw in the final when the dull coach was going to use him as bait and pass the throw to another. And Chitwood doesn't even ask, "Coach, are you out of your ###?
The classic version, but it could be better. Yours needs a multi-faceted character, not just the perfect basketball player.
Neon (Blue Chips)
All the same classic - the perfect athlete, completely invulnerable on the movie floors and scoring the decisive dunk.
Only now in the image of Shaq, sometimes funny, sometimes playing disgusting.
Shaq is essentially portraying himself as a huge ignoramus from Louisiana, so the chances of choosing this option depend entirely on how you feel about the real O'Neal.
Compared to the previous version, Neon has only two sides: he is played by a legendary basketball player, and this legendary basketball player does not know how to play.
Jesus Shuttlesworth (“His Game”)
Ray Allen's character is incredibly cool, both because of Ray Allen and because of the very fact that the governor releases his father from prison to persuade the young talent to choose his home university.
It's top, no question.
But he himself is rather about nothing: all the conflicts that move "His game" lie outside the main character.
He has an unusual family situation: his father killed his mother and ended up in prison.
Interest is drawn to him: he is so good that universities go beyond the bounds of decency to impress him.
Everything fits perfectly on the parquet floor.
But outside of it, he can oppose the world with only one thing - his stubbornness.
Jesus is the perfect guy. He wants to play basketball and take care of his sister.
With such a summons, you will not go further than Milwaukee.
Yuri Kulich-Kulikovskiy ("Central from the Sky")
The great Aksyonov knew a lot about stories.
There is a global contradiction between the star and the coach. The coach loves basketball - the star loves the girl Nina and initially agrees to play in the team solely because it gives him a chance to become closer to her.
There is a constant development. The girl fades into the background, basketball comes to the fore.
The drama of the last seconds generally turns into a melodrama. The girl Nina manages to arrive in a Zhiguli for the last three seconds of the match and bring victory.
There is a weighty application for the best film basketball player. With Kulich-Kulikovsky, his team beats absolutely everyone, even the Americans. And in the presence of his beloved, he manages to win a controversial ball in three seconds, run to the ring and put it on top. And thus wins out the victory.
The impression is blurred by playing the pipe and working as a shepherd. But without flaws there are no even superheroes.
Shorty (Sunset Park)
The most underrated figure in movie basketball.
First, Fredro Starr himself. Onyx's face, as the rebellious leader, looks almost as bad as Tupac. A unique voice, an unforgettable mug and inimitable control of it, a 100% hit in character and a charm that simply cannot be played.
Secondly, the character himself. It is hardly, in principle, possible to invent a hero who would be more attractive. Shorty is the cinematic Allen Iverson, both on and off the court. Incredibly fast, small and nimble, completely fearless, obsessed with victories, keeping romance in his heart and at the same time a little crazy.
He plays in such a way that it is impossible not to admire him. And his position in life means that not one of his steps is unthinkable without problems and conflicts.
Balancing between pistol shooting and shooting at the ring, between the police station and the finale, he succeeds as naturally as the scriptwriters of "Movement Up" change Belova and Edeshko's mustaches.
Thirdly, this whirlwind supplier of problems and crossovers works perfectly with the provided coach - a lady who doesn't know a damn thing about basketball, but wants to figure it out.
Absolute opposites merge in ecstasy and ennoble each other in the process towards a common goal.
Sidney Dean and Billy Hoyle ("Whites Can't Jump")
Your best bet is predictable: the most compelling connection from the best basketball movie.
They don't even need a coach. They complement each other perfectly and bring just the right amount of challenge to flow the story smoothly, create good pacing, showcase their basketball, cheating, trash talk, and trolling talents to the fullest, and formulate not just "I'm in the 'zone" memes, but the best moral for a basketball movie.
Billy has a gambling problem. Sydney has a difficult situation on the family front, where a house and other bourgeois benefits are needed.
Billy is a white man who tries to fit in with black's game. Sidney has just enough irony to question his colleague's every move.
Both are dishonest and both see basketball as an outlet and a way to solve all their problems.
In general, this is the best combination. It not only helps you push through all the accumulated jokes about blacks and whites, but also speaks in detail on all the things that make you burn, including connecting the never-aging jokes about “your mom”.
And yes, for everyone else to have a burning sensation too, have Billy beat Sidney in the first scene, then almost save the day when Sidney set him up, and learn how to bet over the course of the movie. That is, he surpassed black on all counts.
Problem #4. To create a dream team, that is, people around a star who could be succinctly described with a minimum amount of funds
You see, spending a lot of minutes on a trip to Georgia just to show a wedding is not only completely illogical, but also quite pointless.
In the best basketball films, all team members are depicted in a very characteristic way, but at the same time with the maximum economy of timing.
Two of the best examples are Fast Break and Space Jam.
No one is going to the Tasmanian Devil's wedding, no one wants to delve deeper into the inner world of Daffy Duck, and Lola and Bugs' romantic relationship is limited to the rectangle of the site.
And this team does not need any additional introductions.
And the episodes, which last no more than a minute, reveal the characters of the cartoons better than any story.
Fast Break needs a little more money, but not much.
Hustler beats the simpletons at billiards and goes overboard, so he urgently needs to leave New York.
The preacher knocked up the 15-year-old daughter of the sect leader, and he ordered it.
DC is a former high school star turned bum.
Swish is a girl who has no opportunity to play basketball, except by signing up for the men's team under a false name.
Bull never played basketball, but excelled at American football. Now he knocks everyone down.
Then they:
1. Get high on the way to the university
2. Blacks fight against whites in training
3. Undress the opponents coach in a game of billiards and force his team to play with them as a prize.
4. Bull is sent to remove the leader of the rivals by saying the “n” word to him.
5. DC dirtyly harasses Swish as soon as he finds out it's not a man.
6. They play so well that the university authorities cover up their previous misdeeds and negotiate with the police.
7. Trust decisive possession to Suish only after she discovers boobs (calmly, just under the shirt).
Every scene here doesn't fit with today's "social norms", and at least that makes the film sound stronger every year.
Problem #5. Dramatically show the training process
Training is wildly boring, but only they allow you to give significance and drama to a sporting achievement.
Showing trampolining is, of course, inventive, but there is no use or sense in it, except perhaps only one inappropriate comedy.
Three films to keep in mind when simulating a workout.
3. "Coach Carter"
Training at "Carter" helps to outline three aspects:
First, the coach beats his player, and it turns out that the limited number of lyudi issued to the armored teenager can have an ennobling effect. Not quite a humane message, but quite reflecting the spirit of the picture.
Secondly, it becomes more or less obvious to anyone that basketball is hard.
Finally, the coach's voluntarism helps the team to pull together through hard work. Made a little pretentious, but nevertheless it should be noted how people even manage to squeeze something interesting out of a dull element.
2. "Fast Break"
There is an opinion that the training process is introduced to push the black magicians of the ball and the white bonebreakers, but what, in essence, is the difference.
Internal conflict helps make training sessions feel less like a convention, forced to demonstrate what's going on outside of matches.
There is a plot development here. There is an attempt to delineate the characters deeper. There is a desire to beat racial stereotypes.
1. Alien Play
Alien Play is a film that recalls the black Texas Western squad: an all-black top five and a 7-to-5 first team white.
Coach Haskins, who embarks on such an experiment, finds black basketball going beyond the traditional, so he must simultaneously restrain a creative black soul and loosen his own conservative bonds.
The process of mutual enrichment of cultures is most clearly manifested just in training.
Problem #6. No self-respecting basketball movie is complete without a trash talk scene.
So just copy it so that it doesn't look like plagiarism, but like a not-so-subtle allusion.
Problem #7. It's smart to insert a melodramatic plot into a sports drama that would take your movie out of the narrow subcultural framework
The main thing here is to correctly calculate everything.
You don't need a love line that will fill all the space and outshine basketball.
This is Love and Basketball.
You don't want a line that intersects too closely with basketball.
In Center from the Sky, this is generally the only thing that motivates the protagonist for any action other than blowing a pipe. And it does not decorate it.
You don't need a line that smacks of absurdity.
It's great to drive a woman away with a shower, and then suddenly understand EVERYTHING. But in the actions of the heroes there must be at least a semblance of logic.
You don't need a line to show that even the smartest and prettiest woman can't compete with basketball. In the framework of "Whites Can't Jump" it works, but it is better to refrain from such radicalism.
You want something that is not too dramatic, not too tiring, but touching and funny enough.
Well, there's a friend going crazy because he falls in love with a teammate. He worries wildly about his sudden onset of homosexuality, suffers from a severe and laughable bout of homophobia, and already wants to run away when he suddenly finds out that this partner is actually a woman.
In general, one can fantasize here.
Problem #8. Create conflict and come up with a convincing image of the enemy
In order for the final victory to be truly significant, you need not just a rival, but a rival who would be worth hating, some direct antagonist who would be strong, influential, daring and just run into trouble.
For a basketball movie, this is a rather rare situation. And she almost always failed.
Center from Heaven cannot do without American students. Among them comes across one irresponsible rude man, but he is calmed down by his own. In the mid-70s, détente in the Cold War was just beginning, and the Americans do not evoke any particularly negative emotions.
The most organically constructed script is Above the Ring . Birdie is the embodiment of evil, worse than that, the charming embodiment of evil. The good guys defeat him, but then they get another bullet.
It's impossible to hate Tupac with bunny ears, but that he's the perfect antagonist is undeniable.
"Move Up" goes as far as decency would allow. The logic is broken again, and it suddenly turns out that the Americans don’t know how to play, but they are trying with all their might to break OURS! (with anguish). And their maniac trainer even targets the best in the Union as a victim.
Two rednecks that crawled out of the pages of Krokodil magazine accompany all this disgrace with drunken noise.
Despite all the efforts, the plan remains not entirely feasible. Americans are portrayed as unsympathetic, but there is no hatred towards them. This is not Rocky 4, which, for all its clumsiness, evokes such negative feelings towards Russians that even Russians experience them.
Well, the most successful option is "Playing by someone else's rules" .
As in "Moving Up", everything is invented there, but more consistently.
The space around the black team and the white team that is in the same boat with them is shrinking. They are beaten up, slandered, drinks and popcorn thrown at them, until finally they get to the main enemy - Kentucky head coach Adolph Rupp (who, in fact, regularly played matches with blacks and then began to attract blacks to his teams) is portrayed almost the leader of all the racists of the South of America.
Texas Western ends up beating all-white Kentucky in the final. And it looks like it was the capture of Berlin.
Your unattainable ideal - Space Jam.
The fucking Martians want to enslave the Earth: it is logical that the coyote, the people from Pulp Fiction and the fighting bird Tweety beat them to the fullest.
Problem #9. Mandatory episode in which the basketball is kicked and flies into the stands. Without this, your film immediately loses 25% of its appetizing
Problem #10. A heartfelt speech is needed to set the momentum for the turning point
It all depends on the temperament of your trainer.
Cold-blooded.
Less cold-blooded.
Anti-cold-blooded.
A bit of a common place, but Nolte can even make something for the ages out of banality.
Problem #11. Since you will inevitably overdo it with pathos, it is necessary to reduce its level with regular doses of humor. You need to figure out how to do this without damaging your reputation
At a minimum, you need someone like Philip Seymour Hoffman with his divine "Raindrops".
And best of all, take two characters, one black and the other white, and make their mutual injections and attacks against everyone around them grow and grow, creating a special atmosphere along with the dramatic development of events.
“The white guy wants to win first and then look good. And black wants to look good first, and then win.”
Damn, looks like this has already been filmed.
Problem #12. Come up with an absurd dunk
Who said: “Why absurd ?!”
Are we going to play basketball here or where?
There is no basketball without dunks, and it is impossible to convey in this matter: if even a remote plausibility remains, then it must be tried. Even if you don't impress, you will remember.
There are no losers here. But just in case, you need to announce the entire list.
Best Shit Movie Dunk Grand Prix
Winning dunk of the Cable Guy pushing off Jack Black's back.
Cheap, angry, strained, but you can immediately see who is who in this basketball of yours.
Most Winning Dunk Grand Prix
Winning dunk by Derek Vinyard from American History X. While still the head of the skinheads, he beats some black guys on Venice Beach - nothing better has ever happened to the Nazis.
Grand Prix "Most Incredible Dunk the Human Mind Has Ever Done"
Halle Berry as Catwoman did the unthinkable - ending any debate about the worst basketball scene of all time.
Most Ridiculous Basketball Movie Grand Prix
Like Mike's Calvin Cambridge dunks with magic shoes, but that's hardly an excuse for this mess.
Triumph of Willpower Grand Prix
Alley-up Billy Hoyle in charge of all whites.
Grand Prix "Major dunk in the history of mankind"
Michael Jordan punishes the Martians.
Grand Prix "Slim walking on the verge of absurdity"
The creators of the "Move Up" approached this issue with knowledge and did a lot to get their own Grand Prix. But only in aggregate. Understated hoops, implausible takeoff, jumps like in a slamball, dunk from under the foot in an important match, a shield broken by Padius, Sergei Belov's Spiderman-style hovering - all this in itself is secondary, but in general it deserves a separate nomination.
Problem #13. Choice of music
Everything is quite simple here.
2Pac, Onyx or Public Enemy are sure to make something memorable for you.
If you follow the path of a little more resistance, then it can also lead you to unexpected results.
As practice shows, the production of rap comrades for cinema is always a little higher than their work in general. It's a pleasure to do business with them.
The bad version is not recommended, but it is also available.
Problem #14. To be able to deliver a climax
You know where the whole movie is headed. And the audience knows it too.
Fighting until the last minute, life-devouring stopwatch, the ball is in the hands of a good person, he definitely hits.
Since there are no other options (of course, you can lose as the creators of Sunset Park or Coach Carter, but it’s better then to do nothing at all), and these circumstances themselves have been replicated for several centuries, you need to tighten up : to create "suspense" at least through artistic means.
Suggested solutions, from dumbest to smartest.
Victory in three seconds (“Central from the sky”)
One glance of his beloved eyes, and comrade Kulich-Kulikovsky manages to win the controversial one and fly away with the winning dunk.
On top of everything else, the impression is overshadowed by the fact that from this moment the picture begins ...
Jimmy Chitwood's throw (Hougiers)
Very plausible in absurdity, but wildly dumb - Indiana superstar plays "isolation", waiting for the last seconds, throws through the hands and, of course, hits.
Wow so primitive.
Alley-up from "Above the Ring"
With 3 seconds left and with a "-1" delay, Shep intercepts the ball and manages to hang up the parachute, which turns out to be decisive.
More virtuoso, but also not very inventive.
Semi-Pro alley-oop
In the last game, Jackie Moon gets a head injury and is reunited with his mother in heaven. She gives him advice on how to change basketball - throw the ball next to the ring so that an athletic black man can peck it from above.
Not very historical, but sums up the ABA's huge role in the creation of basketball with an intricate metaphor.
Alley-up from "Whites Can't Jump"
All those slow-motion things are annoying, but this particular ending is brilliant in its simplicity. Alley-up is the harmony of two players, Billy puts on top, what he has been striving for all his life, the picture is immediately resolved by a philosophical message about patience, overcoming, work and other crap, about which not a word is said.
One simple moment captures everything that needs to be said.
Alexander Belov's ball ("Move up")
Documentary restoration of the chronicle. Forces to reconsider the erased frames with a different attitude.
Space Jam Dunk
Michael Jordan turns out to be a toon. Who would have thought, huh?
Super task No.
15. Make sure that the film has a moral that goes beyond sports, and then everyone says that “this movie is not about basketball, but about life.” It should be pronounced with anguish and suddenly wet eyes
This is something that almost no one has conquered.
The values of a basketball film are limited enough to be played with in such a dashing way.
Basketball movies can teach friendship and show the importance of collective unity ("Play by someone else's rules", "Move up", "Coach Carter").
Can emphasize the need for hard work and the kind of ethics that one must ultimately strive for (“Coach Carter”).
Can demonstrate that all life's troubles are solved in the same way as problems on the set. Especially if you have a strong white leader figure (Sunset Park) with you.
Can go far beyond the court and link life and basketball together (“Love and Basketball”).
Might as well go for a re-creation of Star Wars basketball with Tupac as Darth Vader and Padawan tug-of-war between good and evil ("Over the Ring").
There are options.
But still, nothing compares to the direct, uncomplicated, but sincere idea of "White people can't jump": basketball will pull out, everything else is secondary.
Top photo: kinopoisk.ru
He dunked with Kirilenko, and is now in charge of Zenit-Kazan players' fitness
Interview with Mikhail Vikhnevich.
In the off-season, together with Alexei Verbov , two of his assistants moved from Kuzbass to Zenit Kazan - senior coach Konstantin Sidenko and physical training coach Mikhail Vikhnevich . The 40-year-old specialist came to volleyball from the world of basketball and quickly gained prestige. He managed to work in the national women's team of Russia and several top clubs.
In an interview with BO Sport, Vikhnevich spoke about the concept of working with players, the most common injuries, the importance of recovery, and much more.
Mikhail Vikhnevich / photo: Roman Kruchinin, zenit-kazan.com
"BASKETBALL WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ME, NOT A PASSION"
- Mikhail, in 1999 you took part in the Super League All-Star Game. Is this the highlight of your basketball career?
– Definitely! And I got on this show by accident. My teammate from the Krasnoyarsk Yenisei Viktor Kurilov was injured. I come to training in the morning: “Will you go to Perm? - Of course!". I was 18 at the time - not everyone gets that chance.
- Quote from the newspaper: "Two throws with the ball under the foot ensured that the 18-year-old soldier Kirilenko won the final over Vikhnevich and $300 in prize money." Did you need that money back then?
- I got $200 for second place in a dunk contest, so I wasn't upset. Then it was my monthly salary. Kirilenko had already played at the base of CSKA, it was clear that he would become a tough player. The All-Star game was in the spring, and in the summer he was selected by Utah in the NBA draft.
- What kind of basketball player were you?
- To be honest with myself, it's quite mediocre. He was average - with good physical condition, but not with the most varied game. I've always liked hoop fighting. I lacked height, but I was completely fearless and got adrenaline from pushing, fighting for the ball. But in basketball, you still need to throw the ball into the ring and interact well with partners - there were difficulties with this.
- In the 2005/06 season, you crossed paths in Dynamo Moscow with the legendary coach Dusan Ivkovic. What is his memory?
- I spent the pre-season with him and was called up from the reserves during the season. He was a unique person who subtly felt the team. It was a great honor to work under the guidance of such a specialist. This is another milestone in my career. Of course, certain ideas from Ivkovic's coaching philosophy have stuck in my memory and are being applied by me in my current work.
– For example?
- Ivkovic has never pushed players. If he saw that people were exhausted, it was not a problem for him to complete the workout 15 to 20 minutes after it began. If I now see that a person is giving 100 percent, but with the last of his strength, then I would prefer not to squeeze him out.
– Do you play basketball now?
- No. You know, I've never been a basketball fan.
– So how is it?
– Basketball was an opportunity for me to escape from my native Kurgan, an opportunity to enter a university and earn money. In the 1990s, everything in the country was in decline and I did not see other opportunities besides sports. I tried to play basketball, I was good at it, but it was never my passion. This is also why I ended my career quite early - at the age of 29. The current work as a physical training coach causes me completely different emotions, this is really a job that gives me great pleasure.
- Where is the intensity of the load - in basketball or in volleyball?
- Everywhere is difficult if you give yourself completely to your work - uncompromisingly, without sympathy and compassion for yourself. And they are completely different sports. Basketball - horizontal and contact, volleyball - vertical and non-contact. In basketball, acute injuries, in volleyball - cumulative. Loads everywhere are large, but they are different. Even the conditioning is different.
“WE DO NOT FORCE ZENIT PLAYERS TO WORK”
– Why didn't you stay in basketball?
- After the end of my playing career, I thought that all doors would be open for me and I would find a job without any problems. But it turned out that there are hundreds and thousands of people like me. I didn't have the crazy top-level gaming experience, the unique knowledge, or the education to work with kids. At that time, I was still in my last year at the Moscow State Academy of Physical Culture, specializing in “Coach of the highest category. Basketball". I realized that I will not become a good basketball coach and I need to look for myself in something else. I turned around 180 degrees and started almost from scratch at the Faculty of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation. It can be said to be a pivotal moment in life.
– Did you start in fitness clubs?
- Yes, I immediately put into practice all the knowledge and skills in rehabilitation and recovery that I received at the university. It wasn't dead knowledge. In fitness, everyone wanted to work with relatively healthy people, and I took on the most problematic people who had problems with their back, shoulder joint, knees. That's how I gained experience. I realized that this niche is free and began to actively develop. Gradually, client-athletes appeared, word of mouth worked. In 2013, an offer unexpectedly came from Iskra, from where the entire Italian headquarters was then evacuated. I was immediately connected to work with the District. The intensity of the work was crazy, but it was insanely interesting.
- You come from another sport. How did you get into the biomechanics of volleyball?
- Studied literature, studied all the material that is available. Biomechanics, motor skills of movements - of course, the physical training coach must know and understand all this thoroughly. My wife helped me with foreign sources and training programs, plus she constantly found refresher courses. Thank you for helping me get better. In 2017, I went to the States for the first time for a course of lectures specifically on the shoulder joints, which was given by a teacher from Columbia University. It was a difficult period when it was necessary to master a huge amount of information. But it was very interesting and completely absorbed me.
– Since 2017 you have changed clubs every year. What is it connected with?
- With more interesting offers. I don't see this as a problem. Every year is a new challenge, there is no way to relax. Changing the team is a certain stress, but you are in good shape. This year it turned out that I moved to Kazan as part of the coaching staff of Alexei Verbov.
– How is the vertical of interaction with the head coach built? Do you determine the program of work in the gym yourself?
- The program is developed as a result of discussion, based on the goals and objectives that we are striving for. Verbov and I already have mutual understanding and trust, so it's easy to work. Of course, all training programs are constantly being adjusted. If we need to develop some qualities of the players, their work in the ballroom can be reduced. And vice versa.
Alexey Verbov / photo: Roman Kruchinin, zenit-kazan.com
– There is usually a lot of routine work in training. How to make athletes perform it qualitatively every day?
- Our coaching staff has a certain concept that we adhere to. It is about partnerships. We do not force anyone, but we try to involve the players in the process as much as possible. Everyone knows what is being done and why. When a person understands that he is doing work for his own improvement, he does it qualitatively and with desire. There is no personal violence.
“I NEVER RECOMMEND TO BE A SEAL”
- What are the top 5 most common injuries in volleyball.
- Ankles, knees, back, shoulders and neck. Moreover, these problems for a volleyball player usually grow in this sequence. Problems begin with the foot, which is reflected in the knees. The knees stop absorbing after jumping - problems with the back begin, then it gives to the neck. In volleyball, most injuries are cumulative, from natural wear and tear. A player can be in perfect physical shape but get injured. Therefore, loads throughout the career matter. 120 jumps a day is one thing, 240 is a completely different story. And after loads, recovery is very, very important.
– What should it be like?
- Healthy sleep is the best recovery. Massage, bath, cryosauna, ice baths - it all works. Just need to do. Do not run after a workout rather about your business, but carry out the necessary procedures. If you want a long career, you need to make an effort for this. Recovery should be directly proportional to the load. The opportunities for recovery are enormous. But in this matter, much depends on the athletes themselves.
– How often do athletes keep silent about their injuries?
- It happens. As a rule, these are young players who are trying to gain a foothold in the squad and are afraid of losing their place. But we always carry out explanatory work on this topic, making it clear that in such cases the player only harms himself.
– How long can a player continuously rest in summer?
- I never recommend just lying like a seal. This will negatively affect the physiological level. The body was in a certain tone, under loads and it was impossible to refuse everything abruptly. It's best to always keep fit. Biking, swimming, canoeing. It is clear that at least two weeks are needed for mental recovery. During this period, no one wants to see a volleyball. Therefore, it is important to change activities. Therefore, it can be any other activity of an entertaining nature. I know several players who like to throw the ball into the basket in the summer. Why not? This is both a load and useful for coordination.
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– Yuriy Berezhko posted a video with dunks on Instagram. Challenged you to a battle?
- Yes, he constantly offers to compete, but so far it has not worked out.
- How often do players bring fat back from vacation these days?
- Now this is an extremely rare occurrence. The players have become more professional. In addition, everyone has vacation programs. Players should come to training camp already prepared for intensive work. If all the fees are six weeks, we don't have three weeks to start from scratch.
"FISHERS IN THE TRAINER ARE A CRUTCH"
- What tools do you use to track the current state of the players?
- The easiest diagnostic method is to monitor the heart rate. For this we have heart rate monitors and special applications. Sometimes simplicity is the highest wisdom. The pulse reflects the state of the cardiovascular system and allows you to determine when the athlete is in the green zone and can still receive loads. If the values are peaking, then he needs more time to recover. Manual muscle testing is also regularly used, which shows muscle tone.
- Do you recommend braces for players?
- I think that the braces in the gym are a crutch. It is better that the body has the ability to cope with certain efforts. If a person needs a weightlifting belt, perhaps the load is simply too high for him. You can revise the approach and schemes. There are thousands of exercises and you can comfortably replace any without the use of braces.
- Does it happen that a player comes up and says that your program does not suit him?
– My opinion and methodology is not the ultimate truth. I will never say: "Do this and nothing else." This is a highly unproductive model. My job is to help players get better. Therefore, there is constant interaction, communication. There are players with vast experience who know their body and its capabilities well. After trying your scheme, the player gives feedback, tells how he feels. All training schemes are flexible and adapt to the performers.
Everything is controlled by the central nervous system. If a person has a mental aversion to some kind of movement, then he will not get any result. But at the same time, there are a million other exercises to improve certain functionality.
- Is there a big difference between working with young and older players?
- Yes, because they have different recovery rates. A young growing body recovers much faster than a veteran. Therefore, the loads will be different, but aimed at ensuring that everyone shows himself as efficiently as possible on the site.
- What is more in the preparation of volleyball players - jumping, running or speeding up?
- It depends on what stage of preparation and depending on what qualities you want to develop. Sprints, jumps on the pedestals - all this is in certain preparatory periods. At the beginning of training, we generally learn not to jump, but only to land. The power component is developed, then everything else.
- Alexander Gutsalyuk from Ural has the biggest "banks" in the Super League. Do volleyball players need muscles?
- It is important for us that the volleyball player successfully overcome gravity and that there is enough force in his shot. We are working on the strength component, and muscle hypertrophy is already a side effect. Gutsalyuk probably knows what he is doing. Ivan Zaitsev is also a fan of "iron", but he does not have such biceps. Everyone gets what they want.
Roman Pakshin (left) and Mikhail Vikhnevich / photo: Danil Aikin, kuzbass-volley.ru
– Last season you worked for the first time in a Siberian club. What was the feature?
- Kuzbass has difficult flights, constant jet lag. The main task was to find time for the physical recovery of the players among the busy calendar. I want to say that I enjoyed working with these guys. Despite the difficult conditions, they worked with incredible dedication. There was an excellent microclimate in Kuzbass, I think this helped. Now we are creating one in Kazan.
"IMPACT OF POST-COVID ON PLAYERS NOT YET STUDY"
- Can you increase the player's jump by 15 cm?
- 5 - 10 cm I can. The only question is what price to pay for it. When you categorically improve something, a lot of effort and effort is expended on it. The question is, do you need it for your own ego or these 10 cm will greatly improve your game. If the latter, then for this you can work.
- A popular term in sports is "peak shape". How do you feel about him?
- It seems to me that it is more for cyclic sports, when there are three or four starts in a season, for which there is a systematic preparation. In team sports, two or three games a week, and the athlete must always be in good shape. Although we also have final tournaments for which we are preparing. Good physical condition helps to feel confident. But at the same time, mental preparation is also very important, especially after two or three difficult games in a row. The ability to overcome oneself, to maintain concentration. You can not sag physically, but give in to your opponent mentally.
– Has it ever happened in your practice that the whole team sagged?
- No, but individual players do. Because there are a lot of factors, including those that cannot be controlled. The shape can be affected by lack of sleep when there is a small child in the family. Long flights, change of time zones. The ideal physical form is a very thin matter, which is very difficult to maintain.
- What is the main indicator of the success of a physical training coach?
– One of the main ones is definitely the absence of injuries. The second is the tone of the team during the season. So that the players are always ready to play five games and not suffocate.
- In the past two years, you have had experience working with players after suffering from coronavirus. What are the characteristics of recovery?
- This is still a very complex and little-studied moment. The consequences of the disease are different for everyone, everything is very individual. Some had problems with the lungs, others with joints, and still others with muscle structure. It seems that covid more often hits the problem areas of the player. In this regard, I can not name any specific methods of recovery.
photo: Roman Kruchinin, zenit-kazan.com
“COLLECTORS WORK FOR WEAR”
- Who in Kazan "Zenith" is responsible for the nutrition of the players?
- Collectively - me and the medical staff. As far as possible, we try to make the diet varied. Plus, we add supplements that are important for recovery.
– Without food preparations in any way?
- This is banal mathematics. An athlete can lose 2,000 calories per game, depending on the intensity of the work. Not everyone will be able to compensate for this in one meal. And not all the vitamins you need can be obtained from food in the right amount, so you need additional nutrition.
– What is more important – genetics or methodology and trainer?
– Of course, if a person is morphologically disposed toward a sport, he has an advantage at a basic level over those who are less gifted. But even on my life path, there were many cases when genetically gifted people did not show results, because their discipline, dedication, selflessness were lame. The coach is the guide. He cannot do the work for you. 90 percent of success depends on the performer. If you don't put in your best effort, no amount of genetics will help.
– Who is easier to work with in the gym – men or women?
- For both men and women, I had the opportunity to work with individuals who had an incredible level of motivation. They were pathologically disciplined and incredibly hardworking. They even had to be limited in their work so as not to injure themselves. It is clear that women are more emotional and require a special approach, but in general the work is the same.
- How long does it take players to recover after returning from national teams?
– To tell the truth, they hardly have that time. When they return, certain obligations are imposed on them by the club. Of course, you try to make a more gentle mode of operation for them, but there is simply no full recovery, which they most often need. The collections work for wear and tear.
BO Sport DOSSIER Mikhail VIKHNEVICH Zenit-Kazan physical training coach Date of birth: January 8, 1981 Place of birth: Kurgan Basketball career: Enisey (Krasnoyarsk) - 1997 - 2004; Dynamo-2 (Moscow) - 2004/05; "Standard" (Tolyatti) - 2005/06; Ryazan - 2006/07; Nalchik - 2007 - 2010.
His eyes got big, eyebrows lifted up, and he said, Whoa. Nice move, man.
He gives examples of some of the best players in the game missed more shots than they made. He lets them know that the only way to improve is to make mistakes and get outside your comfort zone.
Confidence breeds more success.
After that, watch his videos.
Permanent confidence is something no one can take away because compliments don't inflate us and criticism doesn't shake us.
A climate where athletes feel "believed in." An environment of encouragement is especially crucial when confidence has not become permanent.
Avoid dangerous passes. Give your teammates confidence in your passing decisions.
Work on it every practice and protect yourself from mentally letting down your guard which comparison, assumption, or negative thinking. As you think, so you become.
Any Del Negro can draw arrows on a tablet, it is better to invite Zhirinovsky to make fiery speeches with delusional messages, and 75 percent of Kashchenko's patients are able to portray fits of rage and spit spit 75 percent more convincingly. The functions of a coach are completely obscure from the outside, and even sports fans believe that the suit, whistle and wild gestures are such a modern form of ancient magic that pays well. 
It seemed that he was now ... Eggplant grabbed his hands and turned a ferocious face to Yura. 
Basketball is the best human game. I like basketball! 
A harsh past that forced a lot to reconsider. Artificially induced fits of rage, ending in permanent deletions. The ability to create a family atmosphere in the team, but at the same time the maximum turn on the result. A pose full of inner dignity that ennobles any uttered platitudes, any manifestations of intemperance, any shortcomings in the script. One has an alcoholic as an assistant, the other has Jacque Vaughn ... And wild despondency. 
and bryolin. This is the first absolutely normal coach in the history of mankind who refutes the concept of "dullness". 
.. And who moves everyone, being the embodiment of basketball evil. 
No other basketball film has penetrated NBA history so unceremoniously. 
And Chitwood doesn't even ask, "Coach, are you out of your ###? 
A unique voice, an unforgettable mug and inimitable control of it, a 100% hit in character and a charm that simply cannot be played. 
Now he knocks everyone down. 
And she almost always failed. 
Even if you don't impress, you will remember. 
15. Make sure that the film has a moral that goes beyond sports, and then everyone says that “this movie is not about basketball, but about life.” It should be pronounced with anguish and suddenly wet eyes 
The All-Star game was in the spring, and in the summer he was selected by Utah in the NBA draft. 
Basketball". I realized that I will not become a good basketball coach and I need to look for myself in something else. I turned around 180 degrees and started almost from scratch at the Faculty of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation. It can be said to be a pivotal moment in life. 
The intensity of the work was crazy, but it was insanely interesting. 
Every year is a new challenge, there is no way to relax. Changing the team is a certain stress, but you are in good shape. This year it turned out that I moved to Kazan as part of the coaching staff of Alexei Verbov. 
It is about partnerships. We do not force anyone, but we try to involve the players in the process as much as possible. Everyone knows what is being done and why. When a person understands that he is doing work for his own improvement, he does it qualitatively and with desire. There is no personal violence. 
And after loads, recovery is very, very important. 
This will negatively affect the physiological level. The body was in a certain tone, under loads and it was impossible to refuse everything abruptly. It's best to always keep fit. Biking, swimming, canoeing. It is clear that at least two weeks are needed for mental recovery. During this period, no one wants to see a volleyball. Therefore, it is important to change activities. Therefore, it can be any other activity of an entertaining nature. I know several players who like to throw the ball into the basket in the summer. Why not? This is both a load and useful for coordination. 
The power component is developed, then everything else. 
There was an excellent microclimate in Kuzbass, I think this helped. Now we are creating one in Kazan. 
But at the same time, mental preparation is also very important, especially after two or three difficult games in a row. The ability to overcome oneself, to maintain concentration. You can not sag physically, but give in to your opponent mentally. 
What are the characteristics of recovery? 
Not everyone will be able to compensate for this in one meal. And not all the vitamins you need can be obtained from food in the right amount, so you need additional nutrition. 
They even had to be limited in their work so as not to injure themselves. It is clear that women are more emotional and require a special approach, but in general the work is the same. 
