How to develop handles in basketball

Basketball Dribbling and Ball Handling Video Clips, Fundamentals, Drills, and Tips

Most coaches use dribbling and ball handling interchangeably. Though they are linked, the 2 skills are definitely separate.

Dribbling and controlling the ball is a skill that can be practiced alone and is separate from the other ball skills on the court. Ball handling, however, involves knowledge of the game and integrates dribbling, passing and decision-making.

Practicing and improving your dribbling is a simple task. There are innumerable dribbling drills that are in use today that are challenging and effective. The set of drills that have come to be known as "Maravich Drills," (after the late ball-handling wizard Pete Maravich) are widely known. They include drills such as passing the ball around your body, dribble figure 8s, spider dribbling, drop and catch.

Practicing and improving your ball handling requires imagination, as you have to put yourself in game situations.

One of our favorite series of ballhandling drills that helps develop better ballhandlers is the Maravich series! Watch it below.

9 Tips To Improve Your Dribbling & Ball Handling

Here are 9 tips from pro coach Don Kelbick.

1. Dribble the ball hard. The more time the ball spends in your hand, the more control you have of the ball. The harder you dribble, the quicker it gets back in your hand.
2. Head up at all times. Look at the rim or a spot on the wall during all practice.
3. Use your finger tips to control the ball, not your palm.
4. Use your imagination. Picture when and how you would use each of the dribbles.
5. Teach mentality. There is too much dribbling for no reason in our game today. I like to teach that the primary purpose for putting the ball on the floor is to get a lay-up. If you don't have an opportunity, don't put it on the floor.
6. Basketball is a game of length. Work on lengthening the dribble. Work to get your opportunities with 1 dribble. You don't beat defenses with your dribble. You beat people with your feet; you SEPARATE from your defense with the dribble.
7. Basketball is also a game of angles. Try to move in straight lines. Whenever you make an "East-West" move (something that takes you toward the sideline), re-capture a "North-South" path (direct line to the basket) as quickly as possible.
8. Don't do things in 2 dribbles that you can do in 1.
9. Practice outside your comfort zone. Experiment; go faster than you are used to, use your imagination. When working on new skills, don't be concerned with losing the ball. Just pick it up and do it again. If you practice only things that are comfortable, then you will never improve.

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Dribbling Practice

"Maravich Drills" are very good at getting players comfortable with the ball. Below are some examples.

• Dribble Figure 8's - Spread legs about shoulder width. Dribble the ball through and around legs in a figure 8. Can be done multiple ways - front to back, back to front, low dribbles (as many dribbles as possible with dribble about shoe height), as few dribbles as possible (high dribble about waist high), can even be done walking. For even more of a challenge, try the drill with one hand instead of two.
• Spider Dribble - Feet spread about shoulder width. Dribble the ball between your legs in the following manner - left hand, right hand in front of your legs; left hand, right hand behind your legs. Work to as fast a possible.
• Drop and Catch - Hold ball between your legs with right hand in front of your body, left hand behind. Drop the ball and exchange you hand position and re-catch the ball before it hits the ground.

These are just examples. There are too many of these drills to list here. Pete Maravich devised these drills out of his imagination, his need for challenge and his drive to improve. You do not need to be bound by other people's drills; challenge yourself to come up with your own drills.

Dribbling Warm Ups

I prefer to practice skills in combinations that are relevant to multiple aspects of the game. It saves time and instills a great sense of urgency.. It saves time and has a great sense of urgency. One of the ways I do this is to add dribbling into my stretching exercises.

• Hamstring Stretch - While dribbling with your right hand, cross right leg over left. Bend at the waist, touch the floor with your left hand and bring your dribble down to shoe top level. Hold for an 8 count. Reverse position and switch hands.
• Lower Body and Achilles Stretch - Dribble waist high while standing up. Step as far forward with your right leg as you can, keeping your back straight and your left heel on the ground. At the same time bring your dribble forward of your right foot, keeping the ball at shoe-top height. Hold for an 8 count and then stand up. Switch legs and dribble hand.
• Crossover - Same as above except, step forward with left leg. As foot goes to the floor, switch hands, right to left, keeping dribble shoe top height. Cross back when standing up.
• Through Legs - Same as above except instead of crossing over, put ball through legs at shoe top height.
• Multiple Through Legs - Same as above except put ball through legs 3 times (left, right, left) on quick, successive dribbles shoe top height.
• Torso Twist - Spread legs outside of shoulder width, dribble with right hand. Keeping legs straight, bring ball across body to left side, outside left foot and dribble at shoe top height behind left foot.

These are just samples. You can develop a dribble stretch for any part of the body.

Two Ball Dribbling Drills & Videos:

I think the most effective way to improve your dribble, however, is by using 2 balls. Any dribble or drill you can do with 1 ball, you can do with 2. Stationary practice at first will build confidence. Stand on the baseline and try to control both balls. Then start to move. Go half court, then full court. Follow the lines around the court or in any route you can come up with.

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The difference between dribbling and ball handling is intent. Dribbling is the skill of controlling the ball as you bounce it to the floor. Ball handling (at least 1 aspect of ball handling) is what you do with that dribble.

Whether you use it to go to the basket, make a passing angle, escape from pressure or anything else, those situations have to be imagined and practiced.

Here are some situational drills:

• Full Court Lay-ups - Start on the baseline. Dribble full court with right hand in 5 dribbles and make a lay-up, come back with left hand. Then reduce the number of dribbles to 4 and then to 3.
• Chair Changes - Place a chair about 21 feet from the basket. It can be on top, on the wing, or in the corner. Start about 8-10 feet beyond the chair. Dribble straight at the chair. At the chair, use a change of direction dribble (crossover, inside out, behind back, etc) to go beyond the chair and make a lay-up. Try to get to the point where you only need one dribble to get to the lay-up. Practice all the changes.
• Two up - Two back - Set a chair such as in the drill above. Take 2 hard dribbles at the chair. When reaching the chair, take 2 backup dribbles. After the second dribble, push ahead into 1 dribble lay-up or pull-up jumpshot.
• Dropstep Dribble - (works on footwork and ballhanding)
• Chair Curl - This is another great multi use drill. It combines shooting, ball handling and speed and high intensity change in direction.
• Chair Curl Phase 2 (With 2 Chairs)
• Two Ball Dribbling Drills & Moves - Excellent way to improve one on one moves.
• Basketball Pick and Roll Drills

Shooting drills can also be adapted to work on ball handling aspects by adding changes of direction and pivoting to create 1 and 2 dribble opportunities for either jumpers or lay-ups.

Once you have developed a feel for the ball, it's very important that you practice your ball handling in competitive, game-like situations with defenders present. In the DVD 30 Competitive Skill Development Drills, you will find 12 drills that are specific to improving your ball handling skills in game-like situations.

More Dribbling and Ball Handling Drills

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How do I improve on.. everything to do with handles? : Basketball

Hello, Reddit. I'm not entirely sure where to start, so I'll just put it all out there.

I'm a freshman in high school at the moment, and was home schooled for the majority of my lifetime. During this time, I never really played any sport. I do martial arts, and have been doing so for many years, so I'm not deprived of physical activity, but my natural athleticism is practically non-existent having never been nurtured, not even as a young kid (never went out much and did anything)

So, fast forward to modern day, I've been placed into public school for the first time. I've adjusted really well, but the thing I'm here for is also the thing I have the most trouble in- basketball. I'm 6'1 and 145lbs, 15 years old. Initially, a lot of other teenagers thought I would be an amazing basketball player because of my height and build coinciding a lot with what you would expect out of a good teenage ball player.

But.. I absolutely suck. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bullied for it or anything, a lot of people are really nice and try to give me advice to improve my game. But, most of these people have years of experience and practice, even at least just playing friendly games with people around the neighborhood, which is something I never did.

I'm in good health, my father was a personal trainer for many years and has helped me a lot with staying in shape. I'm fit, tall, and thin, but I have very little skill. I lack in a lot of areas.

Now that all of that mouthful is out of the way, I'll get into what exactly I'm asking for.

I'm not trying to be NBA level or anything, I just want to be decent and maybe at least play on my school's team at some point. I've found that I really enjoy watching and playing the game, even when I'm getting curb-stomped like I normally do. I have a lot of fun with basketball, but I'd have more fun if I wasn't so absolutely horrible at it.

From what advice people have given me, my biggest problem is my handling. My game sense is okay, I'm able to keep up with the ball and know pretty well where it will end up, and position myself likewise. My shooting is alright, and I can normally sink about half of my shots from the 3. On defense, I'd say I'm really good and not lacking at all there (but this may very well be naive, as the majority of the people I'm guarding are at minimal four inches shorter than me.)

But, well, I can't dribble worth anything. I've learned to keep my eyes up and not stare at the ball. I can pass between both hands fairly well, and I do pretty okay on my own. But when anyone guards me I tend to either freeze up or get the ball stolen from me very easily. I can't really cross the ball between my legs or anything like that, I don't have any moves apart from just very practical dribbling. My handles are like a little kid's. I'm very dedicated to learning and practicing, but I just don't know where to start.

If you took the time to read the post, thank you so much. If you would drop a response and give me some advice or drills to help improve my handles, that would be awesome. Just keep in mind I'm not even close to the level of most other teenagers. Also, just quitting is not an option. I'm dedicated to improving one way or another, I just need a helping hand to shove me in the right direction. I think with practice and help I really could be at least an average player.

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A Nama me, please why and what kind of motor skills are improved and what kind of cognition. This is necessary to refer to legends such as "writing with a pen with a pressure pen and ink from an inkwell so that the hand relaxes regularly when dipped in the first grade and drawing with a real compass in the eighth grade through fine motor skills immeasurably develops the intellect. The motor skills of the keyboard and mouse are not considered fine" . There are the following controversies:
a) this is a feature of the Soviet school, such regularities are not intended in the West
b) this, of course, works, but significant effects are only for three-year-olds, for even five-year-olds this is not so pronounced, for eighth graders the effect is zero
b) fine finger ( calligraphic) motor skills are not at all what the mental models of the brain work with: they operate with objects that are commensurate with human hands, and not with the fine jewelry of finger movements.
c) what you work with, such mental models develop: for those working with a pencil, mental models from hand movements, and for those working with a keyboard and mouse, mental models come from the screen you stare at, in a completely different way - the brain is plastic! That is, not every intellect develops through calligraphy, for different intellects you need to develop different motor skills (someone play basketball, someone in StarCraft II).
d) except for a pen and plasticine, no finger and hand movements are considered fine - for example, a mouse at game speeds and accuracy and a keyboard at blind ten-finger 500 characters / min are not considered fine motor skills.
e) people with the most ideal handwriting are usually not particularly quick-witted, more often exactly the opposite.

Why it is harmful to rely on retellings of retellings of research retellings is well understood here using the example of dispelling the urban legend of coaching circles that lectures do not convey material well, and "interactive exercises" do it better: https://habrahabr.ru/company/billing/blog/ 301802/ -- "How many people remember after the training they have completed? The student on average remembers 10% of what he read, 20% of what he heard, 30% of what he saw ... 90% of what he did himself. Many people have come across these figures. They are given separately or often combined with the so-called pyramid of learning or cone of experience. And everything would be fine and wonderful if the entire Internet were not filled with these numbers, and they themselves were not a deception and a hoax. not at all so big as to distort the lives of children with copybooks and compasses with drawing marks (because drawings are not ink - not drawings! And using ink develops attention to the body and fine motor skills in eighth graders, don’t go to your grandmother, just like using a compass even with a pencil And so on, the moves are dashed for decades!)

Is there anything more or less modern and with real measurements on this topic? In Russian is optional, on the contrary, preferably in English.

This is some kind of stone in the foundation of the argumentation of the mossy nature of education that I would like to confirm its authenticity.

As soon as people figure out how to teach something intellectual directly, they teach. So they began to teach preschool informatics as soon as they realized what exactly was the didactic plug, the mental one. Before that, only seventh-graders were taught the same thing and relied on fine motor skills - but now kindergarteners and first-graders program, without any fine motor skills. Fine motor skills here are similar either to a placebo or to the calls of God, which explains everything incomprehensible (for example, intelligence).

On Facebook, comments are posted here: https://www.facebook.com/ailevenchuk/posts/10207955835267790 (and also here in the neuronet group:

The topic itself appeared due to a particularly reinforced argument about the importance of learning to work with a compass for the development of intelligence , because "compass trains fine motor skills" here: https://www.facebook.com/shperk/posts/10157330681710153

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  Time - 40 minutes. Venue - sports hall of the Municipal Educational Institution "Soviet middle School of General education".

  Lesson part	Exercise content	Dosage	Guidelines	Notes
  Preparatory part (15 minutes).	1. Construction. Greetings. Ad topics and objectives of the lesson.			Several preparation times increased by explaining a new topic at the beginning of the lesson.
  	2. Explanation of the concept of "pulsometry". Showing the correct measuring methods pulse. Pulse measurement, fixing the result of one of the students on board.		Do you know what a pulse is? (Someone from students can answer correctly. Reward the correct answer.) Yes, that's right, the pulse is the beating of blood against the walls of the blood vessels. vessels. The pulse reflects the heart rate. On some parts of the body, you can feel the beating of the pulse through the skin. Can you show where you can measure the pulse? In a state of relative rest at For teenagers your age, a pulse reading of 70 is considered normal. up to 80 beats per minute. What do you think happens to the pulse, with the heartbeat when physical activity? Listen to the children's answers. Let's take a pulse in the middle of the lesson and find out for sure whether it rises after the load, or exercise does not affect changes in heart rate readings. .	Pre-prepared control sheets with coordinate axes drawn on them. On sheets attached to the wall, Students mark their heart rate measurements with dots.
  	3. Walking around the hall: without task, on socks, on heels, heel to toe roll, race walking.		Monitor posture and correctness performing exercises.
  	4. Running: no task, side steps, snake, backwards, serpentine back forward, with two-step stops on whistle, with 360 degree whistle turns.		Keep a distance of 1 m when running put one hand forward with your back forward, look back through shoulder. All running exercises - from the front of the foot. Control the correctness of the exercises.	TB.
  	5. The transition to sports, then to normal walking, exercises on restoration of breathing.
  	6. Walking exercise. I. p. hands in the castle in front of the chest, rotation in wrist joints. 1-4 - away from you, 5-8 - towards you.	2-3 times to each side.
  	7. Walking exercise. I. p. - as in the previous exercise. 1-4 - "wave" from right to left, 5-8 - "wave" from left to right	2 times in each direction.
  	8. Walking exercise. I. p. - the palm of the left hand on the elbow joint right arm extended horizontally to the left. 1-4 - springy movements of the left hand towards you. 5-8 - the same, changing the position of the hands.	2 times each side.	Do not bend or lower the extended hand.
  	9. Walking exercise. I. p. - hands to the sides. 1-4 - rotation in wrist joints forward, 5-8 - the same back; 1-4 - rotation in elbow joints forward, 5-8 - the same back; 1-4 - rotation in shoulder joints forward, 5-8 - the same back.	2 times.	Do not lower your hands, perform according to maximum amplitude.
  	10. Walking exercise. I. p. - hands behind the back, folded into the lock. 1 - leaning forward, raising the hands clasped into the lock, 2- straighten up, lower your arms.	6-8 times.
  	11. Walking exercise. Walking in deep lunges.		Deep lunge, hold back, turn body to the side of the front leg. Keep your distance.
  	12. Construction in two columns. Carrying out the relay race "wave".		Students stand in columns, legs apart, the distance between children is 50-70 cm. At the head of the columns - basketball ball. At the teacher's signal, the student begins to perform passing from hand to hand standing behind the head, he passes the ball third from below between the legs, third from above, etc. Closing the column, having received the ball, runs forward with the ball and becomes the leader columns, continuing the game. The team that starts the game wins the participant will again be at the head of the column earlier than in the team rivals.
  Main body (22-25 minutes).	13. Rebuilding from columns into two lines facing each other. Identification of pairs for further work.		When opening the ranks, use the entire hall width.
  	14. Passing the ball in pairs from the chest with both hands.		At the moment of passing - a step forward, legs and straighten your arms, accompany the ball with a brush. At the moment of receiving the ball - a step back, the ball down, bend your legs. The ball flies parallel to the floor.
  	15. Passing the ball in pairs from the chest with two hands with a change of place.		There must be no runs. Dribbling average height.	TB.
  	16. Get a heart rate monitor. Each student to mark on their own checklist result. Fixing the result of one of the students (chosen at the beginning of the lesson) on the board.		Help in the preparation of the result.
  	17. Passing the ball in pairs with a rebound from the floor.		When making a pass, the ball must touch the floor 1-1.5 m from the receiver of the transmission.
  	18. Same exercise with changing places.		Monitor correct execution exercises.	TB. Distance between students 4-6 m.
  	19. Passing the ball from the shoulder with one hand. Run 10-12 times right hand. Then the same amount of left.		The ball flies parallel to the floor. Accept ball in two hands.
  	20. Passing the ball from the shoulder with one hand. Run 10-12 times right hand. Then the same amount of left.		The ball flies parallel to the floor. Accept ball in two hands. Control the correctness of the exercises.
  	21. Making passes with two balls at the same time: first numbers perform a transfer with a rebound from the floor, and the second - from the chest with two hands. After 30-40 seconds - the first perform the transfer from the chest with two hands, and the second - with a rebound from the floor.		The execution rate is low. Boost Attention.	When completing work on vehicles programs, to mark the most successfully coped with the tasks.
  	22. Relay race with elements of basketball.		Students line up in two columns. The guides of both columns are at the free throw line. On signal teachers guide columns run with the ball to opposite ring, throw the ball around the ring with any of the mastered ways 1 time, removing the ball, run back dribbling to the center line, pass from the center line the ball to the player in front of his column, take a place at the end columns. The first team to finish the game earns 5 points. plus one point for each hit. Loser's asset Team time is only points for an accurate hit. However, in she can win overall.	Exempted from the lesson of f-ry renders help with scoring.
  	23. Relay "Pass and sit down". The structure is kept in two columns.		Leading - facing the column at 2-3 m ahead. On a signal, the drivers begin to carry out transmissions by any of learned methods in turn to the players of their column, who, having received the transfer, return the ball to the driver and squat. Last in the column, having received the ball, runs forward with the ball and takes a place the leader, who becomes the first in the column. The game is over when each of the players was in the role of a driver. Team, the one who finishes the game first earns 5 points.
  Final part (3-5 minutes).	24. Building in one line. Sedentary game "Anatomy".		The teacher names the parts of the body and shows them, sometimes shows them incorrectly, but students must indicate the part of the body or joint corresponding to the named. The one who makes a mistake takes a step forward.	Carried out if during the previous game, the students continued to be in a state of high activity and excitement.
  	25. Pulse measurement. Record the result on your checklist. Drawing a graph.		Help children with difficulties in building a graph. Drawing a graph on the board.
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