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How to plan a basketball camp
6 Tips For Hosting A Successful Camp
- By Joe Haefner
With basketball camp season approaching, it's crucial you are getting ready for your basketball camps.
Here are some helpful tips to hosting a successful basketball camp...
Make the camp purpose clear!
What are you trying to accomplish with your basketball camps? Is it to just have fun and create a passion for the game? Is it to have an intense skill development camp for serious players?
If you don't make this clear in your camp information, you can get players and parents who will not enjoy the experience because they're looking for something different. Younger players (typically 12 years and younger) need to be exposed to fun camps to build the passion for the game. While advanced kids who are ready for the next step, might prefer a more intense basketball camp.
Be organized
Being unorganized can be the death of a successful basketball camp, especially if you are new to hosting camps.![]()
It's vital that you know the size of the gym, how many hoops there are going to be, how many campers are going to be present, how many coaches are going to be there, what your camp schedule is going to be, and some back up drills and skills in case you get through things quicker or you need to abandon a drill that isn't working well. If you figure these things out ahead of time, you'll look like a seasoned vet.
Use drills that keep everybody involved.
Nothing drives a kid to boredom quicker, stunts player development, and prevents parents from signing their child up for your next camp than standing around doing nothing.
Even if it is a drill that requires one player to do the drill at a time, have them be involved in rebounding and passing. If there are too many kids, set up stations that allow you to keep more kids involved at once.
Taking the time to develop drills that keep kids active and parents happy will lead to more happy campers and more campers returning to your next camp.
Teach skills and drills that players can do at home.
Your goal for every camp should be to teach players skills and drills that every child could do at home or at the local gym.
Players and parents will appreciate you a lot more if you show them how to become better players beyond the days at your basketball camp.
Keep the camp moving.
Just like a practice, you shouldn't spend too long on any particular drill. Otherwise, you will lose interest and intensity from the players at your camp.
Even if you still want to work on the same skill, just use a different drill or a different format of the same drill. For example, you might want to work on form shooting. An easy way to keep working on that would be to vary between wall shooting, partner shooting, line shooting, backboard shooting, and shooting at the goal.
The younger they are, the quicker you usually need to progress to another drill.
I try to keep all drills under 10 minutes. Typically, my goal is 5 to 7 minutes.
Incorporate character development
A quality camp isn't just about developing basketball players, it's also about developing these young people into successful adults. Incorporate things such as attitude, hard work, loyalty, and kindness into your camps. Parents will appreciate you helping their children become better people. And when the children become adults, they'll appreciate you as well.
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How to Run an Effective Basketball Camp
By Don Kelbick
I have run hundreds of basketball camps. Some camps were as large as 700 players per week for several weeks and others as small as 1 week with 20 players. There are common threads that run through all of them. I am not an expert on the finances or marketing of camps, though.
So, I'll stick to the administration of the camp...
The Type of Camp Affects Your Decisions
First and foremost, you have to decide what type of camp you want to have. This philosophy will affect every decision you make, from staffing to schedule to equipment. Teaching camps require more staff because it is to your advantage to have a smaller staff to camper ratio. If you are going to have a camp that is primarily "play", you only need 1 coach per team.
Creating an Effective Schedule
Next, you need to organize your schedule. You must plan your activities that not only match your philosophy, but provide enough variation to keep your campers interested and eager to come back.
We used to use activity blocks, as opposed to times. Our blocks would be instruction, competition, scrimmage, choice and games.
Our instruction block would be when we had coaches in front of the players teaching and the players drilling.
Competition would be for practical application of the teaching.
They might be shooting or ball handling games or other activities where players had to enact what they were taught in a higher intensity environment.
The scrimmage block would be for team integration of the skills. We would use a 3-on-3 league, control scrimmage (where coaches would stop, teach and correct in a scrimmage type activity) or team practice.
Choice would be where we would have several activities being conducted and the players could choose which one they would want to take part in.
Games would be where we played our 5-on-5 league games.
Then, all we had to do is decide which activities we wanted to conduct inside the blocks and place those blocks in the daily schedule.
How long are the blocks and where do you put them?
How long the blocks are depends on your available time and the number of campers you have. I typically would like to have 2 instruction blocks, 2 game blocks and then one of each of the other blocks per day.
By changing the activities inside the blocks, it created an interesting but very organized camp day.
Administration of Activities (Important to Get Right)
The administration of your activities is extremely important. This needs to be flexible and responsive to the participants in your camp. You might like to structure your teaching a certain way, but if the players in the camp cannot respond to your method, you have to look at your method.
Often, the manner in which you teach your team won′t fit the teaching necessary in a camp. This is because you will find a larger variation in skill level, maturity and concentration level in a camp. On your team, you have consistent reinforcement for your teaching, which allows you to progress. In a camp situation this might not be true.
You also have to structure your game rules to you campers. How long are the games, will the clock stop or run, do you shoot foul shots? What are your substitution rules, how many players on a team? There may be rules you like to play by because you feel that they are the best way to play for you.
But, often you have time constraints that will prevent you from playing in the matter you like.
Remember, this is camp; everyone pays to come so they should all have equal experiences. You might like to have 8 on a team, but if that creates more games than you have time for, you might have to go to 10 on a team.
Adjust Game Rules to Improve Efficiency
You might like to administer your games as if they are regular season games. But, you may have to play with a running clock. Do you want your campers to spend a significant percentage of the games shooting foul shots while the clock is running? Remember, that lessens the actual time that the campers get to play.
The rules we always played by were, the only foul shots that were taken while the clock was running were shooting fouls. All non-shooting fouls were inbounded. In a situation where there was a shooing foul and the shot was made creating an opportunity for a 3-point play, we awarded 3 points and treated it as a made basket where the other team takes the ball out.
With the clock stopped, we shot everything.
These are all issues that need to be solved before the first camper walks into the gym. To conduct an effective, high quality camp that can be enjoyed by all, you need to be prepared and focused on the goals of the camp. Be flexible, but be clear. Confusion is a camp killer.
Find a Basketball Camp Near You
Breakthrough Basketball offers a number of camps across the country. Check out this camp map to find the camp closest to you.
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All news "Unibasket" for the first time in the history of this sport in Yaroslavl opened a summer training camp Unibasket Summer Camp.
Specialists from Serbia, Zoran Markovic and Slobodan Agoch, came from different regions to train young basketball players (2001-2005). Athletes are trained on the basis of SDYUSSHOR No. 2: they work on individual basketball skills, are engaged in special physical training, develop personal qualities, work on team interactions in attack and defense. Classes are held twice a day according to the young players development program, tested in the best basketball schools in Serbia, Romania, Austria, Spain and Germany. In addition to the boys, young Yaroslavl coaches take an active part in the work of the camp: Mikhail Novikov and Roman Tatarkin.
Between workouts, there are theoretical and psychological sessions: the importance of warm-up and cool-down, team cohesion, methods of recovery, the ability to plan your day and develop self-confidence are discussed.
Unibasket director Artem Shulin coordinates the process. The club organizes daily photography sessions. Participants are engaged in a single uniform specially prepared for this event. The guys have a great opportunity to practice English - training is conducted in it. Well, for those who do not speak the language, the translator Olga Novikova helps.
- I have sufficient experience of working in international camps in China, - says the president of "Unibasket" Arseniy Galtsov. - Hence the idea to organize such a serious event in Yaroslavl. Moreover, in recent years, sports camps have been gaining momentum in our country (Moscow, Perm, Krasnodar). I managed to establish good contact with the Serbian school in China. Both coaches, who arrived in Yaroslavl, have excellent feedback from colleagues, rich experience in international work, both in camps and schools, and in professional clubs; they have a solid career behind them as players.
Perhaps, the Serbs, like no one else, are close to the national basketball school. Yaroslavl specialists lack professionalism and experience, and our foreign colleagues are happy to share information and be mentors for them.
The camp program in Yaroslavl "Unibasket" was compiled by Zoran Markovic. Unibasket Summer Camp will run until July 13th.
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Spring basketball camp is a great opportunity for young basketball players to improve their playing skills and learn new tricks. In addition, this is a great opportunity to get acquainted with basketball. Our sensitive coaches will approach the training of each child with all responsibility. Before the start of the camp, each participant will be tested for the initial level of skills and knowledge. Based on its results, the coach will draw up a training plan for the camp.
Spring Basketball Camp is:
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Games 1x1, 3x3, 5x5
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American, three-point contest and other games
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Internal basketball tournament among camp participants
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Basketball English
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