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Basketball Coaching: 48 Championship Basketball Drills [VHS]

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I have faithfully used this video over the course of a CYO basketball season consisting of 12 year old boys and saw visible results. This has been my third year coaching and I have taken bits & pieces from books and videos through the course of each season to help me in organizing the offense, defense and practices. This has become my favorite resource for practices and some individual skills. Out of the 48 drills, I rotated using about five or six at each of our practices. The results were positive. Toward the middle of the season, I knew which of the drills worked best for my team and which ones they enjoyed most. There are also numerous tips that coaches wil find useful. Our team's favorite drills were the creative shooting drills. There were probably 20-22 of them. All in all I would say this is very worthwhile to the following: parents, youth coaches with kids ages 8-16,and middle school coaches. What this video may lack is absolute perfect basketball technique, but it makes up two fold in overall creativity and usefulness. Great value!

I'm not sure if the drills in this video are really championship calibre. However, most of the drills that I used with my team were effective. This video is for the first or second year Junior High coach (like myself) or any coach on the recreational level (ie. CYO and/or PAL coach or just in your driveway with your son or daughter). They are not too difficult to follow and supplementary drills can be created easily enough. The narrator uses the expression "dual purpose" drills which translates into getting more than one benefit from any drill. Combining shooting along with conditioning is used in most of the shooting drills. For instance, a drill with 3 players, one shooter, one rebounder and one passer. A simple drill but after the shooter shoots, he sprints to the wall and then back to his spot. The timing is such that when he gets back to his spot, the passer is already passing the ball. Thought this aspect of the drill was just staged for the video but when I tried it, it worked great! Other drills also worked well like "shots across the lane" and a few of the rebounding drills. The explanations were mostly of the drills themselves and not too much on the X's and 0's. Added tips are given if you listen close enough and the foul shooting and regular shooting techniques are discussed in a clear concise manner which turned out to be my favorite part of the video. The drills are forty five seconds to about a minute long. The sample practices given at the end of the video will be extremely helpful to any recreational coach. The video could have been more detailed with more theory (which I like), but in truth, it gives you just what it says. Some very good drills along with a superior format for a sports instructional video make this a buy.

This video would be a good resource for a parent or a young coach who has not coached before. The drills are designed for youth league teams, and the video includes some standard drills that every coach should know. However, the video is not very helpful for coaching players in junior high or high school. If you have coached for more than a year or two, there's not likely to be anything included on this video that you haven't seen before.

There are some good, basic drills included on the video, and they are, for the most part, explained pretty well. However, the execution of many of the drills is disappointing in that the attention to detail is not as thorough as it should have been. Since the video seems to be designed for coaches with minimal experience, it is disappointing that the video demonstrates some poor fundamentals. For instance, there are some drills shown on the video where the players dribble or do ballhandling drills with their heads down, don't block out properly during the rebounding drills, don't meet the pass in some the shooting drills, and don't maintain good defensive position in some of the defensive drills.

48 Championship Basketball Drills is a 42 minute, full color, basketball training video ideal for viewers ages 12 to adult. Experienced basketball coach Marty Schupak draws upon his more than fourteen years of teaching basketball to provide detailed and authoritative instruction in the form of 48 specific basketball drills cover every aspect of play including: shooting, conditioning, defense, rebounding, ball handling, passing, and foul shooting. There are also the added bonuses of four sample practices and ten basketball coaching tips. No highschool or college Physical Education program with a Basketball section to its curriculum can afford to be without a copy of Marty Schupak's 48 Championship Basketball Drills video.

I have seen the video "48 championship basketball drills" mentioned on a basketball coaching email list several times. I purchased it from ........... based on that recommendation. I have to say I was disappointed. Sure there are plenty of drills but I didn't find many new ones. Do you really need a video for lay up drills, chest pass, bounce pass, slides, weave etc.? I have seen and/or use many of the drills already. So I was somewhat disappointed in the selection.

What was also a larger disappointed to me was some of the execution on the drills. For example, a drill many of you do which they refer to as "shots across the lane", has the passers foul line extended on one side of the court, the shooters foul line extended on the other side. Your shooter, hands ready, sprints to the ball, turns, squares up, shoots. When we do this drill I emphasize the proper foot work (the inside pivot foot - constantly saying "right foot down, left foot around" when the players come in from the right facing the basket. "left down (pivot) , right foot around" for the opposite side of the court). It makes a player so much more dangerous and fundamentally sound if they know to square up with the inside foot as the pivot foot and if they can use either foot as a pivot foot. When they do this drill in the video the footwork is terrible and never mentioned or corrected. Also, on another shooting drill where the ball is passed to a player and you run at the shooter, it mentions boxing out but the execution is not there. Oh the passing player may get there on time, and may turn, but there is no box out. In "rotation box" the purpose of the drill IS to teach boxing out, but some of the players doing the drill are not even making contact with the body they are boxing out. How do you box out without contact? I am always looking for good boxing out drills, but again, emphasize the fundamentals. See the player you are boxing out, pivot, elbows back etc. And it is not just the footwork. Dribbling drills with the head down. Shooting without the follow through. Little pet peeves of every varsity coach.

It is not all bad news. A nice feature is that the video does indeed live up to the name and give you 48 drills (not sure about the championship part). They even include sample practice schedules (2 for a 2 hour junior high or high school practice and 2 one hour youth league practices).

So if you are a youth league coach or just starting out, this may well be a video for you to build your video library. But if you have been coaching for many years this is NOT for you. As for me, I'll pass it on to my freshmen coach with mention of my concerns. Hope this is of some help to readers.

This DVD is first rate for those looking for a variety of basketball drills. The drills are divided into different topics such as shooting, rebounding, passing etc. The DVD menu makes it easy to navigate and all the drills seem useful though I always found myself going back to the wonderful shooting drills. Basketball technique is not the main objective but there is a nice section on form shooting. Coaches from the youth level through middle school will achieve the most success instituting these drills in their practice sessions. This is a definite thumbs up!

This is an excellent teaching tool. The drills are creative and my players love them. The shooting and rebounding drills are terrific. The teaching points given throughout the video are great. One of the best things about the video were the sample practices given and the bonus coaching tips. I found all 48 of the drills to be worthwhile. The producer of this video really hit a "three point swish". This looks to be a great find for coaches from the youth level all the way up to high school. Well worth the value.

The video is a winner! Lots of drills that look useful. Some are a little hard to follow but with a little instant replay with the remote and it makes sense. Kids 10-14 should get the most out of this. No real negative points except maybe some of the techniques the players do could be polished a bit. But hey, they aren't the Lakers so take it for what it's worth.

Bought 2 other basketball instructional videos and this was by far the best. Right after viewing it, took my son outside and did about 6 of the drills. Looked good, so I took my 47 year old body on the court and did 3 of the shooting drills. Wish my old high school coach had this video. As an amateur film editor, I could also add that the quality is one of the best I've viewed for a topic such as this. This looks to be a great product for any youth league coach and maybe some junior high school coaches who want a variety of drills.

Great instructional DVD/Video for youth basketball coaches! Not to basic, but not to complex for beginners to understand. Our department has purchased a number of these to loan out to all our volunteer coaches for review. It offers good instruction & explanations of all the drills. It also suggests the time involved in each drill as well as the appropriate age levels each drill applies to.

It's easy viewing as a sit-down "watch it all at once" instructional film, but also works well as a quick reference to a particular drill or instructional segment. Very well done and a worthy investment.