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Summary: Four sample practices and ten basketball coaching tips
Review: 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.
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Summary: Bring on the Lakers!
Review: As a parent with aspirations of having my kids succeed at hoops, this video is a great start for me. Some of the drills I could not use, but others are well thought out. Phil Jackson might not get alot out of this but for parents interested in learning some constructive drills they can do with their kids, this is a super product. I have even contacted my Parks & Recreation Department and recommended it to their coaches.
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Summary: Good beginning drills, but not advanced
Review: Been a follower of Coach Schupak after I purchased his baseball video "The 59 Minute Baseball Practice". This basketball video is another great product! Can't go wrong with this one. I learned a lot and used the drills to run my practices.
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Summary: 48 & 59 = Good Stuff!
Review: Been a follower of Coach Schupak after I purchased his baseball video "The 59 Minute Baseball Practice". This basketball video is another great product! Can't go wrong with this one. I learned a lot and used the drills to run my practices.
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Summary: A Pure 5 Stars for Pure Basketball Coaches
Review: 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.
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Summary: This video is a slam dunk
Review: I coach my son's youth league team and I found this video incredibly useful. The drills are explained in great detail with some added tips. My team caught on very quickly to a lot of the drills and now even ask to do them. The format is excellent, the explanation is clear and the content is the best I've seen in a sports instructional video. Parents, coaches, and gym rats will love this video.
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Summary: Great Value!
Review: 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!
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Summary: Great Value!
Review: 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!
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Summary: Great Value!
Review: 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!
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Summary: For the inexperienced coach only ...
Review: 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.
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