Hi all, I'm working with a small group of basketball coaches in the US, critically examining the way we're teaching fundamental movement skills (e.g. running, jumping, sliding, hopping, landing, etc) within the context of developing basketball-specific skills (e.g. shooting, passing, dribbling, defense, etc)among youth basketball players (e.g. 10-18 years of age).
Our sense is that there are groups/areas/countries in the international basketball community who may be doing a better job of teaching such fundamental movement skills in an integrated fashion to youth participating in basketball programs (for example, the Lithuanians seem to be doing some things in player development that we'd like to emulate). First, do any members of this group have insights on groups/areas/countries that have anything that might be considered current "best practices" for developing these types of skills in youth basketball players? In short, we want to do a better job of teaching coaches to integrate these types of things into their practices, pregame warmups, and the like, but we'd prefer avoid re-inventing the wheel and would love to build on the success that others have found. Second, do members recommend any written resources (e.g. books, peer-reviewed articles, etc) that they believe would be particularly valuable in helping us to improve our efforts in this area. Any insights, suggestions, comments are much appreciated. Thanks, Don Hoover, PT, PhD, CSCS ------------------------------------ Post messages to [email protected]. To (un)subscribe, send any message to sportscience-(un)[email protected]. View all messages at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sportscience/.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sportscience/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sportscience/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
