Become a more explosive player! (Part II)

In the first part we talked you about the importance of the strength and the flexibility to become more explosive on the court. Today, we're telling about the posture and techniques.
If you haven't read the first part yet, do it here.

The posture:

Posture is one of the most underrated points. When I talk about posture, I mean having optimal alignments to ease the transfer of power for sprinting, starting, stopping, jumping, etc. 

To give you an idea, here are some indicators of poor posture:

• Tight hip flexors.
• Rounded upper back.
• Rigid ankles.
• Weak core.
• Tight hamstrings.

If you have one of these problem, don't worry, it's easy to improve your posture. You only need to practice regular exercises.

 

Technique:

All we did until now is useless if you don't practice basketball regularly, and don't control the ball. Because no matter how fast you can run or how high you can jump, if you don't control the basics the ball will probably not follow you. To maximize your potential you need to:

Learn to shoot.

Master the lay up.

Improve your passes.

Perfect your dribble.

It's a really wide topic, that if we would to talk about everything we would never finish. Anyway we think it's enough for now. If you like, share it. ;)

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Become a more explosive player! (Part I)

Explosiveness is one of the most important things in basketball, coaches are always looking for players that can jump higher and run faster. After all, with these qualities, the player has a great advantage on his opponents.

There is a lot of different methods to develop explosiveness, from physical strength to quickness going by control and dribbling, it's a lot of work! But if you really want to be great, sorry, but there is no other way, than working hard.

Let's take a look of a few points:

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Osez jouer!

Beaucoup sont les personnes qui ont de la technique mais qui n'osent pas vraiment jouer, dès qu'ils mettent mains sur le ballon, ils se précipitent de le passer ou de le shooter par peur de le perdre en le gardant, de se faire reprocher de leurs camarades ou bien d'être cause de la perte de leurs équipes... la liste des craintes est sans fin et je ne saurais tout les citer. Cependant, ce comportement, est t'il correcte? Faut il vraiment éviter toute occasion pendant laquelle on peut perdre le ballon? Quand garder le ballon et quand le passer? Ce sont les questions au quelle on va essayer de répondre au court de cet article.

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Devenir plus explosive? (Partie I)

l'explosivité est l'une des choses les plus importantes au Basketball. Les entraîneurs sont toujours à la recherche des joueurs qui courent plus rapidement et qui sautent plus haut, après tout, avec ces qualités, le joueur a un très grand avantage sur ses adversaires.

Il y a beaucoup de manières pour améliorer l'explosivité du joueur, de la force physique à la vitesse en passant par le contrôle et le dribble du ballon, c'est un sacré travail à faire. Mais si vous avez vraiment la conviction d'atteindre un bon niveau en Basketball... désolé mais y a pas d'autres solutions à part travailler très durement.

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