| Basketball is the funnest game in the world. Everyone | | | | time. |
| wants to be the next LeBron James or the next Kobe | | | | My practice schedule took around four hours and was |
| Bryant, or maybe even the next Michael Jordan. If you | | | | very simple. I picked about a dozen to twenty spots |
| practice the right way, you just might make it! | | | | around the court and marked them off. Then I |
| Even if you don't become the next NBA all star, with | | | | proceeded to make ten baskets IN A ROW from |
| the right practice techniques you can easily take your | | | | each spot. Then sometime during that workout, I also |
| game to the next level and become the captain of | | | | made fifty free throws (though NOT in a row, just fifty |
| your high school team, or even all conference or more. | | | | total). |
| With enough hard work you can even snag a cool | | | | That's it. |
| scholarship to play in college. | | | | Of course, it takes a long time to make ten baskets in |
| The first thing to know about practice is that it must be | | | | a row from twelve to twenty different spots on the |
| done every day. No matter what. Make up your mind | | | | basketball court. I would make ten in a row right under |
| that you are going to practice X hours a day and do it. | | | | the basket (easy), then take a step backwards down |
| Start with one hour a day. Move to two hours a day | | | | the baseline and make ten more in a row (a little |
| once one hour gets comfortable. | | | | harder), then take a step backwards again down the |
| Once you can handle two hours a day, move to four | | | | baseline and make ten more in a row (hard), then take |
| hours a day. The more hours you put in, the better you | | | | one more step backwards along the baseline until I |
| will be. | | | | was behind the three point line where I would make |
| Basketball is a simple sport. Making baskets, even | | | | my final ten in a row in that "set". |
| three point baskets, is simply a matter of muscle | | | | I'd do the same thing along the other baseline, and the |
| memory. And the only way you can develop muscle | | | | same thing up the key and elbow. |
| memory is to practice shooting over and over and | | | | When I first started this workout, it took FOREVER to |
| over and over until it becomes so automatic that you | | | | do it, so I started out making just five in a row. One I |
| can do it without even thinking about it. | | | | got good at easily knocking down five in a row, I |
| Four hours a day of practice is really the minimum for | | | | upped it to ten in a row from each spot. After a |
| true superstardom. More is better, but it may be hard | | | | couple of months of doing this every single day, I could |
| to squeeze more in and handle school work too. | | | | quite easily make all ten in a row from each of my |
| During basketball season itself you don't need to put in | | | | "spots" in about four hours. |
| four hours a day. You will be practicing with your team | | | | I tied or broke every state shooting record while I was |
| after school each day and if your team is really | | | | in high school. It's a good practice technique and you |
| serious, probably a little BEFORE school starts as well. | | | | will benefit from it. Too much? Pick less spots. Make |
| You may need to work on your shot alone from time | | | | five in a row instead of ten. Whatever you choose, the |
| to time during the season, but by and large you can | | | | important thing is to get out there and practice every |
| get by with just practicing with the team during this | | | | single day for as long as you can. |