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krzysolja · #1 (**permalink**) 07-14-2007, 04:02 PM

Section 1- Handles

1.Circle the ball around your head 5 times
2.Circle the ball around your waist 5 times.
3.Circle the ball around your legs 5 times.
4.This is a drill that helps increase the strength in your fingers. Hold the ball in front of you at eye level with two hands. By squeezing your fingers and thumb together with one hand at a time, you move the ball from one hand to the other as quickly as you can. More finger and arm strength will imrove your ball control

5.BALL SLAP DRILL
The ball slap drill is performed by taking the ball and with your left hand slap the ball hard, and then taking your right hand and slap the ball hard. This ball slap drill is a good way to warm your hands up and this will help you get a good feel for the ball. Continue performing the slap the ball dribbling drill until your hands are good, awake, and ready to begin.
6.Circle the ball around one of your legs.

Section 2- Fingertip control.
1 hand machine gun- dribble the ball as low as you can until you get a good feel for the ball.
2 hand machine gun-same as ^ except you use 2 hands.
finger by finger machine gun-dribble ball as low as you can with 1 finger then do another finger then another..etc.
figure 8-figure 8 dribble

Section 3- Cupping
1. dribble the ball to hip length cupping the ball as long as you can.
2.Dribble the ball waist high, then suddenly "kill" it by dribbling it as low as you can, hold this for a few seconds, then bring it back up to waist high. Do this several times with each hand
3.1 hand V dribble like a yo-yo
4.dribble the ball between your legs left and right.

do these drills for 20 minutes a day you will have awesome handles

by krzysolja

youngtricker · #2 (**permalink**) 07-14-2007, 05:47 PM

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Section 1- Handles

1.Circle the ball around your head 5 times
2.Circle the ball around your waist 5 times.
3.Circle the ball around your legs 5 times.
4.This is a drill that helps increase the strength in your fingers. Hold the ball in front of you at eye level with two hands. By squeezing your fingers and thumb together with one hand at a time, you move the ball from one hand to the other as quickly as you can. More finger and arm strength will imrove your ball control

5.BALL SLAP DRILL
The ball slap drill is performed by taking the ball and with your left hand slap the ball hard, and then taking your right hand and slap the ball hard. This ball slap drill is a good way to warm your hands up and this will help you get a good feel for the ball. Continue performing the slap the ball dribbling drill until your hands are good, awake, and ready to begin.
6.Circle the ball around one of your legs.

How is this good for your handles? These drills do next to nothing, yet you see them in every dribbling program. You never circle the ball around yourself or slap it, and it should be used as a warm up at best, never under a Handles Section. Your dribbles never even use the same motions as most of these drills, so getting a feel for the ball in these circumstances, correct me if I'm wrong, does nothing for your handles.

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Section 2- Fingertip control.
1 hand machine gun- dribble the ball as low as you can until you get a good feel for the ball.
2 hand machine gun-same as ^ except you use 2 hands.
finger by finger machine gun-dribble ball as low as you can with 1 finger then do another finger then another..etc.
figure 8-figure 8 dribble

This is redundant. Yes, fingertip control is important, but four drills for it in an already unbalanced training program? No need. Plus, most of these drills strengthen the fingers by themselves (especially finger by finger) so why did you have the first section about that, too? One section on it is more than enough for your fingers. Also, this whole section only focuses on one type of dribbling (low, finger dribbling obviously) and the time could be used way more efficiently.

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Section 3- Cupping
1. dribble the ball to hip length cupping the ball as long as you can.
2.Dribble the ball waist high, then suddenly "kill" it by dribbling it as low as you can, hold this for a few seconds, then bring it back up to waist high. Do this several times with each hand
3.1 hand V dribble like a yo-yo
4.dribble the ball between your legs left and right.

Cupping the ball as long as you can is supposed to do what? I'm actually asking, not being a smart ass. Dribbling and killing is a good drill, but as long as you are doing that whole section on killing (section 2) I'm pretty sure that you could use that space for different types of dribbling transitions. There's plenty that have not been covered.V dribble would probably help with coordination, but that's about it. It is just a different type of dribble that you would never ever use in games, so I don't understand why you would choose to practice that just thrown in to a program. Dribbling the ball between your legs is a good tool to have, so I agree.

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do these drills for 20 minutes a day you will have awesome handles

Are you kidding me? Where did you get this conclusion? Have you personally done these drills for 20 minutes a day and you now have awesome handles? Did you give it to some friends, or your brother, or at least gone through the workout once?
I understand that I'm being picky, but it's obvious you just chose completely random drills, tossed each into an inappropriately named category, called it a program, and guaranteed results. Not only do I not agree or support dribbling drills like this, but this has no quality, and I really doubt its results.

Of course, I could be wrong on a lot of this stuff. Feel free to argue with me. If it actually would help and I'm missing out, I want to know.

krzysolja · #3 (**permalink**) 07-14-2007, 07:26 PM

i meant like dribble low finger by finger. and ball slap and squeeze the banana were made for warm up i just ordered wrong.

rangerid · #4 (**permalink**) 07-14-2007, 09:09 PM

omg.... man youngtricker is right, these drills prob wont do much. Sorry :\ i am gona make up my drill.

Any1 seen better dribbling? theres 115 drills in that dam vid. i am gona pick some and make a drill. Youngtricker, you cant say that the drills from better handlign is unrelevant cuz they are excllent.

i am gona watch the vid again and make a dribble program...

rangerid · #5 (**permalink**) 07-14-2007, 09:13 PM

sry didnt mean to criticize Krzysoljas, you did a good job with it and if it works for you great! but remember, nothing works for everyone

youngtricker · #6 (**permalink**) 07-14-2007, 09:35 PM

Yeah, I just posted for argument's sake. Didn't mean to be insulting, krzysoljas.

And of course those drills help. Hell, just walking around and dribbling helps. My view has been lately to practice what you need to do. Obvioulsy I'll warm up certain ways, and definitely use some of their drills, but if I want better control of the basketball to get to the basket, then I will pick two moves to get to the basket. I practice until they become second nature, and then my control over that move is excellent. I have about ten moves that are easily done anywhere because when I dribble, I will devote weeks to certain things instead of being so general.

Maybe this only works for me because I have been doing those other drills to get a good feel for the ball and now I have a good base, I don't know. But what I do, for the most part works for me. A lot of dribbling drills are too extravagant to get worthwhile results, so I stay away from them.

To each his own, I guess. Keep up the good work everyone.

rangerid · #7 (**permalink**) 07-14-2007, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by youngtricker

Yeah, I just posted for argument's sake. Didn't mean to be insulting, krzysoljas.

And of course those drills help. Hell, just walking around and dribbling helps. My view has been lately to practice what you need to do. Obvioulsy I'll warm up certain ways, and definitely use some of their drills, but if I want better control of the basketball to get to the basket, then I will pick two moves to get to the basket. I practice until they become second nature, and then my control over that move is excellent. I have about ten moves that are easily done anywhere because when I dribble, I will devote weeks to certain things instead of being so general.

Maybe this only works for me because I have been doing those other drills to get a good feel for the ball and now I have a good base, I don't know. But what I do, for the most part works for me. A lot of dribbling drills are too extravagant to get worthwhile results, so I stay away from them.

To each his own, I guess. Keep up the good work everyone.

Nicely said....

I mainly work on crossover moves and a variety of combinations outside where there is no basket and 2 walls surrounding me.

That way i can not worry about messing up and chasing after the ball. After the moves become second nature to me i take to court and practice there. that works for me.