Ya im from Ontario. About how many inches you can get on yo vert from mental training im not sure but it helped kely baggett to go from an inconsistent dunker to being able to dunk every time. He said it really helped him.

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so how? and what kind of training is that?

Read it all. He explains how it helped him in that post I put.

Im goin to post about shooting now

In order to be a consistently good shooter during games you must have both the proper technique and concentration. Concentration involves fine centering (narrow focus of attention) on the basket which lets your mind judge correctly the path the ball must take to go to the basket and then letting your subconscious mind direct your body in doing the rest. So when you shoot you need to sight your target with a narrow focus of attention and you must mentally follow through. To mentally follow through keep your focus on the basket until the ball hits it. This helps avoid changing your focus of attention too early. There are 5 steps to develop your shooting concentration:

1. Mental Rehearsal- Picture yourself shooting the ball with perfect from and it swishing in. Do this over and over.

2. Body Rehearsal- Go outaide to a hoop and shoot and focus on the basket but don't use a ball. Just amke sure you have perfect form.

3. Practise by yourself with a ball-self explanatory.

4. Develop your concentration in pickup games-play aginst someone and try and make sure you concentrate properly when you shoot.

5. Utilize shooting fundamentals in competition- This is where you technique and concentration together.

The first step of mental rehearsal is very helpful to improve your shot. Just sit in a chair and practise in your head over and over again.

Also when your in a game and before a game loosen up by deep breathing and tensing and untensing your muscles. This is also very helpful.

I hope this helps.

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Should the mental imagery for dunking and shooting be done in 1st person or 3rd person?

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I have some questions because like 80% of basketball is all mental how do u think i can train this u kno and become a betta metal ball player.

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1st person. It supposed to make you feel like you've been there, done that already.

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sup j_dent

ima need a LOTTA help in my mental state

it just seems lyk im not confident in my skillz of dribbling down da court without losing da ball and driving in2 da paint wen dere r big guys in dere

if u can help me den thnx

pce..

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heya, ive got 1 problem when it comes to vizualisation, for some reason whenever i try i can never really create a detailed enviroment, i always forget to leave things out or my mind fades out and lose concentration, thus its incomplete, when i vizualise shooting or even dunking it is very blank, and i find it hard to vizualise the entire process, i try to vizualise several times a day and even before and during workouts/games, i dont know what the problem is, If you know how to fix this that would be great.

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Hi.

In answer to all your questions:

Yes mental training should be done in first person. To train mentally you need to find time during the week (as much time as you think you need to mentally practice) and then you need to find a quiet place. Sit in a chair or lie in bed. Before you start deep breathe and relax yourself. Once you are relaxed start watching yourself doing the particular skill you are trying to work on such as shooting. So your viewing it in 3rd person at first. Then after you can successfully visualize yourself doing that skill then think about yourself performing that skill as if you were that person. Feel the motion as you shoot with perfect form and the elation at the swish after swish you create. Do this over and over for whatever skill ur practicing. You can find out about the benfits of mental in my postabout mental training for dunking in the part about the famous free throw experiment. If your having trouble visualizing yourself performing the motions in first person the first try it in 3rd person. Another option is to use subvocalization. The way to use subvocalization is to lay in bed or sit in a chair but make sure it is a quiet place. Then use the relaxation techniques I talked about before you start. Then take a skill you want to concentrate on such as shooting. Repeat over and over positive sentences in your head such as : "Im a great shooter", "every shot will go in", "I can score on anyone", etc. Do this for a set period of time and it will also help your skills out.

Hope this answers your questions. Just ask if you have anymore.

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