Skills: Triple Threat
One of the key skills that I have further developed in this unit is the use of triple threat on offence. Triple threat is a position for when you have the ball on offence. It involves being in a low position that allows one to be able to either pass, shoot, or dribble the ball with ease. You hold the ball close to your hip with your shooting elbow behind and your body posture should include having a low centre of gravity, keeping your knees bent, a straight back and your weight on either foot to explode off. Triple threat is so strong because it utilises the idea of faking. Using your body language you can sway your defender by moving your entire body or even doing a simple thing like a jab stab. Your footwork can determine whether a defender will fall for your trick or not. Another way to fake is by physically moving the ball one side to another to trick the defender into thinking your going one way but then moving another. As most defenders watch the ball you can utilise speed combined with pump fakes to easily get past someone. Having a quick release when shooting is also a key thing that makes triple threat effective. All these aspects form triple threat making it a strong skill to learn in basketball.
Since being taught how to do perform this skill properly in class I have now implemented it in my own basketball games. When my team is on offence and I get passed the ball I will instantly go into the triple threat position with the motive of driving to the ring. After being taught how quickly you can shoot the ball from triple threat I understand now how to get a quick shot off. In one of my past games I stood in this position and all I did was a small pump fake to get the defender off his feet and it gave me a free drive. This shows how triple threat has a variety of options to choose from and that they all equally work well in game. Now whenever I receive the ball I do something like a jab step or fake pass before either shooting, dribbling or passing. Learning and developing this skill has helped me to improve my basketball game in many ways.
Course: Strapping Course
In the later end of term 2 we were included in a strapping course provided by experts from Sports Medicine Australia. This course went through the basic antimony of your fingers, thumbs and your ankle and also how to strap each body part safely and easily. In basketball some of the more common injuries include hand injuries like broken or jarred fingers or general ankle injuries. That’s why undertaking this course is crucial in the event that you find yourself with one of these injuries. In the first lesson the instructor taught us how to strap your fingers together. You get sport tape about the size of your wrist to your elbow and cut it in half to reduce the width. Then put the injured finger next to the closest normal finger and wrap tape around between the knuckles. The thumb and ankle work very similar. They both have a bit of tape that goes around the wrist or top part of the ankle and this acts a reference point were every bit of tape comes and ends here. The thumb and the ankle taping are similar as they both wrap around the important joints creating a tight but secure wrapping that helps heal the injured part. This course was very informative and interesting to learn.
Having learnt and done this course in the future I will now know what to do when an injury to finger or ankle occurs. In the past years I have fractured my ankle and after finally getting the moon boot off my sister had to strap my ankle for me because I didn’t know how to. After being taught the step by step process to strap my ankle, if I get another ankle injury I will know now how to treat it and strap it. Even though I have never done anything severe to my fingers knowing how to strap them is still very handy because if someone else hurts themselves then at least I can do strap it for them. This information will positively impact my future for not only myself but for everyone else I can help.
