This is a 6 week schedule that include strength, endurance, flexibility, shooting, dribbling, and recovery. These things will help improve my basketball skills if I follow them correctly. I also had to include other things such as hobbies, jobs, training, homework, and nutrition. Some of these things such as nutrition are very important because it helps with basketball and your health. If this schedule is followed correctly then my skills and gameplay style should improve and I will become healthier, stronger, and faster.

Reflection:

Skills:

There are many skills that I have learned during my time in spec basketball. The main skill I have learnt and implemented into my games is defense. Defense isn’t one of my strong suits in the game but as I have been in this class my defensive skills are better and I am now able to keep on the ball when being dribbled up the court. I was taught to stay low and not bounce up and down, make sure my feet don’t cross over when sliding, and to beat your player to the spot they are planning to go to. I knew these things before the class but it wasn’t as good, in my games I am now one of the better defenders and I’m a lot stronger in my defense and I am better at taking hard contact and creating contact when playing.

My defensive skills have improved lots over the time I have spent in this class and playing against boys my age and older boys, my confidence has improved and I am a stronger player. Playing with boys in this class was harder because they are more aggressive then girls and they like to attack the basket and this has helped me in multiple ways. One of the ways it has helped is that I have become a better outside shooter and I am better with my floaters and if I do drive I am more aggressive and I am able to get to the basket easier. It has also helped my defense because boys are quick on their feet so I have to be quicker and lower and that has improved my defense a lot and I now implement those defensive skills into my games.

Course:

During my time in spec basketball I attended many courses like a strapping course, a talk about nutrition

The course that I found the most useful was the strapping course. I already knew how to strap but I am now better at it, at this course I learnt how to strap an ankle, thumb, and fingers. This course was useful for me because I learned better ways of doing it and if anyone needs me to do it for them I will be able to do it because I was taught. It was also useful because if I hurt myself and need to strap something I don’t need to wait for someone to do it for me, I can just do it myself. Through the course he taught me new things and told me how I can improve from how I was originally doing it or tell me I am doing a great job.

Knowing this will hep for in the future in case I want to become a physio therapist or someone just needs help doing it. Some major concepts raised were allergies, types of tape, and how to tape different types of body parts. In this course we learned how to tape fingers, ankle and thumbs. When you tape a finger you have to put a layer of tape on the bottom of the finger and just above the knuckle, you then put two more layers on top of that tape. Before putting the tape on you have to put a foam piece in between the two fingers, so it is more comfortable. With a thumb you use one type of tape and you start around the wrist and and then around the thumb. You continue doing that until the thumb is secure. With an ankle you do 3 stirrups, 4 cross stirrups and a lock at the top of the ankle to hold all the tape together. While tapping someone you have to make sure its not to tight or two loose because if it is to tight it could cut of someone’s blood circulation. If you are not sure if it is to tight you can ask them or you can squeeze the tip of their nail and if it stays white then you have cut off the blood circulation and it is to tight.