Small-group Basketball Training in Hillsborough, NC
Fundamentals First is our small-group training. We teach the basics every player builds on, in groups small enough that every player gets coaching. Try a free one-day clinic first, or join a four-week program.
Several sessions for one price. Find your player's age and pick a program. Not ready to commit? Scroll down to our free clinics.
Four weeks of proper shooting form, with footwork, layups, and game-like shooting built on top.
The same fundamentals, taken further for older players.
Dribbling, passing, shooting form, defense, and rebounding, with plenty of fun.
Pick a program to see what a session looks like and what each week builds.
Every session is 60 minutes and built on proper shooting form. Most of our shooting work happens in the mid-range, an underused part of the game.
Players get loose and ready to move, so the rest of the hour goes to learning.
Players learn to control the ball with one ball and two, standing still and on the move, so they can get to their spot off the bounce.
With no rim, players learn to spot what's right and wrong in a shot by calling out feet, elbow, and wrist for a partner. That makes them better at checking their own.
From about 5 feet, slow and deliberate, players repeat good form one detail at a time. It's partner shooting with a rim, and it builds the habit of the right shot.
Players take their form into mid-range shots, off the catch and off the dribble. Depending on the week, they also work on footwork, layups (the right foot and hand, and finishing through contact), shot fakes, and free throws.
Players practice shooting with a little pressure as a team, and the clock gives them something to beat from one session to the next.
Shooting form comes first every week. Skills and game-like situations are built on top.
Players learn each step of the shot and how to set their feet, so they leave with a shot they can check for themselves.
Players learn to protect the ball and move it past a defender (we call it ripping through), and to finish layups with the correct foot and hand.
Players use footwork, ball movement, and layups together, and add a shot fake and a free throw routine they can repeat.
Players practice everything together in more game-like situations, then add the reverse layup.
Every shooting program is 9 sessions: eight over four weeks, plus a bonus Saturday session. Every session is 60 minutes.
With your permission, we film each player's shot at the start and the end, and we send you both videos so you can see what changed.
Every session is 60 minutes. The order can change from day to day.
Players get loose and ready to move.
Players learn to control the ball with their finger pads and keep their eyes up, so they can see the floor.
Players learn the chest pass and the bounce pass, with hands on the sides of the ball and a follow-through, so the ball gets to a teammate cleanly.
Players learn to stay in front of the ball handler by moving their feet, not by reaching.
Players learn to jump and grab the ball, and the basics of boxing out to get into position.
Players learn the steps of a good shot and practice them with partners and at the rim.
Players learn the basics of every skill. Each week builds on the one before, and new work comes after a stationary set of drills.
Players meet every skill at its simplest. They dribble one ball while mostly standing still, learn the chest and bounce pass, slide their feet on defense (a player favorite is Guts Defense), jump to grab the ball from up high
Players learn to pass the way it happens in a game: leading a teammate and getting the ball to them when they're open. They time a jump to catch a tossed ball at the top, and on defense they add 1v1 Rollout, where they hustle for the ball and, if they don't get it, learn to stay in front while the other player attacks in a straight line. Shooting adds more dribbling into shots and catching and shooting.
Players use what they've learned in more game-like drills, and shooting is review and reinforce.
The Skills Program is four Saturday sessions, one for each week.
We keep seeing talented kids who can’t shoot: two hands, a flared elbow, a flat shot. We see gaps in dribbling, passing, and defense, too.
Quality instruction in the fundamentals is hard to find around here, so we built it.
Groups stay small, so a player who needs our attention gets it.
In our experience, strong fundamentals, and a better shot most of all, make kids love the game and want to work on everything else.
One day, one hour, and free.
Saturday, Oct 24, 9:30 AM
One hour that shows you how we coach shooting: Secrets of the Shot, partner shooting, form shooting, footwork, and layups.
One hour of dribbling, passing, shooting form, defense, and rebounding, with a couple of drills for each skill.
Pick a clinic to see what the hour covers.
Players warm up with the ball, and you see how we teach control from the first drill.
Players see the whole shot from feet to follow-through and why each step matters, so you learn what we mean by proper form.
Players shoot to each other with no rim and call out what they see, and you see how we teach them to notice what's right and what's off.
Close in, with a drill or two focused on proper form, so players feel what a good shot is like.
Players try planting the inside foot, which helps them catch a pass and be ready to shoot.
The basics, one step at a time, including which foot to jump from.
One hour with a couple of drills for each skill.
Players learn to control the ball with their finger pads and keep their eyes up.
Players learn the chest pass and the bounce pass, with a clean follow-through.
Players learn the steps of a good shot, one at a time.
Players learn to jump and grab the ball.
