Skill related warm up for basketball.

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Jasmit Hundal

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Skill related warm up for basketball

A good skill related warm up for basketball would be to put someone on each corner of a square so they are facing the opposite corner on the other side of the square. Then each person should be given a basketball to dribble with. Then at the same time all four people on each corner of the square should go to the opposite corner they are facing. When travelling across the person should dribble and run in a steady pace making sure they do not hit into someone else by keeping their head up to see. Then once on the other side they should repeat it again but from the corner they are standing on. To make it a bit more complicated it would be ideal to make it harder. E.g. once they reach the middle of the square they could do a three sixty with the basketball or even turn to another direction and go the opposite way. This is a good warm up because it helps improve dribbling and handling skills and also warms the body up and especially the muscles that are mainly used in basketball.

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