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Better Shooting is the only basketball instructional or enhancement product ever endorsed by SLAM magazine, the world's largest basketball magazine. In 7 highly detailed chapters, Rick Torbett builds your shot from the ground up, starting with proper shooting technique and footwork, and progressing to such specifics as training your eyes and training with a partner...

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The Better Basketball "Better Shooting 2" DVD features over 3 hours of detailed techniques and is the only instructional video featuring the best shooter in NCAA(r) history, JJ Redick. The DVD starts with the absolute basics for beginners, then progresses to advanced techniques for high level players and coaches...

Features

• Incredibly detailed yet clearly explained techniques. All the basics for kids, and advanced concepts for high-level players & coaches. It took over a year to make, there better be a lot!
• A training regimen and chart are included with the DVD, geared to take the guesswork out of shot development. This is one of many things not on our original shooting video.
• Footage from men's and women's international pro hoops is used to illustrate the video's techniques.
• An entire chapter dedicated to women, including an interview with WNBA star Shay Doron.
• The DVD contains professional filmmaking and detailed, precise graphics. They will facilitate your ability to easily learn the techniques, and make Better Shooting 2 enjoyable to watch.

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Better 1-on-1 Defense details the keys to shutting down every type of scorer – penetrating guards, post players, slashers, and shooters. This video does not stop at describing the defensive stance; it delves into detailed chapters with specific strategies on handling the most difficult moves in the most challenging of situations...

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• Coach Rick Torbett dives into advanced concepts like using your lead hand to prohibit or discourage the offensive player from certain maneuvers. He also explains the rationale and benefits of positioning your head directly over your center of gravity, to ensure proper balance and the ability to explode in any direction.
• Coach Torbett explains the five movements that every player must master to become a dominating defender. He also details how each movement is used in real game situations.
• With the techniques in this video, you'll learn ways to maximize your foot speed, and limit the dribbler's options to the point that he's no longer a threat to drive past you.
• To effectively stop a player in triple threat, you must continually read his feet, his body position, his stance, and his angle. You need every mental advantage you can get, and Better 1 on 1 Defense will give you the edge all great defensive players possess - knowledge!
• The game hints chapters on the Better Basketball videos have grown increasingly popular; as players discover rare new secrets that can be easily applied to their own skill set. This video's edition of game hints contains 10 items that you can immediately implement into your game and use for real improvement!

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The Better 1 on 1 Offense DVD will teach players how to quickly read a defender, and react with the perfect move. It contains 3 hours and 44 minutes of techniques, including bonus sections from NBA(r) All-Star Chauncey Billups, WNBA(r) All-Star Sue Bird, and Hall-of-Famer Rick Barry, the only player to ever lead the NCAA(r), ABA(r), and NBA(r) in scoring.

Features

• Better 1 on 1 Offense starts with all the basics to ensure that even inexperienced players can build a solid foundation. For scoring from the perimeter, a player's foundation revolves around the Triple Attack Position (a.k.a. triple threat). This stance is the key building block for any player's scoring repertoire. You must be able to quickly read the defense and then instinctively react with the best move.
• At all levels of basketball we see players who aren't that physically quick, but get by their defender in game situations. And the reason is often that they have perfect biomechanics. And proper biomechanics aren't just about your feet! Did you realize that even the right ball movement can make you quicker? Just like a runner using their arms when they sprint, a basketball player can use the ball to speed up their initial explosion going to the basket! Better 1 on 1 Offense will show you how.
• If the defender is in your shot pocket, should you drive? What direction? If the defender sags, daring you to shoot, what should you do? Or what if he has found a middle distance? Also, what part of his body should you be reading? Coach Torbett will take you through every scenario, giving you the confidence to score on any defender in any 1 on 1 situation.
• The midrange pull-up jumper is a lost art. But why? It's perhaps the toughest shot to stop in all of basketball, yet most players today limit themselves to a three pointer or finishing around the basket. If that's your game, you don't have a full repertoire of basketball moves. But by applying the reads and progressions in this chapter, you can add the pull-up jumper to your scoring repertoire. In fact, the pull-up jumper is a favorite weapon of Sue, Chauncey, and Rick Barry, and they all address it in their bonus sections on this DVD.
• What should you do if you receive a pass outside of your shooting range with a defender off you? Learn the six scoring options you have when you have room to face the D. Also, learn how a body fake can make the defender react without you giving anything up, so that you can read him and react with a jump shot or a drive to the basket. And what if the defender pressures you tightly while you're dribbling, leaving you with no space to face him? Learn five different basketball moves out of a power dribble.

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Featuring bonus sections with 8-time NBA All-Star Jason Kidd of the New Jersey Nets and Hall-of-Famer Nancy Lieberman and, Scoring Without the Ball delves into an often overlooked subject within the sport – how to not only get open, but get open to score...

Features

• In chapter 1, Coach talks about getting open when you only have time and space for 3 steps, when there's enough space to shorten the pass, and when you're outside the arc, on the arc, or inside the arc. This covers all possible situations.
• Coach Torbett teaches you exactly how to read and attack the recovering defender, how to turn bad skip passes into something good, and when it's to your advantage to leave the weakside and flash to the ball.
• Too many players have the passive mentality that passing the ball is something to do only when all else fails. But passing the ball can actually create a chance for YOU to score! First, you will learn what's available when it's a perimeter-to-perimeter pass. Believe it or not, you can take advantage of what 90% of defensive players are trained to do when this type of pass occurs.
• Chapter 6 breaks it all down, as Coach Torbett uses professional footage to illustrate the reads and counters available to the screener. The chapter teaches you how to set the screen, how to properly roll, when to flare, and when to slip the screen. The bottom line: setting a screen on the ball is a great way to get yourself open for a score!
• Chapter 7 could be a video by itself. It's complex. You must learn to read the situation, your defender, your screener and his/her defender all at the same time. The chapter was saved for last because it will stretch the minds and skills of even the best players.

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with Paul Westhead; former Head Coach at Loyola Marymount University and for the Phoenix Mercury (WNBA), 2007 WNBA Champions Under Coach Westhead, Loyola Marymount University had the best scoring team in the nation -- 112...

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• Basketball In the Fast Lane

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Featuring bonus techniques from NBA superstar Mike Bibby of the Sacramento Kings, Better Passing gives you a chance to learn from Mike on a variety of topics including his favorite move off the dribble, his favorite move out of triple threat, his mental game preparation, his favorite shooting drills and workouts, and more...

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• Whether you're being guarded tightly or wide open, Better Passing will teach you everything you need to know to read the situation and execute the perfect pass. We even go into detail on ensure that the man guarding you doesn't deflect the pass.
• Coach Torbett explains the keys to feeding the post whether the defender is playing behind, dead fronting, or half fronting. He even goes into some advice for the post player who is receiving the pass! In addition, Bibby really came up big with some terrific pointers on feeding the post!
• Coach Torbett and Mike break down six game situations on passing from the post, such as hitting your teammate on the wing out of a double team, passing out of the mid-post when you've been pushed off the block and have to pivot and face the defense, feeding the standard backdoor cut, and even feeding a backdoor cut with a delayed reverse-drop-bounce!
• The video features some relatively unknown passes (such as the discus pass and bowling pass) that aren't usually taught, but the best and most creative players use them somewhat frequently. Once you master when and how to use these passes, you'll wonder how you ever got by without them!
• Once again, Better Basketball comes up with a great edition of Game Hints. These chapters have become increasingly popular among players that use our videos, mainly because the information is easy to apply and almost always rare and unique. No doubt, the hints and principles Coach Torbett and Mike Bibby provide in Better Passing's Game Hints will meet or exceed the standard set by our first three videos!

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Complete with a 61-minute bonus section from NBA All-Star Jermaine O'Neal of the Indiana Pacers and WNBA All-Star Tamika Catchings of the Indiana Fever, Better Post Play is the most detailed and comprehensive collection of post techniques ever assembled...

Features

• You're most likely to get the ball in the short corner when a player penetrates and dishes to you, or when you're attacking a zone from behind. And of course there are a number of times when you'll attack from the high post; it may even be a set in your coach's offensive system. The bottom line is that best players can make a play from any position, and that's what Better Basketball will help you become - the best player you can be!
• Chapter 4 contains techniques that all post players must master, movements that you must be able to use instinctively when the defense plays you a specific way. A few examples are the Cheat Step, the Swim, the Reverse Pivot, and the Leg Whip.
• Back to the basket moves are often considered the most traditional form of post play, but scoring with your back to the basket may be the toughest way to put up points because you don't start with any real advantage on your defender. So Coach Torbett explains a number of effective moves and counter moves, and goes into great detail on each of them.
• By the way, the Better Basketball videos are not only great fundamental improvement tools, they're also fun to watch. So we asked some of the best ballers in Atlanta, on Atlanta's premier streetball court, to demonstrate techniques for Better Basketball. And nope, you're not hallucinating, the guys played some zone defense, and they played it well!
• Most of chapter two is geared toward younger players still learning the post game's basic fundamentals. For example, younger players must learn to go up strong and seek contact. They must learn the power shot, and how to shoot with the non-contact arm. They must consistently win both the arm battle and the foot battle not only to get open, but to look open, and then they must be able to hold that seal. Finally, they must be able to receive the ball with either one hand or two hands, chin it, and read the situation.

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Tired of your girlfriend telling you to get in touch with your feelings?  Perhaps you just don't have the feel that everyone does yet.  Maybe you don't get to practice in ideal conditions outside.  Every superstar can use a little help sometimes...

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An instructional basketball designed to visually provide hand placement cues for both right and left handed shooters. The ball striping, bright yellow and orange, provides positive feedback of the rotation of a correctly released ball...

Features

• Designed to visually provide hand placement cues for both right and left handed shooters
• Striping provides positive feedback of the rotation of a correctly released ball
• Activity guide included
• Intermediate size: 28 1/2 in to 29 in