Basketball Training

Tuesday 5th of May, was a bright morning and at 10:20 am we went out to basketball to learn new skills. As we walked towards the basketball court, the other class before us was sitting in a 2 sets of lines and coach Chanel was waiting on the other side of the court.

First of all coach Chanel told us to get into partners of 2, and one person from your partnership had to get a ball. When half of the room 7 students all had gotten a ball, coach Chanel demonstrated some ball handling skills to us. The hardest skill was bouncing the ball between my feet and trying to catch it behind my feet.

After the skills we played a game called Dribbling Tag, so the rules were that the partner with the ball had to dribble the ball while trying to tag the other partner, but you could not run you had to speed walk. Dribble Tag was really fun and exciting.

After we played Dribble Tag we played Ship Shark Shore, the rules for this game was if coach Chanel yelled Ship then you had to dribble the ball towards the field and back. If coach Chanel yells Shore then you dribble the ball towards the side of the court which faces the juniors and dribble back. Lastly if she yells Shark then you can dribble either way and back. The last students to reach the line was eliminated and there was a prize for those who were left dribbling back and forward on the court. I was one of the students who were left on the court and it was so breathtaking dribbling the ball back and forward.

As soon as we Ship Shark Shore, we played Octopus but with a twist. The twist was that the taggers had to dribble the ball and they could not run with it. The game was quite easy because the non taggers had an unfair advantage because the taggers could not run with the ball.

Todays basketball training was great I could not wait for our next training next week