Session Eleven

Combining phases:

Over the past ten sessions I have been working on each different phase in which makes up the overall fundamental movements of the basketball free throw shot. In this session I am aiming to combine all of these movements together to see whether or not I have mastered each phase. If I have then my overall free throw shot would have improved dramatically.

Fig 1: Above shows a video of me combining all of the phases together to try an attempt the basketball free throw skill as a whole, I was aiming to get all the correct angles.

Design of session:

1.     Practice first phases, combine preliminary movements with backswing-attempting to run through these phases

2.     Practice the force producing movement phases with arch of shot and follow through phase, shooting 30 hoops but not recording data

3.     Combine all of the phases together and have a practice 20 shots not recording data

4.     After the practice shots attempt 4 sets of 10 shots at the hoop combining all the phases together

Results of session:

·      I was successfully able to break down the different phases and try to work on them as a whole

·      Felt quite odd combining all the movements together but after a few practice shots I got the hang of it

·      I managed to get 35 out of 40 shots in the hoop

Reflection:

This session helped me to release that by combining all of the sessions together I was able to attempt a much better free throw shot that when I started! I enjoyed this session a lot as much shot rate was improved so much more than in the first couple of sessions.