Teaching Lay Up to Beginners

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Teaching Lay Up to Beginners

by Wim Cluytens
(Belgium)

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After several years of coaching youth and senior players, I am still looking for an answer on this (important) basketball question:

How do you start teaching lay ups: Everybody with their right hand or with their "strong" hand?

And especially I wonder how and when other basketball coaches start teaching the lay up with the weak hand?

Is this taught when the strong hand lay up is done perfectly?

Thank you in advance for your answer.

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Jul 21, 2009
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Be a marionette
by: Beaufort Bill

Often beginning players take off on the wrong foot. I teach them to think like a marionette with a string between their elbow and knee and when their shooting arm goes up it the knee and the push off occurs on the same side.

Also I start this movement from a stationary position 3-4 feet from the basket. You may also do a whole team drill with the entire team demonstrating the move without a ball.

At this time you should teach the 45 degree angle and the spot on the box to hit.

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