About the Book and DVD: Coaching Youth Basketball -- Basketball On A Triangle: A Higher Level of Coaching and Playing
The book came first. (See: The Book That Made The DVD ) The DVD (See: DVD) was created to complement the book, giving readers the best of both worlds -- the text (with hundreds of diagrams and photos) and the visual companion showing Coach Ronn Wyckoff teaching everything he writes about during a live, 3-day coaching workshop.
While searching for a publisher for his book, he began marketing the DVD through his website, http://www.top-basketball-coaching.com/home . From the success of DVD sales, 27 other products have been created from chapters in the book to help coaches and players around the world learn how to teach and perform the basic fundamentals necessary for successful play.
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Here's the Press Release That Went Out In Advance of Releasing the Book Worldwide Via the Internet. Coaching Youth Basketball -- Basketball On A Triangle: A Higher Level of Coaching and Playing
The author doesn't just fill pages with theory and drills. He has provided over 300 pages chock full of usable content that break down every aspect of the individual game and demonstrate with text, diagrams and photos how to teach or practice the basic fundamentals of the game.
24/7 Press Release/ - Dec. 8th, 2007 - Coach Ronn Wyckoff has just published the most innovative basketball book for youth coaches and players on the market. If the DVD sales from this book are any indicator, "Basketball On A Triangle: A Higher Level Of Coaching and Playing", is going to be a major player in the "how to coach basketball" and "how to play basketball" niches.
He begins by chronicling his own rise from beginning coach to how he became a teaching coach to players and other coaches around the world. Along the way, he discusses changing teaching paradigms to include Zen/Spiritual approaches to many of the problems facing youth sports today. He discusses how to be a supportive parent, making 'right' choices, and what it takes to become a teaching-coach, rather than one who just moves players around like chess pieces.
In the "how to..." section of his book, Coach Ronn walks a coach, player or parent through the beginning game, from explaining the floor markings, to how the game is played, to how to stand and move. The veteran author always keeps it simple, using the plateau method of teaching. He goes from the most basic introduction of skills, overlaying new usages of skills previously taught, until he has reached the more sophisticated position specific offensive and defensive skills necessary to playing the game well.
Teaching-coaches, and players at any level, will find here the appropriate words and directives, along with specific drills, to teach and enhance whatever skill is being covered.
Before the book was released, Coach Ronn produced and released a 4-hour teaching DVD version of all the aspects he teaches in the "how to..." section of his book. The DVD has had tremendous worldwide sales, making this combination of teaching tools unique among youth basketball coaching authors.
With his more than fifty-five years in basketball, first as a player, then as a coach, and later as an international consultant and national team coach in four countries, Coach Ronn brings a rich and varied expertise to his writing. He weaves anecdotes about his own life and coaching experiences in with suggestions on how to take one's game to a higher level-skill wise and spiritually. Everything the author brings forth in his book is straightforward and simple, all the time relating to how to find a higher purpose for our lives and bring it into working with youth.
Bio
Coach Ronn has spent more than fifty years in basketball, coaching youth basketball up through national teams, and as a player, lecturer, author, court-side commentator, and even refereeing. As an international consultant, his programs have reached hundreds of players and coaches around the world. He coached four national teams and has conducted national player camps. He averaged over 22 ppg, (before the advent of the 3-point line) in his fifteen year playing career. He played for three years in Sweden at the end of his playing career.
In his forty-plus years of coaching, Coach Ronn coached boys, girls, men and women, from the playgrounds to national teams, and his teams won over 70% of their games. The international club teams he coached won over 80%.
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Basketball on a Triangle: A Higher Level of Coaching and Playing
Friday, May 29, 2009
Common Sense Basketball Coaching
Here's a good excerpt from the new book "The Dandy Dons:"
It chronicles the University of San Francisco basketball teams from the mid-1950s that were coached by Phil Woolpert and featured Bill Russell and K.C. Jones. USF won the NCAA championship in 1955 and 1956.
When practice opened in the fall of '53, Woolpert was ready. So were the players, but they didn't know what the coach had in store for them -- in practice or during games. Woolpert had a plan: First he was going to use defense to break up the opposition's attack before it could get set. On offense he wanted to use a balanced floor, with his players working the ball around the court until they got the right shot.
Woolpert had always been a strong advocate of defense and he saw an opportunity to develop his players into an aggressive defensive squad.
"I can't see just standing around and letting the other fellow shoot. To me, it's common sense to try to stop him from scoring. There is a science and a skill to defense. It's what makes the game interesting, not a race from one end of the court to the other for one more basket."
He was also fond of saying, "We figure to have the ball only about half the time in a game, so in practice, we work on defense half the time."
Woolpert was without a doubt a defensive-minded coach. In Woolpert's system, if you couldn't defend, it was unlikely you would get much playing time. He disdained "jackrabbit basketball," once remarking about the up-tempo offense becoming popular then: "It just isn't good basketball. I wouldn't know how to go about coaching it. You can't expect to execute scoring plays when you're running up and down the court like madmen."
Practice included what Woolpert called the "hands-up" drill. The players would line up with their feet in position, bend their knees, and put one hand high above their heads and the other one out to the side. Then they moved quickly forward or backward, to the left or to the right, at Woolpert's direction.
It was the same drill that Hall of Fame coach Pete Newell used when he was at USF and in 1959 when his Cal team won the NCAA title. Most players introduced to the hands-up drill lasted about three minutes before they begged for mercy, but eventually they could go twenty minutes nonstop. That kind of stamina paid big dividends during the season.
Woolpert was also a stickler for making his players pick up the fundamentals of the game -- dribbling, passing, footwork, and shooting. "A basketball player sent on the court with rusty fundamentals," he said, "is a good bet to fail in his operations."
In addition to sound fundamentals, a team needed talented players and a simple offense and defense. Woolpert believed that regardless of what offense a team used, "the essentially important need is for simplicity and efficiency of operation. If the players know what they are doing, and why, and are impressed with the importance of each move in an overall pattern, the chances of that pattern creating good shot opportunities are excellent."
Monday, March 16, 2009
Defense is about Desire and Focus on Fundamentals
NBA head coach of the New Orleans Hornets Byron Scott reminded his team recently about the basics of defense and the importance of focusing on defensive fundamentals. "Defense is all about desire and wanting to do it. It has nothing to do with skill. So we've just got to get back to our defensive principles and understanding what we need to do on every play. We were trying to rely too much on our offense, trying to outscore people. There's going to be nights when we're not going to be able to make shots or throw it in the ocean. We've got to be able to rely on our defense a lot more.Right now, we're having a lot of trouble on the defensive end. Specifically, guarding guys off the dribble, number one, and protecting that paint, number two. The third thing is when we're getting beat, we're fouling too much. We've got to do a better job, maybe go back to the drawing board, think about some of the things on our defensive concepts that we talked about and get better at it.The focus on that end has to be better. As far as us understanding what our principles are, I think we understand them. We've just got to get back to doing them on a day-to-day basis. This is not the time to lose desire to play defense; this is the times we've got to pick it back up." Perhaps no one on this team understands the importance of this focus like Scott who played on NBA championship teams during his tenure on the LA Lakers.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Download Boston Celtics, Spurs, Hubie Brown, Mike D'Antoni, and Princeton Offense
As the NBA season comes to a close, I wanted to offer some special sets and coaching notes from the NBA's best coaches. You can download any and all of these notes for free. Boston Celtics Pre-Draft Workout & Practice Notes - http://www.blogger.com/
Spurs and Poppovich Favorite Sets and Drills - http://www.mediafire.com/?kojiygzzno2
Hubie Brown Coaching eBook - Download this coaching legend's playbook and gameplan for success. http://www.mediafire.com/?2nniyz0njczMike D'Antoni Coaching Offensive Sets - These are some of his favorite sets that he runs with the NY Knicks in his uptempo European style offense. Download the notes for free: http://www.mediafire.com/?5jmdmogm1zy
The mystery of the Princeton Offense is unveiled in this masterful eBook! The star of the offense is the "back door cut," which Princeton has used for years to slay bigger opponents. The eBook shares the key drills that the Princeton team works on, every day, to perfect the offense and also teaches concepts such as the dribble handoff, fake handoff, weak side exchange, freeze dribble, butt screens, pick and roll and many more. How to execute the offense using the Point to Wing Series, the High Post Scissors, the Chin Series and the UCLA Series are all diagrammed and dissected. 
Each series contains a number of options to maximize versatility, including combo plays such as Chin Series to UCLA Series. Never again will the Princeton Offense be seen as an intricate system! This eBook shows how to incorporate the game''s finest fundamentals into an exciting, potent offense. Piece by piece you will see why this offense has struck panic into teams for years.
Once you have mastered the building blocks of Princeton's offensive system, you will be able to create easy scoring opportunities for your team! This eBook gives you the insider's view of how practice is structured to develop individual and team skills, discipline, court-vision, and court-awareness.
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