This is a [tag]basketball drill[/tag] for [tag]youth basketball coaching[/tag] called “give me eight”. One of my assistants used it with his youth team and the kids loved it. Try it with your team; the results speak for themselves.
Tell your [tag]basketball[/tag] team that you want to see who has enough gas to go all out for 8 minutes. (It doesn’t sound like very long to them.)
- Begin with all the boys spaced out across the court and have them slide/ shuffle their feet in a defensive posture, with hands up.
- At the sound of each whistle they have to reverse directions, (they go for about 2- 3 minutes).
- On the sound of two quick whistle blasts they have to run to the baseline and line up to run line drills (this goes about 4 minutes).
- The last minute, make them go back on defense and have them shuffle side to side for the remaining time.
Before they know it they have completed a full quarter of non-stop running!