Basketball Ball Handling Drills

This little known drill is very difficult at first but it will show a dramatic improvement in your handles.

1st start by dribbling the tennis ball casually with your right hand and then with your left hand. Try not to allow the palms of your hands to touch the ball. The try with your head up. Once you feel comfortable try dribbling and walking alternating hands on occasion. You may need to look down at first then graduate to keeping your head up. Now its time to run and dribble, same as walking alternate hands and graduate to looking up while running and dribbling. Finally the masters course involves dribbling 2 ball at the same time. Start from the beginning and work your way back up.

Strong fingers are essential to ball control. This drill will strengthen your fingers. Hold the ball in front of you at eye level with two hands. By squeezing your fingers and thumb together with one hand at a time, you move the ball from one hand to the other as quickly as you can.

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Dribble the basketball as hard as you can while staying under control. Power dribble for 10 seconds, then soft dribble for 5 seconds. Repeat multiple times alternating hands. This exercise teaches your arm muscles how to alternate between various dribbling speeds that occur during game play.

Power dribble with a ball in each hand. This will increase your arm strength for dribbling and enhance your dribbling control. Since you can`t look at both hands at the same time, this drill will also practice your ability to power dribble without looking at the ball.

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While doing bent knee sit ups, dribble up with your right hand as you sit up, and around your feet, then switch hands to your left as you go back down, and then dribble with your left hand as you sit up, back around your feet, switching back to your right hand. Continue as quickly as possible.

Sit on the floor with legs spread. Dribble the ball as low and fast as you can alternating between hands.

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Stand straight up with legs together. Pass ball around your head then around your chest then around your waist then around both legs then spread legs apart and pass the ball around each leg one at a time. Make sure you use your finger tips and dont let your palms touch the ball. Reverse from clockwise to counter clockwise and progressively speed up till you are going as fast as you can.

"Alex Maroko has created a program for anybody, at any level, to become an amazing ball-handler. Using the same drills and moves found in this book, my 13 year-old son has become a truly skilled ball-handler, while working with Alex. Everywhere I go, people comment on how impressed they are with my son's dribbling, not to mention how proud I am to watch him carve up opposing defenses! "

Jonny K., father of a 13 year-old prodigy