What are the characteristics of basketball? How to practice dribbling rhythm in basketball

Basketball can not only strengthen the body, but also allow you to enjoy the skillful dribbling, clever passing, accurate shooting, witty steals, wonderful dunks and surprising blocks. The two sides compete with each other, and the situation on the court changes dramatically, which gives participants and viewers psychological satisfaction and pleasure. So how can you practice the basic skills of dribbling in basketball? You may wish to open the following content to read and learn more!

Contents of this article

1. Characteristics of basketball

2. How to practice dribbling rhythm in basketball

3. How to practice dribbling in basketball

Characteristics of basketball

1. Confrontation: Basketball can last for a long or short time, but it requires participants to run fast, jump suddenly and continuously, and react quickly and compete with strength.

2. Teamwork: Basketball not only requires athletes to have technical and tactical abilities, as well as wisdom, courage, will, vitality and creativity demonstrated in the game, but also requires athletes to have courage, tenacity and a spirit of unity and cooperation.

3. Entertainment value: In basketball games, one can enjoy skillful dribbling, clever passing, accurate shooting, smart steals, wonderful slam dunks and surprising blocks. In addition, the alternation of offense and defense, and the change of confrontation make the two sides compete with each other in wits and courage. The changes in the situation on the court are dramatic, which can bring psychological satisfaction and pleasure to the participants and spectators.

4. Fitness: By participating in basketball, people can not only strengthen their bodies, but also develop their personality, self-confidence, aesthetic taste, willpower, enterprising spirit, self-discipline and other abilities. It is also conducive to cultivating moral qualities such as unity and cooperation, respect for opponents and fair competition.

How to practice dribbling rhythm in basketball

1. Practice solid dribbling basics.

If you want to be able to move freely when breaking through, you should first practice the basic skills of dribbling. You should be able to stick to the ball and not lose it while dribbling or hit your legs. When dribbling, the basic thing is not to dribble past the waist; you should squat slightly to lower your body's center of gravity; and bend your upper body slightly when dribbling.

2. Master the speed of dribbling.

When dribbling, if you want to change the rhythm, you should work on the dribbling speed. If the opponent's defense is very tight, you can dribble slowly at first, such as cross dribbling between the legs. When the opponent is a little relaxed, you can try to speed up, such as suddenly accelerating to the right. At this time, the opponent will rush to make up for the defense, and we will take back the basketball, and then accelerate to the right, which often catches the opponent off guard.

3. Look for gaps in the defense.

When defending, there will always be gaps, so we should observe carefully when dribbling, don't just look down at the ball, you should open your field of vision. When there is a gap, such as a mismatch under the basket, you can try to break through. We can quickly speed up and break through with the ball decisively. With such a rapid change of rhythm, it is generally difficult for the defender to get closer. Of course, if we encounter a backup defender, we can break through and pass the ball.

4. Dribble the ball alternately with both hands.

When breaking through, prepare to change the rhythm. You need to dribble with both hands alternately. Don't always use one hand, otherwise the rhythm change effect will not come out. You can dribble with both hands behind your back to confuse your opponent and not let him know which side you are going to break through. You can change the rhythm of both hands very quickly. For example, if you are used to using your left hand, you can dribble the ball slowly with your right hand and quickly dribble the ball with your left hand to break through.

How to practice dribbling in basketball

1. Fake moves are the most effective in confusing the opponent. Dribble the ball quickly with your right hand, and when you reach the opponent's defender, quickly push the basketball to the left, but do not change hands, just fake the opponent. Take a quick step to the left with your left foot to keep the dribble balanced, and quickly hold the ball through the opponent after the ball bounces back. This fake-style basketball passing is very fast and has a high success rate, and a one-handed fake turn is more practical than a two-handed fake turn.

2. This way of passing can be said to be an advanced version of the first one. After completing the action of the first way of passing, add one more step. However, this method is not very suitable for beginners and requires a relatively high ability to control the ball. Dribble the ball forward with your left hand, bring the ball to the right when the opponent's defender is one step away, take a step to the right at the same time, then bring the ball to the left, take a big step with your left foot, and change hands to hold the ball. This method has a larger range of movements and is relatively complicated, which can better confuse the opponent. Even when facing players with strong defensive abilities, you don't have to worry too much.

3. Cross-stepping is a very practical way to pass the defense, and it is not easy to make mistakes. The most important thing is to press the center of the body down, separate the two feet, and turn the body slightly to the right when preparing to break through the defense, so that the center of gravity of the body moves to the right, and after stepping out with the left foot, it will take the ball to the right. Although this method is a bit complicated, it will be very useful after learning it. When watching the game, you will find that many people like to use this method to break through the defense.

4. The behind-the-back dribbling method requires a relatively high level of dribbling skills. First, dribble behind your back, find the opportunity to jump one step behind yourself, and then bend your knees to shoot. Jumping behind can increase the distance between you and the defender, making it difficult to be stopped, so you must roughly judge the distance between you and the defender, and then decide how far to jump, otherwise the quality of the shot will be greatly reduced.