How to Play Basketball: Quick Skips

[Music Playing] Quick Skips. Start with the linear skips. Just going straight ahead, get a couple of skips in, then increase the speed, quick as you can make the feet go. Challenge your speed by stepping down to the ground as quick as possible. Step down. Keep the toes pulled up toward the shin. Cock and load that ankle. You have to have the toes pulled up toward the shin as you step down and push off. Lateral skip. Get your skipping rhythm by skipping in place. Keep the feet a little bit wide. We do not want them one close to the other, we want to have a wide base of support for balance. Step down to the ground. Push away from the direction you want to go. Reinforce a good athletic position as you get used to doing this drill. Side Skips. Skipping sideways, crossover, using the knee and hip. These are small steps, fast hips, makes fast feet. Rotate those hips, rotates those hips. Your feet will always follow your hips; keep your toe pulled up toward shin. Keep the leg in a power position to step down to the ground. [Music Playing] Crossover skips. Use a line. This wide line gives us a great agility drill. He is going to skip and crossover and then skip and cross back. This is going to use a lot of hip rotation and body control. Balance, agility, it is all involved here. [Music Playing] Skipioca. Do your carioca with a skipping rhythm. We want that double foot contact to teach the brain and the muscles to respond quicker for more explosive response on the court. We have to train the body to be quick. We can not just accept what we think is our own speed. Challenge it and make it better. [Music Playing] Drop Skip. Point the knees out ward; step down quick by rotating the hips. We want to be able to open those hips for great defensive play. Keep a wide base of support. Use the hips to move the feet. [Music Playing]