Practice is the fifth and final element of becoming a great free throw shooter. It is best to incorporate free throw practice within your normal workout routines so that you can incorporate game satiations. A normal game situation, you are shooting free throws when you are winded, fatigue and a little bit tired. So we want to practice a drill at full intensity and speed, and rest on our free throws. As a role, we have our players practice making five free throws in a row, in between every shooting drill, dribbling drill or practice drill that they do in the off season. Even in team settings, we will have players shoot five in a row in the course of a two hour practice five or six times.
Why we have chose the number five as the number of free throws to make in a row in your practice situations. One, it requires that you concentrate for five consistent free throws. If you look at games, the most consecutive free throws any players typically required to make is five. When does this occur, player shoots a three point shot was fouled and misses the three point shot. A coach or opposing player is upset about the call and gets a technical foul. Thus, he ends up taking five free throws in a row.
Playing a free throw championship versus a friend or a teammate. A free throw championship would be in a win, four out of seven games, compete by taking ten free throws each. If you end up in a tie, at the end of the ten free throws, perhaps, you both have made eight free throws a piece, then go to the playoff, which is called Ice. It is a free throw game that we are made up was consist to putting pressure on the shooter with every single free throw.
Ice works as follows, the first shooter gets to take one free throw, if they make it or miss it, the next shooter has the chance to match by making the free throw or if the second shooter also, misses then they are still competing to see who will win. If the first shooter makes it, and the second shooter misses, the first shooter has won the first game of seven in a free throw competition.
We would like to give advice because it puts pressure on the shooter every time they step to the line and forces them into a mode where they have to concentrate on the mental mechanics of the free throw process.
One time each week, take and record 100 free throws. The reason you only want to this once a week is that you can track and chart your progress and improvement on your free throws. This is the one situation where you are actually, going to take a specific number of free throws, instead of make a specific number of free throws in a row. So, once a week, track your progress and improvement so you have a way to know that you are progressing in your free throw mechanics and your free throw shooting.
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