Video Blog - How to Grip a Basketball for the Shot

In this video, we’re taking a brief look at how you should properly grip the basketball as you’re going into the shot.  We’ll do this by identifying your shooting surfaces, or finger pads, and implementing the “One Finger Test.”

Keep an eye out for our upcoming, full-length instructional downloads!

Thanks,

Tom

ShotScience.com Blog Page

Debut Video Blog! November Tip of the Month

Thanks for checking out our brand new Video Blog!!  For our first video, we're taking a brief look at shooting follow-through.  Soon we will be launching instructional downloads that will be in-depth tutorials, so keep an eye out for those!

We'd love to hear any questions or comments you have on our first video blog!

Thanks,

Tom

www.ShotScience.com Blog

Important Recruiting Article -- "Chasing the Dream"

This is an article about my son Chase and his road to recruitment in collegiate basketball.  It really lays out the important considerations for a young athlete and the priorities that should persist through one's journey in collegiate athletics.  I hope you read it and, as always, comments are welcome.

"Chase-ing the Dream" -- Kevin McCarthy

Chase is also the Director of the Tulsa, Ok branch of Shot Science

--Tom

New!! Student Submitted Movies!!

Last week, a talented student of ours sent us an amazing YouTube movie of himself sinking a last second shot during one of his AAU games this last spring.  After watching the video, we decided to dedicate a page to movies of our students putting what they learn with us into game situations.

So check out our first video!  Nice Shot, Chris Roberto!

Link to:  Student Movies

-Tom

Tip of the Month -- October -- Point Guards

For our first "Tip of the Month" here at ShotScience.com, we want to share what we feel are some important qualities of being an outstanding Point Guard.  We'd love to hear your feedback on this initial posting, so please leave a comment or question for us.

Link to Tip of the Month:  Point Guards

Stay tuned for next month's Tip!

-Tom

Big Man/Girl Camps -- November '08

To those who are interested, we are having Skills Camps focusing on Post Play with emphasis on shooting and footwork coming up here in November.  If you're in or around the Santa Cruz Area, we would love to see you.  So please head over to our website and reserve your spot.

-The dates for the camps are Nov. 8th and 22nd, both starting at 11am-1pm

We'd love to see you there!

Launch of our new Blog Spot

We are excited to announce the launch of our new blog!  We'll be updating here, as well as on our site (http://www.shotscience.com).  If you're at all interested in improving your basketball game, especially your shooting and offensive skills, subscribe to our blog here and check out our site.  

Right now we are working on putting together some really exciting features, such as:

-Instructional Downloads on all the aspects of Basketball

-Online Shooting Instruction and Coaching (Web Conferencing, Skype, iChat, etc)

-"Tips of the Month" -- Featuring specific aspects of the game

-Student Video Pages -- Our students are highlighted in videos of their basketball accomplishments!

-And Much More!

We have lots of stuff in the works and would love to have you stay updated to all of it as we roll it out!  

Hope to see you soon,

Tom