How To Handle A Basketball With Control

Want to handle the basketball with precision?

Handling a basketball is certainly hard in the beginning, and in addition may seem strenuous to progress on, but it's an important aspect of the game of basketball. The best method to improve your ball handling ability is to train hard.

Controlling the basketball is vital to your ball handling success. There are many basketball players who can dribble the basketball very well but struggle to control it in tight situations. There are many different reasons as to why someone may struggle with handling the basketball with control.

One specific reason for inability of handling the basketball with control may be lack of experience. Experience comes from playing basketball with different competition and also playing basketball in different environments. You want to find different competition and challenge yourself. For example if your local basketball court has the same competition pretty much every day, then you should look to visit different basketball courts with different competition.

When you play basketball against harder competition it will force you to improve your ball handling control. If you don't improve your ball handling control then the defense will strip the basketball from you. When you play against more difficult competition you will realize that you need to work harder and you may also get some motivation from your realizations.

One of the vital neglected components of dribbling a basketball is always keeping your head up. This really is one among the subtle differences between an incredible ball handler or a good basketball handler. If you wish to handle a basketball even better you will want to always maintain keeping your head up.

An excellent tip to make it easier to handle the basketball with control is to dribble the basketball very low and hard. There are two apparent factors why this is very much important. If you control the basketball at a low height, your defender is going to have a difficult time snatching the basketball. If you dribble the ball hard and low, it will prove to be difficult for all of your competitors to take the basketball.

Once you begin to dribble with your head up regularly, gain some experience, and dribble with power and dribble low, you are going to start to realize a marked improvement in your basketball dribbling.

One of my favorite sayings is "perfect practice makes perfect", so if you decide you actually want to control the basketball better while you're dribbling, you want to train the correct way.

Implement these tips whenever you dribble a basketball and you will certainly improve your ball handling and your overall performance on the basketball court.