10/07/2015 - Training the turn

I got up early and weighed in and Iam down to 92.1kgs. I took the dog for a quick 0.6 mile walk, it took 14.46 minutes and we climbed 22.20 minutes.

I then went to the club to work on the turn. It was amazing the differnce the turn made to my shot.

I started off making 20 freethrows and then I made 10 mikan drill layups then 10 reverse mikan drills.

I then made 10 jumpshots from the right hand side about 1 meter away from the basket on the freethrow lines. I forced the turn and was amazed that using the turn I missed only 3 shots making the 10 shots. I then moved to a point in the middle of the elbow and the baseline along the freethrow line and was again amazed at the difference in my shot. I then moved back to the elbow and made 10 moe shots. The turn was the missing ingrediente from my shot. I seemed that I couldnt miss. My shot was fluid and much more relaxed than before.

I then made 10 freethrows and then did the same thing from the left hand side. I then made 10 more freethrows.

I forgot to state that all shots were made off of the bounce to simulate catching off of a pass. (bounce the ball off of the ground so that it bounces over head height and then catch the ball on its way down, before dipping and shooing with the turn).

I then tried the turn shooting 3 points from the middle of the court. This is where it all stopped working!!! my shots were all over the place. Mostly they were dropping short though!

I had to stop before I made 10 shots as I had to go home to get ready to go to work.

I am going to do the same routine for the next week 2 weeks up until my tournament.