How to Improve Your Free Throw Percentage by Twenty Points

Free throws are one of the most vital skills a basketball player must acquire to be truly successful. There are few exceptions to this rule, so it would behoove you to become a great free throw shooter if you plan to move on to the next level. Fortunately, this is a skill that can be acquired regardless of talent. If you have the determination, practice will make you a great free throw shooter over time. Here is a program that can add 20 points to your percentage if you are a poor free throw shooter.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Basketball
• <br>Basketball court and goal
• <br>Determination
• <br>VCR
• <br>Television
• <br>Video camera

One Step at a Time

1. Film yourself shooting free throws. Record yourself from several angles, and be sure to focus on the entire body. Do not zoom in on your upper body, as free throws are shot with your knees as well. Make a good recording of you shooting 10 or 20 free throws.

2. Watch the tape over and over and note what you are doing right and wrong. Are you keeping your elbow in? Are you following through? Are you shooting with your fingers or your arms? Are you bending your knees? If you study the tapes, you will see what you are doing right and wrong. Compare your tapes to tapes of the great free throw shooters. What is different?

3. Now that you have an idea of what you should do, figure out the things you will do from now on. Dedicate yourself to the same routine, stance and shooting style for the rest of your basketball life. Shooting free throws is repetition. From how many times you bounce the ball before shooting, to what part of the ball you line your fingers up on when you shoot, it should be the same every time. This is vital.

A New Way to Practice

4. Dedicate yourself to shooting only free throws for 1 hour a day at a minimum. Every time you go to the court for this practice, follow the routine laid out below. Remember, you must do everything the same way each time.

5. The first thing you should do is train your form. Start out right in front of the basket. Shoot this shot just as you would a regular free throw as far as your routine and form. Shoot until you make it. Once you make it from there, Move back a half step and repeat the process. Continue until you reach the free throw line.

6. Once you reach the free throw line, shoot repeatedly but with the same routine. Bounce the ball the same number of times, line up the same way, stare at the same spot on the rim, hold the ball the same, and finally shoot with the same form each time. Do not change up your stances and shot styles. Use the video to see what works, and stick with it until you are consistent.

Tips & Warnings

• Stick to the same routine.
• <br>Use video to see your mistakes.
• <br>Watch great shooters ... they are great for a reason.
• <br>Practice every single day.

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