How to Dribble a Basketball at High Speeds

Video Transcript

"This is Travis on behalf of Expert Village and we want to talk about the speed dribble. The speed dribble is basically that. It's like your top end speed when you're dribbling. You're going to use that for your open court. Let's say you're on defense and you're the person that's out at the top of the key. Your center or forward gets rebounded. They're going to kick it out to you. Maybe there's nobody in front of you, but yet there's someone close enough to you and you think you can beat them to the basket because you have superior foot speed or top end speed. This speed dribble is running full force down the court top speed. Your dribble is going to be a little bit different than your low dribble because your low dribble, your hand is on top of the ball. Your hand is on top of the ball. With the top speed dribble, you're really going to be almost to a 45 degree angle pushing the ball out in front of you. Obviously, you have to keep it in front of you when you're running faster. What you want to also concentrate on is by keeping the ball about waist height when you're doing your speed dribbles. Keep the ball about waist height and keep it out in front of you. It's good for you to practice even line drills using the top speed dribble because you can get quite a few practice ones in. Here's what it's going to look like. We'll give you a half court run here. Just notice how I'm pushing the ball out in front of me and the height that I'm keeping it at. Keep your head up so that you can see the floor. What we'll do is we'll start by throwing the ball out, chasing it down, and just watch the height, the hand, the head, and score."