Wheelchair Basketball: Training Abilities

Video Transcript

"In wheelchair basketball, no different than on your feet basketball, there's things you have to be able to do. It's a big advantage in wheelchair basketball if I could use both hands. Big advantage. We throw bounce passes in wheelchair basketball. We throw baseball passes. We throw chest passes. You know, we have to have dribbling skills. Right hand, left hand, behind our back. So we have to develop all of these skills. And not only sitting still, but while we're moving. We shoot a lot of our shots while we're moving. So I might be moving into the wheel to the basket, and I might shoot the shot on the roll. Often times we're shooting and doing things on the roll. I might be rolling down here, and that's a long ways, so I can shoot further if I'm rolling. So if I'm rolling, and shoot the ball, that's a better thing then if I'm just sitting still as far being able to shoot further. You have to be able to develop the skills of shooting, passing, positioning your wheelchair. It's not uncommon in the middle of a game that someone might smash into you and rip your spokes out. Well, we go to the sideline, we take our wheel off, we might take another wheel off of our everyday chair, a spare we might have with us. And we might have to fix our wheel. We put the, you know, the wheel back on and we're back into the game. So I guess it's kind of like, if you sprain an ankle, you go over there and they tape your ankle and you're back in the game."