Video: Wheelchair Basketball: Practice

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Stretching is a key element in preparation for practicing wheelchair basketball. Remember to warmup those shoulders. Learn how to play wheelchair basketball from a world champion and paralympic medalist in this free sports video.

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Well when you are on the gym and you are ready for practice you know people have their personal routines and then there is the team routines, coach has what he's got in mind, for me personally I make sure I stretch you know get my shoulder, my wrists and my fingers. I stretch and I'll put tape on, you know if I have some injuries on my fingers, I might tape up. You know get a drink of water, go to the rest room, be ready to play. And then when coach calls the team together, usually we'll do some conditioning drills where we run and get in shape and get our shoulders going. It's not uncommon that we'd run some layups, you know we have all the guys you know circling in and out and shooting layups. And then we get into our drills, and practice and we talk about the other team and just a regular practice. Olympic competitions, each player cause they live in different states, is expected to get in the gym and stay in shape and be ready to compete, but they also get together a handful of times through the summer for instance at training camps. Might be at the Olympic training center at Colorado Springs, might be in some city at a high school but they get together four or five times and they might go to the Pan American games or other competitions but there is the individual workouts, and then they come together as a team.

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Wheelchair Basketball: Practice

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