Layup drills (Beginner)

Lay ups is the most important step of becoming an amazing basketball player. Layups will prove your toughness and your accuracy. What I mean by accuracy is if you are on a break away and you are going to fast you will probably lose control hit the glass but miss the target.

Things you will need:

• Basketball
• Partner
• optional (weights) 

1. Optional task not for beginner. I would advise you start to lift weights because you will need to have a big body to be able to be stronger than your opponent to make a successful layup each time. If you are a beginner you should start off with smaller weights and when you get stronger lift more each week.




2. Grab a basketball and stand in one side of the basketball hoop and do 100 layups. If you are in the left side of the hoop do left handed layups and if your in the right side use your right hand. When doing your layup left one of your knees up. So if your jumping with your in the left side you lift up your left knee while shooting and when your on the right side lift up your right knee.



3. Go to the other side of the gym and sprint to the basket as fast as you can while dribbling. When you reach the net make your layup of you miss do 10 push ups. This will help you on your touch because if your going to fast you tend to put more power to your layup



4.  Grab a partner and tell him to defend you. You can only do layups because it's a layup drill which will be harder than just shooting all the time. If your partner is to strong then you will know that you will have to bulk up to beat him.


Ounce you master all four steps you will be ready for my layup drills advance. Next we will be learning how to shoot for beggingers so click on my next post.