Remember the all glass phone booths from back in the day? They weren't the most comfortable places to stand inside and talk to someone over the phone. But what had to be done was done. Some phone booths even came with a door you could close so that you could talk and have some privacy.
Privacy could be defined as preventing intrusions into one's physical space. Wouldn't this be the ideal situation a jump shooter would want everytime he shot the basketball? Picture a kid growing up in a small town somewhere in NC. He spends most of his time with few people throughout the day (Mom, Dad, brother, sister). When he finally steps onto a basketball court and is being hounded by a kid his size or bigger, he get's his first feeling of a stranger intruding his physical space. This is an uncomfortable feeling and the physical pressure can convert itself into mental pressure, thus becoming overwhelming and forcing a turnover or a pass to a teammate. "Good defense", shouts the defender's teamates as they try to do the same thing to their men.
Was shooting an option for the young kid who just knew every day of his short life that he was on his way to being the next Erving "Magic" Johnson? Could he have shot the ball under the physical and mental pressure and actually made the shot? Not that day...
A few months go by and the kid gets a little stronger both physically and mentally. This is when he was taught to shoot his "J" in the phone booth and not in the street. The flow of increasing pressure he felt in the game that day (physical --> mental) lowered instantly in a reverse manner (mental --> physical).
The pressure was lowered in this direction because he was confident that the defender couldn't stop his jump shot regardless of the pressure he was applying. How was this possible? Well, the young soon to be "Magic" knew that when he held the ball in his hand he was in the phone booth with the door closed. That was all of the space he needed to shoot the basketball properly. He found his shooting form quicker, he found his confidence in his shot faster, he found a way to frustrate defenders...Game over.
Learn more about the Phone Booth "J" during SwinsBasketball training workouts to improve your shot and build that confidence and consistency everytime you step on the court.
SwinsBasketball
Phone: (862) 234-0511
Email: swinsbasketball@gmail.com
Privacy could be defined as preventing intrusions into one's physical space. Wouldn't this be the ideal situation a jump shooter would want everytime he shot the basketball? Picture a kid growing up in a small town somewhere in NC. He spends most of his time with few people throughout the day (Mom, Dad, brother, sister). When he finally steps onto a basketball court and is being hounded by a kid his size or bigger, he get's his first feeling of a stranger intruding his physical space. This is an uncomfortable feeling and the physical pressure can convert itself into mental pressure, thus becoming overwhelming and forcing a turnover or a pass to a teammate. "Good defense", shouts the defender's teamates as they try to do the same thing to their men.
Was shooting an option for the young kid who just knew every day of his short life that he was on his way to being the next Erving "Magic" Johnson? Could he have shot the ball under the physical and mental pressure and actually made the shot? Not that day...
A few months go by and the kid gets a little stronger both physically and mentally. This is when he was taught to shoot his "J" in the phone booth and not in the street. The flow of increasing pressure he felt in the game that day (physical --> mental) lowered instantly in a reverse manner (mental --> physical).
The pressure was lowered in this direction because he was confident that the defender couldn't stop his jump shot regardless of the pressure he was applying. How was this possible? Well, the young soon to be "Magic" knew that when he held the ball in his hand he was in the phone booth with the door closed. That was all of the space he needed to shoot the basketball properly. He found his shooting form quicker, he found his confidence in his shot faster, he found a way to frustrate defenders...Game over.
Learn more about the Phone Booth "J" during SwinsBasketball training workouts to improve your shot and build that confidence and consistency everytime you step on the court.
SwinsBasketball
Phone: (862) 234-0511
Email: swinsbasketball@gmail.com
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