{"id":183,"date":"2018-02-01T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theathletemaker.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2018-02-16T09:44:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T14:44:11","slug":"basketball-tennis-ball-rebounding-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theathletemaker.com\/blog\/basketball-tennis-ball-rebounding-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball: Tennis Ball Rebounding Drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b_gC-OtTRCo\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>With Basketball season in full swing, I hope your team is playing well and improving every day.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to send you one of my favorite basketball specific plyometric drills.\u00a0 I love this drill because it incorporates hand eye coordination and explosive plyometric training.\u00a0 It requires the athlete to work on a quick second jump which is so important for basketball players when they get an offensive rebound.\u00a0 This is a great way for your athletes to continue to stay strong and explosive throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p>For a full read about the drill check out this link to Stack.com:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ATHmaker.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=ee139692d9f3f855fdb2e64ca&amp;id=6fbcc40451&amp;e=b682ea72ae\"><strong><em>http:\/\/www.stack.com\/2012\/11\/06\/best-plyometric-exercise-for-basketball-tennis-ball-rebounding-drill\/<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best of luck the rest of the season!<\/p>\n<p>Stay Strong!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Also be sure to subscribe to our youtube channel for highlight videos and workout tips!<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/allamericanath\">youtube.com\/allamericanath<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Athlete Maker Team:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><em>Micah Kurtz, MS, CSCS*D, RSCC*D, USAW, FMS, NASE,<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0serves as Strength and Conditioning Consultant Coach to nine-time high school basketball national champion Oak Hill Academy, which won the Dick\u2019s High School National Basketball Tournament in 2016. \u00a0He is in his eighth year as Director of Strength and Conditioning at AC Flora High School., which has won 14 state championships in the past five years, including the 2016 boys\u2019 basketball state championship. Kurtz was named the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Strength Coach of the Year in 2016. He was also named the South Carolina High School Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year in both 2013 and 2014 and is part of the NSCA\u2019s Subject Matter Expert Committee. You can follow him on Twitter and Instagram @KurtzM3.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><em>Bryan Meagher<\/em><\/strong><em> is currently the Associate Head Coach of the 2016 Dick\u2019s High School National Basketball Championship team Oak Hill Academy.\u00a0 During his coaching career he has coached numerous NBA players that have included Kevin Durant, Rajon Rondo, Brandon Jennings, Josh Smith and Ben McLemore.\u00a0 In Coach Meagher\u2019s tenure, he has been a part of five high school basketball National Championships.\u00a0 You can follow him on Instagram for workout tips @Bmeagher22.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Andy Hallett, MS<\/strong> is entering his 21st season as the head coach at A.C. Flora High School. Over the past 20 seasons his Falcons have compiled a 441-170 record for a 722 winning percentage. During his tenure at Flora his Falcons have won:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>14 Region Championships<\/em><em><br \/>\n13 District Championships<br \/>\n4 AAA Lower State Championships<br \/>\n4 AAA Upper State Championships<br \/>\n6 AAA State Championships\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><em>Luke Kurtz, JD<\/em><\/strong><em> is the Vice President of Legal Affairs for US Sugar and passionate about helping students maximize their full athletic, academic and professional potential. He played free safety and was named captain of the State University of New York- Albany football team where he won two conference titles and earned the nickname &#8220;DB9&#8221; for being a team player and aggressive hitter. He played and coached professional football for the Corinthians football club in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. He is an active writer and has delivered speeches and presentations throughout the United States, Brazil, China and Hong Kong.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Basketball season in full swing, I hope your team is playing well and improving every day. I wanted to send you one of my favorite basketball specific plyometric drills.\u00a0 I love this drill because it incorporates hand eye coordination and explosive plyometric training.\u00a0 It requires the athlete to work on a quick second jump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-coach-micah-kurtz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theathletemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theathletemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theathletemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theathletemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theathletemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theathletemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/www.theathletemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theathletemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theathletemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theathletemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}