I want to share my opions. For any aspiring USA student-athletes, their parents, coaches and mentors. I want to share what I have found from the perspective of a parent of an Australian bound USA basketball student-athlete (in his second year). This is a summary of my observations and opinions based on my on-going research […]
Thank you to the athletes across our school based and private basketball development programs who took time to fill out our Participant Satisfaction Survey. Unfortunately not everyone got to give feedback due to absences at the final weeks of training. We wish to remind our program’s athletes we do understand Ozswoosh is not for everyone, […]
Ozswoosh’ school based program athletes and private Rookies program athletes came together recently to compete in a friendly game against each other to cap off a year of basketball development. The Rookies athletes dominated most of the play, yet the school program athletes demonstrated signs of brilliance with many showing much improved dexterity, speed and […]
Ozswoosh pursues an “Every BODY Wins” Strategy! We have adopted this approach to help grow the sport and not threaten the ‘status quo’ as a privately run independent basketball organisation. Most people are unaware of our organisational approach. When establishing Ozswoosh Academy in 2017, we decided upon an individual focused model. So in the interest […]
How to Motivate Athletes and Better Manage Their Personalities As coaches we tend to follow a common developmental evolution. Most tend to start out wanting some skill focused drills. Then you realise you have only been drilling and not teaching. There is a difference. You see you were not casting a critical eye and providing athletes […]
Ozswoosh Mission Statement “Our success is driven by the success of others, so only by helping others achieve their goals, can we truly say, we have achieved ours.” Ozswoosh likes to help “the right type of people”. We understand our programs and approach is not for everyone, nor is it for just anyone. There are […]
The 2017/2018 NBA season hardly tipped off and there were two season ending injuries in the first 2 days. Celtics player, Gordon Hayward severely dislocated his left ankle and fractured his left tibia while playing their season opener against Cleveland. Hours later, New York Nets player, Jeremy Lin, ruptured his patella in a game against the […]
When it comes to basketball, everyone wants to shoot. If you hand a kid a basketball and point at a hoop it does not take long for them to work out what to do with it. But getting the ball in, while the objective, does not necessarily correlate to a good shot. Shooting accuracy comes […]
How To Avoid Social Media Pitfalls. It was a spring afternoon and I had just finished helping at a coaching clinic when approached by a fellow coach at session’s end. “I want to speak to you about something privately,” they said. My natural reaction was uncertainty, given their current position within the sport. They continued, […]
10 Traits Great Basketball Point Guards Possess Basketball has evolved. Altered lines and timing rules have sped up the game. Today’s athletes have evolved too with mixed traits of roles once more defined. Athletes need to be more adaptable. Some argue gone are the legit centre or pure shooting guard days. Versatility means players require broad skills […]