Easybasket … teach it!
Easybasket should be considered as the beginning of a long journey that the children and young people can experience through the sport and life. A journey where there is a need for care and attention from those who are responsible for the development of the children.
A hasty and distorted vision of the ideas and the principals of Easybasket can be inappropriate and harmful. This can lead to lack of interest and dropout.
By using the practices as a tool to develop both the person as well as the athlete then the methods can be helpful to those who coach and have different skills. This tool gives them a clear idea of how to integrate the different stages of development for children in sports.
Every phase in sport and life leads to an adaption of skills that are essential in terms of meeting and solving problems in the game and in life. Easybasket is the first step and it is a very easy approach. Children will be received, included, and guided in Easybasket and then lead towards Minibasket and basketball. This must be done gradually and with a progression that constantly keeps the values in mind.
A person growing up with sports will become a better person; a person who is capable of working with others, no matter if it is teammates or opponents and who is independent and responsible for his or her own choices.
Easybasket First Knowledge
Attention to Didactic and Methodology
- Ensure that the right equipment is available and correct (height of basket – type of ball – adequate material – in accordance with rules)
- Use the practical suggestions from the initial phase where all children are involved and moving
- Ensure that the children have adequate time for the drills
- Plan games with open-ended solutions
- Encourage imagination and motor creativity
- Strengthen intuition and decision making
- Guide and support the understanding of the rules
- Stimulate the ability to stay focused and stimulate the senses
- Get a feel for the ball and learn how to use it in accordance with the first and easy rules
- Get a sense of the body and discover the ability to do and control different forms of movement
Easybasket Knowledge
Attention to Didactic and Methodology
- Adjust the equipment (height of basket – type of ball – adequate materials – in accordance with rules)
- Use the practical suggestions from the initial phase where all children are involved and moving
- Ensure that the children have adequate time for the drills
- Plan games with open-ended solutions that provide the opportunity to choose and make decisions
- Stimulate imagination and motor creativity
- Strengthen intuition and decision making
- Guide and support the understanding of the rules
- Stimulate the ability to stay focused and stimulate the senses
- Emphasize cognitive elements such as attention, understanding, memory and sense of time and space
- The ability to control movements in cooperation with others in game situations