All set for free Sunsport basketball seminar
It's all systems go for the free basketball seminar by Sunsport tomorrow morning at the Mandaue City Cultural and Sports Complex.
Registration starts at 8 am, while the seminar, which is Sunsport's way of giving back to the community for the tremendous success it attained for the past 24 years, will run from 9 am until 12 nn.
Open to basketball enthusiasts, coaches, Physical Education teachers, players, students and mere fans of the sport, the three-hour workshop will be conducted by US-based Cebuano skills trainer and coach Jeff Codera.
A member of the Golden State Warriors’ training camp in the NBA, Codera is also a licensed Gold coach of USA Basketball under its Youth Development Program.
Codera, who has helped sharpen the skills of national team players Reggie Hearn of the United States and Adrian Zamora of Mexico and his compatriot Jeff Chan of Gilas Pilipinas, will center his training module on skills training and conditioning techniques.
Among the major topics that he will be discussing are the importance of safety, stretching and warm-ups; how to evaluate the strong and weak side of a player; and proper footwork, pivot, and balance drills to avoid injury and turnovers.
Codera will also take up some vital aspects in using the Sunsport Heavy Training Ball (HTB), particularly basic dribbling drills and two balls dribbling strengthening drills using HTBs, two regular balls and one HTB passing drills, and two HTBs attacking the basket drills.
Furthermore, Codera will impart his technical know-how on plyo basketball training drills in various positions.
Aside from being open to the public for free, Sunsport will also be raffling off exciting prizes to those who will be taking part in its worthwhile undertaking.