Hi I'm Travis Corpening, and I'm about to
teach you how to build speed and agility in
your athletes. One thing you want to do is
you want to find, once you have a court, and
hopefully you'll have a free throw line with
two lane lines side by side. What you want
to do is, you want to get your player to set
themselves up right here on the outside on
the outside of the line. Then when you with
a stop watch, give them about I'll say fifteen
seconds, once you hit the stop watch you tell
them to start. And they are to tap from here
to here continuously back and forth for about
fifteen seconds. Time stop them, about the
time they can hit back and forth about ten
reps. Once they get those ten reps, give them
about five seconds rest, have them go again.
You do this drill continuously I'd say three
times a week, they should get faster and faster
throughout the number of times, the number
of days they do the drill. Continuously time
them, and the faster they get that will be
an indicator for you that they're actually
getting quicker. Some other drills that you
could possibly do is you can also use cones
if you don't have lane lines, and cones or
any indicators to show where the lines stand,
and have them tap back, forth, back, and forth.
Continuously prompt them to go prompting them
to go quicker and quicker. There you have
it increasing quickness among your athletes.
Now agility, one way that you can increase
agility is also through doing this drill.
But another way that I would like to, another
drill that I like to use is called there's
an A skip and there's a B skip. It's something
we use in track. The A skip, the way the A
skip looks is it almost looks like a high
knee. You bring the knee up, but you snap
the leg back down. It's not a high knee, you
don't just come, march. But what you do is
you bring the knee up, extend the leg, and
snap it back down. Bring the other knee up,
extend the leg, and snap it back down. So
you have this, you do this about I'd say two
or three times a week, following up with two
reps a day, two reps a day. And I guarantee
you the faster you do it, the more agile the
player will become. And there you have it
increasing agility.