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Summary: Follow through is a very important part of the basketball shot. Learn how to follow through when shooting a basketball in this free sports instructional video from an experienced b-ball player and coach.

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Travis Waack Travis Waack has been playing basketball since he was 8 years old. He has played at the Junior college level and currently coaches his son's team. He still a... read more

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by Gamekreep

thnx dude this vid is awesome...i want to make varsity at my skewl team and this really cleans up my shot

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How to Follow Through when Shooting a Basketball

Okay, the F in our beef if following through. The follow through is very important you would see some people hesitate when they shoot. Again if you want to see bad shooting styles and position just go down to your neighborhood playground and watch the people down there. You would see all sorts of crazy shoots. But you see we got our elbows in, we got our wrist cocked back, we got our fingertips, we got our opposite hands that is not shooting. Whether you are left or right handed guiding the ball only guiding the ball not holding the ball. Just guidance so it does not fall off and the follow through. In our follow through is going to be if we are in line with the basket and we are squared up, we are going to be following through. We are going to be snapping our wrist pushing towards that basket, keeping our eyes focus. Just passed in front of that room and flipping our wrist. With a good follow through you are going to see and I would show you before we shoot the ball is back spin. There are some players that shoot with very little back spin, but the back spin number one shows that you are shooting the ball properly. Number two when it gets up there and gets around on the rim of the back board it kind of gives it a English spin in pool. Where it has a excellent chance of staying in so the good follow through you are snapping in the ball if you notice it is going to rotate backwards. The nice things about that is when you hit the right shoot and it swooshes it makes that swoosh sound even better when you have that back spin on it. That is the follow through.

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