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Coaching 5 and 6 year-olds is a challenging task. Many coaches might feel this is too young of an age to teach basketball, but if you keep the instruction fun and focus on age-appropriate skills, it can be an enjoyable experience for coaches, parents, and players.
We will add additional posts about this age group in the future, but to get started we wanted to present some focus areas for this age group.
Click here for a complete list of tips for coaching kindergarten basketball.
Effort and Enjoyment
Each kindergarten basketball player can:
- Have FUN! Remember this is more of an semi-organized / complete chaos playdate!
- Develop age-appropriate skills
- Be a good teammate
- Be LOUD and enthusiastic
Kindergarten Dribbling
Each kindergarten basketball player can complete:
- Stationary Dribble (strong hand)
- Walking Dribble
- Jogging Dribble (strong hand)
- Lay-up Dribble (strong hand)
Each kindergarten basketball player can:
- Know the aiming point: “Top Corner of the Square”
- take a Lay-up SHOT / Block Lay-up with no footwork
Each kindergarten basketball player can:
- Knows the shooting fundamentals BEEF – balance, elbow, eyes, follow through
- Hold the ball correctly: line up the seams with shooting hand, non-shooting hand cover the side seams
- Imaginary shooting: Good “imaginary” shooting without the ball
- Right block shot, Left block shot (rarely makes shots)
- left baseline, center, right baseline (rarely makes shots)
Kindergarten Passing
Each kindergarten basketball player can:
- Know “TIPS TO TARGET” & “THUMBS DOWN”
- Stationary chest pass: Able to make a decent chest pass
- Stationary bounce pass: Able to make a poor bounce pass, unable to select the proper point to have the ball bounce (3/4ths the distance). Bounce passes are very inconsistent.
Kindergarten Catching
Each kindergarten basketball player can:
- Have hands up in receiving position.
- Complete a stationary chest pass: Has difficulty catching a chest pass consistently
- Complete a stationary bounce pass: Able to catch a bounce pass MORE consistently than a chest pass.
Kindergarten Defense
Each kindergarten basketball player can:
- Able to get into a defensive stance