Kindergarten Youth Basketball Fundamentals

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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.

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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:

Kindergarten Lay-ups

Each kindergarten basketball player can:

Kindergarten Shooting

Each kindergarten basketball player can:

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