This is our Final Four. We train all year for our summer camps. It's what we dream about, plan, prepare and work for all year long. Our full time job is to create a camp designed to help you transform your game and your life. DVD training, hand selected coaches, and stringent evaluations help us to become the very best. Compared with hundreds of sports camps nationwide, NBC Camps has one of the highest rates of returning campers and customer satisfaction ratings. We offer over 60 basketball camps in 23 different cities and four countries. Over 187,000 athletes have been trained at NBC Camps.
Come discover a basketball camp experience unlike any other.
Basketball Camps: we offer over 60 basketball camps in 23 LOCATIONS
SELECTING THE CORRECT CAMP
We recommend our complete skills basketball camps for all campers from age 9 to 18. Campers will be divided into age and ability groups. This is our primary and most popular teaching camp with emphasis on all areas of the game.
We recommend our pure shooting and attack moves camps for athletes 11 and older who want to become an effective scorer and who would like to attend a camp in addition to the complete skills training. This camp focuses on becoming a dynamic offensive threat on the court.
Athletes who are very skilled, who are serious about playing college basketball, and who are some of the top players in their city, should consider our All-Star and Elite camps.
If you have been to a complete skills camp and you want specialized training at the point, wing or post position consider attending our position camps. These camps: point, wing, and post, post camps and guard & post camps focus on the techniques needed to excel. Unlike our complete skills camps, these camps have a more detailed curriculum only for that position where as the complete skills training has a comprehensive curriculum for all the positions.
Athletes who are freshman to seniors in high school who want to learn what it takes to get a college basketball scholarship and who can handle the schedule and demands of our toughest camp should consider Crowell's Intensity Camp. Athletes who are freshman in college who want to improve their current position on their college team need to be at this camp.
If you have a high school JV or Varsity team that wants to be the best it can be, whether it is to move from being a poor team to a good team, a good team to a great team, a great team to a dynasty, you need to bring your team to NBC Team camp.
We recommend our Family Hoop camp for parents who want to build a great relationship with their son or daughter. Father/son, mother/daughter, Father/daughter, Mother/son, or the whole family can come and participate at this memorable camp. Help your younger kids transition into the NBC experience, help your older kids develop a better bond with you around sports and life.
THE FOUR CORNERSTONES OF NBC BASKETBALL CAMPS
Control Ball
Take care of the basketball is our first rule. This is the first and foremost skill to develop in building successful athletes and teams. Former two-time NCAA Championship and Olympic coach, Hank Iba said, “You never know when you will face defensive pressure, but be prepared at all times to take care of the ball.” Our curriculum is designed to teach athletes to develop confidence to handle the ball under pressure. Through intentional practice of specific skills, athletes will learn to take care of the ball.
Play Quick
We want athletes to play with quickness and great intensity. The “want to" is always more important than the “how to.” If you don’t play hard, there will be little reason to play smart. There is no excuse for not playing as quickly as one’s skill permits and as hard or intense as is physically possible. To do less than this is to cheat your teammates and to cheat yourself. NBC Camps promotes intensity and hard work through modeling and environment. Our coaches demonstrate the standard of intensity we believe necessary for excellence.
Play Smart
Play smart means making good decisions. There are three critical questions each player must
ask when he or she steps on the court. Am I bigger, quicker or stronger than my opponent?
We teach athletes to play to their strengths, understand their weaknesses and work to improve
them. We train athletes to create, not just react.
Finish Strong
We train athletes to finish the play with excellence. It does little good to dribble 75 feet with incredible skill only to miss the shot. The object is to score baskets and prevent the opponents form scoring baskets. Players must finish the dribble with a two-foot stop, land in triple-threat, and never quit until the play is completed. Players must block out following every shot, and must follow the shots that they take. These are just a few of the many times a player will be required to “finish the play.” This is an essential basketball skill. It is always too soon to quit.
HOW WE TEACH
There are many ways to coach. Coaching is about teaching and about motivation. First, teaching is the ability to instill knowledge and skill. Motivation is the ability to instill execution. Many coaches motivate from a stance of fear. Below the line ways to motivate others include anger, threats, guilt, and shame. These produce immediate results, but are damaging to everyone involved. Love
is the most powerful motivational tool available to the dedicated coach who sincerely
desires to encourage athletes to play basketball at the highest performance level
possible. Great coaches see athletes not just as they are, but who they can become.
As a result these athletes become the bigger and better person the coach sees
in them.
In simple
terms the driving force of our philosophy is to be "difference makers."
This means making a positive, and often life-changing impact on players' lives.
T=Teach
Teaching is not telling.
Watching a demonstration of a skill is not as valuable as trying the new skill. Our teaching
format employs several steps. First, the coach provides a brief demonstration of the skill being taught. Second, the coach breaks the skill into
easily repeated sections. Third, NBC students are given an opportunity to practice those specific sections. Finally, NBC students play competitive games to get into game speed
and begin to try the new skill in firsthand game situations.. Athletes should be able to do the skill accurately,
repeat the skill, and recognize what needs to be corrected if the skill does not
accomplish its desired result.
E=Encouragement
Research shows encouragement
is the best motivator. At NBC Camps we focus on what the athlete is doing well
and encourage him/her to do more of it. "Encourage" literally means to build courage
into someone else." Our coaches strive to give athletes the courage to believe
in their potential.
C=Correction
Encouragement without correction
is worthless. We work hard to correct athletes by promoting self-correction. All
skills are taught with ways for athletes to recognize and
how to correct what is going wrong. Once an athlete knows what is expected he or she is asked
to work on self-correction.
