Basketball Fundamentals

Gr all levels—The latest title in an extensive collection of sports training videos matches the quality we've come to expect from Youth Sports Club. Forty-six segments illustrate specific drills intended to enhance a number of essential and more well-developed skill sets. Grouped into the areas of dribbling, passing, shooting, and establishing defensive as well as offensive plays, the well-organized program features individually accessible chapters, always a welcomed feature. The well-paced, live-action drills are accompanied by a quality narration even though it is difficult to hear the coach in a couple of segments—hardly a major flaw, but a nuisance nonetheless. Particularly useful to beginners as well as more seasoned players is a recap of fouls and violations, always a coach's bane. Rather than have the program set in a school gymnasium, the producers have wisely chosen to utilize the site where most basketball skills are polished—the home driveway! Only teen boys are featured. This program offers great promise as an instructional tool in formalized training as well as for individual students wishing to improve their game.—Dwain Thomas, formerly Lake Park High School, Roselle, IL