Tenth Anniversary Year for SF Bay Area Basketball Academy 2013 is a major year for Triple Threat Academy (TTA) as it celebrates its 10th Anniversary providing basketball camps and specialized basketball training in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2002 with two camps in Danville, CA, TTA has grown dramatically in the last 10 years to over 30 annual camps and over 40 weekly sessions, helping thousands of Bay Area kids reach their basketball goals. TTA was started by Tony Freccero, who saw the need for a basketball camp focused more on skills and less on games. The first…
What a great way to start off the summer! Today marked the first official camp day for Summer 2013 at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and Instagram for live pictures and updates from the camp! Also, feel free to upload your own pics and share with other parents. Twitter: @ttahoops and #ttahoops Instagram: @ttahoops and #ttahoops Facebook: /ttahoops Here are a few of the things that the kids learned today: Go Step Jab Step Crossover 1 on 1 Moves Control Dribbling Step Back Jumpers The Runner Open Court Attack Moves ————————————————————- The…
Classes will resume in the Fall of 2013 When was the last time you beat your kid in a 1 on 1 basketball game? Now it’s time to work on your basketball skills so you can keep up, get in shape and learn/re-learn the game we all love. TTA will be offering monthly adult training classes, taking place Friday evenings in San Ramon. Adult Basketball Classes will be split into 2 sessions that are all co-ed: Beginner/Intermediat and Intermediate/Advanced. Just like our youth classes, we will spend 45-50 minutes doing fundamental skill work and 10-15 minutes of organized scrimmage/competition. Energy will be high and classes will be fun.…
Written by Coach Lou Richie. TTA has always emphasized that “We use basketball as a vehicle to teach life skills” and this article helps sum that up: Six years ago TTA started training a young man named Marco Zepeda. I had no idea that he would turn into the #1 debater in the USA. I saw his potential but I didn’t think he would be this good, this fast. He used to debate whether we should do more conditioning and back then, he usually lost that arguement with me and Coach Tony! Marco has been participating with his teammate Caitlin Walsh all…
Moving off the ball is very important for an offense and something coaches love. If your off ball players are in constant motion the defense can’t rest and scoring opportunities will open up. Here are five great tips to cut better and for general off the ball movement. 1. Make Sure Your Cuts are Tight. Whether doing a V-Cut, L-Cut, Backdoor Cut, or an cut, make sure you are cutting very tightly. This means direct, straight line movements and if you are using a screen, make sure to go right off the screeners shoulder. Round cuts make it easier for…
All Day Hoops - Rarely do you a chance to spend six or seven hours in a gym playing basketball all day. That’s what our camps are all about. Â A place where you can come and have a whole day of hoops. Warm-ups, skill drills and development, fun games, contests, and scrimmages all in one. Improve Your Game - This is a chance, right in the middle of the basketball season, to really take strides in your game. Shooting, passing, rebounding, defense, whatever it may be, camps are a good time to hone in on one or two skills and really improve with all the…
POINT 3 Basketball Shorts - This company makes basketball gear, that’s it. Everything they do is about helping players play hoops better. So why not grab a pair of the proclaimed “World’s Best Basketball Shorts” for the point guard in your family. Say shorts aren’t your gift receiver’s thing, POINT 3 also has hoodies, shirts, and sleeveless apparel. NBA Jam - Everyone remembers the arcade version but now you can play it on any video game system out there. Don’t deprive any son or daughter in the family of a ”Boomshakalaka!” or a ”He’s On Fire”. Nike KD V – In the end, it’s all about the shoes. So why not…
1. Always, Always Follow Through. As you may have heard this a hundred times before but it still remains true. A jump shot, after hours and hours of getting shots up, should become second nature. The muscle memory kicks in during games and you just rise up and shoot. By working on following through every time you shoot, your body will do it automatically in a game. A couple good tricks are for one to leave your wrist and hand after you follow through. Shoot the ball and just leave your fingers facing down and wrist bent for a couple seconds after a shot. Exaggerate it now to…
We’ve covered how we warm-up for practices and games here at TTA and five drills that will help get your whole game warmed up. Now we’re going to focus on just warming up that jumper. Here are a few drills, some for teams so for by yourself, to get your jump shot ready to go. Kentucky Shooting Drill - Have two lines lined up under the basket on either lane. One person in the front of a line starts out by running a loop around the free throw line to the opposite block where they catch a pass from that line for…
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Devin is on the JV basketball team, starting and getting very little rest time. Her shot looks good and finally she is getting inside to make the shot and draw the foul. She still credits you guys and especially Tony for those moves. Basketball has become her favorite of the three sports she plays, she quit club volleyball and plays AAU basketball. Basketball runs our lives for 10 months. Thank you for the building of not only her skills but her self esteem that has helped make her who she is becoming today, not just on the court.
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