17 Basketball Stationary Dribbling Drills - Youth to Pros!

Joe Haefner: Hey, this is Coach Joe Haefner. In this next video, we're going to show you some stationary ball handling drills that you can use with all skill levels. These are great for improving your hand-eye coordination, developing a feel for the basketball, and also just getting your body warmed up and ready to play.

Joe Haefner: And make sure to do these dribbling drills before you get on the court. You can do in a hallway, sideline, locker room or anywhere else that you could find some space. That way, you can maximize your time when you get to the court and two, you can also start doing some dribbling drills where you're on the move.

Joe Haefner: So, if you have the court reserved at 6:00, get there at 5:45. Maybe spend five minutes doing six or seven of these dribbling drills and then after that spend about 10 minutes doing warmup exercises that help prevent injuries and also improve your athleticism.

Jim Huber: So now what we're going to do is we're going to work on, again, as we start this, we're going to talk to BJ and RJ here, being in a good athletic stance, sitting down, head up, back up. What we're going to work on in the beginning is they're going to dribble the ball as low as they can and as we dribble it, we're going to make sure we're pushing the ball quickly to the ground and making sure we're developing quick hands. Pound the ball to the ground. As we dribble, make sure a couple of key points is looking up, eyes through the net, the rim, so we're able to see the floor. The other thing is making sure we have our head centered in the middle so we're on balance. So the first thing they're going to do is they're going to dribble as low as they can in their right hand, their going to have the left hand as an arm bar warding off a defender. Go low as you can. Pound it. We'll do that for maybe ten to fifteen seconds. Then they go waist high. Waist high. Hammer that ball to the ground, hard dribbles. Now we're going shoulder high, pounding, staying low.

Jim Huber: Now they're going to switch it up and go left hand. Left hand. Low as they can. Low as they can. Pound it, eyes up. If somebody's reaching in they're warding off the defender. Waist high. Waist high. Pound it. Hard dribbles. Try to get quick hands. Shoulder high, staying low. All right. Stop there. Now, another thing you can add in this drill is a lot of times we talk about you want to fake with head, eyes, and shoulders but also with your feet. So we can work on, as we dribble the ball, we can work on the dribble, jab. Dribble, jab. Dribble, jab. So we can work on the dribble and jabbing so I'm going to have them pound the ball and they're going to jab with their opposite foot. You ready? Go ahead. Dribble hard, jab. Dribble, jab. Dribble, jab. There we go. Dribble, jab, pound. So they're going to dribble, they're going to jab, get that defender off of them to create space. Switch hands, switch the legs. Here we go. Hard, violent jab. Good. Hard violent jab. Pound. Pound, dribble, jab. Pound, dribble, jab. All right. Stop there.

Jim Huber: So you could also add that to the drill as well. Now we're going to go here. We're going to go side to side. Front, back. Side to side. Front, back. Side to side. Front, back to your right hand. You're going to get a rhythm. Go quicker and quicker. Try to get them to lose the basketball so that way they're getting outside of their comfort zone. Kids will sometimes do this and they'll just go through the motion. We're going to go quicker and quicker. Quicker and quicker and try to lose the ball. I love that RJ lost the ball. Get it, and come right back and start again. Go left hand. Go left hand now. You might do this about ten to fifteen seconds for what you're doing in this particular drill.

Jim Huber: All right, stop there. Okay, the next one we're going to do is we're going to work on going right hand, right leg. And you're going to have your left hand being the arm bar warding them off so we're going to work on that right now. Go ahead. Good. Good athletic stance. Head's still in the middle. We're going to work on quick hands, quick dribbles. Reverse in the opposite direction. Same hands, same legs. Same hands, same leg. So, again, eyes up. And work on getting quicker and quicker. Then we'll switch up and we'll go left hand. Left hand, left leg. Left hand, left leg. Right hand's the arm bar. Again, sitting down in a good athletic stance. Eyes up having vision. Dribble, pound it hard, reverse it, go in the opposite direction. Same hand, same leg. Good. Good. Try to go quicker and quicker. Quicker and quicker. Good. Stop there. So we'll do that.

Jim Huber: The next thing we're going to do is we're going to go figure eight. But we're going to go figure eight and we're only going to use our right hand. So it's going to be figure eight, right hand only and we're going to try to keep our head still in the middle and stay on balance, right? You ready? Go. So you go figure eight. Right hand only. Again, make a mistake, BJ gets it back, starts it over. You've got to realize, you got to make mistakes. This is how you're going to get better. Don't be fearful about making mistakes. People that succeed are people that are going to make more mistakes in their life, going to learn and go through it. Reverse and go the opposite direction. Opposite direction, same thing. Right hand, figure eight. Head set in the middle. Good, that's fine. BJ gets it right back. Starts right over. All right. So now we're going to go left hand figure eight only. Left hand. Left hand only. Sitting down good in an athletic stance. Head up, back up. Dribble the ball hard, smashing it. Again, trying to get quicker and quicker. Quicker and quicker as you go.

Jim Huber: Get outside your comfort zone. Too many individuals go through the motions are afraid to make mistakes, don't be like that. All right. Stop there. So now we're going to go and we're going to add on to it. Now we're going to go figure eight, we're going to take as many dribbles as we can. Quick hands, quick dribbles. Goes off your foot again. Just get it, come back and start again. You ready? Go ahead. Figure eight, good. Quick dribbles. Low to the ground. Head up. Back up on balance. Make sure to pound the ground. That's fine. He loses it, comes right back. Starts right over. Reverse to the opposite direction. Opposite direction we're going. Again, pound it, pound it. Hard dribbles, hard dribbles. Focus on dribbling hard so it gets quick to your hands so you're saving a half second. You can sit there and be able to create more space on your shot, you can be able to pass it to an open person much quicker and you can be able to pull up or change direction much quicker in the game of basketball by saving a half second. All right, stop there.

Jim Huber: All right, so now we're going to get into it. We're going to do one dribble figure eight. We're going to go dribble, we're going to go dribble, push the one dribble, one dribble, one dribble figure eight. One dribble, one dribble. Good. Hard dribbles, pound it. Good. Quicker and quicker. Quicker and quicker as you go. Good. There you go. Good. Try to lose it. Try to lose it. That's it. Good. All right, stop there. So we'll do that in our progression. The next thing we'll do is we'll work on what we call this spider dribble. You're going to have the ball start in the middle, you're going to tap it across the back, you're going to rotate and keep your hands going and keep the ball centered and stay in a good athletic stance. Go ahead. Get in rhythm first and then try to go quicker and quicker. If you have your eyes down, once you get in rhythm, then bring your eyes up and try to do this without looking at the basketball. Right. So you have good vision in what you do. Right. Okay. Stop there. Now, from there, now we're going to get into progressing in this. Now we're going to work on what we call change direction type moves.

Jim Huber: So we're going to work on this. We're going to work on now were going to have it, they are going to dribble, they are going to dribble hard, they're going to do a crossover, one dribble, all right? So they're going to dribble, they're going to set it up, you sell it with your head and shoulders, you can also have a foot fake. So you're going to dribble, sell like you're going to the opposite direction, pop it across quick so you're going to do one dribble, come across, one dribble, come across. One dribble, they're going to come across. All right? So we're going to do that right now. You're going to dribble, fake, cross. Dribble, fake, cross. Right? Good. Pop it across. Good. Hard dribbles, hard dribbles. Good. They'll do that. Now, they're going to go back. Now we're just going to have them go continuous. Pop it across. You're going to pop it, you're going to go continuous, cross over as fast as they can. You ready?

Jim Huber: Go continuous. Just back and forth. Back and forth. Pop it across. Quick hands working on it. Good. Stop there. Now we're going to go between the legs. It's the same thing. We're going to go one dribble, boom, pop between. One dribble, go between. One dribble, between. And they're going to turn their feet and hips in the direction they're going to save the half second as they go between the legs to be able to push up forward to attack the defender. You're ready? Go. Let's go. One dribble between. Good. Hard dribbles. Good. Stop. Then they'll go here. We're going to have them go continuous. They're going to go back, forth, rotate their feet and hips in the direction we're going. They're going continuous, between the legs. All right? You ready? Go. Good. Staying low. Working on getting the feet and hips turned. Working on popping through right through the center hard. Good. Stop there. Now we're going to go behind the back. So now, behind the back. We're going to work on, again, one dribble shift, get em leaning in that direction. One dribble we can sell out the head and shoulder, we can step, come across. One dribble. Boom. And you're going to dribble it, again, behind the back, below, kind of, your butt area by your hamstring, push it across. Get in a good athletic stance and nice and low. You ready? Go. Let's go. So push it across.

Jim Huber: Good. He missed it, RJ. Goes back and gets the basketball, comes right back, again. Good. Selling it. Good. Notice how they're selling it with their hard jab, head and shoulder, good eyes. Fake, in the opposite direction they're going. Good. Stop there. Now we're going to go behind the back. We're going to do continuous. Sitting down low. Boom. Pushing across and then trying to go as low as you can. As you get going? You ready? Go. Continuous back and forth, staying low. And then working on quicker and quicker. Try to go lower and lower. Lower and lower as you go. Right? Working on it. All right. Stop there. So the other ones that we'll add will be this. We're going to go inside out, and we're going to sell this right here. We're going to be stationary, going here. I'm going to have them hard jab inside out, stay in here. They're going to jab hard, sell it. The head and shoulder fake and going in this direction. Just going inside out. They're going to stay in the same. So you're going to go right hand, you're suddenly going left. You're just going to inside out, step back, do it again inside out. Continuous inside out.

Jim Huber: You ready? Go. Let's go. Good. Selling it. Hard, violent jab. Selling the head and shoulders. And then working on when they take that step. The right step. After they faked the inside out. They're long stepping by their defender, pushing the ball out, and coming right back. Now they're going left hand. Left hand, the same thing. Faking like they're going to the right. Really selling a hard jab. Sell. Head and shoulders. Be violent with your fakes. Violent with your fakes. Good. Now we'll stop there. Now we're going to switch it up and now they're going to do inside out. But you're going to act like now somebody cuts them off, now they're going to go inside out, cross. You're going here. Inside out, cross. All right? You ready? Go. Let's go. Inside out, cross. Boom. Come back, do it again. Inside out, cross. Same thing we're doing. Selling it. Head and shoulders, hard jabs. Tight on the cross the defender cuts the fake cross over. Now we're crossing back, attacking them. All right. Stop there. So the last thing we'll do is we'll kind of put it all together.

Jim Huber: Now we're going to go inside out, cross. Between the legs, behind the back. Inside out, cross. We're going to go between the legs, behind the back. Inside out, cross. Between the legs, behind the back. You ready? Go. Let's go. Working on quick hands. Quick hands. You can stay stationary and doing it. Stationary and doing it. Try to stay stationary and doing it. Good. There we go. Good. Good. Good. As we start out. There you go. Then you can move. That's it. Right there. Good. Good. There we go. Quick hands. Good. Good. There we go. Good. Good. Explosive, explosive, explosive. Sell it. Sell with your fakes too. There you go. Stop there. So right there, that's a little ball handling workout to get you loosened up, to working on quick handles, to get you ready to step on the floor, to be able to handle pressure and to be effective as a ball handler.

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