#UNDERHAND THROW STEPS FREE#

The purpose was to determine whether the free throw technique of under-12 basketball players, who did not participated in any regional and national team, was similar to the technique reported by the literature and previous studies. Considering the implications that must be borne in mind when conducting integrated training activity (Cárdenas, 1998 Getz and Rainey, 2001 Ortega, Cárdenas, Puigcerver and Méndez, 2005 Foster and Weigand, 2006, Arias, Argudo and Alonso, 2012), or bearing in mind the psychological factors like attention, concentration, visual control, anxiety and nerve levels (Whitehead, Butz Kozar y Vaughn, 1996 Dandy, Brewer and Tottman, 2001 Harle and Vickers, 2001 Larumbe, 2001 Oliveira, Oudejans and Beek, 2008 Mesagno, Marchant and Morris, 2009 Gooding and Gardner, 2009 Otten, 2009 Wilson, Vine and Wood, 2009, Krendl, Gainsburg and Ambady, 2012). It is considered that the work of the free throw in terms of notational analysis and from perspectives relating to training at a biomechanical and motor control level (Okubo and Hubband, 2006 Keetch, Lee y Schmidt, 2008 Tran y Silverberg, 2008 Schneider y Williams, 2010). The relevance that the free throw seems to have on the search for excellence, along with considering a greater control over training variables, means that this type of throw must be studied from different perspectives. 33 less successful attempts overhand than underhand.Overall, as a group, the performance of both underhand and overhand shooting was positively correlated (.28), representing a trend suggesting that if a participant shot well underhand they also shot well overhand, indicating that it is unlikely that either the overhand or underhand shooting style is more naturally more prone to success than the other hence, free-throw shooting success may be more dependent on repetition than style.

57 more successful attempts overhand than underhand. No significant differences between the number of successful overhand and underhand shots were observed for attempts 1-13 when compared to attempts 14-25. Through a counterbalanced design, each participant shot 25underhand free-throws on one day and 25 overhand free-throws on a different day. Total participants (N=29) were 15 male and 14 female undergraduate students, who were at least 18 years of age (average age was 23.98) with no prior basketball shooting experience. This study sought to determine whether the underhand or overhand basketball free-throw shooting style was naturally more prone to success than the other. In the pursuit of scoring as many points as possible during basketball competitions, most effective freethrow shooting techniques were explored.

Underhand throw steps