Basketball

Basketball?

Ok i am on the Varsity Girl's Basketball Team and there is one thing I can't do right: Left HANDED LAY-UPS. Is there anyone who knows something that I can do to help me improve?

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1. Just practice going up with the left hand. Makes sure when you're doing it that you block the defender out with your body to prevent the block. Repetition! If you do it enough, it becomes mechanic and that's how you learn.
2. Same way I learned to dribble left and right handed- practice so much it will become second nature. There is no really fast way.
3. practice with the coach.
4. Well practice always helps. But tie your right hand with rope behind your back so you cant use your right hand. Then tie a rope to your left hand and right leg and evertime you go up with your left hand your right leg should go up and then you will get it after a while.
5. practice it until it becomes natural
6. ALOT of practice. Trust me. I had to learn the same thing and now I'm pretty good at left handed layups. The best way to practice is to never put the ball in your right hand when you practice. Just work on your left if you have mastered your right. You should also look at how you lay-up with your right and carry the same technique to your left. Like I said, you have to practice ALOT.
7. jump off of your right leg when laying up with the left hand. you can also start off by going up with both hands holding the ball, just to be able to handle the ball until you get used laying it up with your left.
8. One practice technique for this is to stand just about directly under the basket...your head should be below the cylinder. Then, with left hand, try to 'scoop' the ball into the basket. Put the ball in your left hand (you can do with right hand as well), with your palm up and your hand and the ball at hip level. Then practice shooting the ball with an upward motion of your arm, making sure the ball gets good spin when it releases from your hand. Don't shoot it like a jump shot, shoot it like an underhanded lay up. Try to make it hit the backboard and spin into the hoop. Stand under the basket and do this over and over and over...It will help for sure.
9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGH0MxaGTnA
10. practice
11. I am on my girls JH bball team and last year I couldnt do them either! All i did was practiced at it hard! Every night of practice-And even at home. Practice every chance you get! Have your coach observe your progess and tell you what you are doing right and wrong!! I did that and I am now better with left handed layups than I am at right handed- Hope all goes well!! Good luck this season*
12. u jump off right foot and try to do a left hand layup then right then left then right and so on until ur arms, legs, and neck hurts trust me it worked very good for me