Advantage Basketball Specialty Camps' Spring Break Basketball Camp and Winter Break Basketball camps
Featuring 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 competition

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Welcome to the Advantage Basketball Camps' Spring Break basketball camp and Winter basketball camps. Our Specialty camps are just another reason why Sports Illustrated for Kids have selected us as one of the Top Camps in the country. Specialty Spring Break basketball camps and Specialty Winter Break basketball camps, like our summer basketball camps will follow the same philosophy of learning through repetition and hard work, while having fun and teaching life skills.

The main difference between the winter basketball camps and spring basketball camps known as “Specialty” camps and our summer camps is that our summer basketball ball-handling camps' primary focus is ball-handling drills with a secondary focus on moves off the dribble.

Our Winter basketball camps and our Spring basketball camps’ primary focus is on moves off the dribble with a secondary focus on stationary ball-handling drills. We will spend time on shooting the basketball, defense, court awareness in relationship to the ball and your player, and offense but our main focus is always ball handling. If you can not handle the rock the rest of the game becomes useless. You must be able to handle the basketball proficiently to play in today's fast pace style of play.

Spring basketball and winter basketball specialty camp is a great way to build on the campers’ time spent at summer basketball camp. The campers who have been to our summer basketball camps will work on more advanced moves while first time campers to our winter basketball camps and spring basketball camps will focus more on fundamentals. These basketball camps will feature more game time than in summer basketball camps.

Whenever possible, we will let the kids have fun each day and play a lot of 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 basketball games. We will also include some 1 on 1 and 2 on 2 games to work on specific skills best taught in these games, and for our more advanced return campers there will be opportunities to go head-to-head against our top coaches.

Specialty spring basketball camp and winter basketball camp will be broken into six main categories. The basketball campers will divide their time at basketball camp into these categories.

1. Ball Handling. Typically we will spend the first hour to 90 minutes to warm up each day with fundamental ball-handling drills consisting of our basic "building block" drills, our world renowned ball-handling and dribbling series, and other drills to improve muscle memory, manual dexterity, body balance, and rhythm with the ball. While we understand that these drills are hard work, they do produce incredible results and are mandatory to becoming a great ball handler. As always, there is no substitute for repetition through hard work. Some of our newer and less advanced campers will spend more time getting in valuable repetitions throughout the day.
   
   
2. Moves off the dribble. This will be the main focus of the Specialty camp. We have a large variety of ways that we teach these moves. As always, we will focus on fundamentals. From there, it will depend on the camper's current skill level. Several times throughout the day, when you come in the gym, you will see several different stations that the kids will be working at. These stations will have different moves and techniques being used to accommodate and challenge the camper's skill level depending on the individual camper's needs.
   
   
3. Education. This is fun for us, because we get to show off a little. We will spend time each day on talking about the game of basketball. We will cover court awareness and angles. How to attack these angles. What moves to use and where to use them and how to use them in relation to where your defender is. How to check your defender and learn their tendencies. How to read the help defense. We enjoy this and in most cases, our younger campers have never heard this information before. We then will demonstrate with the counselors. (This is always a favorite for the campers.) Our staff members have achieved their highest level of the game and are very fun to watch play. We break the game down for the campers while they are playing in a half court set. We talk about how the ball defender is protecting the ball and court angles while the other defenders will be protecting passing lanes in a flat line triangle to the ball and their player. We talk about help side defense, ball side defense, standard rotations and advanced rotations. We will talk about the importance of communication, maintaining a positive attitude, and teamwork. While understanding all this makes you a good defender, it is this knowledge that can help make you a great offensive player. It has been our experience that, from the high school level down that a very small percentage of the players have been taught or understand all of this. Having this kind of working knowledge will put you miles ahead of the average player.
   
   
4. Shooting. We will use and cover a few different areas. Each day, one of these areas will be shooting. We will briefly cover the fundamentals of proper shooting form, however; working solely on form is for shooting camp. At spring break camp, we will focus on more advanced aspects such as footwork, quick release shooting, and jump shooting. We will also cover the importance of having confidence, getting open, and wanting the ball. We will also teach basic techniques and advanced aspects of layups and finishing, bank shot shooting, shooting of the catch, off the dribble, close, mid-range, and long-range shooting, and so forth. For our more advanced players, floaters, runners, stepbacks, up-and-unders and other advanced shots will be worked on, as well as shooting while tired and under pressure. For those of you who are new, you will probably get an introduction to our "swat team". If you do not properly shoot over, or up-and-under, or use bad foot work or take too long to get your shot off, they will swat the ball into the cheap seats. Our guards will focus on coming into their shot from all directions and going up with the shot in balance and with a quick release. Post players will work on post moves and counter-moves. When the camper feels they are ready, we can rotate them in the "swat" team station where they can test themselves against our pros. Good Luck.
   
   
5. Life Skills. Throughout all of our camps we are continually sending positive life skill messages to our campers. The top theme is respect: respect yourself and have pride in who you are by doing what you know to be the right thing. You respect yourself by giving others respect: "yes sir", "yes ma'am", or "yes, coach". HARD WORK is a must to succeed at the game of basketball and life. Respect and hard work will be followed at Advantage Basketball Camps. The Advantage Basketball staff family is incredibly blessed to have some of the staff we have. The kids will listen to them because they demand respect and have also earned the kids' respect by achieving the highest level of success in the game and more importantly their lives. Please go to our staff page and read what these individuals have accomplished in their lives. Just to have the kids around these individuals can be and often is life changing.
   
   
6. Games/Fun. The campers' time spent at our Specialty camp will be spent on intensive hard work, mostly in the mornings. After lunch, we will typicality spend time on the education of the game. As a reward for all the campers' hard work, we will let the kids be kids and have some fun while they work on their game and moves. We will have them work at 1-on-1, 3-on-3, and 5-on-5 stations and informal scrimmages, whenever possible. The staff will be right there with them to help them learn what to do and how to do it, when to do it, and why they should do it. This is accomplished by giving them a delicate balance of letting them just love the game and play and instruction and is usually handled by saying "great job" when they've shown improvement and "want to try something new", as the begin to take on new challenges, or "I think you are ready or you have great skills", or "Try this; you are good enough to handle it.", and so on.
   
   The kids love this and it is a great time for them to work on their moves, get out of their comfort zone, and start to apply some of their newly-gained knowledge and skill. 
   
   Our traditional way to wrap up the camp day is with instruction and execution of the "UCLA drill", developed by legendary Coach John Wooden. This is the campers' favorite and in so many ways is one of the best drills/games ever introduced to the world's greatest game - appropriately, by one of the greatest coaches to ever coach the game.

If you're ready to take your game to the next level, then Advantage Basketball Camps is for you. Come work with one of the top staffs in the country and meet some of the most motivated players from around the world.

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Group Discounts

Group discounts do not apply to shooting camps.

$25.00 per person per month discount for groups of 5 to 9
$40.00 discount per person per month for groups of 10 or more

To participate in the group discount program you must meet these requirements:

1. Everyone in the group must pay by credit card, Cashiers check, or money order. These must come to us at the same time through the group coordinator.
2. You must join at the same time as a group. This needs to be done by the group coordinator. Just print the registration page, make copies and have everyone fill them out and return to your group coordinator. The coordinator will mail them all to us at the same time. Each group member can print a form from online and give it to your coordinator. Do not submit the entry to us using the online submission. If you do we can not honor the group discount rate.
3. To print registration page download our convenient printable registration form.

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