Boxing Glove Basketball and Battleship Shooting Skills

Battleship & Basketball Shooting

Boxing Glove Basketball and Battleship shooting skills have a lot in common. Battleships are equipped with heavy side armor to protect them from direct shots fired at them by the enemy, but are vulnerable to shells lobbed at them in a high arc that come crashing down and can easily penetrate their weak upper deck armor. In basketball, the hoop presents a very narrow target to shots fired directly at it, but its full circumference is exposed and it presents a large target which is much more vulnerable and easily penetrated by shots lobbed at it in a high arc. Basketball and battleships employ the same shooting strategy for ‘sinking’ shots.

Old fashioned ‘traditional’ battleships had rock solid, stable gun platforms, bolted to the deck from which their guns could be precisely aimed. Tied up to the dock they could achieve phenomenal accuracy. At sea the deck on which those guns were mounted was subject to the pitch, roll, and yaw of the ship produced by the waves. The gunners could line up the target in their sights but all of their efforts at sea were undermined by the waves. The waves were positioning the guns, not the gunners, and their shots would go over the target, or to port, or starboard, or fall short of their mark. In short, all of their efforts were subject to the whims of the waves.

Newer battleships took the ‘variables’ produced by the waves into account. The gun platform was separated from the superstructure of the ship and was mounted on a gyroscopic platform that remained stable regardless of the pitch, roll and yaw of the ship produced by the waves. Tied up to the dock or while at sea the gunners were in full control of the guns. They could now line up a target in their sights and be able to hit that target with a high degree of reliability.

In basketball one is standing on rock solid terra firma. The shooting platform should be ‘stable’ and the shots precisely aimed. Tied up to the dock (standing still) one should achieve phenomenal accuracy. Lacking a gyroscopic platform from which to shoot when moving around the court, the pitch, roll, and yaw of those movements introduce ‘variables’ that adversely affect shooting accuracy and performance should necessarily decline.

In basketball today, however, the results that are expected are not being achieved.

Old fashioned ‘traditional’ battleships had rock solid, stable gun platforms, bolted to the deck from which their guns could be precisely aimed. Tied up to the dock they could achieve phenomenal accuracy. Yet today’s basketball players cannot achieve the same level of accuracy while standing on rock solid terra firma. Why? The answer is simple. The players do not have a stable shooting platform. Traditional naval warfare experts provided a stable gun platform for their gunners to use. Traditional basketball ‘fundamentalists’, however, add one unnecessary hand, arm, or body movement on top of another, creating pitch, roll, yaw, and so many other ‘variables’ that it makes it nearly impossible for players to achieve any level of consistency in their shooting at the foul line or around the court. The players can line up the target in their sights, but like the waves at sea, those traditional ‘fundamental’ movements over which the players have little control are positioning the shots, and not the players. And like those naval gunners who were subject to the whims of the waves, the players are subject to the unpredictable positioning of the traditional ‘fundamental’ movements and are unable to hit the target with any measure of reliability.

Boxing Glove Basketball Shooting Skills eliminate all of those unnecessary hand and arm movements used in ‘traditional’ approaches and thereby eliminate the pitch, roll, and yaw and other ‘variables’ that accompany them and which undermine a players a players determined efforts to improve performance. Now, like naval gunners, the player can line up the target in their sights and have the ability to reliably control the movements that position their shots. The predictable positioning and reliable, repeatable, efficient and effective, streamlined shooting form establishes a rock solid, stable shooting platform from which the player can then develop and maintain a high degree of reliability and accuracy in their shooting at the foul line and around the court.

The AIM METHOD is the only program that recognizes and remedies the ‘fundamental’ flaws inherent in all of the ‘traditional’ approaches to shooting that are being taught today. Unlike newer battleships, however, the AIM METHOD cannot provide a gyroscopic platform to stabilize the player, but it does take into account the ‘variables’ that movement around the court introduces when shooting and provides measures to deal with them. By providing players with a rock solid shooting platform, like those found on battleships, the AIM METHOD basketball shooting program employs the same winning strategy as that required at sea for successfully achieving superior shooting accuracy in ‘sinking’ shots.

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