Boxing Glove Basketball Shooting Skills illuminate and eliminate the common perils and pitfalls found in traditional shooting ‘fundamentals’ that impede and impair performance and provide a simple, straightforward, streamlined path to become one’s personal best in this glorious quest. — Boxing Glove Basketball Shooting Skills — Boxing glove basketball shooting skills punch holes in prevailing shooting myths, strike at the heart of common misconceptions, knock-out ‘fundamental’ flaws, hammer home reliable techniques that hit the mark, connect with their target, score more points in each and every round, and have the stability and consistency required to beat the competition. —’Traditional’ Methods Undermine A Player’s Performance — Like a punch-drunk boxer who never knew what hit him, today’s players are wobbly, throw wildly and erratically, fail to hit the mark, and lose point after point in every round. They are being blind-sided, sucker-punched, and knocked down-and-out-for-the-count in the ring of competition, not by an opponent, but by their own basketball shooting ‘fundamentals’. Boxing Gloves Strike At The Heart Of A Common Misconception A common misconception is that boxing gloves pose a ‘handicap’ to an individual’s shooting ability. How then is it possible for an individual who is severely ‘handicapped’ by wearing heavy bag boxing gloves to achieve such astounding results, while others who are not so ‘handicapped’, and who have been trained by the best known coaches around, are able to achieve only mediocre performance? The answer is obvious. The boxing gloves do not pose a ‘handicap’ to an individual’s ability to repeatedly and reliably sink shots. The real ‘handicap’ lies in the movements used to execute the shots!

BOXING GLOVE BASKETBALL SHOOTING SKILLS (139 SHOTS. 137 SUNK! 98.56%) Precise, accurate, consistently repeatable, sound mechanics, producing reliable results. – VS – ’TRADITIONAL’ BASKETBALL SHOOTING METHODS Imprecise, inaccurate, variable, unstable, erratic mechanics, producing inconsistent results.

Boxing Gloves Punch Holes In Prevailing Shooting Myths

According to established Basketball Doctrine it’s ‘impossible’ to sink shots repeatedly and reliably while wearing gloves. Gloves exclude tactile sensation (the feel of the ball), hand grip, and hand dexterity. The elbow was not under the ball, the ball could not be gapped in the hand, shooting off the index finger and middle finger could not take place, and proper follow through with what is called the “goose neck” or “hand in the cookie jar” was severely impaired, and yet 98.56% of 139 shots taken were sunk? All of those basketball ‘fundamental’ movements ‘believed’ to be essential to develop and maintain accuracy were eliminated by wearing gloves. It may seem heretical to challenge these fundamental beliefs, but the demonstrable fact is that traditional basketball ‘fundamentals’ are fundamentally flawed! Those movements do not work to enhance performance; they actually work to impair performance!Established Basketball Shooting Doctrine is discredited and debunked by Boxing Glove Basketball.

]]> http://theaimcenter.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/the-aim-method/feed/ 0 theaimcenter Boxing Glove Shooting http://theaimcenter.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/the-%e2%80%9cqwerty-keyboard%e2%80%9d-an-obstacle-course-to-human-proficiency/ http://theaimcenter.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/the-%e2%80%9cqwerty-keyboard%e2%80%9d-an-obstacle-course-to-human-proficiency/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:27:51 +0000 theaimcenter http://theaimcenter.wordpress.com/?p=12 ]]> Q.W.E.R.T.Y.  are the top row of letters that start on the left-hand side of a typewriter keyboard. Placement of those letters and the arrangement of all of the other letters on the keyboard were designed with the sole objective of making it as difficult as possible for a typist to type quickly and easily. On early mechanical typewriters the typeface for each letter was at the end of long steel arm that was raised to hit the ribbon and leave an impression on a sheet of paper when the typewriter key was pushed down. Early typists were able to hit one letter, then a second, and then a third, before the arm of the first letter had fallen back from the paper, causing the keys to jam and damage the typewriter. To solve this problem all of the most commonly used letters were arranged to make them harder to reach, slow the typist down, and prevent key jams. Human speed, efficiency, and accuracy were sacrificed to meet the requirements of the machine.

Technology solved the “qwerty Keyboard” problem, but ‘tradition’ maintains it.
Electric ball typewriters and electronic keyboards do not have mechanical arms that can jam. Ergonomic (biology and mechanics, man and machine) key arrangements have been created that eliminate the unnecessarily difficult movements on the ‘traditional’ keyboard and replace them with efficient, streamlined movements that improve accuracy and are the unquestioned champion in speed competition. ’Traditional’ keyboard typists cannot compete with ergonomic typists because the traditional movements they employ prevent them from ever being able to reach a higher level of performance. All of the computer keyboards in the country could have been changed to be ergonomically correct with a simple program change and swapping the key caps on the keyboard to new positions, thus allowing everyone in the country to benefit from the increased speed, efficiency, and accuracy. The savings in costs to companies for the time spent typing and correcting would run into the billions. To transition to the new method, computers could contain programs for both types of keyboard and allow the user to select the keyboard type they wished to use. Schools could start teaching the new method and older users could continue to use the ‘traditional’ method. All of this, however, is wishful thinking. Tradition has won out over technology. Although a superior method has been available for many decades, teachers remain mired in the past, resistant to change, and continue to teach the same old, antiquated, ‘traditional’ method to generation after generation. The ‘traditional’ outdated and inefficient keyboard remains to this day
and the movements it mandates continue to undermine the proficiency of unsuspecting users.

Basketballs “qwerty Keyboard” style of shooting mechanics.
Much like the “qwerty Keyboard”, which was designed to make it as difficult as possible for a typist to type quickly and easily and achieve high levels of speed, efficiency, and accuracy, so to are the ‘traditional’ basketball shooting fundamentals being taught to players today. The unnecessary, unproductive steps they contain consume an inordinate amount of a player’s time that could be better spent in learning more effective techniques. Mastering those ‘traditional’ movements in order to achieve ‘repeatability’ is the quest for the ‘Holy Grail’ in basketball, or so players are told by their coaches. It is a long, hard, arduous journey. Some players and shooting coaches do achieve ‘repeatability’ after taking millions of trial and error practice shots and spending thousands and thousands of hours practicing. Practice, practice, practice is the anthem they chant out to those who would follow in their footsteps. Most of the pros have one or more serious flaws in their ‘form’, and yet they still manage to shoot with a fair degree of accuracy. Others trying vainly to copy them do not fare as well and after years of practice and despite all of their valiant efforts remain relegated to the sidelines. The dynamics of ‘traditional’ mechanics ‘handicaps’ players and prevents them from achieving higher levels of performance. Breaking up the flow of motion into all of these steps creates a whole host of problems. All of these complicated steps make the entire learning process unnecessarily cumbersome, long, difficult, and numbingly repetitive. The movements that are taught are awkward and cannot be executed precisely the same way each time. These awkward movements make it nearly impossible to achieve the fluidity and repeatability of form in execution required to develop and maintain accuracy. The time spent in making all of these unnecessary movements before taking the shot increases the risk of a player missing the shot or an opponent stealing the ball or blocking or altering the shot.  In short,
POOR FORM – PRODUCES POOR PERFORMANCE – AND POOR RESULTS!

All of the traditional approaches to shooting that are taught today teach the same basic basketball ‘fundamentals’. Only the AIM METHOD eliminates these fundamental flaws!
Established Basketball Doctrine said that it was ‘impossible’ to sink shots repeatedly and reliably while wearing gloves. Boxing Glove Basketball debunked that doctrine. The ‘impossible’ has not only been made possible, but is available for players at all skill levels to use to eliminate moves that would ‘handicap’ their efforts and allow them to  quickly and easily improve their level of performance and reach their true potential.

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.