Shooting Tip #5: THE JUMP HOOK / SKY HOOK

In the jump shot, your shoulders and body are square to the basket. In the sky hook, you protect the ball directly keeping your body and not-throwing to the arm between ball and opponent that keep to you. The sky hook is also called Jump Hook, was popularized by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He almost did his point everything by his sky hook, his sky hook is touch of light of the time of the demonstration in the NBA history. He made the hook as a form of art, very beautiful shot of the sky. Wanna shoot like him? I think that you must work hardly! So practices and practices, then you can dominate this kind of shot, sky hook! How is it work?

• To obtain the system for the hook of the jump is equal according to described thing in extremity of the jump shot. Stand 2 or 3 feet directly in front of the basket. To obtain the system, To get set, go through the steps explained in the Jump Shot Tip above UNTIL you get to shooting, then read the instructions here.
• Fixed once, rotate your body ninety degrees so that the non-shooting arm is pointing directly at the basket. While rotating the body, slip non-shooting hand along the surface of the ball so that it ends up directly between the basket and the ball. The shooting hand continues to face the basket. If you are throwing with your right hand, your forearm must be vertical and the ball must be directly on your right shoulder. Become as high as is possible, your arm that throws must completely be extended, with only one slight curve in the elbow. This one is the position for the sky hook.
• Fixed once for the sky hook, the jump and the launching according to the explained thing in the basic shot of the jump. In order to protect the ball, keep the non-shooting hand fully extended, until the ball is well on its way to the basket. Learn to shoot the jump hook with either hand..

Work on shooting by stepping on to your non-pivot foot and raising your pivot foot off the floor . For example, if you wish to throw to a hook of the jump with your right hand, then to establish your left foot like the foot of the not-pivot. Then, to take a measurement with her, jumping vertically and throwing like you to finish the step. To avoid to travelling foul, make sure your non-pivot foot does not come down to floor until after the ball leaves your hand.

In order to practice the sky hook with a step-in, to do the following one. In the left side of the basket, stand at a 45-degree angle to the backboard about 4 or 5 feet from the basket. Get set to shoot the basic jump shot. Instead of throwing to the jump shot, passage into the paint with your left foot in a line that is parallel to the sideline. As your left comes to pave, to execute the hook of the jump. To return to the exit position. To obtain the system. Then to walk with your right foot towards the line of bottom in a line that is parallel to the sideline. To execute the hook of the jump with your left hand. After several repetitions of each one threw, to across make this exercise of the hoop.

To practice executing sky hook after receiving a pass or ending a dribble near the basket from a lay up position on the court. Use the jump hook when your opponent denies you from shooting a lay-up. The jump hook will help you against taller defenders, so don't under-estimate or under practice it ... Study this sky hook basketball shooting tips carefully...

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