Children are exposed to sport quite young, often before they even learn to read. Therefore, when signing up your child for youth basketball, it is a good idea at an early age to start positively associating sports with social skills, good health and, most importantly, fun. According to ‘Changing The Game’ Project, 70% of kids…
Parents have a crucial role in a child’s sporting development. The support and encouragement a parent can provide to their child’s performance and enjoyment have long-lasting outcomes. However, it is easy to get carried away when supporting your child and it’s important to remember that everyone on the court are also still developing. Creating…
Parents Should Have Positive Involvement in their Children’s Sports Research shows that 63% of children participate in an organised sport outside of school hours at least once per week. At this primary school age, parents are often the key decision makers as to which sports children will be involved in and because of…
Basketball is booming and is now the biggest sport in the world, played in 213 countries, which is in 5 more countries than soccer. There is no doubt that a new era of basketball has begun!
Playing basketball as an adult has a multitude of social, mental and physical benefits. Playing basketball is a great workout that also allows you to socialize, reduce stress and enhances your ability to work within a team.
Kids basketball is a great way for kids to build friendships, develop teamwork skills, get active and, most importantly – have fun. Sport has to compete with technology and video games for kids’ leisure time, so it’s more important than ever to foster and adopt ways to make kids basketball enjoyable and fun.
