Music Basket in Reggio Calabria: NBA style training

Basketball is the sport that is linked to music more than any other. The combination of the two terms immediately brings to mind theNBA and American hip-hop culture, the perfect background for the exploits of overseas champions, a flow that is intertwined with the contexts of life, everyday life and the entertainment that revolves around the glittering American basketball. Just think about Drake, Canadian rapper super fan of the Toronto Raptors, but also to the musical career of Damian Lillarda point guard for the Milwaukee Bucks who cultivates his passion for rap in his free time.

In Italy, there are those who have decided to apply music to basketball not only for pleasure, but to create a real, young and innovative training method. Let’s talk about Massimo Antonelliformer Italian champion basketball player Virtus Bologna, inventor of Music Basketball.

What is Music Basket?

The Music Basketball it is a particular training method that applies music to the fundamentals of basketball both in attack and defense. Antonelli he filed about 850 exercises to be performed to the rhythm of music with the aim of improving mobility, coordination, static, dynamic and in-flight balance, change of speed, change of direction, rhythm of execution and reading of situations.

The method consists of 5 programs:

1. No Limits: overcome your limits, recognize the threshold of error and raise the bar. As? With increasingly faster beats, exercise after exercise on the fundamentals (dribbling, passing and shooting), until the mistake arrives. At that precise moment the first step towards improvement was born
2. Zero Seconds: the time in which, sometimes, a decision must be made in the game. Clarity and speed of execution are developed through the presentation of exercises with a very high musical rhythm
3. NBA Move: the plays that ‘break the rhythm’ of the opponents but which often put the teammates in rhythm. No look passes, “Magic Pass”, assists behind the back and a wealth of plays to be performed to the rhythm of the music
4. Out Gym: outside the gym, music replaces the coach and, with the wall as a teammate, you train to the rhythm of the songs
5. Creativity: the name says it all, imagination and creativity make the difference between a normal player and a champion who thinks and sees things ‘invisible’ in the eyes of everyone else

Basketball and music at the “Easter Cup” in Reggio Calabria

A lesson from Music Basketball was held at PalaBotteghelle Of Reggio Calabriaon the second day of the “Easter Cup“, the sports tournament which from 27 to 29 March involves various youth groups from Calabria, Sicily and Campania, including Vis Reggio Calabria, organizer of the event. A large group of Under 17 kids took part in the lesson with Massimo Antonelli training to the rhythm of music as they will have seen their NBA idols do hundreds of times. An original and fun experience that they will remember with a smile.