Breaking in a New Basketball?
does anyone know how to break in a new basketball? it’s a composite leather indoor/outdoor ball. it sounds like plastic when i dribble now… but it’s a Spaulding (they don’t make em like they used to..) - so i want to know if there is a way to break in the balls surface kinda like the way you break in a baseball mit. don’t just tell me “go outside and dribble…” or i’ll dunk on you. thanks hoop fans!
I just got a new spalding neverflat. It sounds like a tennis ball when i bounce it. its supposedly indoor/outdoor. however dirt from outdoor courts gets on it, and it gets slipperly. its tempting to use another ball when i’m with other people, but i try to keep using it and break it in. I hate to say it, but there isnt really a way to break it like a baseball mitt. You really are just going to have to dribble. I think dribbling on concrete will be the best to break it in. If you are mostly going to use it outside, you should keep it outside and that will defintily break it in.
Where do people hoop at in Santa Monica? Where are adult basketball leagues in the same area?
Pick up games, adult leagues, indoor, outdoor, good courts in Santa Monica or West L.A area
I’ve seen them in Venice Beach and along Hollywood Blvd.
How Basketball Came To Be…
In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a minister on the faculty of a college for YMCA professionals (today, Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied and at proper levels of fitness during the long New England winters. After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto an 10-foot (3.05 m) elevated track. In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, so balls scored into the basket had to be poked out with a long dowel each time. A soccer ball was used to shoot goals.
Dr. Naismith’s handwritten diaries of the time indicate that he was nervous about this invention, which incorporated rules from a Canadian children’s game called “Duck on a Rock”, as many had failed before it. Dr. Naismith himself was originally from Canada.
Naismith’s new game is quite similar to the game of team handball, which had already been invented in the early 1890s.
The first official basketball game was played in the YMCA gymnasium on January 20, 1892 with nine players, on a court just half the size of a present-day National Basketball Association (NBA) court. “Basket ball”, the name suggested by one of Naismith’s students, was popular from the beginning.
Women’s basketball began in 1892 at Smith College when Senda Berenson, a physical education teacher, modified Naismith’s rules for women.
Basketball’s early adherents were dispatched to YMCAs throughout the United States, and it quickly spread through the USA and Canada. By 1895, it was well established at several women’s high schools. While the YMCA was responsible for initially developing and spreading the game, within a decade it discouraged the new sport, as rough play and rowdy crowds began to detract from the YMCA’s primary mission. However, other amateur sports clubs, colleges, and professional clubs quickly filled the void. In the years before World War I, the Amateur Athletic Union and the Intercollegiate Athletic Association (forerunner of the NCAA) vied for control over the rules for the game.
Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball. The first balls made specifically for basketball were brown, and it was only in the late 1950s that Tony Hinkle, searching for a ball that would be more visible to players and spectators alike, introduced the orange ball that is now in common use.
Dribbling, the bouncing of the ball up and down while moving, was not part of the original game except for the “bounce pass” to teammates. Passing the ball was the primary means of ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the asymmetric shape of early balls. Dribbling only became a major part of the game around the 1950s as manufacturing improved the ball shape.
Basketball, netball, dodgeball, volleyball, and lacrosse are the only ball games which have been identified as being invented by North Americans. Other ball games, such as baseball and Canadian football, have Commonwealth of Nations, European, Asian or African connections.
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NBA Dunks Vol.2 - Indoor Basketball Goals
Best NBA video on YouTube…vol.2 NBA Slam Dunk Contests 2003-2006 Jason Richardson Fred Jones Josh Smith Nate Robinson …
Sweet indoor basketball hoop dunks.
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