At Harvey's "Shooters Touch" Academy the top basketball players "Master" their shooting form and basketball skills, using professional techniques, tips, video and photo analysis, and fundamental teachings that take their shooting skills to the next level. HSTA "Shooting Lab" has trained the best shooters on every level of the game for the past 26 years.

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Posted on Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 04:09PM by Registered Commenteradmin | CommentsPost a Comment

 Prepare with the Best

All sports over the past years have become like at the professional levels, Advancing knowledge (through Learning), Preparation.  The training techniques have worked their way down to all the levels.  Even those rare "natural" athletes are training.

You may not know it ( they may not want you to know) but I assure you, most players, of all sports, are or will be training, Preparing.  Specially the children of former pro athletes, they understand the power of  Preparation !

Ask Michael Jordan, he will tell you that he worked on jumping ! Oh, I know, you were sure he was born like that or it must be because of some gene thing, wrong, he worked on jumping.

"Educating shooters since 1982," Marvin Harvey has known the power of Preparation through Teaching/Training, for a very long time.  Harvey has instilled that power into NA4TB, where all Basketball is taught.  Both educating/training entities, are designed for all ages and for all levels of Basketball.

In this era of training, it is very  important to know  where to get the Best  Preparation!   It is not enought to just go and train if you strive to be your best or even the very best.   You need to Prepare with the best and continue to grow with them.

Who is the Best ? We believe we are, and in time, we are confident you wil agree with us.

"How you Prepare will decide how you Perform"

Marvin Harvey, HSTA, "Educating Shooters since 1982" 

NA4TB, "The Best Preparation, for all of Basketball"  "For the Betterment of the Game and All involved"

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Posted on Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 04:46PM by Registered Commenteradmin | CommentsPost a Comment

You Better Learn & You Better Master the Shooting  Form

Early on in my basketball life was the time I became fascinated by what made the ball go into the basket. Why ? Simple, the team with the most points wins the game !

Those points are earned by putting the ball in the basket.  So do you think that Mastering the Shooting Form , having the power to make shots, is a valuable skill in the game of Basketball ? I argue that it is the most valuable, and unless a player is too lacking on other basketball skills, including a competitive mind set, a player Mastering this skill will always be sought after.   Unless you Master the Shooting Form, YOU WILL NEVER BE A COMPLETE PLAYER and you will never reach your basketball potential, NEVER! 

As basketball progresses towards the Professional levels, the uneven match ups are less and less,  the game becomes itself.  Instead of so many of the mismatches in the lower levels where players are mostly recruited and placed on "stack" teams.  Until these "stack" teams face each other, what is seen as "competition," is mostly nothing more than outrageous mismatches that keep the game from being genuinely played. 

At the higher levels of the game, real competion is seen and so is more of the Genuine game. 

As the game of Basketball becomes more and more global, real competition is developing more and more overseas (just ask team USA) and in my opinion, the overseas best is yet to come.   When the game is "Genuinely" played, that shooting form is a necessity and those with out it are Exposed and left behind !

So what am I saying ? I have understood the power of the shooting form for many years.  In my playing days and in my studies, I recognized the great players that understood this also. I set out to Teach all players, so that they would be completely Basketball Shooting skilled ready.

I continue to do so today, as I also continue to alert the players,  Learn the Shooting form, while you still have time, and come Learn it from the best.

"The way to get Better is to start Now"

Marvin Harvey, HSTA, "Educating Shooters since 1982"

NA4TB  "For the Betterment of the Game and All involved."

Marvin Harvey, HSTA, NA4TB Basketball Shooting and All Basketball Training

Posted on Friday, October 3, 2008 at 02:17AM by Registered Commenteradmin | CommentsPost a Comment

Learning Enviroment, Learning System

Marvin Harvey creates a special Learning enviroment in all his training/teaching sessions. Since 1982, Harvey has advanced his system, still continuing to incorporate a relaxed classroom like approach to his training/teachings. 

It is guaranteed that nowhere else in the world is a player treated like a student studying  the Basketball Shooting Form, Basketball fundamentals, More Basketball Skills, Basketball Principles and Basketball Aptitude.  Like Harvey likes to say "we exercise and train the brain, not just the body."

It is a unique method that Marvin Harvey has adhere to all of his Training/Teaching career.  It separates the players who apply themselves to become Complete players; fundamentals, shooting form, basketball principles, more skills and basketball aptitude.

Since back in the beginning (1982) of  Marvin Harvey taking his Basketball Shooting teachings to the world, when all the focus was on the Shooting form and Mastering it,  Marvin Harvey has been forced by the conditions of game, specially in the USA, to expand all his teachings, and create his teaching curriculum for the Complete Player Program teachings.

The program is a most powerful teaching system, unmatched in the game of basketball, anywhere in the world.  And the best part of it all is that it does so much for the players to fully understand, Master and ultimately, fully enjoy the game of Basketball.

"When a player truly learns the Game, then he/she falls in love with it, all over again"

Marvin Harvey, HSTA, "Educating Shooters since 1982"

NA4TB, "For the Betterment of the Game and All involved"

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Marvin Harvey, HSTA, NA4TB Basketball Shooting Training & All Basketball Training

Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 12:08AM by Registered Commenteradmin | CommentsPost a Comment
More on "Speed Control"
 
Tamika Catching and Marie Ferdinand are two WNBA players who I have been working with for the last two years about the power of  "Speed control" and knowing what a good pace is in a pro-game.  As Kobe Bryant and Paul Pierce demonstrated in the NBA 08 Playoffs, "the slower you go-the faster you become."  So, in the NBA we're trying to slow players down and take advantage of the skills of the game, but, on the high school levels the players are taught to "go faster, faster, come on you have to work harder," why ?
 
If you ever train (not just workout) an NBA Player, most of the time is spent on the understanding of the skill-sets that are being taught, little time is spent on over-speed, sweat (not that they don't sweat), but the emphasis is to get better and learn the fundamentals, the principles of the game and how to use all the information for their advantage.
 
I was riding to practice with Tamika Catchings and discussing how much her "speed control" was in her last game, and hearing her say, "Yeah Doc, but everything I have ever learned in basketball has been about going faster and faster, and then I meet you and you slow me down, and you teach me how to use my ability, and the fundamentals to destroy my opponents." I was very happy to see that she understood and was seeing the teachings work for her.
 
Tamika is a player that as the saying goes "will run through a wall for her team, she will leave it all on the court," she is someone that you love to see succeed.  Tamika is also a human being, made of skin, muscles and bones, so along with the understanding of "Speed control," enabling her to bring out all her talent (skills) in the most productive way, it saves her body from any more unnecessary wear and tear, something for all players to consider !
 
So, again, I ask you today, speaking all the way from South Africa, what is more important when it comes to mastering your shot and mastering the game, working out, or learning more, sweating, or writing, getting the understanding of the "whys and whens" or playing every chance you can.........one is just working the body and the other is learning, working the mind and then the body !
 
"Lasting Confidence is derived from Knowledge and  Proper Preparation" 
 
Marvin Harvey, HSTA, "Educating Shooters since 1982"
NA4TB, "For the Betterment of the Game and All involved"
 
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Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 01:47AM by Registered Commenteradmin | CommentsPost a Comment
Basketball Preparation
 
Continuing our discussions on  basketball  preparation:  A workout , "makes you sweat,"  you  repeat what you know, the way you know it .  A practice, makes you work against an opponent, you work with you teammates, you apply what you know, how you know it, in a game like situation.  A training session is a lesson, the lesson is about the "mental part," applying the mind over the matter, you obtain information, skills knowledge,more and better basketball skills and basketball knowledge, you LEARN to Understand to Better to Master
 
Which is better ?
 
Workouts are good for conditioning and staying in shape, they help maintain what you already "know," the way you know it.  If you are satisfied with what you know and the way you know it, with a fancy drill here and there, then just workout.
 
During the season, practices are mandatory and for good reason, so let's talk about playing and include "practices" during the off season.  Whether you are an inexperience player, playing for experience or an experienced player, playing just to stay "sharp," it will not be  enough, if you use the time to play, instead of bettering, mastering the skills, the fundamentals, your mind (basketball aptitude). No matter how much you off season practice and play, it will never be enough to take your game to it's highest level., the only thing that will is Training that teaches, with the right Professionals.
 
No, you may not sweat at all, but, when your time comes in the spot light you are better because you have the information, repetition, and you can instinctively do whatever is needed to win and help your team win. You are working towards becoming a Complete player.
 
Marvin Harvey, HSTA, NA4TB build Complete players, through training/teaching, basketball Aptitude knowledge and applicable workouts, we exercise the mind, not just the body !
 
Marvin Harvey, HSTA, "Educating Shooters since 1982"
NA4TB  "For the Betterment of the Game and All involved"
 
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