The Continuous 1-on-1 Drill is a high-intensity, game-like exercise where players face off in a rapid series of one-on-one matchups.
After each play, a new offensive or defensive player enters immediately, keeping the drill flowing without pause.
It’s ideal for developing competitive toughness, defensive readiness, and offensive creativity under fatigue and pressure.
Objectives
- Trained to play equalities numerical having made the balance defensive the whole of the defensive team, or a part of the same.
- Having continuity in the practice of the 1×1.
Recommended age
- From 8 years onwards (Minibasket: categories, benjamin and fry).
Number of players
- From 3 players forward.
- Ideal with multiples of 3.
- If you are 3, pitch sole
- If there are 6, each group of 3 in a half longitudinal field as a whole.
- If you are 9, each group of 3 for a street (dividing into 3 blocks).
Note: it is not recommended to do more divisions as the space decreases considerably and there may be collisions. In that case you would do in groups of 4.
Another option: in the case of 12, playing in a quarter symmetric field (quadrant= half the length of a half court).
Recommended time
- Recommended time: 6-8 minutes.
- It changes direction at the equator temporary exercise.
Equipment and facilities
- 1 ball available for each group of 3 players.
- A pitch as a whole.
Initial layout and description
In the case of 3 players, 1 attacker and a defender in each half court.In the case of 4, 3 in track and 1 outside waiting.In the case of 5, 3 in track and 2 outside players (1 on each side of the half court) waiting for you.
A player with the ball starts the attack into a half court in which you are waiting for a defending player.Once the problem is solved (the attacker scores or the defender gets the ball), the player with possession of the ball goes to the other half court to play 1×1.
Note: To point out that in the 1×1 continuous is often ‘reward’ to the attacker with other possessions if you mark. You can force the attacker to take out the background and out of the half court, in this way we give the defender another way to recover the ball (it may be debatable because it has not successfully defended the first time and because it lengthens the waiting time to the players who are waiting).
- With 4 players, there will be a player waiting in one side of the half court. This will be incorporated into the mid-court by the team that did not resolve successfully the situation of the game:
- the defender has slotted basket or,
- the attacker has lost the ball.
- With 5 players, there will be a player waiting on each side of the half court. There will be change by the team that did not resolve successfully the situation of the game.In a mid-court changes the player light green and the other half court to change the player to a dark green. In this way we have our 1×1 5 players without rotations too complex.
What we could do 1×1 continuous with more than 5 players? Of course, you can organize a mini-tournament, in each half court plays a 1×1. Leaves the player has not resolved the situation of the game:
- if you recover advocate, comes out attacker and enter the change.
- if the attacker to write out of the triple and attacker against the new defender.
Each time is changed so that everyone plays against everyone.
1×1 continuous with 4 players
1×1 continuous with 5 players
Variants
- You need to complete on entry.
- There is that finish in the shot (from outside of the restricted zone, 3 points).
- You have to solve in a given time (5-3 seconds countdown).
- Restriction number of boats for each player or team.
- Solve in a certain duration.
- Are to be solved by performing a certain gesture technician.
- You have to solve by pulling from a specific position.
- 2×2 continuous, 3×3 continuous, 4×4 continuous, 5×5 continuous
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
National Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
