This collection offers contact-free, space-conscious basketball games modified for COVID‑19 safety. Drills minimize physical contact while maintaining engagement, skill work, and coordination, allowing safe basketball practice under current health guidelines.
The new ‘normal’
With the new exceptional situation of Coronavirus, we are forced to rethink the way you perform the routines of our day-to-day. When considering the practices of the Basketball, we face the urgent need to be able to offer optimal conditions for the security to ensure the safety distances, as well as avoiding situations of 1×1 real (as well as higher degrees of opposition). You can play the most known games while maintaining the safety distances to prevent COVID-19. In this article we explain how to play Basketball games (classic and known for our young players) with a few simple guidelines which will maintain the essence of the game itself.
Preliminary considerations
To raise the return to sports practice, we must be able to comply with the overriding objective of ensuring the conditions of safety and hygiene for the participants. The disinfection of the installation shall be borne by the city Council, or the responsible entity of the installation that have done the work of cleaning previously. This task will be done every day after sports practice.
To the input of the participants:
- Measurement temperature: will be used thermometers electronic (non-contact) which record the temperatures of the participants by using infrared rays. It will take a record of the temperature of each of the participants, both at the entrance to the sports facility as in the output. The temperature limit may vary according to the protocols established by the competent health authorities (which may range from to 37.3 ° C and 37.5 ° C).
- Log possible sinthomatology: participants are to bring in a signed form from home to be signed by their parents (or legal guardians) at that point if you have ever had (and no longer suffer any of the possible illnesses or physical discomfort.
- Disinfection of hands: After the input filters, the participants shall apply a lotion of hydroalcoholic gel with the purpose of disinfecting your hands.
- Belongings of the participants: Upon entering the facility, we will be able to choose from two ways to accommodate the belongings:
- At the foot of the track, with areas visibly bounded (sheets of paper pasted on the wall or adhesive tapes on the floor) which will be assigned to each participant.
- In the locker room, where each participant will spend one-on-one and not be able to enter until the participant that you previously entered has left. This option frees the track but has the disadvantage with regard to the safety of the belongings that may be exposed to ‘the friends of the outsider.’
- Recommended use of sporting accessories: Wrist bands, hair bands and other accessories are welcome in both that allow you to wipe the sweat and avoid the classic gestures that involve bringing hands to the face or wiping the face with the shirt or the forearm.
During the practice:
- Safety distance: will Always keep the safety distance. Before the start of the activity we will do a small activity to raise awareness about the social distancing that we also serve to work ‘spacing’. The idea is to be aware of the need to maintain at all times the safety distance (between 1.5 and 2 meters). We will use your collaboration because of their collaboration is a daunting task and without their cooperation is impossible.
- Take of water: water intake, you can avoid the stops general because they encourage players to get together to discuss. In addition, you will save unnecessary loss of time. The slogan will be simple. When a participant wishes to water, the only thing you have to do is to get close to the space where you left your belongings and take your drink of water. In case you have left your belongings in the locker room, go one-on-one. The coach must know at all times who has gone to the locker room to drink water. Finally, in the locker room we will also ask participants to bring water from home (or be provided with a bottle each) to prevent the sharing of faucets.
After practice:
- Back to the calm: ‘will advance’ the return to calm in order to spend extra time. During any sports body temperature and sweat mitigates the rise, but not the brakes. It is essential that we return to the agency for its situation of homeostasis (set of phenomena of self-regulation, leading to the maintenance of a relative constancy in the composition and the properties of the internal environment of an organism). As a help, it will be a unique opportunity to highlight the importance of a good stretch that too often is not carried out or is wrong.
After these preliminary considerations, we go in full in the adaptations of the most known games so that you can practice with safety compared to a situation of COVID-19 (coronavirus) or other health situations exceptional).
Basketball games adapted to the Coronavirus
To perform the classic games of Basketball, we will have to implement a variant that is able to maintain the current safety standards (safety distance and your individual use of the material) to the torque that the essence of the game remains intact. To do this we will need a ball participant. The basics most affordable of work will be of the Pot and the Shot (we will be able to practice the Pass in the form of self-passes or launch and reception of the ball after a rebound on a wall or the dashboard):
- 21: Each player will take their ball and to symbolize that controls the ball bounced of the fellow who previously launched will ask you to wait your turn to pass the ball. When you see the shooter prior has missed the shot, should be directed to the site where you dropped the ball’s partner, and proceed to the stop and release. In no time there will be a need for a participant to touch a ball that is not yours.
- Bulb: Each player with a ball. For the game to be more fluent, we will omit the option of ‘take a chance’. Be way give greater importance to the shot of the couple that we avoid that the companions of the game will pass the ball back to pitcher.
- The K. O.: play turn-based shooting and each player with his ball. In the row will keep the distance signalling with material sports training such as cones or patches of soil. When a player pick up his rebound will pull from that site. If the ball is launched by the next player is nearby, it must wait until the first player is done. In this way it will be more difficult to remove and will incite third player to take a good shot to avoid going for the rebound and have a higher efficacy of face-to delete the second player.
- The 24 or Game of Kobe Bryant: Same guidelines mentioned above in the 21.
- The Horse: You can play the game normally, so only take into account the distance between the participants who observed the action
- Sudden death, free-Throw with bet and free Kick 1+1: Games for couple or trio that there are no ‘problems’ or conflicts of spaces.
- The Bag: shooting Game in which the participants already accounts with an initial layout that takes into account the distance between participants.
- Pilla-Pilla Vaccine: classic Game of chase tailored for the equipment to maintain safe distance and at the same time work changes of hand and rhythm.
- Scarf Covid: classic Game of Scarf facilities. No catch no handkerchief, and maintains both the distance and the essence.
- Relay: You can make the classic relay. To symbolize the transfer of the witness, we will post hoops where players will drop the ball. We will organize the space using the 3-4-5 streets of the pitch. Each team will be divided into two subgroups, and each of these sub-groups will be located in a row of india in each line in the background. Next to each row, there will be a ring placed at 1.5-2 metres of the row so that when the player is in ‘active’ for the handoff can throw the ball (to conclude his career), and at the same time maintaining the safety distance.
Turn the threat into an opportunity
In crisis situations have arisen the best inventions that have led to great innovations in the way of to conceive or to carry out specific processes of production and training. We must take advantage of this situation to improve the way that we organize our training sessions (more taking into account that the Basketball training does not always overcome the desired 80% of time commitment engine).A key aspect of this improvement is to change the water intake collective by the individual. In this way we will minimize the ‘stops’. Just stop the activity at the time of change of the game (or exercise). Our Basketball will have changed, momentarily. When we get back to the normalcy of life will have the opportunity to maintain the improvement is implemented in the organization of our training sessions, achieving greater time commitment engine for our players.
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
National Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
Link of interest
- FREE ONLINE COURSE OF THE COMMUNITY OF MADRID TO PERFORM ACTIVITIES OF FREE TIME AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES SAFER
- RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE FREE-TIME ACTIVITIES AIMED AT CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
- GENERAL INFORMATION OF THE COMMUNITY OF MADRID
- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
- CLEANING AND DISINFECTION
- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CONSUMPTION OF FOOD
- POSTER MEASURES OF PROTECTION
- HOSTELS
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
National Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
