First step

The First step are one of the first fundamentals with ball taught. It is highly advisable to have worked the stops and the concept of Pivot Foot previously or be combining both of these teachings.

Definition

‘Action to start a displacement boat, directly or after having made a stop earlier.’ (Cedric Arregui). The First step are one of the first fundamentals with ball taught. It is highly advisable to have worked the stops and the concept of Pivot Foot previously or be combining both of these teachings. Learn about the different outputs will provide resources to our players to make decisions and actions of 1×1. The essential foundation to teach from an early age, and more taking into account the advantage that it can generate from the 1×1-

Types of exits

There are two First step basic:

• Direct First step, also called open First step: out with the same hand and the same distance, both farther away from the defender. Is the First step faster, and also that most exposes the player to the possibility of theft.
• Cross First step, also called closed First step: out with the hand of the side to which we are headed, and the foot moves contrary to secure the space at the same time that it serves to protect the ball to the time that is deprived of that space to the defender. It is less rapid than the previous output, but it is also more secure.

These two types of First step, there are other First step more complex should also leave teaching as the player progresses:

• First step in reverse: exit after pivot. The rotation can be forward or backward. The direction of rotation is usually determined by the position of the player (interior tend to rotate forward and exterior back). Most common in players outside indoors, since they tend to use it as a continuation of a feint direct output.
• Karate-Kid First step: The great advantage of this First step is that it is preceded by an offset that could be also be a stop. This detail can be used as a resource for the attacker that you can use for trap to fool the defender. According to performed the first support (or even the second) by slowing down the speed of the scrolling, the defender can be relied upon thinking that the attacker is performing a stop. At this moment, the attacker ends up standing and makes a change of pace explosive departing from the support to the foot.
• Yugoslavian First step (after dribble stop with Step-Zero), is used with the same purpose as the previous First step. The difference is the number of supports on the output. At the reception the attacker makes one or two supports to jump and end up falling in a period of time (two feet) to the time that you start the boat to boot.

Objectives for teaching

1. Ensure the basic position of game. Knees slightly bent and back straight.
2. Keep the ball well fucked with two hands. If the defender is next, getting to protect it by placing it to one side or holding it above the head.
3. Identify which foot is the pivot foot (or if there is the possibility of choosing a pivot foot by the type of stop previously done).
4. To calculate the distance that is the defender.
5. Observe the orientation of the feet of the defender.
6. Go in the direction that has the most options of progress with the boat to be able to make a pass or a shot.
7. Throw the ball at an optimum distance to be able to take maximum advantage of the acceleration.

Most common errors

1. The rounded shoulders and legs straight up the center of gravity that results in a balance very stable. In addition to retrasa the First step since the player has to bend then to come out (or even, not flex and not just has the boot up speed).
2. Having begun to dribble without judgment and already have the defender, active in defending possible progression with the ball.
3. Does not identify or locate the pivot foot and makes steps of First step or raise it up and returns it to support thinking, wrongly, that is the Support foot Free.
4. Head down, looking only at the ball and/or the soil, which hinders the perception of time and space available to be able to attack the defender.
5. Exit without having considered how to attack the foot ahead of the defender.
6. Go out to the ombudsman or to accompany the displacement of the defender.
7. The pot too far away makes it difficult to control the ball and the pot too close to slow the displacement and/or nullifies the possible advantage of previously created.

Exercises for the initiation of First step

• 1×0: in pairs, one ball and one without the ball.
  • The attacking player receives the pass from his teammate and makes a stop (finished) at a time, the player with the ball has to come out depending on how you ask to leave the partner (without a ball) that gave the pass:
    • arms open –> open First step/direct;
    • arms crossed –> closed/cross First step,
    • index pointing up and drawing a circle –> First step with reverse
  • The same thing, but starting from a stop (finished) in two times. In this kind of stops, it is vital that players identify which is the pivot foot (the penultimate support) to not be in violation of Advancement Illegal known as the Steps of First step. The player who received the pass has to come out depending on how you ask to leave the partner without the ball:
    • arms open –> open/direct First step;
    • arms crossed –> closed/cross First step,
    • index pointing up and drawing a circle –> First step with reverse
  • The next progression of the same exercise, the attacking player receives a pass from your partner, making a stop. The player who gave the pass will run over the free-standing (the opposite of the pivot foot) and the attacking player with the ball will have to decide how to get out. If the pivot foot is the right foot, you can only exit with outlet open to the left or to cross over to the right). The following progression will consist of going to speed up the pivot foot. In the last progression, the defending player will decide which foot to tread. The attacker will have to react accordingly.

Cedric Arregui Guivarch
Entrenador Nacional de Baloncesto (CES 2014)