The Gomelsky’s Figure-Eight Passing Drill is a legendary passing and movement warm-up created by the renowned Soviet coach Alexander Gomelsky. Players move in a continuous figure-eight pattern across the court, executing sharp passes on the move while maintaining timing and rhythm. This drill emphasizes communication, footwork, and ball handling under pressure, and is ideal for warming up both body and mind at the start of practice.
Objectives
- Secure tickets to the basket.
- Work the pass in hand in the header.
Recommended age
- From 12 years onwards.
- Note: vital to have a background in how to organization wheels of tickets to the basket.
Number of players
- From 6 players on.
Recommended time
- Recommended time: 4-6 minutes.
Equipment and facilities
- Minimum 3 balls (1 ball that will be in the header, and the other two near the ring -1 ball on each side of completion).
- A half Basketball court.
- Optional (and highly recommended in the beginning) Two cones (or patches of soil) to help contextualize the pass in hand that is done in the header.
Initial layout and description
Optional to place two cones (or patches of soil) in the header to help contextualize the pass in hand.
In the header, two players, one of which, the one with the ball, located on the opposite side of the player without the ball.
On each side of the basket is placed by a player with the ball.
In each location of 45 degrees, a player without the ball.
When the player with the ball in the header starts the pot to the other player without the ball located in the header, then each player in 45 moves toward the basket to pick up the pass in hand that will give the player next to the basket.
The players who have delivered the ball close to the basket, go up to the header to continue the wheel.
The players that were in the header iran at a 45 ° angle to go on the way to the basket where they will receive the pass in hand delivered to the players that recently made the entrance to the basket.
Variants
- Make the wheel without the use of any pot.
- The coach is positioned under the basket and indicates how many props you need to complete.
- You can also make a wheel on which it competes for computers (a computer will flow first in one direction and the other in the opposite, and then we will change roles.)
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
National Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
