Go ahead. Do it. No one’s watching.

“Rali, Why Should I pat myself on the back 3 times?”

That’s easy… by reading this article you’ve just placed yourself in the top 10 % of all basketball players in the world who actively search for tips, tactics, knowledge and expertise on how to improve one’s basketball skills and produce better “on the court” results.

I know reading an article doesn’t seem like much, but it shows commitment, desire, and interest in improving your game and becoming the basketballer you know you can be. (Very few ballers show this and have this kind of mental attitude)

Think about it, on any given basketball team how many players have personal trainers/coaches? How many have some basketball improvement DVD’S or books at their home? How many players have attended basketball camps and clinics to learn game-changing basketball secrets?

It’s 10%. That’s it. I know this because I’ve done the research. I’ve owned a basketball transforming company for 6 years and those are the numbers. You’re now in that top 10% of the most committed, determined, and unique basketball players in the world. And that’s why you should give yourself a pat on the back.

So let’s get rolling with the secrets and tactics I’ve used to help non-confident ballers transform their game, shatter their fears, and easily develop unstoppable All-Star basketball confidence.

In this article, I’m going to show you 2 things:

First, the real reason behind your lack of self-confidence, what’s causing you to hold yourself back from shooting the ball or making a play, and the mental reason why you’re afraid of making mistakes out on the court.

And

Second, How you can easily develop unstoppable basketball confidence so you can step out on the court and produce the basketball results you’ve been picturing in your head (dominate the game, perform all-star plays, scoring 20 PPG or more, and wink at the cute cheerleader on the sideline with style =)

Self confidence in your soul, is equivalent to gas in your car, without it you go nowhere. Lack of self-confidence will get you on the bench or even worse, in the stands. It’s vitally important you know these secrets so you can build your self-confidence to that of an all-star.
Are you ready to inject a shot of “mental confidence’ into your game and life?

Let’s go!

So you’ve come to the realization that you’re not confident out on the basketball court? That’s a sour feeling. I know how you feel, I’ve been there myself. Now, let’s take a look at what’s really going on, and how you can easily destroy you lack of self-confidence forever.

What you really mean when you say “I’m not confident” is “I’m uncertain”.

You see, certainty is a one of the 6 human needs we all MUST have in order to live well and perform functionally. When it’s absent, all kinds of weird crap goes on in our head (including lack of self-confidence).

You’re uncertain of what’s going to happen in your next game. You’re uncertain whether you’re going to make your next shot. You’re uncertain about making the basketball team. You’re uncertain about making the right play.

You see, all a lack of self-confidence really is, is a lack of certainty. Here’s a real life example:

If you take a look at where you are right now, while your reading this article, look at the roof over your head. You’re absolutely certain that the roof above your head is not going to cave in. Your certain that it’s not going to crumble or fall. You’re certain that you are safe.

If you weren’t certain about the roof above your head, would you ever go near it? Would you ever walk under it? Would you ever put your bed under it?

I didn’t think so.

The same rules apply with you and your basketball game. Your lack of self-confidence is really just a lack of certainty. The only reason why you hold yourself back is because you lack certainty. Lack of certainty is the only reason why you’re not the basketball player you want to be.

Okay, so we’ve identified the problem, that’s good, but it doesn’t produce change. Only the solution produces change. Let’s look at at the real solution to destroying your fear and lack of self-confidence once and for all.

First, don’t’ take your lack of uncertainty personal. It has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with your future. Your future is always unknown. It’s always uncertain. The only reason why you lack self confidence on the basketball court is because you’re focusing your thoughts on your fears. You’re thinking about what you don’t want to happen.

But it’s not personal. Brush it off and say, “I’m uncertain of what’s going to happen tomorrow, I’m going to do my best and go after my dream anyway.”

Second, stop focusing on what it is you fear. Fear Stands for False Evidence Appearing Real. Having your mind focused on your fear is the fastest way to develop lack of self-confidence. There’s a success saying that goes a little something like this, “You become what you think about.”

If you don’t believe that, go take a look in the mirror and see if everything you think you are is reflected back to you. How you think you look. What you believe. You literarily become what you think about.

You see, the mind is a goal striving mechanism, what you think about you bring about. What you focus on becomes your reality. What you believe becomes true. What you pay attention to becomes important and intensified.

Third, lower the intensity in your mind of how important producing whatever result it is you want to produce on the basketball court. Ask yourself, “From a 1 to a 10, how important is it that I do________”. If you are lacking self-confidence I’m sure that number is at least a 7 or higher.

How much would you think about it if it were only a 3 or lower? Would you still be afraid of messing up or making a mistake?

Nope, you wouldn’t care. And that’s the attitude you have to take. You have to know exactly what it is you want. Seriously committing yourself to getting what you want. Work your tail off and learn the secrets and tips others have used before you to create a similar result. And give it your best when your number is called and an opportunity is presented.

But, with the understanding, while in pursuit of your dream, you are going to make mistakes. They are inevitable. You are going to mess up. Don’t take your failures or mistakes personally. A mistake is a teacher. A mistake is a learning experience.

When you make the mistake or you mess up, recognize it, don’t take it personally, and understand the correction you need to make to guarantee you never do it again. Mistakes are not bad, but making the same mistake over and over is mental suicide.

My last suggestion for you is to stop comparing yourself, your talent, and where you are right now in your career with others. When most ballers feel inadequate or lack self-confidence, self-comparison with other players usually is lurking around. It’s a dream destroyer.

The only person you need approval from is yourself. Now if you live with your parents, there are some rules I’m sure you have to live by, but by all means don’t seek approval from anybody else. And never compare yourself to other basketball players. You have no idea how long they’ve been playing. How much training they’ve had, how many hours a week they spend working on their game, or who they’ve learned from and been coached by.

Comparing yourself is ridiculous. It will not make you better. If you want to make a goal to get to the level of play that another player is playing at, by all means, go right ahead. To pick another player as a target and say you want to be better, or as good as him or her, is healthy. But comparing your game and talent with another player is disastrous.
Don’t do it.

I’ve just shared with you some of the secrets I’ve used to transform ball players so that they can achieve their goals of being an all-star and playing college ball. The secrets I just revealed are easy and simple. Don’t take them for granted. Anything complicated is normally to hard to incorporate. It’s the simple secrets that produce an incredible change in your game.

Rali Todd
Creator of the Internet’s Best Selling Digital Basketball Training Formula

www.GoBasketballPro.com

PS- Just the other day, I shared with Kip (one of my customers) a simple method to go from uncertain and unconfident to exploding confidence and rock solid certainty. I reveal this same Confidence Building method in my Go Basketball Pro Training Formula. Hop on over to www.GoBsketballPro.com (it’s only a click away) and discover how incredible this technique is so you too can produce the results you want on the court.

Some of the ball handling drills, dribbling drills, are called the following in order:

1. rhythm drills - you can do both directions left or right.
2. two bounce dribbling - taking to bounces between your legs
3. one bound dribbling - taking only one dribble or bounce between your legs
4. flop drill - keep finger tip control of the ball trying to do this as quick as possible and without dropping the ball at all
5. flip drill - same as the basketball ball handling drill called flop above

I don’t know how you feel about 3 point shooting but I think it stinks.

And here’s why-

Let’s first look at what 3’s can do, and why they are effective.

How can they benefit you and your team.

1. For starters- you get an extra point.

2. When you make a 3, it helps build momentum, the crowd gets excited, your teammates
get excited.

3. It’s a great way to get back into a game fast if your in a hole.

4. It helps spread the court, there are more driving lanes, driving angles, and it allows for
more room to operate in the paint.

5.It keeps defenders honest, if your a good 3 point shooter, your defender will be very
reluctant to leave you to double team some one else or be a help defender.

6.It’s a confidence builder, as I stated in the 2nd benefit, it helps get the crowd involved
but also builds the confidence of the player that made the 3.

Those are all great benefits that come from making 3’s

And there are probably a lot more.

But here’s what most coaches and basketball players don’t understand.

1. 3 point shoots obviously have a lower made percentage

2. There are very few players that could really be considered great or good 3 point shooter’s.

3. It takes away from other areas that players are much better at- example- Dwane Wade
settling for a 3 pointer instead of driving to the basket, I don’t know about you, but If I’m
the head coach of the Miami heat I much rather see wade drive to the hole then shoot a 3

4. Shooting 3’s completely change the pace and time of a game.

When you shoot 3′S there are less fouls called.

Less fouls called lead to less time to rest.

Less time to rest means faster fatigue.

Faster fatigue means MORE mental and physical mistakes.

More mental and physical mistakes means more chances and easy opportunities your
opponents have to score and capitalize on your mistakes.

When you shoot three’s, it increases the other team’s fast break opportunities- long
rebounds, which gives them more chances to score when you and your team is not
prepared or in position.

It also helps your opponents fast break opportunities because most of the time the
player that is guarding the shooter that shot the three will leak out in front and very often
you see that player that was guarding the shooter get a wide open lay up on a fast
break due to not getting back quick enough.

And, in most cases, when 3’s are being shot, weak side help and rotation is average
at best, meaning here are less chances of offensive rebounding.

When you drive to the basket, the defense rotates, in most cases, leaving a small
player trying to box out a forward or a center, if there is any rotation at all.

So by driving the ball you also dramatically improve the chances of offensive rebounds
for your team.

The Sixers use to live of the offensive boards anytime Allen Iverson drove to the basket.

Shooting 3’s, and more importantly, making 3’s are very effective and beneficial, just as
long as you use it to your advantage and understand the pros and cons of them.

It can be one of your biggest assets and could help win a lot of games- Phoenix Suns-
but it could very well be one of the major roles played in your team’s destruction and
source of underachievement.

If your a good shooter, and your open, and feel confident enough to not just take the shot,
but make it then by all means:

SHOOT THE BALL AND MAKE IT.

But if your strongest aspect of the game is driving to the basket, or shooting 15 footers,
then by all means, take it to the whole with confidence and purpose, make the other team
guard you.

They will fatigue faster, you will build game winning momentum and dictate the Pace of the
game, you will draw More fouls and create more opportunities for your teammates while
giving your team a great chance of winning the ball game.

One thing to think about:

When you shoot the ball, do you expect to shoot it, or do you expect to make it?

Most players just expect to shoot IT, the great ones expect to make it, and will settle for
nothing less.

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A SYTEMIZED, Over Proven BLUEPRINT for setting your goals and allowing yourself to achieve them, you are dead in the water (I mean It!)
Keep this in mind… “Failing to plan is planning to Fail” Read That Again:
“Failing to plan is planning to Fail.” Do you Understand what that means?

It means if you do not have a plan, you’re going to fail! You should, and must have a plan for your workouts, your goals, getting exposure, developing your game, and an action plan. If you don’t have ALL of these, you are making a huge deadly mistake!

Let’s get something straight, this is really important so stop what you’re doing and pay attention!
You have to Dress and act the part that you want, not the part that you have! Read That Again:
You have to Dress and act the part that you want, not the part that you have! If you want to become ALL-STAR baller in the pros, you have to dress and act like one…

Well Rali, how do I do that? I’m Glad you asked. You see, All-STAR ballers in the pros don’t let things like relationships; family, Friends, and obstacles get in their way… They do not let all these little things get in the way of their Dream, and that is what makes them amazing!

Here are some things that ALL-STAR Ballers Do:

-They dedicate their whole life to basketball

-They commit themselves to the game.

-They sacrifice certain things like hanging out with friends, significant others, family members to practice and focus on their game.

- They practice when they are tired and feeling lazy.

-They eat proper nutrition, get plenty of sleep and do not poison their body with things like alcohol and drugs.

-They will do whatever it takes to be the best… No matter what!

-They believe that they can be the best, no matter how good or great the competition is!

And the list goes on and on…

Do you get my drift? These are just a few of the things that you are going to have to start doing right now if you even want to think about being an NBA-All-star.

Here’s what I want you do right NOW! Not in five minutes after you eat, or not in 2 minutes after you get done reading this. Go get a piece of paper and something to write with… You got it? Good, let’s continue.

I want you to title the piece of paper: “What I will do To Achieve My Basketball Goals” Then I want you to write down your basketball goals, very detailed, where you want to play, what position, how many points, assists, boards you will average.
Exactly what you want to achieve as precise as you can get. How many games will you win? Championships etc…

Right underneath your goals I want you to write down all the things you are going to do to achieve those goals.
Just like all the things The NBA ALL-STARS do. Write down all the things that you think another baller that failed to achieve their goals would not do (this is powerful) If you do all the things that basketball failures would not do, you’re going to be in great shape. If you think this exercise is silly, Don’t! This is exactly what
I do with Some of the amazing pro ballers I work with, and it works.

The last part of this Exercise is to put this up where ever you spend the most time at, your kitchen, room, computer desk, car, etc…
Where ever your going to see it the most, the better. This will allow you to keep your head focused and remember what your goals are
and all the things that you are committed to doing to achieve those goals.

This week we are going to go over the Step-by-step process
of getting your named spread like wild fire to 1,000’s of
coaches, teams and great contacts…

Moving on.

One of the deadliest mistakes I see ballers doing, is sitting back
thinking that coaches and teams are going to find them…

Good Luck with that one!

You must, and I mean you must contact and develop relationships with
coaches and teams RIGHT NOW!

Even if that team or school is not one you want to go play for… Just having the contact is worth and could save your career… Here are some easy, effective ways to get in touch with coaches and teams. Simply email them, call them, or send them a letter or footage of your game.

One thing you have to understand is that these teams and coaches need you
as much as you need them, and they would love if they didn’t have to go flying around the country looking for players… so you are saving them allot of headaches, and long flights, that I am sure they would much rather spend coaching basketball or spending time with their family.

And as i showed you in part.1, you will be contacting the teams, and coaches that are looking for you… and what you have to offer.

Now when you contact them, don’t just say,- hello my name is ****
and I want to come play for you. They here this all day…

Instead, be more personal, do some research on the coach, his team, records
stats, and history.

They will just simply melt if you know some things they might not even have known about their team, it also shows that you are a student of the game, and not just another baller that thinks he is the best in the world.

==Pro Secret==

And also tell them, that you were wondering if they might be interested in you, but if they weren’t, could they reefer some other coaches or pass you information along to someone that would be able to help you and might be interested in your game…

Just by saying that, you can get your name out to 1,000’s of coaches literally over night, they will be more then happy sending your name and info to a good friend of there’s or a team they they know you have a shot at, It’s like having your own PRO Recruiter working for you for free..

I know a bunch of ballers that have used this tip to get tot he Division-1 level, Steve Nash as a matter of fact… Remember, there are allot of ballers out there that believe they can get to the next level, just like you, they are hungry, eager and determined.

But you can’t always just play harder, you have to play smarter too! Get out there right now and be pro active and watch all the great things that will happen.

Rock On!

Your Coach,

Rali Todd

www.GoBasketballPro.com