Kudda and CoachRB combined to create a series of ball handling drills that basketball players should be practicing to become great ball handlers. See thousands of instructional videos for basketball coaches at http://www.kudda.com.

1. Coach RB Ball Handling
Individual Drills
Should be done on your own

2. Ball Handling 1
Head up
Move ball as fast as you can
• Leg Circles, Reverse
• LeA leg, reverse
• Figure 8, reverse
• Waist circles, reverse
• Head circles
• 3 in one
Right together, leA together…Bend
at knees, head up with eyes
focused on spot on wall

3. Ball Handling 2
• Push‐Pull leA hand, right hand
Really get low
How many bounces in 10
seconds

4. Ball Handling 2
• Crossover knee to knee
• Push‐Pull Crossover, Crossover w/
right hand, leA hand

5. Ball Handling 2
• 1‐2‐3 Through Legs, Switch feet, 1‐2‐3
Head up, bend at knees
Keep ball at knee level or lower. The higher the
bounce, the longer the ball is away from your hands.
• Scissors from the front, from behind

6. Ball Handling 3
For this series of drills establish 3 variaQons or
heights of your dribble
Level 1‐ really low
Level 2‐waist level
Level 3‐ pounding it
The drill is to call out a number and a hand
LeA 2
Right 3
Right 1
LeA 3
Etc…
“Right 1” “LeA 3”

7. Ball Handling 5
Combo ball handling drill. Combine movement with the staQonary drills
From the baseline go to free throw line‐jump stop and do leg circles
Go to midcourt‐ jump stop and do spider rouQne
Get to far free throw line‐ jump stop and do push‐pull
Go to baseline‐ jump stop and do figure 8
Turn around and do the same sequence back
Coaches can add a lot of variety to this drill

8. Ball Handling Backing Up
This is a ball handling skill that few players pracQce.
Player with ball goes hard at defender/coach. Stops, backs up with 3 dribbles
and then a[acks the defender. Make sure that players pracQce with their
weaker hand.

9. Ball Handling Two Balls 1
Working with 2 balls adds another dimension to the game.
Start with
Basic 2 ball dribbling
Go down to level 1, very low
Then up to 3 then to 2
At level 2, alternate
Alternate and then cross‐over
Pix of very low, pix of very high

10. Ball Handling Two Balls 2
This combines the levels of dribbling with
the balls in each hand. The coach will call
out a 2‐digit number. The first digit is for
your right hand and the second digit is for
your leA hand. For example
13 is level 1, (really low) for your right hand
and level 3 (really high and pounded hard)
for your leA.
You can add a crossover in as well. The
coach calls out numbers 11, 12,13, 21,22,
23,31,32,33 every few seconds.

11. Ball Handling Two Balls 3 Rhythym
Allow the players can establish their own rhythm. Have them change it every
15‐20 seconds. Have the players dribble through their favorite song or to the
music that is being played on the sound system

12. Ball Handling Two Balls 4
Start with push‐pull with both hands. Make
sure that hands are completely behind the
ball when you are pushing and in front
when pulling it back.
Add the cross‐over and then switch and
cross‐over.

13. Ball Handling Two Balls 5
The final porQon is “High‐low”. If the coach calls out, “Right”, the ball in the
right hand goes high while the leA hand is very low. Coach calls out, “LeA”,
the leA ball goes high while the right ball goes low. Coach calls out right‐leA
every few seconds.

14. Ball Handling Two Balls with MoQon 1
This is a li[le bit more advanced. Go about
half speed.
• Regular dribble up and back
• Crossover up and back
Head up
Eyes forward looking for team mates

15. Ball Handling Two Balls with MoQon 2
The layer then goes up and back
doing push‐pull.
Coaching point is to see how how
even the balls are. Players usually
favor a parQcular side. Coaches
need to point this out to the player
if they see one side being favored.

16. Ball Handling Two Balls with MoQon 3
The player now drives forward for a
couple of bounces, stops and takes a few
steps back. Go up and back.
AAer doing this series at half speed, have
the player now try this at Full Speed.
Coaching point is to watch the posture
and to see if the head and chin are up.

17. Ball Slamming Drill
Trap Drill‐ This is an example of over‐training. Player slams the ball down and
traps it low with opposite hand. Make sure you switch hands.