Ethan Khoza explains that elite ball handlers like Kyrie Irving and Steph Curry owe much of their success to movement and footwork—specifically the ability to start and stop and to keep the ball close to the body while moving. He introduces movement-driven ball-handling concepts (e.g., drop forward, drop cross, drop through) and says he will demonstrate/explain these moves and provide a workout to practice them.
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Think of players like Kyrie Irving or Steph Curry, guys who we consider some of the best ball handlers ever. And you can watch and see they clearly have ball control. But what really makes them great and what really allows them to make these spectacular highlight plays with their ball handling is their ability to move. They move well. And because of that, and because they have the ability to keep the ball up with their body when they move, they're great. They're some of the best of all time. Now, your ability to move starts with your footwork. So it's really important that we, we develop this ability. So understanding starts and stop, which is as simple as it sounds, right? So starts, your ability to go from stopped to going, your ability to go from not moving to moving, that's. That's what a start is. But we can access that, we can get through that through different types of forward. So drop forward difference with the drop options like a drop cross or a drop through are great ways for us to get from slow to fast. I'm going to explain exactly what these terms are. I'm going to give you guys actually a workout you can do that goes through this stuff as well. So you can start to add this to your game.