We continue on this weekly character segment which consists of a tour of the ABB affiliated clubs, in which we will show the work done in their Mini-Basketball schools. Today: Club La Skirt.
MINI BASKETBALL IN THE SKIRT
The cold is no excuse for the boys and girls from La Falda who train every week in La Caldera to learn the fundamentals of Mini Basketball. The red band institution is in the process of growth and restructuring and its initial categories are a sample of that growth.
“At Escuelita we have approximately 35 boys and girls and we have two teachers: Diego Conti, who is the coach, and Sebastián Ranieri, the assistant. In Pre Mini we have 15 stable boys and girls and I am in charge of it, like the Mini Basketball. We are also forming a Mini Feminine, which is in the process of development and is in charge of Catalina Curto, who is a physical education teacher»says Ignacio Elorriaga.
«La Falda is a club that is in the process of rebuilding its basketball project. This is my fourth year at the institution. We had to do a job from scratch, because many boys and girls had left. We had to make a recruitment plan and work with the elements we had at the time.
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La Falda began a few years ago, under a new leadership, this reconstruction process of its basketball project that included the return to competition in the Ascenso superior basketball. Its initial categories also needed a refoundation and hard recruitment work to be able to bring boys and girls closer to the club once again.
«With the boys and girls we had, we started a very slow process, so that those who left come back to the club and new ones come, knowing that here we were going to provide them with a place where they can practice, exercise and have fun»indicates Elorriaga.
“This ant work is something that is not seen with the naked eye, but little by little it is bearing fruit, despite the limitations we have for being a small club focused on the social aspect”.
«This year we have many boys and girls who are starting out in the sport, with many motor problems, coordination problems and understanding of the basic issues of basketball. Little by little, we are working so that these questions are incorporated and adding key skills for the sport.
Ignacio Elorriaga in full training
The diagnosis of the Mini Basketball coaches is a meeting point; sedentary lifestyle, digital distractions, its increase with the COVID-19 pandemic and the step back in coordination and motor skills is perhaps the number one point to combat from teaching.
«The great limitations that we detect in La Falda go through the sedentary lifestyle of today’s life, the temptations of digital pleasures (video games, cell phones and others) that threaten coordination and physical preparation at a key age such as that of Mini Basketball »Ignatius says.
“For this reason, we try to work on exercises to counteract these issues, make them aware of their bodies and learn the sport, always with the objective of the club that passes more through personal forms than the competition itself.”
«Although our objectives in Mini Básquet is to train basketball players, we do it thinking about the collective, in the incorporation of group values, camaraderie, as a whole. We want to train people with sporting values, that is the most important thing for us».
In a city like Bahía Blanca, where the realities are different and the contexts where the clubs are located change according to the social and economic context, the objectives of the institutions vary substantially. In the case of an institution like La Falda this is appreciated and work is done based on this.
Pre Mini 2022 in The Skirt
“Complementing the values that the boys and girls bring from home, with solidarity, camaraderie, individual and collective responsibility, are things that are part of basketball and that are absorbed in Mini Basketball for life and sport”says Elorriaga.
«We have to provide a good educational service in the sports area, that is the main thing for us as trainers. Basketball is a complex sport to learn, which takes a long time to train, but which is accompanied by all these issues that are as important as individual and collective technique.
“We want the boys and girls who go through the La Falda Mini Basketball to be their best version and to be a nice experience for them to come to train every afternoon and compete on Saturdays with their peers.”
With the clear idea that Mini Basketball is the base on which the clubs are based and on which the competitive and educational future of each institution is formed, it is given its distinctive mark with an eye on those objectives that are valued. as fundamental.
Mini Basketball The Skirt 2022
«From my point of view in Mini Basketball, the understanding of the role of the boy/girl in the group, the respect for the rival and his/her teammates, the observance of sports rules, the care of the elements with which we work are fundamental»says Elorriaga
“In addition, you have to train sports in terms of their self-esteem and learn to solve game situations from the individual and collective. Deep down, they are things that are going to serve him for life, in other areas and not just on a basketball court.
«The greatest satisfaction I have as a teacher is that the boys/girls nurture their love for the club and the shirt they represent, regardless of the results. That they love their shirt, that they love what they do and that they feel passion for it. Let them feel that La Falda is their home.
The individual and collective technical part has its place within the teaching of the sections detailed by the coach. The Mini Basketball does not stop having its hard instruction from the technical point of view and in that sense in La Falda they also have it clear.
«Technically, I place a lot of emphasis on shooting, I consider it to be something very important so as not to drag vices in years of training, as well as the values of the collective game in terms of playing and sharing the ball».
«Dribbling, passing, shooting, are issues that we plan and guide to do it with the teachers in a coordinated manner and following the guidelines that we consider to be appropriate, taking into account the context that we have in Mini Básquet and in La Falda ».
“In this reality that we live in La Falda, we try to work with a lot of inventiveness to be able to compensate for the lack of space and tools with specific exercises to improve coordination and motor skills, which is why physical education plays a key role in this. I would like the kids in Mini Basketball to have more hours of training of this type, but we have to use what we have intensively so that the results are the best»Ignacio closed.
La Falda advances in its objective of reconstruction and seeks, in the long term, to be able to increase its training base with what has been done in Mini Basketball. Steadily, the red band set looks to the future, supported by the work of the present.
