Every year as a player graduates to the next level, the speed of the game gets quicker and the athletes need to make adjustments in their physical training, mental preparation, and playing style. Call it the fall ritual for school basketball. Recently, Applied Cognitive Engineering came out with a program that quickens a player's transition to the speed of the next level, and when used regularly, turn this transition process into their competitive advantage.
Amazing program that improves the Memphis Tigers Basketball team
Whose using IntelliGym Basketball training?
IntelliGym is a computer program that looks and plays like a video game, but it is actually a sophisticated training system. It was tested on players of all levels and age groups. The results: "Playing" with IntelliGym for 30 minutes once or twice a week, for only a few weeks, will provide a substantial improvement in skills like real-time decision making, anticipation, concentration, attention-span, team-play, fast response time and court sense.
Hall of Famer, 3 time NBA coach, and ESPN Basketball Analyst Hubbie Brown describes it this way. "In the game of basketball it is not about who runs faster or jumps higher, but about who makes better decisions and fewer mistakes. This is the first time I see a training tool that can actually improve game intelligence skills of basketball players. The Basketball IntelliGym is revolutionary."
In September 2007, this training program won Consumer Guides top rating in all review categories: value, performance, ease of use and features. The product won the prestigious "Best Buy" award with an overall "Excellent" (5 of 5) score.
Chris, a 14 year old from Tampa, describes his experience this way. "my turnovers went down from 4 to less than 1, and so was the number of times I was blocked ... my coach says I make smart decisions ... I now make better shot selections and dominate passes ... I would recommend the IntelliGym, cause it really works!"
Four years ago, two "crazy" scientists came up to me and asked if I'm interested in improving the way my players see the court. Improve their "reading" of the court and at the same time help them take better decisions on the court, all that by using a video game. At first it seemed very strange to me. How could a video game improve players on the court? Not only it sounded unrealistic, but also at the time it even sounded pretentious. Four years down the road I write to explain how those guys changed the way I look on the game and the way I train my players.
When we started this training program, my players were more skeptical than I was. But since they understood the need to improve, they gave the training program a chance. After 2-3 weeks they bought-in, loved the video game and much more important they improved. We ended up having one of the best years in our history. Since then I became a believer in cognitive training and I use this program with every player I work with.
Coach Gilad Shoham
Professional European League Coach
Coach of the Israeli National Team
Increase the speed at which you play basketball by picking up your copy of IntelliGym today. Click here for more details.
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