Third Camp

Camp 3

The last 2 day camp! This was the big group. 21 young ladies and 17 young men. Luckily for me Peter was around to help me. Peter took the young men and I took the young ladies.

I will ask Peter to write in his words his experience with the boys!

These young people are the same age as the kids from the village; however they are a little bit more “mature”. I assume it is because they are from the “city”!  They seemed more physically fit, though this does not mean that they are better than the village kids!

Day 1:

Session 1:

I began with the basics. Showing the ladies how to pass and catch properly, basically how to control the ball. They quickly caught on.

I then began showing them dribbling techniques and how to control the ball while dribbling.

Again, not an easy task considering the surface.  All in all a very productive Session 1.

Day 1:

Session 2:

As we deal with the heat, we begin session 2 with a little recap of the morning session.

Once we were back in basketball focus we went into shooting. I showed them the basic technique

of shooting the ball. It was very difficult for them to catch on and understand the form. They are use to shooting the ball with 1 hand or using the “set pass technique” as they do in volleyball!

Finally a few of them caught on and were very close to scoring, the others slowly caught on.

I explained to them the setback of not having a backboard and assured them that if they can hit the rim constantly that was a victory in my eyes. By the end of the day a high percentage of the group was hitting the rim constantly.

Day 2:

Session1:

We decided that due to the heat we would make 1 long session, approximately 2.5 hours – 3 hours.

We were late due to the fact that we went to the local cement company to hear about them donating some cement or at least giving a good price for cement to assure the 2 schools. They agreed to give a good price.

When we arrived it was a great feeling to see the girls working on the drills from the previous day!

We immediately picked up from the day before and we fine tuned their shooting skills. No more set shoots, the all showed good form! What a JOY!

We continued for a short time then we covered some defense tactics and the basic principles of how to guard the offense!

They caught on to this rather quickly so we went into 2on2, 3on3, and then 4on4.

As time was winding down and the heat was rising we broke out the uniforms and let them all play.

We made 4 teams for the girls and the guys had 2 teams (with subs).

It was important for them all to get the feel of playing a game.

We started with 2 of the girl’s team. It was a true pleasure to see the joy on their faces!

Even more so was to hear the girls watching yell out things for the players to remember.

The games went on for another hour or so, each game lasting about 15min.

So my time has come to an end here in Tororo Uganda. It has been an amazing time and moments that will stay with me forever.