


Balancing – Disturbing with Hands, Feet & Ball
This is one of my favorite games I play with players from all ages to develop balancing. To be able to move athletically on the court, you need to have good balance and strong feet, freedom in your ankle mobility, stability in your knees and flexion in the hip. All of...
A Season of Trying Sh*t Out
This post is written by Tanner Brightman, new partner at Elite Athletes and youth coach at Elite Academy. Tanner will joins us physically in Belgium as soon as COVID measures allow so and has been part of our behind-the-scenes working since beginning the first quarter...Four phases we progress drills at our camps
Here’s a post by Joerik Michiels on how we teach basketball skills in a dynamic way. This post was shared in September on our online coaches platform. “There are four phases I use in my way of thinking of developing and progressing a drill. Phase A: On Air...
Coach Olivier Speaker at The Embodiment Conference
Our athletic director Olivier Goetgeluck will be speaking at the upcoming Embodiment Conference on how we run our athletic development at Elite Athletes. You can sign up for the conference for free here. Here’s more about the topics Olivier will discuss....
Most players think coaches talk too much
Here’s a post that Joerik recently wrote on our coaches platform about a feedback he has often received as a skills trainer. We try to keep our coaching interventions to a minimum. Players learn mostly by playing not by listening to lectures. with limited...
Skill Stations at Elite Europe Camp
During Elite Europe camp I led one of the stations in the U12-U14 bubble. The players had 90’ of basketball practice in the morning. We did a short warm-up (with and without the ball), three stations of 20’ each with a three to four minute break in between. We did the...
“Basketball is only the second thing we try to do.”
Joerik recently got interviewed by one of our online Coaches Platform members William Lo of Basketball Performance Podcast. “Joerik Michiels is the founder of Elite Athletes basketball in Belgium. With a burning desire to do everything in his power to elevate...
Athletic Development at Mini Basket Forum Strasbourg
In the video above I am teaching at the annual Mini Basket Forum held in Strasbourg, France 2018. I was asked to work with a small group of kids to show some of the methods and ideas I use to support physical development in young basketball players. As you will see in...
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