There are millions of web pages dealing with basketball related topics. Which sites are right for an individual coach or player depends on what that person is looking for. It could also depend on the individual's level of understanding and skill for playing basketball or coaching basketball. A coach with some longevity in the game will probably not be interested in how to teach basic basketball fundamentals, while a coach starting out teaching young boys or girls will not require the sophistication of material the more experienced one will.

Basically, basketball coaches and players will have to sift through a myriad of sites to find answers for their particular sets of questions. The problem with many of the sites that I have investigated is that they mostly market the same basketball videos and DVDs. While they may have some good content to their sites, there is also a lot of redundancy making a lot for searchers to wade through.

When I entered the basketball coaching market, I wanted a niche that wasn’t being addressed in the same way, over and over. I teach differently than other coaches, so my focus was to bring my teaching methods to the marketplace, making them available to the segment that needs the most help—the new and lesser experienced coaches and players.

My name is Ronn Wyckoff, also known as Coach Ronn. I have been in basketball for over 50 years, first as a player, then as a coach, and later as an international consultant. The latter, I spent helping coaches and programs in a dozen countries to know what to do, how to teach, and in what sequence to teach things. During my coaching years, both in the
US and abroad, my teams won over 75% of their games—not because we had exceptional talent, but because we paid attention to details other coaches weren’t paying as much attention to. In my 15 year playing career, I averaged 22 points per game as a point guard, before the advent of the 3-point line.

I learned early on in my coaching career to pay attention to details in teaching my players strong basketball fundamentals and to play good and tenacious defense. This was to become my hallmark throughout my coaching career.

This attention to teaching the details of basic basketball play for the individual player, while weaving this into team play, and my heavy emphasis on teaching defense, is what I bring to the marketplace. All of this is brought together in my philosophy of teaching Basketball On A Triangle—the sides of the triangle being defense and fundamentals, with the base being discipline.

My focus niche is to bring to novice coaches and players my own original material that I have successfully taught all over the world (I conveniently left out the unsuccessful stuff).

First, I wrote a book, “Basketball On A Triangle: A Higher Level of Coaching and Playing” , which included everything I teach about the individual game. It’s now broken down into about 14 different e-Books, complete with all the detailed information I use in my teaching, along with hundreds of pictures and diagrams to clarify my teaching points. These books can be viewed at http://www.top-basketball-coaching.com/EBOOKS.html .

Next, I took the book, and faithfully following every chapter and detail, created a basketball coaching DVD, which was filmed during a 3-day coaching workshop I conducted in
Sarasota, FL. Over the course of three days, I taught six high school girls and boys every individual aspect of the game. Each skill began as if the players were new to the game and finished with advanced position specific skills. We filmed it all with a floor camera and an aerial camera. Then we went into the studio where we spent several hundred hours editing all that camera footage, created voice-overs using the exact text from the book, put in graphics and created a 2-disc, 4-hour teaching DVD that has been called, “one of the most highly detailed basketball teaching products on the market… and the tool every youth basketball coach needs to have.” More about the DVD can be found (along with FREE clips to view) at http://www.top-basketball-coaching.com/dvd.html .

I followed up the e-Books and DVD with my One-On-One Online Basketball Mentoring program for coaches and players, to help them understand the things I am teaching and to be able to use them correctly so they can move to a higher level of basketball skill.

If a person is just getting started as a youth basketball coach, whether coaching girls basketball or boys, where do they turn to get the information they'll need? If a coach has been working for a while in youth basketball, and wants to move forward, to take his or her teaching abilities to a higher level, what do they do and where do they go?

It is too bad that so often the best and most knowledgeable teachers are at the higher levels of basketball play, while all too often the youth are being guided (often misguided) by well-meaning coaches who don’t have much of a handle on teaching the game.

Most volunteer youth basketball coaches don’t have the time or opportunity to travel to the many coaching clinics, workshops, college seminars or training camps that are held all around the
United States. And, if a coach lives in another country where there isn’t much opportunity for coach training—what will they do there for the information they need? I spent years traveling to spread coaching knowledge in other countries. Now, I can virtually teach anyone who has a computer with my body of coaching know-how through my site, www.Top-Basketball-Coaching.com. Already I have reached coaches in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the UK and places in
Africa.

Most of those moms and dads, who perhaps got drafted to teach their kids’ teams, don't have the access to receive coaching education. A coaches mentor may be their solution. Here are the pages for my mentoring program: http://www.top-basketball-coaching.com/Mentoring.html for coaches, and http://www.top-basketball-coaching.com/ultimate_player.html for players.