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This time I will show you 38 shooting tips of Stephen Curry's shooting form. After learning these techniques, you will almost know how to shoot a basketball like Steph, and make your shooting much more accurate and stable. The tips include 15 basic tips, 13 advanced tips and 10 professional tipes. The basic tips you can train it when you just start learn palying basketball, the advanced tips need you have a good base, always after you playing 3-5 years to learn. The professional tips always need you at least played 10 years. First, I will show you the basic tips: 1. Soft Hand Shooting Type

There are three main hand types for basketball shooting, hard hand, soft hand and medium hard hand. Soft hand is a progressive shooting hand type, it is fit for long shot very much. Soft hand need your whole shooting hand relaxed, and all parts of you hand is close to the ball tightly.

So there are no space from your palm and the ball. This is contradictory for the traditional theory, the traditional shooting hand should have some space between the ball and palm:

That just because the three point line appeared after 1980s, the soft hand type is just a evolutionary technique for long shot. But the tradition is hard to change, so Stephen Curry always said his shooting hand type is wrong, that's funny, NBA best basketball shooter shoot a ball with wrong hand type, are you kidding? Actually there are many great NBA players shoot with soft hand type, they are John Stockton, Steve Nash, Tracy McGrady, etc.

The feature of soft hand is the five fingers are closed almost paralleled, the fingers always curved, and the wrist is relaxed, after shooting, the shooting hand always swing up and down. 2. Shooting From Shoulder

This is an important basic technique, the instinct of human always want to release the ball from your eyes, make your eyesight and the release force in the same line.

But is is not accord with the motion of your body.

Our body just like a machine, because of body structure, there are only one way to release the ball in a perfect straight line, that is release the ball from shoulder. Just as Stephen Curry's one hand drill, our shooting hand is on the side of our head, in the front view, almost on our shoulder.

When we release the ball, our shooting arm will straight in the straight force line naturally. 3. Release Ball with Parallel Fingers

When we shoot a ball with hard hand, our fingers always be separated in long distance, so some short fingers are hard to nail the ball when releasing.

But our five fingers of soft hand are closed just like parallel, so when we release the ball, all fingers can roll the ball in a same straight line, the shooting force is more agglomerate. 4. Release Ball with Fingertips

Soft hand shooting form is with a whole hand release technique, but the fingertips nails ball skill is also basic and important.

The five fingertips nail the ball will control the direction of your shooting force. No matter what hand types you shoot with, the five fingertips skill are all basic. 5. Parallel Feet Standing

If we do not train this, with the human instinct, our feet will always outward when we are standing. That will not good for jump, the power from two legs will be emanative.

So we should make our two feet parallel, right foot a little in front, and the right foot toward to the center of hoop, make it to be your new instinct, and then you will have a good base. 6. Heels Contact Ground

Before we start to shoot, we must stand stably, many famous basketball players said shooting force from the ground. The standing tech is just as the foundation for a building, if we cannot stand stably, though you have top level hand skill of release, it still will reduce your shooting accuracy.

Heels contact the ground, not jump with heels, just when you stand before to shoot, your heels just stick to the ground, and then jump naturally. Some players always jump when only tiptoes contact ground for the basic shooting training, but this skill is just for catch and shoot, it will make you jump quicker in game, not good for base. 7.Aim To The Center Of The Hoop

Where and How to aim? The front of the hoop or the back of the hoop. This is always discuss by many players, and indeed this is very important for our shooting training. Stephen Curry has been give an answer, that is front of the hoop. This is a precise description, because if we jump high or shoot a long three, we cannot see the back of the hoop. Actually we need to imagine a 3D environment, and judge the distance to the center of the hoop. When we aim to the front of the hoop, actually we just aim to the center of the hoop. 8. Low Elbow Release Point

Before 1980s, NBA was no 3 point line, so the basketball players always lift the ball very high to shoot, avoid block. So at that time, the most player shoot a ball with high elbow release point.

But after the 3 point line appeared, the high elbow release point was no longer fit for the long shot. Then many low elbow shooters start to lead NBA, the representative player is Michael Jordan. Most person always think Michael Jordan was shooting with high elbow release point, because last years MJ's jump shot always with high elbow release point.

But actually, Michael Jordan's shooting form is low elbow, he trained this release point in college, that is very important base, then Michael Jordan dominated the NBA.

Stephen Curry is still shoot with low elbow release point, and he even make it lowest, so he lost the shooting height, but his shot can get the longest distance and highest arc. 9. Left Hand Press Ball

Some players think Stephen Curry's shooting form is two hands shot, but it is terrible wrong, Steph Has been explained it many times that his shooting form is one hand. Left hand is aided, it always on the side of the basketball. But it is not exact lateral, you need put your left hand a little upward and forward. Then your left fingertips can press the ball to your palm and wrist, make your wrist under the center of the ball, your right hand will on the right position to release the ball. 10. Vertical Right Forearm

When you lift the ball to release point, if your right forearm almost vertical naturally in front view, you will easy to take a shot with straight shooting force.

Michael Jordan is a great basketball player, almost all basketbll coaches and players recognize he is the best basketball player of the NBA history. His technology is up to the top level, his hang jump shot, his footwork, his block, his dunk, his steal, his read game ability are all top level.

Especially his shooting form, almost perfect, low elbow shooting form base, parallel arms, straight shooting force, vertical right forearm and perfect balance in the hang time. Many players just learn some points from his shooting form, and then got a great success, such as Kobe Bryant and Kawhi Leonard. This time I will show you a secret of Michael Jordan's last shot. Many person thought the last shot made Bryon Russell slipped was an accident, but actually, this was evolved from another successful slippped case. Michael Jordan has a good habit, he always research his game video after the game. He developed many undefendable technologies from the games, such as his fade away, his hang shot and his footwork. The clutch shot is the most important, he can shoot and score face to Bryon Russell without crossover. But of course, it was not enough. When the game 4 of the NBA finals, it comes. Michael Jordan catch the ball, break through Bryon Russell, and then, crossover, watch here, Bryon Russell slipped:

And then, jump shot, a frontal shot, dropped in. This was a successful slipped offensive case, when MJ researched his game video, he must observe this slip, and try his best to evolve it, make the set-piece perfect, make it undefendable. And we know, he did it. We always said: Chance favors only the prepared mind. That is. In the last game of 1998, the last shot appeared, the same position, the same defender, the chance was coming:

This article I will share you Stephen Curry's professional sideways shooting skill. When I was young, many traditional basketball coach said that we must face to the basket, after shooting we should keep the front of our body facing the basket. Basketball shooting technique has been evolved, we all want to improve our shooting ability, we want master the progressive basketball skills, it will help us to dominate the game. In recent years, the basketball shooting skill is changed, we always need shoot further than before, so the old shooting style is no longer suitable for today's basketball game.

Many basketball players try to improve their shooting skills, such as Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tracy Mcgrady, Carmelo Anthony, Klay Thompson(Front Shot), Kyrie Irving and Stephen Curry. They are all great shooters and their shooting style all conform to the straight force shooting theory. In these shooting styles, there are one feature they all have, that is sideways shooting style. If you insist on basketabll shooting training for many years, you must want to know why the great basketball palyers shoot so well, such as Michael Jordan and Stephen Curry, why their shooting are better than the others.

The main reason is they master the most progressive shooting skills, the feature of this shooting style is sideways. Why they all shooting with the sideways shooting form, why the sideways shooting form is the most conform to the straight force shooting theory, why this shooting form make our shooting easier and further and more accurate. Now let me show you the details about Stephen Curry sideways shooting form. Sideways shooting has three advantages.

The 1st advantage is sideways shooting form free your right arm (Lefty players is left arm). If you train your shooting skills with front shooting form in a long time, you will find your arm bone and your shoulder has a little friction, it will hinder your shooting. If you shoot with sideways shooting form, you will feel your right arm is completely free, your shooting will be more comfortable.

The 2nd advantage is sideways shooting is easy to make more force to release the ball. When we want to make a long shot or even a super long shot, our forearm and arm always need the smallest angle. When we make the set point we will find that our hand and the ball will hit our forehead. We can hold the ball higher or shoot with sidaways shooting form. Almost all of us choose the sidaways shooting form just because this set point make our shooting very stable and comfortable.

The 3rd advantage is the sidaways shooting form is conform to the straight force shooting theory. When we make set point with sidaways shooting form, our elbow, forearm, arm, wrist, hand,eye sight line and our body all in a same line. This will help us to shoot the ball with a perfect straight force. Our shooting will be more accurate than front shooting form. In fact there are two sideways shooting types, the 1st type is whole body sideways shooting form, the 2nd is upper body sideways shooting form.

Stephen Curry's shooting is upper body sideways shooting form, so does Michael Jordan. Why the great basketball players all shoot with upper body sideways shooting form? The main reason is the upper body sideways shooting form is easier to jump up than the whole body sideways shooting form. So we can find when Stephen Curry shoot, his two feet and legs are similar to the front shooting form, but the upper body is completely conform to the sideways shooting form.

Look on the side, Stephen Curry's shoulder is almost in front of his chin, after shooting, his shoulder will all in front of his chin. His body is swivel in the air just because the upper body sideways shooting force, so we also call it aerial swivel shooting form.

This time I will share you many new categories about basketball shooting. All the categories from my 10 years basketball shooting technical research summary, and I have published on my websites Shotnba.com and Shotur.com. This video is very important, after you understant all the categories, you can choose the best shooting type which fit for your basketball playing style, and you will easilly to know the other videos of mine, because almost all my later videos will metion these shooting categories. Soft Hand Shooting & Tough Hand Shooting

The feature of soft hand shooting type is your hand will swing up and down after shooting, you must relax your wrist and whole your hand. Look on the side your hand is convex. Soft hand type for the long shot has a good performance and just need the release force as less as you can. The feature of tough hand shooting type is your hand will be motionless after your shooting, you should make much force with your wrist. Look on the side your hand is concave. Tough hand type is good for perimeter shot and hang shot, especially good for the clutch shot, just because your muscle is more tight, your tough shooting will be more stable. Forward Release & Upward Release ( Forward Shooting & Upward Shooting )

Forward release we can also call it forward shooting. This shooting type is easy to grasp and good enough for perimeter shot with normal arc or even low arc. Just release the ball with forward force to the hoop. Upward release we also call it upward shooting. This shooting type is a little difficult, but if you grasp the skills, you will good at long shot with high arc or even shooting from downtown. The upward release type include many different tips, in another word, we have many methods to shoot a ball with upward force. We need a high arc for our shooting because it will make our long shot more accurate. Shooting from head & Shooting from shoulder

Shooting from head is relatively easy to grasp, the ball released from your eye sight, and you can just use your wrist and hand to release. The two arms are oblique, you can easy to make good balance in jumpshot in the air. This shooting type is good for close-in shot, but because the shooting main release force from the wrist, your long shot will be not stable enough because your force is difficult to accord the straight force theory. Shooting from shoulder is a little difficult to master, because your release force and your eye sight not in the same line, so you need a good aiming skill. Shooting from shoulder is accord to the straight force shooting theory, your wrist and your fingers and your arm all in the same line, so your shooting skills will be good enough for long shot. Almost all professional basketball players shoot with this type. Standing Shot & Shot Jump & Jump Shot

Standing Shot is a basic skill, just like free throw, our feet not move or jump, just shoot without legs movement. Shot Jump has two subcategories: Basic Shot Jump and Advanced Shot Jump. Shot Jump is also need jump, but we first make force to shoot and then jump, so we call this shooting type is shot jump. Basic shot jump is release the ball before you jump. The jump force just help you release the ball. Many tough hand players shooting training with this shooting type. Advanced shot jump is release the ball just when you jump up or even just after you jump up. The release force all start before you jump. The cadence of this shooting type is very similar to the jump shot. Many professional basketball players shooting training with this shooting type. Jump Shot also has two subcategories: Regular Jump Shot and Hang Jump Shot Regular Jump Shot is we release the ball before we jump to the maximum height. This shooting type just make less force to shoot the ball so we can always make a super long shot with this shooting type. Hang Jump Shot is we start make force to release the ball just after we jump to the maximum height. This shooting type is very stable for perimeter shot and clutch shot. Front Shot & Sideways Shot

Front Shot is your body face to the basket, and after shooting your body almost still face to the basket. This shooting type is easy to grasp. Sideways Shot type is before you release the ball, you body is sideways, not face to the basket, after shooting, your body always be more sideways. This shooting type can free your right arm, so you can make more force to release the ball.( For righty players, lefty players will be free your left arm ) Low Elbow Shot & High Elbow Shot

Low Elbow Shot is your elbow lower than your shoulder or even in the same height when you make the set point. This shooting type always shoot with less force and very stable for jump shot. High Elbow Shot is your elbow higher than your shoulder when you make set point. This shooting type is difficult to block, and you will get more self-confidence, but not very stable and easy to make your upper part of the body excessive backwards. Upward Jump Shot & Forward Jump Shot & Backward Jump Shot

All these shots types we talk about are the normal shooting, not because the defence make your shooting posture changed or even fadeaway. Upward Jump Shot is after you shoot, your bady just jump upward and land almost to the same area. Forward Jump Shot is after you shoot, you will find you just jump forward and your body land in front of your shooting start position. Backward Jump Shot is after you shoot, you will find your body is moving backward, that just because the shooting force inertia. Elbow Inward Shot & Elbow Outward Shot

When you face to the basket, if your elbow more inside than your shoulder or just in front of your shoulder when you make the set point posture, that is Elbow Inward Shot. If your elbow more outside than your shoulder when you make the set point posture, that is Elbow Outward Shot. Borrowed-Force Shooting & Non-Borrowed-Force Shooting