Name: Playbook - Anthony Pugh - “2 Ball” ball handling
Uploaded: 2022-11-21T17:53:23.198Z
Duration: 15 min
Description: “2 Ball” ball handling

2 ball ball handling is one of my favorite warm ups. You commonly hear “you will never dribble two balls in a game” but that’s not why we do 2 ball ball handling. It’s more for hand-eye coordination, warming up and challenging yourself. 

My thought process was always, if you can dribble 2 balls, you should be a pro with one ball!

Bend your knees and get in an athletic position. Chest and chin are up and butt is down. Pound the balls to your knee level, really emphasizing the hard pounds. I always tell players, act as if you are trying to break the floor!

2 ball pounds

Working on “changing” levels here. 

First stand up, pound the balls as hard as you can to your shoulders, keeping your hand on top of the balls. 

Second, bend your knees and pound the balls to your knees (like we just did!) 

Lastly, bend your knees slightly more, and work on fingertips dribbles. Keep it around your ankles! 

*20 reps each “level”

2 ball pounds (High, knees, low)

Bend your knees and get in an athletic stance. Alternate pounding the balls. Work on your speed and keeping the balls at the same level, don’t let one get higher than the other.

2 ball alternating pounds

Bend and get in an athletic stance. Pound your right ball to your shoulder and fingertip tap the opposite ball. Working on hand-eye coordination. You may struggle with this at first, so as long as you can see the difference in heights between the balls, that’s a good start! But eventually get to fingertips and pounds.

Right ball high, left ball low

Right ball low, left ball high

“Glide” back and forth and swipe the balls side to side outside your knees. Think of these as “windshield” wipers on a car, side to side while keeping your feet still but moving your upper body side to side with the movement of the balls.

Side to side pounds

Start with the balls wide and outside your knees. Bring them in simultaneously without letting them hit each other. When you dribble back out, make sure it is wide and outside of your knees!

In & out

Bring your feet together and bend your knees. Bring the balls forward and backwards at the same time, keeping the dribble at knee level

Front to back

Bring your feet together and bend your knees. Alternate your dribble with one ball going forward and one ball going backward. 

The hardest part of this one is just getting started. Once you get started and get in a rhythm, you will be good to go!

Alternating front to back

Two hard pounds and cross the balls over. Alternate the direction of your crossover (I.e right to left crossover and left to right crossover) 

A good trick to remember this is to keep the same ball in front of you the entire time.

2 pounds - crossover

Two hard pounds and make a between the legs move. Alternate the direction of your between the legs (I.e right to left between and left to right between) 

A good trick to remember this is to keep the same ball in front of you the entire time.

2 pounds - between

Two hard pounds and make a behind the back move. Alternate the direction of your behind the back (I.e right to left behind and left to right behind)

A good trick to remember this is to keep the same ball in front of you the entire time.

“2 Ball” ball handling

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