Posted 01 October 2020,

I have been working with Mark Clay, a personal basketball coach I found through CoachUp – a site for connecting coaches and clients. We have been working on ball handling and shooting fundamentals, and it seems to be improving my game considerably (to the extent that a 71-year old B-Ball Wannabe’s game can be improved). Here are some videos from my September 28, 2020 session (that’s Mark in the background of the first video). Mark has been super helpful and supportive, even though I’m absolutely certain that I’m not his (or anyone’s) idea of a hot NBA prospect ;-).

23 March 2021 Update:

I had to suspend training with Mark last Fall, as I underwent right shoulder surgery to address a long-running pain issue. After a successful surgery and rehab, I re-connected with Mark to use up the last three sessions of the original 10-session package. Last night was the final session, and the following video shows the results. I have to say that I never thought I would be draining threes off the dribble, but that’s exactly what happened last night (well, there were a lot of misses, too, but….

And here’s a link to a much longer, hi-res record of the above session