Tom "Con-man" Connors is considered a street basketball legend and one of the best street basketball players in the world. Not only an urban sport star throughout the globe. Tom entertains millions with his basketball skill and antics from the centre stage to the rugged street basketball courts. Conman appears in All Star and exhibition games and featured in his own TV shows worldwide. Con-man has developed an established portfolio since the beginning of his career, a fully sanctioned Sporting Champion and the face of UK basketball, a multi Guinness World Record holder with 17 basketball world records and a European street basketball champion. In various fan polls over his career "Conman" has consistently been voted in the top 5 streetball players in the world.
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This is Tom, the Conman Connors professional street basketball player and multiple Guinness
World Record holder.
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I'm here on this basketball court today, it's not my normal basketball court, but they still
give me free facilities.
I can't complain, people.
Okay, so we got into some streetball stuff already, some freestyle, we've broken down
some moves, how to be flashy.
This time we're going to get into a couple of more shooting bits and pieces, a bit more
of the fundamentals, because to be a great streetball player, guys, or be entertaining,
you have to learn the fundamentals first, okay?
This tutorial is a jump shot coming off your left leg, to create space.
I'm 5'10", so unless you're 6'10", this is not for you, but if you're around 5'6", 6'3",
6'4", these are the go-to moves that are going to get you buckets, all right?
It's all about, when you shoot a jump shot, you're shooting a jump shot here, it's perfect.
Your position is perfect, your shoulders are facing the basket, everything's lovely about
that, okay?
We're going to mess that right up.
As you're dribbling, okay, through the legs or whatever, we're now going to stop and jump
off, almost like a fade-away, left-sided jump shot.
Sounds crazy, but this is a tutorial, let's get straight into it.
Okay, so we're going to be coming down the basketball court, so you're going to be here,
we're going to come off our left, step back, and jump off our left leg.
It was a fade-away coming off our left leg.
Okay, so that's pretty much what we're going to be breaking down, guys, okay?
It doesn't matter which way you do it, okay, it doesn't matter, you step here, it's a fade-away
off the left jump, sorry, left leg fade-away.
Doesn't matter where you are, doesn't matter where you are.
So you could be here, but then you're going to jump here.
You could be coming down here, you're going to jump here.
We're going to go off our left leg.
How to pull off a jump shot off the left leg, fade-away, whatever, man.
Doesn't really matter where you are, okay?
So if you're here, okay, being 5'10", I need that extra space when I pull up a jump shot.
It's a go-to move, okay?
So you're here, you pull back, doesn't matter, in, okay?
You're looking for, but not only just in, out, or let's take a normal jump shot.
We're going to go in, out, fade off the left.
Can't hit every one, okay?
Fade off the left, never miss two in a row, okay?
So that's what we're trying to accomplish here.
How do we break that down?
Because this is going to get you buckets, and how you turn this into a streetball move,
you know, it's more about could you be flashy, you know, coming up to the defender, you know,
break him with something, and then step back, then jump shot.
Maybe you could do that.
You might be doing streetball moves before you get to that point,
but you still have to finish with a bucket.
It's a really, really, really cool move, guys.
It's a go-to move, it's something that if you learn,
you can actually score a huge amount of points off this, okay?
So we're going to be doing, we're going to try and teach you guys in and around this area,
because it's a little bit easier to hit the shot.
Effectively, you could do it anywhere.
Three-point is a great one, okay?
Okay, so once again, let's go.
Dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, left, left foot, okay?
So as you're dribbling down, okay, it's a step.
Doom, doom.
Do it this way.
Through the legs, through the legs, through the legs, through the legs, in, out.
Then you fade away and jump shot.
We're looking for the step and the fade.
Okay, here we go again, guys.
Through the legs, through the legs, through the legs, in, out, fade.
Okay, slow motion.
Let's try it a little bit faster, so you get the concept, okay?
One, two, three, in, out, fade.
A little tiny bit faster.
You'll obviously probably pull this off, you know,
if not faster than that, obviously, in a game.
How to create space off a left-legged jump shot.
There's lots of ways of perhaps saying what it is.
Let's move the camera.
Okay, let's try it from this angle, guys.
We're coming in from this angle, okay?
So through the legs, through the legs, through the legs, in, out, step, fade.
Slow, speed up a little bit.
Okay, one, two, okay, three, in, out, fade.
Once you get the repetition going, okay, one, two, three, in, out, fade.
Let's try it from this angle, okay?
So one, two, three, step, jump back, fade away on your left leg, okay?
So left leg, push back, arms go up for a jump shot.
All in one motion now, all in one motion.
One, slow, three, four, step, back, jump shot off the left.
What the left does is create extra space.
It's better than just a normal jump shot.
Trust me, it's better than a normal jump shot.
It's just hard to master.
Okay, let's end it on as fast as you can go, okay?
Got a defender here, step, bam, got a jump shot here.
Okay, so guys, there you go.
It's a quick tutorial, but it's a way to show you that
with fundamentals, okay, learning these little techniques of how to create space
will ultimately help you become a better streetball player
and more of an entertaining basketball player on a basketball court, okay?
So like I said, learn how to shoot properly,
get your shoulders straight to the hoop, get your feet right,
get everything structured, and then you can start playing around
with some fadeaways and some bits and pieces.
You can always be fancy, okay, as you come towards the defender,
but obviously that move still stays the same.
You've just finished it off nice.
Okay, hope you enjoyed the tutorial.
We're going to get into a lot more stuff like this,
but obviously mainly streetball on my streetball channel,
but there's going to be, you know,
I've got a level two professional basketball coach qualification
that we're going to be getting into fundamentals as well
because I'm trying to teach everybody that, you know,
there's lots of different elements to becoming a streetball player.
You can't just do a trick and then just think,
hey, I'm super sick.
You've got to be able to play.
You've got to be able to score.
You've got to be able to become a great basketball player as well.
So hope you enjoyed it.
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Thanks for watching.