In this experience, I used to go to play basketball daily for around 1.5-2 hours to maintain daily physical activity for good health and fitness. Basketball is a game that requires proper team work, stamina, speed, endurance and individual ability to be able to play the game. Also, continuity was important to keep practise and maintain the skills that were developed for gameplay.

Drills – Lay up (for rebound and shooting), free throw practice (shooting), passing and shooting (coordination in game and shooting), different types of passes (overhead pass, chest pass, bounce pass), shooting from the 3 pointer line, different types of dribbling (normal dribbling, low dribbling, hand switch while dribbling) and defence practice in gameplay.

LO1: Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth

This experience helped me gain an insight into my strengths and weaknesses, while making team strategies, it is easier when teammates help reflect each other’s performance in the game and the positioning and role in the game helped me understand what I can do best. Having awareness about my strengths gives me motivation to sharpen them more and maintain them, similarly, my weaknesses gave motivation to work more on certain skills and get better at them to improve my gameplay. After knowing my weakness, I tried working more on it so that it does not hold me back from playing well.

LO4: Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences

It was necessary to commit to daily practice of this game as, in order to get better at the game it is necessary to keep in practice the skills that have been learnt and improved so that further growth is possible. Most of the times, due to assignments and daily routines it is hard to adjust timings with everything else and since the time to practice was at night, by the end of the day I was mostly tired. However, since I like playing sports and, maintaining fitness and the skills that were learnt through practice was very important for me, I liked showing commitment to this activity. Without commitment I would’ve lost practice which would have hampered with the new and developed skills.

LO5: Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively

As a team game basketball requires a lot of coordination and teamwork for which all team members have to be open to working collaboratively. The team frame mainly depends on specialisation in specific skills like shooting, defence, passing, etc. and the coordination between the team members in the game. Since this game requires proper team work and everyone is willing to work for it, it was easier to work collaboratively. Without team work, it would be difficult for the team to score at all, whereas, making strategies with the team according to every individual’s strength can help the team win, if all the members work together using all the skills that are required.