Basketball is the sport I have indulged myself in for the past 6 years or since the start of my Middle School Years. Being a part of the basketball community I have always come across a range of development programs in which certain methods are used to enhance one’s skills in order to perform better. Since in the start I was unaware of the sport’s component, eventually attaining knowledge was my goal. As and when I attained the same and eventually I concluded to make my own development program for myself. In this, I tried to involve a range of components of the sport in order to develop upon considering each should be developed to the extensive mark. (LO1,2,3,4) The CAS experience involved identifying strengths and weaknesses by noting them down and taking me further. As I explored them, now the next step consisted of planning the program and how it should be executed, balancing my daily life and academics. Knowing the strengths and weaknesses helped me to organize the plan in a certain manner so that I work on all the required components in order to perform better. Hence, my weakness seemed to switch position to the controller, dribbling sessions were inculcated more often in the workout to overcome this weakness. The challenges involved repeated facing failures which lead to constant emotion to give up as the controlling doesn’t integrate with my position. Since the start I haven’t been asked to play the position due to my height and other sheets which allowed me to be a great base position player. By undertaking this challenge, I am glad to explore myself through a certain range of challenges and attain the point where I can play as a controller for my team. The skill learning was very important as it gives additional flexibility to me and my team in order to play with different team combinations. I have always known the skill to dribble but didn’t evolve with variations but as the program is used for development I eventually end up developing the skill and started feeling a part of the team more than usual. Though I stayed as organized as I was throughout the CAS experience, it just made me organize and jiggle more stuff within my schedule. The planning seemed to have more difficulty than initiating the plan as I had to research a lot and keep components in such a manner that all of them are focussed respectively. Though this set of skills was known to me, I, in particular, enhanced them during this era, but when the planning has been done and not it would be easier for me to plan the same in the future for any such activity. Planning and initiating the activities are very important in order to attain the most out of every activity you get indulged in as you will stay organized and it doesn’t do any harm. Commitment and perseverance were highly required throughout the experience in order to get highly successful results such as enhanced skills. The regular practice did make me feel dizzy and tired at the start but as the body got accumulated it worked fine lately. Being strict on the schedule is highly required in order to observe gains for a lasting period. It stays easy to commit to the things which you are interested in and hence staying committed to the basketball development program was not much difficult for me. 

Achieving success at the end of the experience is never a bad sign for someone, but dealing with the same might affect our future. Disciplined following of the development program helped me to enhance my skills or a period of time I am practicing the skills in a regular manner. Many of us might see success as an end to the story of that particular field. Achieving success once doesn’t mean that the impacts of the same would last longer, hence once I achieved I promised myself to engage myself with other such routines in which I am able to work upon my basketball skills and perform better in the future.