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hey everyone if you're coaching an aaou
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travel basketball team you need to make
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sure that you have the correc size
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basketball for your age or grade group
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um you this is important because you
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don't want to practice with a big ball
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if in fact you're going to be using a
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small ball during aaou tournaments um
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the good thing is there's only two
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different size basketballs that AAA AA
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uses um but it's important to get it
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right and that's what this video is all
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about today I'm going to just simply go
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over this is a quick video what size
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basketball each age group um is required
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to use during a tournaments I'm going to
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put a link in the description below
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where I'm getting this information from
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so for those of you who are interested
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it's right out of the aou uh rule book
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um really easy to find just click that
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link do a quick quick control F you know
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maybe hit like size or um or whatever
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and you it'll bring you down to it it'll
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also be a good uh link for you to check
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out um if you are playing aou because
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there's a lot of rules in there that I
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want to make sure you're familiar with
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if you're interested in more videos
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about AA a aaou rules put a uh a comment
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down below and I'll start making some
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more um videos on that topic so we're
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going to going to jump right into this
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super simple um for your you know seven
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and under age group all the way up to
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your um 12 years old and
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under that's going to be a size 28 and2
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uh circumference basketball if you don't
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know where that's at if you're going to
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buy this online you know just look for a
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282 uh the size 28 and 1/2 um
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circumference and and that's what you
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need um you can get them on Amazon I'll
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throw some links down below for Amazon
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and maybe a couple other places but
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that's the size also uh first grade all
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the way up until sixth grade falls into
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that category so anything you know seven
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and under all the way up to um 12 and
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under so essentially 12 and under all
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the way down um first grade all the way
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to sixth grade is a 28 and 1 half
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circumference basketball
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once you hit that 13 under and or 13 U
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U or grade seven all the way up to 12th
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grade you're going to use the 29 and a
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half circumference basketball so real
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simple um real simple to remember you
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know when when my group was was in
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fourth and fifth grade uh sixth grade we
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were using that smaller basketball we
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bought a bunch of them and you know once
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I hit the I think I guess it's seventh
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grade I had to switch out and buy a
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bunch of new basketballs U that were
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bigger so just make sure that you know
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you keep this handy um you know if you
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which wherever you fall at into that
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make sure you get that and then when
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your kids if you're in the younger group
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and your kids grow or you know age age
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out make sure you don't forget to put
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basketballs in your budget so that
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you're not um using the wrong size so
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you know why why does it matter why why
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do we want to make sure that we're you
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know in tune with what a is doing or
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say um Player Development you know if if
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you're training with that small
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basketball it's because their hands are
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smaller you know their muscles are uh
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smaller and you know I guess it makes a
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difference so that's important um you
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certainly don't want to you know train
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with a big ball and and go and play a
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tournament and they're you know they're
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basketball um you definitely want to you
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know make sure you're tracking with this
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for tournament compliance you know aou
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enforces the rules just like the other
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uh folks do and and obviously I know
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there'll be a few in the comments saying
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that you know they don't always enforce
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the rules and you're right but um you
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know a tournaments they're going to use
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that size basketball it's going to be
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right in their rule book and if they
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don't you should say something and your
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your players will probably uh recognize
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the wrong siiz basketball so just make
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sure that you're you know keeping this
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in mind so you're training with the
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right equipment um and then you know and
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training with the wrong equipment is
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really just going to create confusion
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for your basketball players anyway so um
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do your best not to switch out uh the
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different ball sizes even if you believe
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that your player should be developing
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their skills with a regular siiz
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basketball you know i' I've heard that
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the and and and and I may agree with it
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at times but um but that's just how it's
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set up so it's probably best that you
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just follow those rules so you know if
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this video or these types of videos help
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