Our format is based on the program NBC America has studied throughout 38 years of experience. That’s why we have coaches from NBC America at our camps, including NBC President and Founder, Fred Crowell. Our Complete Skills Basketball Camps provide a perfect opportunity for players to improve in all areas of the game. This camp is beneficial for beginners as well as advanced players. Campers are divided into leagues based on both age and skill level.

In addition to individual skills training, we start the week teaching fundamentals related to 3-on-3 basketball. This helps break the game down and makes team basketball easy to learn for the younger athlete and allows greater opportunity to put new skills in a live environment for all ability levels. It also allows every player the opportunity to touch the ball more regularly during competition allowing the strong player great leadership training and the weaker player the ability to get better. Throughout the week we progress into 5-on-5 play and typically finish the week with a 4-6 team tournament.

Part of the difference at NBC Camps includes a six days camp experience including detailed curriculum training from ball handling, to pure defense, pure shooting, pure offense and pure team skills.

This is our daily schedule 9.00/13.00: individual workout: every league goes through 4 different working stations:

• Workout station (we have a physical trainer)
• Ball handling , 1-series moves (offensive moves from the triple-menace position), and attacking from dribbling
• Shooting form and offensive moves from post position
• Team basketball (offensive and defensive) related to 3-on-3

13.00/15.00: lunch and rest
15.00/16.00: shooting (the fundamental we teach most)
16.00/19.00: from 1-on-1 to 3-on-3 tournaments and league games.

We also believe that training the mind to compete is crucial to becoming a great athlete. A large part of our job is to motivate all campers to become mentally tough, on and off the court. We work very hard, we work with intensity.

There are many ways to coach. Coaching is about teaching and about motivation. First, teaching is the ability to instil knowledge and skill. Motivation is the ability to instil execution. Many coaches motivate from a stance of fear. Below the line ways to motivate others include anger, threats, guilt, and shame. These produce immediate results, but are damaging to everyone involved. Love is the most powerful motivational tool available to the dedicated coach who sincerely desires to encourage athletes to play basketball at the highest performance level possible. Great coaches see athletes not just as they are, but who they can become. As a result these athletes become the bigger and better person the coach sees in them. In simple terms the driving force of our philosophy is to be "difference makers." This means making a positive and often life-changing impact on players' lives. T=Teach Teaching is not telling. Watching a demonstration of a skill is not as valuable as trying the new skill. Our teaching format employs several steps. First, the coach provides a brief demonstration of the skill being taught. Second, the coach breaks the skill into easily repeated sections. Third, NBC students are given an opportunity to practice those specific sections. Finally, NBC students play competitive games to get into game speed and begin to try the new skill in firsthand game situations. Athletes should be able to do the skill accurately, repeat the skill, and recognize what needs to be corrected if the skill does not accomplish its desired result. E=Encouragement Research shows encouragement is the best motivator. At NBC Camps we focus on what the athlete is doing well and encourage him/her to do more of it. "Encourage" literally means to build courage into someone else." Our coaches strive to give athletes the courage to believe in their potential. C=Correction Encouragement without correction is worthless. We work hard to correct athletes by promoting self-correction. All skills are taught with ways for athletes to recognize and how to correct what is going wrong. Once an athlete knows what is expected he or she is asked to work on self-correction.

Fred Crowell Founder and President NBC Camps;

Tim Hall Colorado State University,
USA Basketball - World Championship 1978;

Kedra Holland-Corn 2 WNBA titles, 3 national titles in Spain and Italy. MVP and top scorer of the Italian Pro League.

Angela Adamoli Silver medal European Championship 1995, gold medal World University Games 1996;
96 games with the Italian National Team

Massimiliano Briscese Pool Eurobasket Roma. Best coach of the region (gold net award) 2003. Various regional and interzone titles. In several occasions part of the staff of the Italian National Junior Basketball Team

Salvatore De Martino Trainer Italian Federation Track and Field. 2 times italian champion 4x400 relay. Former member of the italian national track and field team. 6 participations in the World Military Championship.

Kevin Ray Florent Southern University. Draft at USBL (West Palm Beach). 4 Championships and 4 Cups at Europe(Germany,France,Israel and Cyprus). Winner of the Dunk Context at the All Star Games of Germany and Cyprus