For the past two weeks I returned home to Columbia, Missouri to work my dad's basketball camps at Columbia College where this whole show began. I was in the sixth grade when my dad challenged me to spin a basketball on my finger and I've been building on that ever since. These camps are where I began showing off my skills in front of groups. It started with just a dribbling exhibition and now I'm spinning four basketballs at once and doing it to music! As was the case in Phoenix, my favorite part is watching the college players practice a trick when they think no one is watching.
These two weeks I used the 10-foot pole and challenged the kids to never say, "I can't." That phrase comes up too often at camps when a coach trys to teach them something new. I was teaching a kid to spin it one day and the last thing I told him was to do it a thousand times, and when he thought he mastered it, do it a thousand more. It's a good rule to live by.
Click here for a video of the show produced by the Jefferson City, MO news crew.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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