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 five day camp experience including detailed curriculum training from ball handling, to pure defense, pure shooting, pure offense and pure team skills.

Our camps are demanding and not similar to other camp experiences. The difference is our basketball intensity, expectation on and off the court for excellence, leadership and sports training currriculum. We believe training the mind to compete is crucial to becoming a great athlete. We believe sitting and watching the staff play is not as valuable as learning the skills yourself. If you want to sit and watch basketball, if you want limited supervision, if you want a baby sitting camp, you need to pick a different program. But if you want to really get better at the game of basketball we are going to make you better.

A highlight of camp is definitely the Intensity Station. Music, sweat, encouragement, and hard work make up this hour long power workout that helps athletes discover their limits and push through them.

Complete Skills Basketball Camp Locations

Anchorage, Alaska

Edmonton, Alberta

Olds, Alberta

Angwin, California (Napa Valley)

Fullerton, California

Redding, California

Rocklin, California (near Sacramento)

Lakewood, Colorado

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Nampa, Idaho

Castletown, Isle of Man, UK

Rome, Italy

Billings, Montana

Elon, North Carolina

La Grande, Oregon

Newberg, Oregon

Auburn, Washington (nearby Seattle)

Spangle (near Spokane), Washington

Spokane, Washington

Walla Walla, Washington

Myth #1 Day camps and overnight camps are equal.
We believe an overnight camp is the optimum place for players to experience maximum growth and change. When we are removed from our day-to-day environment and placed in an unknown situation, we become sponges of experience. Our senses are heightened and our ability to learn is expanded.

Myth #2 Camp environment is not important.
By environment we mean the atmosphere of the camp, the way people speak to each other, the quality of relationships between the coaches and the campers. At NBC Camp, we believe environment is a crucial component of becoming the best player you can be. You can technically be the best shooter in the world but if you have no self-confidence you can never be a great shooter. Confidence becomes permanent in an environment where people encourage, support, and care about you. That's why some of the best players in the game are children of coaches. They had the experience of playing in an environment that balanced the tough line between love and high expectations. Especially when learning new skills, athletes must find environments that build them up, not tear them down.

Myth #3 If you coach, you can run a camp.
Coaching 12 players and coaching 50 to 60 are very different propositions. The camp setting requires knowledge on how to utilize space, how to maximize time, and how to progress through skills in a way athletes retain and continue their development. A systematic learning system and the philosophy behind this progression of drills and live action has been a teaching priority of NBC Camps for 35 years.

Myth #4 I should wait until my son or daughter is older before sending them to camp.
It takes 20 to 30 repetitions to learn a new skill. It takes 2500-3000 repetitions to fix a skill learned incorrectly. It's worth the time and money to learn it right the first time.

Myth #5 Teaching life skills is a waste.
What's more important, your physical skills or your mental skills? Tough-mindedness, courage, confidence, conviction, character, are all skills requiring training and intentional pursuit. You can practice left-hand lay-ups all day, but until you develop the winner's mindset, you'll fold under pressure. When you are tough-minded, putting in the long hours to become a great player becomes joy instead of drudgery.

Myth #6 Playing games all summer improves your game.
Games do not give you the major changes in your game. Programs and coaches who spend all summer playing games make a mistake because athletes are not spending the individual time working on their skills. Basketball skills are improved individually during the off-season. Professional athletes who determine they need adjustment in their game, get by themselves and work specifically on skill development and improvement. Games only expose what you already know, they can't correct bad habits, nor take your skills to the next level. Only specific intentional skill training can do that for you.