Bouncing ideas for a better basketball future

July and August mean different things to different people, but for a lot of readers it means one thing no matter what sport they follow. Summer sports camps for the kids.

Bouncing ideas for a better basketball future

These are an integral part of the Irish summer now, but that wasn’t always the case. When I had coffee last week with Mark Scannell of Rip’n’Run basketball camps (see ripnrun.com), he could go back to the original of the species, the Basketball Ireland camps in Dungarvan, which have been going for over 40 years.

What interested me was his point about who learns what at those camps: it turns out the kids aren’t the only ones picking up key information.

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