The Templar Warriors Newsletter
Issue Number Three for 2023
Monday, 10th July, 2023
Players wanted for BMBA teams for new SBA season.
After a successful inaugural season, the BMBA is commencing it’s Spring Season at the Southern Basketball Association this week.
We have some space for extra players for each of our teams for this season, so now is an ideal opportunity to have your son/daughter become involved in one of our great BMBA teams.
U18 Boys team (players born in 2007 and 2008)
We are looking for 2 to 3 more players
U12(1) Boys (Players born in 2012 and 2013)
We are looking for 1 more player
U12(2) Boys (Players born in 2012 and 2013)
We are looking for 3 more players
U10 Girls (Players born in 2014 and 2015)
We are looking for 2 to 3 more players
If your son/daughter doesn’t fit into these age groups, please register your interest anyway as we will take players just outside these age groups into consideration. We already have some players playing above their age group and as we develop our program we are more than happy to provide those opportunities to others as well where we feel they are capable of doing so.
We are also looking for players to form teams in other age groups for upcoming seasons later this year and throughout 2024. So to get involved straight away or in the near future click on the registration button below.
For further information and direct links to pages covering our BMBA teams mentioned above CLICK HERE.
Basketball Plus & Kids First Training Programs start this week. Sign up now!
We resume our fantastic weekly training programs this week. We have the following sessions for term 3
- Tuesday – Kids First Basketball Training @ Wellington SC – 5:30pm to 6:30pm
- Tuesday – Basketball Plus Training for Primary School Students @ Wellington – SC 5:00pm to 6:30pm
- Tuesday – Basketball Plus Training for Secondary School aged students @ Wellington SC – 6:30pm to 8:00pm
- Wednesday – Basketball Plus Training for Primary School Students @ De La Salle College – 4:00pm to 5:30pm
- Wednesday – Basketball Plus Training for Primary & Secondary School aged students @ De La Salle College – 5:30pm to 7:00pm
- Friday – Kids First Basketball Training @ McKinnon PS – 6:30pm to 7:30pm
- Friday – Basketball Plus Training for Primary & Secondary School aged students @ McKinnon PS – 6:30pm to 8:00pm
- Sunday – Kids First Basketball Training @ McKinnon PS – 3:00pm to 4:300pm
- Sunday – Basketball Plus Training for Primary &Secondary School aged students @ McKinnon PS – 2:30pm to 4:00pm
You need to register and pay before participating. To do this go to the link below
https://forms.gle/R2VYDsJf7oSV3BV3A
PROGRAM INFORMATION
About Basketball Plus Training – https://bmba.net.au/bmbabasketballplus/
About Kids First Basketball Training – https://bmba.net.au/kids-first/
About IDP Basketball Training – https://bmba.net.au/idp-training/
Click here to download a PDF version of this flyer
Click here to download a PDF version of this flyer
June Basketball Holiday Camp a great success!
We enjoyed running a holiday basketball camp for the first time at De La Salle College over the holidays.
Fourteen lucky juniors had three days of skills, drills, games and fun and would have learnt an awful lot in those three days.
The highlight of the camp was when we had Canadian import and BIG V Most Valuable Player Joe Davis, take the kids for the final day of the camp.
A first for the camp was the introduction of camp T-shirts which look great and was a winner with our camp participants who proudly wore them each day to the camp.
After a break from camps for the past two holidays as we concentrated on getting our domestic teams up and running, we are extremely pleased to be back running successful camps once more. Check out the story below for what we have planned for the September Holidays.
Basketball Holiday Camp was lots of fun!
As we wrote in the above article, we have September Holiday camps set to go in the next School holidays. These two camps will be run under the same format as the just completed June holiday camp. Three days run on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of each week of the September holiday break. The first camp will be held at De la Salle College in the first week and the second camp at Wellington SC in the second week.
Camp days are run between 9:00am and 4:00pm. Camp cost is $300.00 per participant.
These camps if supported to capacity help us to keep cost down for all regular participants and more importantly are a great holiday activity for the kids to get them active that has them doing something healthy and positive.
To ensure this camps have a health patronage please help us to spread the word by saving the flyer on the right as a jpeg file and sharing it on your social media. Alternatively click on it to print off a PDF version to place amongst your community.
For further information and to register for these September camps, click on the button below.
Oakleigh Basketball Association - Annual General Meeting - We have a venue!
To be able to have our teams play at representative level once more, we need to get the Oakleigh Basketball Association back up on it’s feet.
To do this we need to conduct an AGM and elect a new committee. We have already attempted an AGM but due t a double booking at the venue we need to reschedule which requires a 35 day notice period.
The AGM will now be held on Monday the 31st of July at 7:30 pm at the Malvern Bowls Club, 14 Coonil Crescent, Malvern.
Will Overcomes Ball-Handling Challenge
A key part of player development at the BMBA are the various skill challenges that we provide to every BMBA participant.
One of the key challenges that we start our players on is our ball-handling challenges which is broken up into three parts, Stages one, two and three.
Our stage one ball-handling challenge is extremely important for our players on a number of fronts.
1) It’s teach the kids the ball skills to be able to dribble the ball with confidence in a game.
2) It teaches the six main game dribbles every player needs in a game.
3) It begins to introduce advanced skills and dribbles that players need to have to begin progressing to an elite level.
4) Once ready, players are provided with skill tests on each challenge and when successful they are rewarded with increased roles and more game responsibilities within their teams.
5) Once successful, it provides the first step in a pathway of skills challenge that our players can take to reach an elite level.
Most importantly, when players reach a level where they are successful in these challenges it builds confidence within those players and through that confidence it encourages them to attempt those newly acquired skills in games.
Further, it provides incentives to those players to embrace the next challenges that we provide them.
Last term we had our first BMBA Templar Warriors player achieve this. Will Thompson from our U18 Boys broke the full challenge and is now enjoying the rewards of being the main ball-carrier in his team as the dedicated point guard.
Will also has now commenced working on our stage two ball-handling challenge and is progressing nicely on our stage one shooting challenge.
We hope Will is now the first of many of our Templar Warriors kids to meet this challenge and pass this important skill test. I can attest that we have a number of them ready to meet this challenge in the coming term. What is certain is that Will is the only player that can be the “first” and is a trailblazer for those who follow.
Congratulations Will!
Why the Templars?
We chose the Templars as we believe some values are eternal.
We don’t just want our symbol/mascot to project strength and tenacity, we want it to be something that defines our culture and the values we want to embed amongst our participants and players.
While the Templar Knights were fierce Medieval Warriors, they also lived by a code of honour, respect, courage and they dedicated their lives to self-sacrifice in the pursuit of servitude towards others.
We believe that this represents the culture we want to build within our program perfectly.
Christianity through Hoops
As we said earlier in this email we have designed a “Christianity through Hoops” program to complement Catholic schools and Christian schools more generally. Our purpose is not just to develop better basketball players, but also to develop better people. We believe sport can be a great influence on our youth in a good way and what better way to reinforce Christ message not just to our players but their parents and wider networks as well
Our Coat of Arms and what it means
Our stunning Coat of Arms is an integral part of our program. We put a great deal of thought into this as we wanted to establish an ethos and culture to build our program around from our very first day of operation. It represents our past, present and our future. It symbolises the very culture of our program, our values, our ethos and our faith and most importantly now sits in a prominent position on the chest of our playing uniforms.
Embedded within our coats of arms is our BMBA Latin motto of “Fortitudo, Honor, Unitas” which means Strength, Honour and Unity in English. All our teams say this motto in our huddles at the beginning and conclusion of training and matches.
To find out more about our coat of arms, our motto and our culture CLICK HERE
Our Online Library
A unique feature of the BMBA is our growing online video library. We have videos covering individual skills, team offensive and defensive structures, promos and BMBA and Warriors games.
Our objective is to provide every BMBA participant with the opportunity to be able to take their training home with them so they can continually learn and improve their game.
Younger Kids
We do our best to group participants to match their ages and abilities as much as possible. This ensures the kids obtain as much enjoyment as possible from their time with us. Generally, for younger kids, the emphasis is as much on having some fun while being taught some new skills to use in their domestic games or programs.
In teaching these skills we do so as much as possible through drill formats with the kids in teams and engaging in competitive drills with plenty of encouragement and with more emphasis on attempting to use their newly taught skills as on winning.
Older Kids
For our older groups, we teach them more through simulated match situations and scrimmage games. Drills are still used but with the mindset of using these drills to develop skills for games situations and then putting them into those game situations.
While still focusing on enjoyment and fun, older participants are normally looking for more challenging training and coaching with a greater emphasis on competition and challenges with the skills being taught.
Girls
Our training is designed for both boys and girls. Where numbers permit we organise girls into “girl only” groups which make things more enjoyable for the girls. We also design different skills challenges for the girl’s groups.
In the unusual event (especially in the older groups) that a girl or girls would prefer to join in with the boys, we would look at that situation where capabilities permit it.
Boys
Of course, our training is open for boys as well. As with the girls, we look to form them into boys-only groups. This again is dependent on the number of enrolments we have.
These groups are sorted along both age and capability lines as well as keeping kids in their friendship groups where possible. Most importantly, as best as possible we place participants in groups where they are comfortable with their current skill level and where they can obtain the most enjoyment from their participation in the BMBA program.
For the more motivated
We also have groups for those players who are more motivated and wish to obtain more serious training to improve their game. We can either form them into a separate group or embed them in a group and simply provide them with more challenging drills and skills for them to use and learn from.
They will receive condensed high-level coaching and drills that will challenge them and help them improve their current skills considerably or learn new ones for future games and opportunities.
Our Coaches
Our Coaches are predominately players Bob has brought through with him via his caching career. They all have predominately graduated through Bob’s representative basketball programs. We also recruit coaches from Universities and schools who have either played or coached at a high level. All our coaches are trained in the drills and basketball programs that we implement and are supervised through all our sessions. Naturally, all of them will have to obtain and provide Working with Children Checks to be able to work with us, where they are old enough to have one.
Our Venues
At the moment we operate from four indoor school venues. These are at
De La Salle College i Malvern
Wellington Secondary College in Mulgrave
McKinnon Primary School in Ormond and
Westall Primary School in Westall
If your school would like your students to have access to our coaching and training to take advantage of the wonderful programs listed in this newsletter then get in contact with us via our details below.
BOB MANN BASKETBALL ACADEMY (BMBA): ABN 33 497 866 231
CONTACT NAME: Bob Mann
CONTACT EMAIL: bob_mann@bmba.net.au
CONTACT MOBILE: 0490 823 400
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