Training tool and method for ball handling

Abstract

Tools, devices, apparatus, systems and methods to enhance ball handling skills and reduce and eliminate fumbling of balls, from football players, basketball players and the like. The training tool can be used to improve ball security for football players of every level to reduce or even eliminate fumbling. The tool can simulate the forces imparted on a football that can cause a fumble during the game. Used during various drills in practice, the invention will improve the player's ability to maintain possession of the football during actual game play. The invention assembly can include a ball (such as a football, basketball or rugby ball), a rope, and a reciprocating handle weight subassembly. The tools can use a slightly vertical handheld sliding reciprocating weight with or without a spring(s), or motor, in order to cause shockwaves that pass to a player carrying a ball to simulate a fumbling condition during a game, where other players are trying to slap or grab or push or jar loose a ball from the grasp of the ball carrier. The reciprocating weight can be quickly pumped and/or jerked by the trainer/coach during drills to surprise and replicate a fumbling condition.