It started with a game, which I am learning every day, I am teaching every day and enjoying it every day, "basketball" it is!

I never had an idea that my passion will become a profession for me today, the love and respect for this game can be described only on the court. From school to college and college to coaching the school kids has been a tremendous journey.

Boom‌ ‌of‌ ‌Basketball‌ ‌in‌ ‌India.

Coaching is booming in our country, although the level of coaching is yet to improve, we as the coaches share what we have learnt and want the young kids to perform best. I have been coaching for almost more than four years now, be it in Mumbai, Gujarat or Jaipur, the experience and learning has been a blessing to me as I got to work with NBA basketball schools.Yes, when it is basketball, the first thing that comes to most of us is the NBA and I feel privileged to work with India’s best coaches, international coaches and learning while working.

And with the boom in sports, we finally got a lifetime opportunity to watch NBA games which recently took place in India, got a great opportunity to meet the NBA coaches coming straight from the USA.I honestly feel that providing a good sports infrastructure and coaching will help us grow basketball in our country.

Training‌ ‌youngsters‌ ‌as‌ ‌a‌ ‌Basketball‌ ‌coach.

I have worked with different schools, different age groups and I strongly feel if a child/athlete starts learning basketball and he dedicates his 10000 hours (which is approximately 30 years if u just practice 1 hour every day or 15/20 years 2 hours every day and so on) to that practice he/she is definitely going to be the best player, it is a wise saying to be the best you need to give 10000 hours of effort to it.

It is wisely said when you play sports regularly our brain becomes sharp and memorize everything properly, which eventually helps to improve your mental and regular playing while good nutrition diet helps you to be physically fit too. Basketball is a vast subject, for me as a coach there is so much to learn, so much to create, a lot of session plans/drills.There are so many points that I learn to research and execute it on the field and I make sure that if I am delivering some drill to the athletes then they must implement it during the game. Talking to players about their diet and their strengthening practice is another important thing that I like doing throughout my journey. To be precise, basketball has taught me a lot and will teach me a lot in future and whatever I learn I am going to deliver it to the young athletes because I consider myself as a learner. Being in this field, interacting with all kinds of kids, I only learned and I wish to work with such talents always and learn from them as well because I am a learner. Basketball has given me an opportunity to make it as my profession and so is for anyone else who wants to take basketball as his career, maybe a professional player playing for different companies, leagues etc or maybe a coach, a referee by clearing FIBA exam, our country also hires and supports basketball players in the public sector like railways, navy etc.Like cricket and football, our country is prileged to conduct NBA preseason games in India for the first time and also there is a new basketball league which initiated this year as streetball_leauge. Hence basketball is growing and so we are. Basketball is life for me.