In 1891 the game of basketball was born in a local YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts by Dr. James Naismith. In Springfield, Naismith came across an issue of finding a sport that was suitable to play indoors during the winters of Massachusetts for the students at the School for Christian Workers. Dr. Naismith wanted to create a game of skill for the students instead of one that relied solely on strength. He needed a game that could be played indoors in a relatively small space. He came up with a set of thirteen rules that would structure how the game would be played. Naismith watched the sport of basketball flourish as it was introduced in many nations across the globe by the YMCA movement during early 1893. Basketball was first introduced at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 and has grown to become one of the most popular sports in the world today. I began playing basketball ever since I was eleven years old and fell in love with the game ever since. Growing up, I was pretty big for my age and that gave me the advantage to dominate other kids my age and sometimes compete with upperclassmen. But as I grew up, so did everyone else and I could no longer play with just pure size and strength. Before taking this class, I never really developed certain skills such as ball handling, footwork, passing due to the fact that I’ve only relied on my size to play. The purpose of this class was to develop and improve those basic fundamental skills that I was never really exposed with. On the first day of class I remember constantly doing machine-gun dribbling and it would always feel uncomfortable when using my left hand because I almost never dribble with it. Going to my left has always been a weakness for me, since my dominant hand is my right, which made left-hand layups difficult as well. But as each week of class I’ve learned the proper way to execute a layup is