Trainer of the lost arc

Shooting the lights out means crafting a consistent - and deadly - jump shot. Thanks to the NOAH Shooting System, help is just a click away.

If your jump shot or free throw doesn't keep the same arc upon release - shot after shot, shot after shot - well, you need help. The truth is that if you work on your shot unsupervised, you run the risk of facilitating bad habits if your technique is off. These habits are hard to break as you get older.

Enter the NOAH Shooting System, a one of kind program used for measuring the arc of your shot. Noah gives you an analysis in order to promote good habits and increase shooting proficiency.

Sure, NOAH may sound like video game fun. But truth is, the program, part of the Mark Price Shooting Lab (named after the NBA's all-time free throw percentage leader), may just save your game. Part of the NOAH program is the Dartfish - one video camera that captures the profile of your shot and the other that tapes it from behind the backboard. The cameras enable players to see their shots and any flaws that general instruction may not get across. Read: You get to see what you're doing wrong.

During a player's shot, video is instantly relayed to a large flat screen TV, which actually delivers a "video game" feel to the player. NOAH tracks the arc of a player's shot in order to track consistency and the ability to take advantage of the entire rim. The system charts a player's shots, "shouting" out each shot's arc within seconds of the ball leaving a shooter's hands. This helps the trainers follow a shot from its release point.

Shots with an arc consistently near 45 degrees allows a shooter to maximize the size of the rim and give shots that may otherwise be too short or too long a better chance at finding the net. Bands color-coded in degrees of "too short" and "too long" illustrate the arc and distance of each shot in a series, and still images captured by NOAH show release point and form. All this is stored in NOAH's database for later review.

"NOAH is an incredibly useful tool that allows players to realize their optimum shooting motion and emulate that correct form during practice," says Michael Brown, manager of grassroots basketball for On Court Player Development®. "The calculable feedback and screenshots are invaluable to give players a visual of teaching points, accomplishments and errors. The improvement we've seen at every level is very rewarding and stresses that players can advance their shooting if they are taught the correct way to shoot."