Northwest Indiana Dynamics AAU Boys Basketball

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NWI Dynamics

Northwest Indiana Dynamics is an amateur basketball team in its first year as an traveling basketball club. We believe that every youth should have drive and passion for any activity they chose to embark on. While winning is goal, here at Northwest Indiana Dynamics, we teach life skills and character building and in doing so an atmosphere is created. Team cohesiveness, dedication, responsibility, respect, understanding of others thoughts and opinions, listening skills, communication, collaboration, vision, confidence, integrity and holding to team values are all great leadership skills acquired over time. On our team, the atmosphere creates a sense of belonging, in which motivates the team a s a whole. Focusing on a few simple goals, communication with others, setting team and individual goals, contributing their fair share, supporting one another and just plain having fun.

In everyday life, failures are a part of learning. On this team, players learn the positive fear of failure. If I told you that on our team, “You must take 10 shots during a game and out of those shots, if you miss 3 shots, you are sitting on the bench next game.” You would only worry about the consequences and not the task at hand and over coming that you will miss a shot or two and maybe even more. Now if I said to you, “just relax and if you miss, that’s OK, just keep shooting, and “flush the bad shots, keep going.” There are no consequences for missing. A youth is more apt to continue to try, even if they know that failure is a part of everyday activities. They will set themselves goals of becoming better and excel while reaching their goals. Far too often, our society, coaches, parents teach and enforce perfectionism on their children. Fear, bad fear as taught in perfectionism ( A willingness to try only those things that you know you'll finish perfectly and successfully) can paralyze a person from even trying at all. In this they will miss great opportunities in life. By setting achievable goals they define where they want to be and what direction they choose for their path., By visualizing these goals, they are motivated in moving towards their goals. They become positive in their thinking and reactions to failures in everyday life.

In creating and focusing on the same set goals for the team, the behavioral relationship between the teammates creates a natural dynamic. Team Dynamics are,”the unseen, psychological force that influences a teams behavior and their performances.” The way the team members become involved and interact creates a dynamic unlike other teams. If team members are not being “team members” their performances go down, the morale of the team goes down, their attitudes go down. Having a team dynamic, the players, the coaches come to know each others tendencies, they tackle problems quickly, roles and responsibilities, are defined, they break down barriers, focus on communication and paying attention to bad qualities of players. “No dynamics, no team, Know dynamics, know team.” Our motto and something we live by is simply this,” May your faults and failures become the tools you use to become a great leader and to lead others in to great leadership.”

A few great things we want to continue on this team is staying safe and having fun.