If you shoot a ball 5 meters (15 feet) away the rim, as long as the angle of deviate from the original goal trajectory by one degree, the ball is destined to bounce out the rim. When we make 15 feet jump shot, in terms of the human body structure, you need to move hundreds of bones, hundreds of muscles and hundreds of joints, and finally using the correct strength and coordinate every part of our body to make the trajectory accurately without deviate one degree angle from the goal making trajectory. Therefore, a jump shot is a human movement that requires both strength and precision.

We can make such a metaphor. It is like asking you to write with a pen more than 10 kilograms and asking you to write a printed font. Or like writing a Chinese calligraphy Character with a heavy pen, if you don’t use the right method and practice hard, most people will have no way to do it well. The shooting location (whether the distance or the direction) in the basketball game is not fixed.

You may have a random direction run before you shoot and make a stop and jump shot, catch and shoot, pump fake and shoot, pump fake then one dribble jump shot. To make a high field goal percentage shot (for example, more than 50%) in the match you must have correctly practiced the same situation countless times. So you need high-precision and high-intensity weight training.

Many sports have so-called optimal motions, such as swimming, tennis, badminton, etc. As long as athletes perform the optimal motions, they will have the best efficiency, allowing them to show the fastest speed, or the best result of drive, smashing and so on. The optimal motion includes the optimal motion path, specific muscle summon, muscle exertion sequence, form of muscle exertion, etc. For example, the hand movements of the front craw stroke in swimming are very particular.

Of course, the coordination of other parts of the body is also important, while the breaststroke is relatively more focused on the movements of the legs. To keep the consistency of optimal motion requires not only understanding the path of movement, but also need to strengthen all participating muscles so that the movement has not only the correct shape, but also strength, speed, accuracy, stability, and fixity which allow athletes to maintain their best performance during the game. The same can be inferred to the jump shot motion.