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basketball Slam Sports South China Athletic Association Sportscene Ltd. 852 6026 7889 852 2577 6932 852 2757 4324 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.slamsportshongkong.com www.scaa.org.hk www.sportscene.com.hk The purpose of Slam Sports is to promote As a non-profit making sports organisation, Children can improve their eye hand basketball in a positive way, nurturing and South China Athletic Association is coordination and cultivate ball sense including, teaching players alongside Christian beliefs committed to promoting sports within the ball bouncing time, passing and shooting skills. and values. Slam Sports develops players young community and introducing sports, like Children can further enhance their individual with a positive attitude, providing basketball Basketball, from a young age. skills through organised drill and match play. and fitness services. Available at: 88 Caroline Hill Road, Tactics and game scenarios are introduced to Available at: Classes all over Hong Kong Causeway Bay further enhance student potential. Available at: 27/F Parkview Center, 7 Lau Li Street, Causeway Bay Tinytots Top Flight YMCA 852 3488 7724 852 6279 1982 852 2368 7070 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.tinytots.com.hk www.topflighthongkong.com www.ymcahk.org.hk Tinytots classes combine a series of activities The coaches at Top Flight aim to share Classes are available for children ages two that use imaginative play, familiar games, their passion for basketball with the next to 13 and are ongoing throughout the week. visual skills and creative participation to generation of young players. The primary Children can join no matter what their skill engage children and ensure maximum aim at Top Flight is to use basketball to teach level is and are encouraged to have fun. enjoyment from participating in sports.  players important life lessons about hard Available at: 41 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui Available at: Stanley Ho Sports Centre; work, determination, teamwork, leadership Discovery Bay Community Hall; Discovery and courage. College; The International Schools Foundation Available at: Classes all over Hong Kong Pre-School; Ganeynu Carmel Kindergarten; Kingston International Kindergarten James Naismith, a teacher at a YMCA in Massachusetts, is credited with inventing basketball in 1891. The first “hoops” were peach baskets and the first backboards were made of wire. The game became an official Olympic event at the Summer Games in Berlin, Germany in 1936. Spring 2019 93