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
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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.
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