Thank you! It’s good for the knees and it has been fun to play on. I added some other videos of us playing on it

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I'm in Nova Scotia too, I've been brainstorming for a few months the cheapest way to build a basketball surface for my kids.

Did you pull the trigger and go with anything?

thanks!!

Some of the boards did cup a little bit after about three or four months. I planed those down and re-stained it. We don’t practice on it at all when it is wet or damp

they’re just sitting on the ground, screwed to each other in the same way that you would frame up a wall. they are pretty tight in their trenches surrounded by earth.

yes

thank you

Yes you are definitely 100% right. Concrete would be cheaper. But I didn’t do it to save money. I did it because it’s better on your knees lower back and joints.

My total cost was around $2700 because I did the work myself. If you hire someone to pour a concrete slab the same size and pay them labor it would be around 2k. So you can see that this is much more expensive. The materials for a wood court alone is more than cement plus labor My court is 30’ long and a regular court is 90’ long so I have 1/3 the length of a normal regulation court. The 3 point line is 21’ so there is enough room for that. If I made a regulation 90’ the materials would have been around $9000.

We are in North Carolina and it is 9’x28’

@@michaeljohnsonofficialonly 9 ft across?

@@brettgitzel18’ x 28’

It was 3k in Materials and it gets to 21° here in winters. There are 10 or 11 videos on it

The 2x4’s are about a nickel space apart. It stays pretty dry under there. I would recommmend crushed gravel on too of gravel instead of the plastic

@@michaeljohnsonofficial Thanks! Is a nickel 5 feet ?

oh the two by fours under the ground? They are 3 feet apart.

@@michaeljohnsonofficial Thanks! and what length are the roofing screws?

@@sikunyore4241 they are not roofing screws. They are deck screws. And I believe they were 3 inches.

It’s looking really good, and with Maintenance it will last forever

16’ deck boards, 2x4’s, roofing tar, deck screws, outdoor varnish

How many of these boards do I need im gonna make mine 24x24 but I can’t see how you screwed it in you didn’t tell us the width of the Wood this is my first time doing a project with actual building by myself cuz no one wants to help me

Deck boards are 6”x2”. That would require 48 deck boards to make 24’. You have to build a frame to screw them to. Build the frame with 2x4’s underground. You will need some building experience.

@@michaeljohnsonofficial I’ll do what I can thank you for your help . Cuz I know I have to do this project alone

@@MikeeyDaGoat when u done post it on your channel

All wooden decks sit outside

It’s called goaliath. I bought it at Dick‘s sporting goods

@@michaeljohnsonofficial I meant the net surrounding the hoop

That is the Dr. dish iC3 Basketball return machine

@@michaeljohnsonofficial thank you so much for responding

It was 2021 and was 3k in Materials

It’s definitely not cheaper than concrete. I didn’t want cheap.

some people aren’t looking to do things cheap

Looks almost the same

I made a couple videos on it within the last month

Two years in looking good

into the ground

You have to frame it the exact same way you would frame a wall. You dig trenches to set the 2x4’s in the ground and that’s what you connect the floor boards to.

@@michaeljohnsonofficial thank you so much

2-3k

Around $1900

@@michaeljohnsonofficial wayyy cheaper than concrete. Imma have to do this method

Actually cost more than concrete

@@YanajRettun it costs more bro

it forces you to shoot with a higher arch. It also helps you get more reps if you don’t have a rebounder

@@michaeljohnsonofficial I guess I did assume it must have some advertised upsides to it but I was getting at the idea that it's also training your muscles to ignore certain shots that may present themselves in a real life game situation where you're not going to have *only* that perfect arcing shot but there would still be a different shot possible that would still count on the scoreboard. Obviously there are defenders in the actual game taking that *proper* theoretical shooting arc away. A bit OT here but one of my HS gym teachers could drain 3-pointers from anyplace on the arc seemingly all day in his solo lunch hour drill. People would drop in just to see how many in a row he'd sink before the hour bell went. That was his one-note thing though. He never played at any level afaik. He shot those perfect arcing shots alone like a machine though. Not meaning to intervene in whatever your actual coaches are telling you so much as I was wondering how it fit into the Practice The Way That You Play concept. Thanks for responding.

This is only for practicing one shot. If you need to practice shooting off of the screen or reaction time then you just take it down and get some other guys on the floor to practice those things. this is only for a catch and shoot drill.

@@puirYorick there are no disadvantages to shooting the ball with great arch. In fact, it’s something that’s not keyed in on enough nowadays. Any other shot possibility you’re referring won’t be anymore of less challenging as a result.

you made one? Make a video. I’d love to see it