The history of free throw shooting in basketball is changing, and you can help to make it happen by joining the thousands who are systematically improving their free throw shot percentage.

Here is a statistic that will blow your mind. Over the last 50 years, while golf scores have been dropping, batting averages have been rising, runners and swimmers are turning in faster and faster times, the one number in all of sports that seems to have remained absolutely constant is basketball’s free throw shot percentage. For men and women, college and professional, free throw shooting percentages have not significantly changed in the last 50 years! It is amazing. It is true. Ands, we are changing it!

Now, by using the “Nothin’ but Net FREE THROW TRAINER™" you can literally watch your Free Throw Shot Percentage increase.

Imagine yourself (as you probably have already) standing at the free throw line, the gym is full of people, they are all focused on you, the room is hushed, the clock has wound down, and the game is tied. It has all come to this. There you are, and everyone is holding their breath while you shoot. That’s pressure. Real heart-stopping pressure. But WOW! Is it exciting!

Use your imagination again and speculate on what it would mean to you, your coach, and your team if your free throw shot percentage was measurably higher? At the College level, free throws account for about 20 percent of the scoring, and in the pros it is a little less than that. Doesn’t seem that significant does it? But how many close games could have been won if only more of those free throws had been made? We have the game changing tools that will finally, after 50 years, transform the free throw shot in basketball. Research is ongoing and in a moment, we will tell you how you can participate in the research and win a FREE T-Shirt in the process.

For now, we want to explain a little more about how this breakthrough technology was developed.

We are Al Heystek and Andy Atwood. Al has been shooting hoops since he was a kid, and over the decades he has spent hours in the driveway “just shooting” as a way to relax and get some exercise. It was there, hour after hour, that Al began to analyze what he was doing and what was happening while he was shooting. About four years ago Al began to play around with a “gizmo” that he created, that when attached to the rim, and used methodically, improved his free throw shot percentage dramatically. In 2008 Al contacted Andy, his long-time buddy. Andy is an advisor to family owned businesses and brought some business sense and connections. When Al first told Andy about his “gizmo” for improving free throw shooting, Andy was somewhat skeptical. So, Andy found a gym in a church and the two of them went down to shoot some hoops. Andy video taped for 60 minutes and in that time, Al shot 483 out of 500 free throws. That’s 96 percent. Andy became an instant believer. 

Fast forward a year or so and we now have the “Nothin’ but Net FREE THROW TRAINER™", which is a combination of game changing technologies.

FIRST, there is a unique patented product, the FREE THROW TRAINER™. It is a tool that has been designed to fit on a Spaulding basketball rim, or it can be adapted to fit a Lifetime rim as well. Our research has indicated that these are the two most common rims used in the driveways of America. Another FREE THROW TRAINER is being developed to fit the double-rim found commonly in gyms and playgrounds.

You can receive email notification of our progress on the double-rim FREE THROW TRAINER by signing up for our eNewsletter.

SECOND, there is a significant mental shift that has to take place when shooting. Instead of trying to get the ball in the hoop, you have to focus on having any part of the ball hit the FREE THROW TRAINER. This is a game-altering mental shift with enormously significant implications. You can learn more about this shift by watching the Instructional Videos on this website.

THIRD, you must practice…and practice…and practice! We are talking about 10,000 shots with the FREE THROW TRAINER. The goal here is to build muscle memory. We recognize that “practice makes permanent” and so we have some pretty specific recommendations about the power of repetition.

FOURTH, there is the Zen of Mindfulness when practicing. No longer criticizing, you learn to observe your mechanics, the ball, the sweet spot, the rhythm to it all, and you get into the flow of seeing and hearing… “Nothin’ but Net™

There are a growing number of online and retail locations where you can purchase the “Nothin’ but Net” FREE THROW TRAINER, and we have a link on the side of this page that is updated regularly indicating where you can go to purchase the FREE THROW TRAINER. The cost is nominal, so don’t be concerned with that. What you do want to focus on is the practice time.

In order to help you with your motivation, we have created a cool Research Project. We hope you will get into this with us. You can learn more about the details by clicking on the link to the left, but here is short version of how it works.

STEP ONE - Download the “FREE THROW TRAINER Scoring Sheet” that can be found on this website, up on the left.

STEP TWO – Go out and shoot 100 free throw shots and record on the Scoring Sheet how many of them went in the basket. 60 is average for High School, and 70 for College.

STEP THREE – Purchase one of our “Nothin’ but Net™” FREE THROW TRAINER™s and spend a bunch of time shooting free throws. Watch our Instructional Videos and then shoot, shoot, shoot! Get as many in as you can, following our Instructional Videos. Log in the dates and number of shots you took and the percentages of shots that were “Nothin’ but Net”.

STEP FOUR - As soon as you are confident that you can shoot a least 65 percent (if you are in High School) or at least 75 percent (if you are in College or beyond) out of 100 shots, then get a video camera, set it up and make a video of yourself shooting 100 shots in 15 minutes or less. Put the video on Youtube.com and send us the link and your contact information as indicated on the Scoring Sheet. The videos will be in rank order by shot percentage.

STEP FIVE – We will post your information, including your name and school, along with a link to your video, on our website in the “Elite Free Throw Shooter” box. Once there, all the world will be able to see you pumping them in. And, we will have more research on the effectiveness of our FREE THROW TRAINER™.

STEP SIX – We will send you a FREE T-Shirt that says, “Elite Free Throw Shooter” with our logo on the back. You can indicate your size on the Scoring Sheet. But catch this – we are making this FREE T-Shirt a limited-time-offer while we are collecting our research, so grab it while you can.

Make sure you Sign-up for our eNewsletter. It is a double-opt in process, we don’t share email addresses with anyone, and you can unsubscribe at any time, of course. We will send out an occasional email to everyone to update everyone on our research, new models of the FREE THROW TRAINER™ that are being developed, and further training tips that we have learned from all of you.

The 50 year draught is over!

Join us by increasing your free throw shot percentage.

If you have any questions, just go to our chat room and join in. We will be checking in regularly.

Thanks so much!

Al Heystek and Andy Atwood Heystek & Atwood, LLC

Providers of the “Nothin’ but Net” FREE THROW TRAINER™"

www.FreeThrowTrainer.com

contact@freethrowtrainer.com