These Are NOT Travels!

These Are NOT Travels!

May 17, 2026



These Are NOT Travels!

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  8. Awesome video!!! 🫡🫡🫡

    Can you do a video on the pivot? Specifically heel spinning and toe spinning.

    For example, if the pivot point is your heel and you spin around, can you change the pivot point to your toe and spin around?

  10. I feel like the sport Ultimate figured out traveling much better than Basketball. Namely, in Ultimate, you get three steps if you catch while running; you either have to get rid of the disc in three steps or come to a stop. Once you come to a stop, you get no more steps, you can only pivot. And when you're running, you have to continue your momentum (no Euro step equivalents).

  11. Great video. Nailed it. I’d also add self pass to the list. A lot of people think it’s a self pass and call travel even when the pivot is kept. Or if the ball bounces first (then it’s just a dribble and would be double if player no longer had dribble left).

    The other thing I wanted to get your thoughts on is the pivot used for step thru (not covered in this video). The rules at every level of basketball effectively define a pivot as one or more steps with the same foot WHILE the other foot, the pivot foot, is kept at its point of contact with the playing court. Alot of people seem to think a pivot is just turning on a foot, but clearly the rules define it as a step on other foot with the pivot foot being kept. So my contention is that if both feet leave the floor to step for the step thru that is not a legal pivot, and is a violation. The same rule prevents a player from hopping on one foot since that would be taking consecutive steps on same foot while pivot foot is NOT kept at its point of contact. Technically any legal pivot should end with 2 feet on the floor. It’s always legal to lift a pivot foot, but by rule you cannot step after. Otherwise, since the rules define a pivot as a step, it wouldn’t make sense to lift a pivot foot and step (aka pivot) after.

    Legal to lift pivot foot, that’s always legal. Just can’t return pivot foot, dribble or pivot after.

    If you watch older videos of step thru you always see legal pivots being completed where 2 feet are touching before the shot even if it’s bang bang. Or at least it’s very close. Yes the player does lift pivot foot and jumps off one for a shot (like a layup or even hook shot) but the pivot foot was always kept for the step before being lifted to jump off 1. Now you see players more often leaving their pivot foot for the step and using the rule about a pivot foot being lifted just can’t be returned as an excuse to ignore the other rules about pivoting that still exist.

  12. I will die on the hill that that last one, the “hop travel” should NOT be a travel – it’s athletic and elite and the rule makers were just haters 😂💯

  13. Bruh no! Now you’re just taking away the rule of traveling. I need u banned and blocked for misguiding information. 45. U should be ashamed of yourself.

  17. here people always say in lay up when u stop at ur second step to shot fake its travel but Fiba rule book says a player can take 2 steps to end dribble and can STOP or pass or shoot ..unless u stop on both feet ( putting ur pivot on floor) its all Legal

  18. Everyone who claims the non pivot steptrough is legal, should immediately stop talking basketball for good! This is some tramendous amount of stupidity and/or laziness!
    1) With both feet on the floor lifting just one instantly makes the other a pivot and you only got to use one for pivoting, the very moment you lift the pivot with the non pivot still down, its establishing a 2nd pivot and a travel! What do you jackasses think, all the rulebooks meant telling you you only got to pivot on one foot, or only use one foot for pivoting?
    2) All of FIBA/NBA/NFHS rulebooks define pivoting as stepping once or more than once with the non pivot WITH/WHILE the pivot is kept at its point of contact, nowhere in any rulebook is mentioned you are allowed to step with the non pivot WITHOUT the pivot at its point of contact!
    3) Its called a legal STOP for a reason, once you are in one you dont get to change your location on the court. As long as you keep a point of contact with the floor you are good, once you break the contact and have contact with the floor on another place you have MOVED wich is the very opposite of being in a (legal) STOP!
    4)NBA rulebook makes the huge mistake, counting ppl know 1), 2) and 3) by the time of r10s13d when the rulebook allows the jump shot… so they only talk about what's legal, they do not address the already known as illegal contacting the floor with non pivot once the pivot is off and talk only what happens when pivot goes up and down.
    5) FIBA tho did flawless job articulating the same rule in 25.2.1 using "jump off a pivot" instead of "rising(NBA)/lifting(NFHS), both allowing the jumpshot, but also addressing you are not allowed to stay on the non pivot without repeating half the rulebook.
    6) At that note we are going back to NBAs r10s13d, consisting of 2 sentences describing the same situation, of wich the 2nd is always conveniently neglected by the "non pivot steptrough" morons. It have "while in the air" not "if you are in the air" showing undoubtedly NBA just like FIBA means "jumping off a pivot" when they say "rise the pivot"
    7) Once airborne after pivoting, each of FIBA 25.2.1, NBA r10s13b3 and NFHS r4s44art3b explicitly forbid landing on neither foot, not only the pivot.
    8) Here is another part of the rules that comes from the same pivoting rules – when you can start dribbling after a legal stop – before you lift the pivot! That's becouse a) If you have your non pivot still down, you have already traveled; b) if you legaly jump off the pivot(or both), your possession ends, you must get rid of the ball by passing or shooting, but no further dribble or steps are allowed!
    9) Lifting the pivot was always legal to allow the jumpshot, but what's failing both logically and the English language itself is to add to the listed exceptions of already set limitation as you go. The exceptions is exact and it allow a different action taken with the pivot, previously anchored to its point of contact by the pivoting definition… the short list of one exception, do not cancel any of the limitations the rulebook have set for the non pivot. This is just a stupid assumption a lot of ppl make

  19. … kept watching and the only true statement is abot stepping on the last step. The limit there is only the 5 sec, or the 3sec total in the paint.
    Everything else is stupid attempt to undermine the game of basketball, claiming loopholes where there is non!
    1)100% there is a legal stop on one foot and a famous NBA ref explained it in a video. You only have 2 steps to COMMING TO A STOP, passing or shooting, once you stop progressing you dont get to resume your steps, you are already under the pivoting rules and your one foot down is your pivot. So you get to step down with the non pivot(we are talking about 1st step stop), but you are no longer allowed further contact with the floor once the pivot is off, cuz the bon pivot steptrough is and always was 100% illegal!
    2) The 2nd step jumpstop when you are not allowed to have a pivot foot is poorly explained in the rulebook. It says you can loft one or 2 feet… but not in the same situation! When on both feet you may only jump off both, cuz with both feet on the floor lifting only one instantly establishes the other as a pivot and thats explicitly forbidden! The part about lifting one foot is about 1) when you are in a one foot legal stop!
    3) The steps with the ball on your hand are forbidden by the very definof the traveling "a player shall not run with the ball without dribbling" you dont get to move with the ball without steps start coubting, ofc thers a leeway to allow some fluidity to the game, not to be force to dribble like a 2nd grader, but everything excesive as a movement with the ball on your hand is way off the rules!
    4) 3) directly leads to "live dribble" with the ball on your hand bs is a 100% moronic concept having nothing tobdo with the game of basketball! In adition to the traveling definitions itself, thers plenty of criteria for ending the dribble, with the most neglected- the controll. The act itself is not required, the enough control to do the bunch of listed things is… enough! Furthermore pay attention how the shooting fouls while driving got called – hand touching the ball, no further dribble – no "live dribble" bs whatsoever… never!

  22. Yup knew all that. If you didn't, congratulations, now you know all those things in the NBA that you were calling 5-step travels are only 4-step travels. Sooo much better, lol

  30. I got called for the third one once in a pickup game after months of doing it. They said you cant hop… I was like, whats a pro hop? Ofc no answer but it's not worth fighting people over the rules they make up in their head

  31. this is golden should be tutorial video for all basketball camps.

    except for steptru make sure you take the step before lifting the pivot coz you cant have both feet in the air after both feet touch the ground thatd be jumping but you can cheat a little.

  32. one thing about jumping, is that the ref can actually determine if its a jump or not. same thing whether your airball is actually a try or not which determines if you can be the first to touch your own airball. refs can actually call a dribble as self pass too lol many things are subjective coz the rules aint that clear cut

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