ETTORE MESSINA
He is one of the winningest coaches in European history.
Winner with various clubs (Virtus Bologna, Benetton Treviso, CSKA Moscow) a total of 28 titles both national and international.
As head coach of the Italian National Team he won a gold medal at the Mediterranean Games and a silver medal in the European Championship.
Ettore: It always bothered me when I heard it said that basketball was a beautiful but difficult sport!" I would have liked to have found a way to make people understand that, contrarily, it is a simple sport that can be played at all ages and is able to enter into your blood!
Massimo Antonelli has been able to do just this, with great passion, with hours of study to deepen individual technique and principles regarding coordination, backed up by music with varying rhythm and using it to stimulate movement of the body and ball.
The result is incredible: finding the balance, apparently difficult, find an adaptation , coordination of footwork, a fundamental never sufficiently coached, with ball movement, naturally improving the rhythm of execution of technical fundamentals.
Music Basketball Method ™ can be useful in becoming a better player, but can also help those that simply want to have fun, while discovering the basics of this sport and simultaneously using his own body in the best of ways.
DAN PETERSON
American, Coach, Journalist, TV Sport Announcer.
His brilliant career as a coach began in American universities including Michigan State, USNA, and Delaware, and continued with the Cilean National Team. In 1973 he bagan his Italian career, first with Virtus Bologna and then with Olimpia Milan: he won 5 championships, 3 Italian Cups, one European Champions Cup and one Korac Cup. In 1987 he was honored as best european coach and in 2012 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Dan: In Italy sport in school doesn't exist. I go to camps every year and find youngsters who don't even know how to run and jump. Then, perhaps the tallest in his group is taken by a club and in his new team he might learn something about basketball, but not how to run and jump.In Italy, amongst 12 to 30 year olds there aren't any athletes. Antonelli, with his MBM, with his drills and with his music does just this: teaches rhyhtm, coordination, agility, speed. Antonelli substitutes the school. He asks the young players, with great respect, to give their maximum, and they with enthusiasm execute!
CARLO (CHARLIE) RECALCATI
As a player he was a legend for Cantù Basketball, while as a coach he represents an icon of our movement, due to the fact that he is one of the few coaches to have won three national championships with three different teams, (Varese Basketball, Fortitudo Bologna, Mens Sana Siena). The Italian National Team coached by him, achieved the maximum results of its sport history: Gold Medal at the Mediterranean Games, silver at the Olympics, bronze at the European Games. Hall of Fame.
Carlo: I saw in more than one occasion Massimo Antonelli coach a group of kids with the help of the music. Whether they were from Naples or from Varese, the satisfaction and the fascination, accompanied them when they found out how much their dexterity increased as the difficulty of the exercises intensified. How often have we seen our Americans work on their shooting, executing drive steps, dribble moves, spins, crossovers etc. with headphones that along with shoes, shirt and shorts were part of his attire used during his personal practice. Massimo, also, with the utilization of a wall has found an innovative way for youngsters to improve their individual basketball fundamentals.
Instructors complain about the lack of gyms and time to dedicate to the improvement of fundamentals. Well, MBM offers the possibility even to practice alone, in the open air and away from the programmed practices.
Considering the high number of repetitions that are able to be executed, this type of practice, besides improving coordination and timing, can be useful for anyone with regards to general conditioning.
CHRIS OLIVER
Chris Oliver is in his eigth season as head coach of the Windsor Lancers.
Coach of the OUA (Ontario University Athletics), twice Basketball Coach of the Year, Coach Oliver has accumulated an impressive record of 126-52 in conference games and has won 5 OUA titles.
Chris: One of the most brilliant young coaches in Canada, Chris got his degree in Kinesthesia from MacMaster University, and in education at Brock University. Furthermore, he earned a Masters in Physical Education and coaching at the University of Victoria. Oliver is also an instructor at NCCP (course of masters in basketball).
Putting into practice the ideas of Massimo, has had an unestimable importance for my coaching career. They have, in fact, contributed to a transformation of my thinking and have significantly influenced my way of teaching and organizing training sessions for my players. I believe that his teaching methods are unique and highly efficient to increase the execution speed, the efficiency of the capacity of movement and to develop the decisional capacity of players. His conception of basketball dedicates the same attention to the cognitive needs as to the phsiological needs of a successful player.
I am very grateful for the experience of collaboration with the MBM and with its revolutionary teacher.
MABEL BOCCHI
Great Italian x-player, she has won 8 championships and a European Championship Cup during her brilliant career. She totaled 121 presences on the Italian National Team.
Honored for three straight years as best European women's player and in 1975 was honored as the best player in the world!
In 2008 was the first Italian women inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Mabel: I had the good fortune to follow Massimo Antonelli's practices and appreciate his "creation" which is MBM, a method that is absolutely revelutionary for how much it is able to communicate to the young players. Enthusiasm,determination, fantasy, self-esteem, speed, rhythm, and coordination. All being motor skills and psychological ones for which us women are notoriously less gifted, for cultural reasons as well as phsiological ones. So we'd greatly benefit from MBM and have a great need to excel.You enter into a gym and see clumsy and insecure youngsters, and you come out after mjust 3 hours confrontin mini NBA players. Trully Incredible!
ALDO CORNO
As coach of the A.S. Vicenza initially and then with Ginnastica Commense he obtained the richest honors that any Italian basketball coach ever has: 24 Italian titles between Championship, Supercoppa, and Italian Cup, 6 Champion Cups and one World Cup for clubs.
From 1986 to 2003, in three different periods, he has been the Technical commissioner of the Italian Women’s Nationals basketball team, winning a silver medal at the Mediterranean Games.
Aldo: Dear Massimo, I assisted in Milan your practical demonstration of MBM and I must tell you, in all sincerity, that I have been favorably impressed by the originality, uniqueness e concreteness of your sporting creation. I fully agree, because of 20 years of basketball experience with players that, in the new generation, the combining of music-basketball can only bring enormous benefits regarding the diffusion and improvement of our sport.
I fully confirm, the utility of this new kind of training for the improvement if individual fundamentals, of the psychometric abilities and of their coordination. Following the right rhythm the athlete is able to automatically correct his own mistakes. In only an hour of training I noted, besides the great enthusiasm that the music transmitted, the evident progress that each single player had shown in such a short period of time.
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