{"id":108,"date":"2024-02-11T11:14:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T11:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mshtestuk.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2024-12-19T01:40:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T01:40:57","slug":"coach-maitland-x-mega-slam-hoops-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/blog\/coach-maitland-x-mega-slam-hoops-uk","title":{"rendered":"Coach Maitland x Mega Slam Hoops UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>London-based Gary &#8216;Coach&#8217; Maitland has a MegaSlam 72 basketball hoop in his back garden. Here&#8217;s his review of the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-a31a97ba gb-headline-text\">Professional Basketball Skills Coach Reviews His MegaSlam 72 Basketball Hoop<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My passion for the game started in 92 I can vividly remember seeing Michael Jordan flying through the air, Magic Johnson making his unbelievable no-look passes and that inspired me. I&#8217;m Gary Maitland and I&#8217;m a professional skills basketball coach.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Review of the Mega Slam Hoops\u00ae basketball system and Game Light\u00ae by Coach Maitland\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C0YK8F5KBxY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-2a056e56 gb-headline-text\">Coach Maitland&#8217;s passion to teach Basketball<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I remember 12 year old Gary Maitland practicing on a hoop and a backboard that was literally pinned to the back of my parents house. The hours that I put into my back garden is something that I&#8217;ll remember for the rest of my life. Years later I played for the national team and got to see countries that I never would have visited if it wasn&#8217;t for basketball. When I came back I then found a passion to teach those details to others.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-ca390306 gb-headline-text\">NBA style hoop system<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Getting a Mega Slam genuinely was a &#8216;no-brainer&#8217;. I&#8217;ve got an NBA style hoop system in my garden where I can lower the hoop and I can work with the younger players who don&#8217;t have the strength yet to reach a 10-foot hoop. But then i can work with a professional athlete and we&#8217;ve got the performance and the response of a hoop that they&#8217;re used to playing with, training with, competing with; a hoop that makes sense to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/blog\/adjustable-basketball-hoops\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"202\">Elevating Your Game At Any Age With Height Adjustable Hoops<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-483521e2 gb-headline-text\">Attention To Detail<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Mega Slam Hoops care so much about the sport that&#8217;s all they focus on and if you compare that to any other brand that&#8217;s out there right now, they focus on so many things that it&#8217;s very clear that they don&#8217;t have the same attention to detail that the Mega Slam Hoops guys have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/basketball-hoops\/in-ground-adjustable\/megaslam-72\">The MegaSlam 72<\/a><\/em> means that it&#8217;s got a 72 inch backboard and that&#8217;s a regulation size, like that&#8217;s exactly the same size the NBA players will get in the arenas, so that really adds to the the feel of how you play when you&#8217;re shooting around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/basketball-hoops\/in-ground-adjustable\/megaslam-60\">The MegaSlam 60<\/a><\/em> is slightly smaller at 60 inches, which doesn&#8217;t reduce the quality in any way, just means that it&#8217;s a little bit smaller in case you&#8217;ve got tight space to play.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-250d410b gb-headline-text\">True Breakaway Rims<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This thing&#8217;s got a regulation thickness tempered glass backboard which is going to give you the best ball response of any hoop system out there. That means I can throw the ball at the backboard and it&#8217;s going to have that same, arena-like feel with the Mega Slam.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a5334b7a\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-73596087\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-9f42a16b\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-9f42a16b\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Day &amp; Night on a Mega Slam 72\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SssumqDDfY0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-4994533f\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-4994533f\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-d0e657a9 gb-headline-text\">Playing Throughout the Night<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We added a GameLight to Coach Maitland&#8217;s system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Mega Slam Hoop systems come with unbelievable accessories. I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/accessories\/game-light\"><em><strong>Game Light<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which you can see right up there and it comes with a static support beam which means that even when I lower the hoop the light is exactly where it needs to be, lighting up the court so I can carry on playing throughout the night.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-8e6d95e5 gb-headline-text\">Best Ball Response<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This thing&#8217;s got a regulation thickness tempered glass backboard which is going to give you the best ball response of any hoop system out there. That means I can throw the ball at the backboard and it&#8217;s going to have that same, arena-like feel with the Mega Slam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being height adjustable means that I can lower it down to five foot, or it can be at 10 foot and infinitely anywhere between. So that means no matter what level you&#8217;re playing at, how old you are, how strong you are, it means that there&#8217;s a height suitable for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My hoop system has an overhang which means that my kids aren&#8217;t going to collide with the base and the in-ground system doesn&#8217;t even take up much ground on the floor which compared to a portable base takes up a lot of room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s no other hoop system around that has that safety protection around there, so that if anybody does come into contact with it, there&#8217;s no risk of injury. Living in the UK means that we&#8217;re getting all kinds of weather. The Mega Slam Hoop system is totally weatherproof and it comes with a lifetime guarantee, which speaks to the quality of the individual components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the years I&#8217;ve had all kinds of hoop systems. This one isn&#8217;t going anywhere. If you want to invest in something that&#8217;s going to be there for a lifetime, without doubt Mega Slam Hoops is the way to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Coach Maitland x Mega Slam Hoops UK\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/blog\/coach-maitland-x-mega-slam-hoops-uk#more-108\" aria-label=\"Read more about Coach Maitland x Mega Slam Hoops UK\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,18],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts","tag-ambassadors","tag-coach-maitland","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megaslamhoops.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}