12-Year-Old Basketball PRODIGY Has RIDICULOUS Handles! 👀

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12-year-old Karolina Ramirez is a MENACE on the basketball court!
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I'm serious now, you are a straight up beast.
I want to play professionally in WNBA or play overseas.
The sky's the limit for her.
If she wants to play at the next level, I can't see anything stopping her.
She's a lot of fun. Everybody loves her.
She's got it. She's well on the path.
She's a leader as a point guard. She's always sharing the ball.
And I've never seen a kid that would just soak up the stuff that I was putting in at that age.
She's very disciplined. She's always teaching them with respect.
She wants to prove doubters wrong. I can tell that. Kid's special.
She's got that competitive nature even though she's humble at the same time.
My name is Carolina Ramirez. I'm 12 years old and I play basketball.
We're one of the partners. We're actually going to be doing some drills.
That includes obviously dribbling the ball and doing some agility work.
My name is Orlando Ramirez and I'm Carolina's dad.
We do the jump rope just to get her heartbeat going.
We start with doing 100 or 200.
We do this almost every two or three times a week.
I love doing the coordination, like the footwork.
And I love doing things that will help me with my speed.
She's always playing outside with kids her age, younger, older.
She's always playing something. Football, soccer, basketball.
Good work, good work, good work. Get low, get low, get low.
There will be some teenagers, some in their 20s, and we'll play with them.
They'll leave me and my brother open the first couple times.
And then we start scoring and they're like, OK, we've got to play defense now.
I play with older people so that I'm pushing myself on people that are faster
and better ball handlers or specific things.
Better defenders will help me better with my offense.
Better offensive players will help me better with my defense.
You have to work hard on dribbling and shooting
and make sure you have everything up to standard.
I like getting others involved with passing and getting other people to be open.
And I love playing defense because I do track and field so I'm faster.
So I like being able to stop people from scoring and using my speed to help me with that.
We do the trick shots and stuff like that.
People see it as, well, that's just Instagram stuff.
Well, true, it is Instagram. However, she's having fun.
She has a ball in her hand and she's still working on her skills.
That's the way you've got to see it.
Shoot that thing right there. There you go.
Usually I do it where I stand up. It's a rhythmy elbow.
Down, go. Perfect, perfect. That's the rhythm.
I'm Erwin Hudson and this is Orlando Hoops.
Most people call it O Hoops.
Go strong.
You've got to go work.
Carolina, I noticed her on Instagram about four years ago.
High knees chop. It's a basic warm-up we do every time.
It warms your whole body up.
We get a one-on-one session for about four hours.
And I've never seen a kid that would just soak up the stuff that I was putting in at that age.
Coach Erwin, he's a really good coach and a really good trainer.
And I love practicing with him because he's really good at making sure I'm having fun
while I'm making sure I know what I'm doing and getting my fundamentals
and everything else that we're practicing, I'm getting it all right.
I've been doing this probably 27 years total.
My whole mission is complete player improvement.
Ball handling, shooting, footwork, agility, mental aspects of the game.
This is ranging from ages six years old all the way up to the NBA.
The three-point shooting, really rapid fire is game speed.
It's 15 shots at two seconds per shot every time and trying to make sure she got over 50%.
This is a simulation of trying to make her feel what she feels in the game.
Anything that comes at you, you've got to be able to handle it.
No loud noises. Go, go.
Getting her head, simulating crowd noise, simulating hecklers,
that was to get her ready and get her prepared for anything they throw at her on the free throw line.
Pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure. Make this shot.
And I've worked with Dwight Howard, countless people who had problems with free throws
and helped him block out the noise when he got on the court.
Good shot. Come on. Catch. Turn.
The fact that she changed her free throw form for me in such a short time, it blew my mind.
A lot of college players, a lot of NBA players who I know I can help, they were too stubborn to change.
And I knew then I had someone special.
First time I came up here was a couple years ago.
And it was during a basketball tournament.
And I came up here that night and I worked on my free throws with him and my shooting.
The next day I made all my free throws at the game.
These are called the blaze pods.
During the time when it lights up, you actually have to move toward those lights as quick as possible.
It's under time constraint, so it's got a lot of benefits to it.
Get over. Quick.
There you go, baby. There you go.
You got this. You got this.
You're almost there. Come on. Come on.
Right here. Right here.
Work. Way to work. Way to work. Way to work.
The resistance and ball handling inside the gym, you know, it taxes your body as far as moving sideways,
being able to slide, being able to gather yourself when trying to control the basketball.
Alternate for me. Alternate. Alternate. Strong. Alternate.
Are you just participating? Are you committed?
And there's a difference.
You know, you think about a bacon egg breakfast.
You know, there's two animals involved.
One of the animals participated and the other animal was committed.
Think about it. The pig and the chicken.
The chicken just participated, but the pig had to give his all to be a part of that breakfast.
So that's what I want to make sure they understand that, you know,
you've got to get all into this thing if you really want to make it and be successful.
Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
Don't miss this.
I live with my mom, my dad and my brother. We have a cat also.
When I'm not playing basketball, I like doing TikToks and I like hanging out with my friends.
And I also do art and like I love painting.
I'll either go like hang out with my friends. We play football, soccer,
and then later on I'll go to basketball practice or if it's not too hot,
then I'll go to basketball practice and then go hang out after that.
I actually was playing basketball when I was younger and I would play pick up ball outside
with my friends or at the YMCA.
She was only like three or four years old and she would be mimicking exactly what we were doing
on the court. And I noticed that she was picking up basketballs and dribbling on her own.
And she's very competitive. However, she doesn't really show it. She's very humble.
I'm a point guard, so I handle the ball. That's pretty much being the leader of the team.
Like you have to get your own points here and there, but you have to get everyone else involved.
She came in and just literally obliterated some guys that were bigger than her.
It was amazing. So I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens with her.
In basketball, if you're disciplined, you learn all the different areas that you should be doing
on the court. Not only do you become a leader, I can see that she's excelling at school
with her grades. You know, how she actually treats other people.
A lot of things are going through my mind when I'm playing a game.
But it's mostly like try not to be a ball hog. If I have an open shot here,
but someone's wide open over there, let them shoot it.
Basketball is more than just getting a scholarship. It's teaching her about life and responsibilities.
So I think it's a win-win situation.
You want to be able to have fun and take it seriously at the same time.
Remember, no days off. This is it. Be your target. Take your time. Knock it down.
If you're not having fun, then what are you doing it for?
