Pickup ball

It started with pickup basketball in the park. Basketball veterans of Huddersfield will remember summer days standing in a 40-strong queue around Greenhead park, waiting for your turn to show your skills on the court. Pickup basketball is played in outdoor courts around the world, and is a sport like no other, where it’s normal to just show up on your own and join in with whoever is playing. Just Hoop wants to recreate the uniquely social aspect of pickup basketball, bringing it indoors to take out the variables of poor weather, rock solid rings, uneven rough playing surfaces and provide the safer environment that comes with an indoor facility. It includes pickup courts where you can turn up and play with whoever is there, in the same way you would in a park.

Mini-court bookings

Just Hoop wants to provide more affordable basketball facilities making it more inclusive. Book a section of a court in the same way you’d book a badminton court. As an individual, a family or a group of friends. Play without the expense of booking a whole or half-court.

High-spec facilities

Existing indoor facilities are generally not that suitable for basketball. Leisure centre and school sports halls are multipurpose rather than basketball-specific and so are not optimised for the sport. Sports hall floors have markings related to lots of different sports which can be really confusing. Often the floors are too hard, rather than being sprung. Also, due to multi-sports usage and outdoor shoes being used, floors are inevitably dirty and can affect the game and lead to injury. Often side hoops are attached flush with the wall, making them unusable for games. 

Just Hoop basketball courts are 100% geared to basketball. All backboards are sprung and protrude from the wall, even side baskets, meaning no more layups where your face smacks into a wall. Our sprung floors have the highest level of elasticity as recommended by FIBA. Our gym area is also focused on basketball, so expect to see plyometric equipment that is uncommon in other gyms. 

Basketball club mentality 

We have many tennis, squash and cricket venues in the UK, all of which are 100% specific to those sports, meaning that you know that whoever you chat to there shares your passion. Given that basketball is the 2nd most played sport in the UK, we always thought it was ludicrous that the equivalent didn’t already exist for basketball. Just Hoop wants to provide a facility focused on basketball including courts, a gym and a cafe where local clubs can be based and people can be brought together by a common interest.

Central venue leagues

Huddersfield once had its own thriving basketball league. Nowadays, Huddersfield clubs’ only option is to travel to other leagues such as the Leeds home / away league which can entail travelling up to 2 hours with away games which can be played any day of the week, making it unviable for many players due to other commitments. In addition, running a team in a home / away league comes with a huge amount of admin; be it referee and table official management, fixture arranging (which often has its own complications, for example, school closures) and travel arrangements which has led to a town that once had 10 teams now only having 3 teams. By facilitating a central venue league, we will take the admin out of running a team, make joining a league accessible for players who have other commitments and make running a team more about the playing and less like an admin chore.

Basketball for all ages and abilities

Just Hoop provides pickup courts, sessions and classes aimed at different age groups and abilities, from young children to aspiring athletes to older players with mobility issues including walking basketball. 

Focused gym and exercise classes

Whether you want to dunk the ball, be the quickest on the court or just want to be able to run again without further injury, we run baskeball-focused gym and exercise classes centered around injury prevention, recovery and performance improvement.

A venue for new or existing teams and clubs

Just Hoop wants to create a whole community of different teams and clubs, recognising that they each have their own style, culture and goals. We want to share our love for basketball and all it has to give with the widest audience possible.