A new training facility that focuses on improving a basketball player's shot and ball handling has opened up in Moncton. It will combine coaching, top level equipment, and biomechanics to help players improve.

"There's nothing like this in Canada," said co-founder Serge Langis. "This is the first."

Serge Langis said in a 30-minute session, players should be able to get around 600 shots up. (Shot Lab/Facebook) Shot Lab operates like a fitness centre, based on a monthly membership with different numbers of session per month, depending on the level of membership purchased.

There are rebounding machines setup to help players get the most shots up as possible. Langis said in a 30-minute workout, players are able to get around 600 shots up, and they will be exhausted after.

For ball handling, players watch video and work with coaches to master specific moves.

Shot analyzed

Serge Langis said they will be analyzing people's basketball shot at the lab. It won't just be improving jump shots through repetition. Langis said they will be looking at the body, and why someone might be missing certain shots.

Two-time NBA most valuable player Steve Nash spent time on the injury list near the end of his career because his biomechanics made him unable to succeed. (B.C. Sports Hall of Fame) Langis used an example of someone missing shots from a specific spot.

"Okay you're shooting 60 per cent but most of your misses are happening on the left side, going to your left because of a hip situation," said Langis.

"That kind of information doesn't exist out there, at all. I've been coaching for a number of years and I know for a fact that most of the time shooting deficiencies can be that specific."

Langis said he picked up on the idea from Canadian and two-time NBA most valuable player Steve Nash. Nash spent a lot of the time injured at the end of his career and wouldn't play because he said he wasn't biomechanically ready.

National plans

Langis hopes to move his facility beyond Moncton. If he gets the success he's hoping for in Moncton, he wants to move to Halifax and then beyond.

"We're already talking to a number of people in the Halifax area that want to bring this there," said Langis.

"We plan on going to Quebec next and then Ontario and keep going."

Serge Langis said dribbling drills and coaching will help players learn to control the basketball. (Shot Lab/Facebook) Langis said it may have been a smart idea to start the facility in Halifax, but since he is from Moncton, he wanted to start it there. So far they have more memberships than they had hoped for at this time, he said.

Langis's goal is to get 150 memberships. Langis was hoping for 30 memberships in the first month, and after a week and a half of being open they have 20.

"If we can hit that number, Shot Lab in Moncton can sustain itself. We're not looking to become multi-billionaires or anything like that but we do want this to work and we want to share it," said Langis.

"We want basketball in this country to improve across the board and we feel like we have an idea that can greatly help."