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    Featured Content

    How to Teach the Overhand Serve to Volleyball Beginners

    How do you teach volleyball beginners to serve overhand? Here is what I focus on when working with new servers.

    Volleyball Set Diagram

    Here is a fairly easy to use volleyball set diagram for defining and describing different types of sets as part of your offensive system.

    Putting Together a Starting Line-up

    Deciding on a starting line-up for your volleyball team requires potentially balancing a number of different factors I discuss here.

    Scoring Serving and Passing Effectiveness

    Scoring your volleyball team's serving and passing is an easy way to use statistics to help make objective training and line-up decisions.

    Who is John Forman?

    John's 20+ years of volleyball coaching experience includes all three NCAA divisions and Junior College in the US; club and university teams in the UK; a pro team in Sweden; and Juniors coaching and club management. He's been a visiting coach at national team, professional club, and juniors programs in several countries. Currently, he leads the entire national team structure for Volleyball England. John also runs the Coaching Volleyball group on Facebook.

    Books from John

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