Volleyball arm swing – understanding and coaching it
There's a lot of stuff out there about volleyball arm swing for hitting and serving. To put it bluntly, some of what you've seen and heard is plain bad.
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There's a lot of stuff out there about volleyball arm swing for hitting and serving. To put it bluntly, some of what you've seen and heard is plain bad.
It's easy to get caught up thinking about player contacts, but lots of times we shouldn't worry about them, but on everything going on around them.
In the AAU Volleyball magazine an article by Cassidy Lichmann lists five areas of the game where more work is probably needed. Here are my thoughts.
There are a number of volleyball exercises where players start off blind to the ball, then have to find it. Here are my thoughts on their value.
What's the point of assistant coaches constantly talking to players between plays. Does it really have a positive affect? How does it impact development?
An article on the AVCA blog makes some good points about what statistics it makes sense to collect in matches and practices, and how to use them.
In this post I address a reader's question on how much positional specialization there should be on varsity vs junior varsity high school teams.
Responding to a reader question, here are thoughts on the difference in approaching the coaching of strategy and tactics to varsity vs. junior varsity teams
Volleyball butterfly drills are used by coaches all over the place. I'm not personally a big fan of them for a couple of reasons.