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Recent Posts

Video Review: Setter IQ training

Here’s a drill that says it’s about training Setter IQ, but while it has a positive element, I don’t actually see any IQ work happening.

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Video review: 2-ball out-of-system pepper warm-up

Here’s video of a drill that I think combines good warm-up and skill development aspects into a useful activity.

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Training Leadership, Teamwork, and Mental Skills

We coaches want our players to exhibit leadership, teamwork, and mental skills, but how much focus do we give to training that stuff?

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NCAA Second-Contact Rule Change paper now published

My analysis of the impact of the NCAA rule change eliminating doubles calls on 2nd contact has now been published in a journal.

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Fix serving to get more passing?

Will improving players’ serve % in practice help improve the team’s serve reception? Maybe, but not in and of itself.

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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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“Recommended for any volleyball coach.” – Amazon Reviewer

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