Move your feet or move your platform?
"Move your feet" is often heard respect to serve reception. Given the importance of platform angle, should we instead be saying "move your platform"?
Sharing volleyball coaching insights and ideas
"Move your feet" is often heard respect to serve reception. Given the importance of platform angle, should we instead be saying "move your platform"?
When the primary focus of a particular exercise in training is mainly mental (not sport-specific) do you still have to make things game-like?
One commentator blames hitting errors against key opponents for the failure of the US women at the 2015 World Cup. But what caused all those…
A young American national team volleyball player just signed on with one of the top pro teams in Europe, forgoing his senior year in college.…
Sometimes a change in team culture is desired. In an article, Hugh McCutcheon talked about some changes he made at Minnesota and the impact of…
Question: I coached a program full-commitment for two seasons, then had to cut back in the third. How do I account for that third season…
This game pits the OH and OPP hitters against each other in a kill challenge to work on being able to score against full-team defense.
This volleyball drill gets a lot of players active on one court working on serving, passing, setting and hitting - and potentially blocking and defense.
This is fairly simple group ball-handling and movement drill (though with room for increased complexity and/or intensity) that could be used as a warn-up.
In his book Talent and the Secret Life of Teams, Terry Pettit outlines what he considers the three primary phases of a coaching career. I…