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Volleyball Coaching Strategy
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Flipping passing angles around

This post looks at some figures about the best and worst places for passers to receive the ball in reception and ponders serving strategy.

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Volleyball Coaching
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Catching them doing it right

Letting players know when they're doing things right goes a long way toward moving them in the direction you want and sustaining motivation.

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Avoiding player demotivation

Coaches give a lot of thought to player motivation, but they likely don't give nearly enough to avoiding demotivation.

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The satisfied team

A coach is frustrated that his team doesn't have the kind of drive to win and to get better he does for them.

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Stats linked to team performance

What stats do a good job of linking well to team performance? A post from another blog presents some things worth looking at.

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Volleyball Practice Planning
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Training better, quicker decision-making

A coach wants to know how to promote better and faster decision-making in matches. That's actually pretty easily done.

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Sample Volleyball Practice Plans
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Practice Plan: 12 players, game-oriented

Here is a practice I ran with a college team that shifted a recent mainly technical focus to a mainly game competition one.

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Encouraging youngsters to attack

A coach has an issue with a young team setting third balls instead of attacking them. Here's how I would approach that.

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Non-volleyball consequences

A challenge for coaches is how to deal with rules infractions and stuff like that which aren't about volleyball. He's a solution I use.

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