The first go at 6 v 6 play after shifting from a 2-setter to a 1-setter system showed a massive improvement.

After a day of meetings that cleared up some line-up questions, ball-handling was the major theme of this training session.

After a hard session the night before, the team was pretty poor in all facets of volleyball in this session.

Two primary areas of focus for this session - evaluating a pair of potential new additions and putting the players under physical and mental strain.

This session I introduced a couple of new games to see how they went and worked the middles and setters on quick attacks to see…

An integrated 6 v 6 game convinced me that I need to have A and B teams separated for at least the next few weeks…

The first training session of the year focused on blocking movement, serving and passing - and on starting to develop the gym atmosphere I want.

With a new season comes a new edition of the volleyball coaching log where I document my thinking and planning over the course of training…