When blocked drills make sense
Blocked training isn't the best for long-term skill development, but it does have its uses in a couple of different ways.
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Volleyball Practice Planning
Talking skill acquisition in volleyball
Arizona State professor and researcher Rob Gray talks about skill acquisition science and how it relates to volleyball.
Continuing the “what works” conversation
There was an interesting comment on the Coaches doing "what works" post. Long-time reader Kelly said the following: I’ve read and listened to Daniel Coyle’s ‘The Little Book of Talent’, where
Research into training hitters to attack vs. a block
A research paper looks at two methods of training hitters to attack vs. three different types of block set-ups with interesting findings.
Hustle and noise doesn’t make it a good session
A loud, high activity gym seems like a good thing, but not if all that noise and bustle covers up an otherwise ineffective session.
Training the infrequent
If all we ever do in training is work on the stuff that happens all the time, will our players be able to handle unusual situations?
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.
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.
How much straight 6v6 should you do in practice?
How much time should we give to standard 6v6 games (start with a serve, no extra balls, normal rotations) in our practices?