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Volleyball Practice Planning

Thoughts, opinions, and ideas on planning your volleyball practice and training sessions to help you get the most out of them.

Volleyball Practice Planning
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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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Talking skill acquisition in volleyball

Arizona State professor and researcher Rob Gray talks about skill acquisition science and how it relates to volleyball.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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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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?

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