Blind drills don’t help reaction time
There are a number of volleyball exercises where players start off blind to the ball, then have to find it. Here are my thoughts on their value.
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Volleyball Practice Planning
Approach to Varsity vs JV coaching
Responding to a reader question, here are thoughts on the difference in approaching the coaching of strategy and tactics to varsity vs. junior varsity teams
Why I don’t like volleyball butterfly drills
Volleyball butterfly drills are used by coaches all over the place. I'm not personally a big fan of them for a couple of reasons.
A half-court setter tutoring scenario
Here's a scenario a coach presented where you need to come up with a way to do setter training on a half court with some constraints.
Remember the importance of visual cues
Remember that player reactions start with properly reading the visual cues, so it makes the most sense to include those cues in training, not remove them.
Using process scoring in games
You can use process scoring rather than more standard outcome based scoring to continue your development work in training games.
Season-long planning
While making detailed long-term coaching plans for a season is impractical, it definitely makes sense to have things you're working toward developmentally.
Three short practices
As a covering coach I ran three shortish practice sessions for a group of 15-and-under girls. Here are the plans I used for those three sessions.
The influence of space on training effects
Playing space has a meaningful influence on the sorts of training effects you can expect to get from your games and drills. Use it wisely.