What percent of practice should I spend on serve and serve receive?
A coach wonders how much of their practice should be focused on serving and passing. That's a tricky question, though.
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Volleyball Practice Planning
Reception training when your servers aren’t good enough
How can you get the most out of serve reception training when your servers are not good enough? Here's an idea.
Favorite serve-receive drills for older players
A coach is looking for some ideas of games and drills they can use when working with more experienced players on serve receive.
Pass great in drills, not in games
You ever find yourself in a situation where your players pass well in drills, but fall apart in games? The solution is pretty easy.
Training Plan: Small group, getting them back to work
Here's my first day of practice back session for the Medaille College men's team. It was a small group and I had three focus points.
Ugly is good!
Structured, highly ordered drills can look very nice, but the fact of the matter is they do a poor job of preparing for game randomness.
Creating service pressure in practice
How can we get players used to serving in pressure situations? It comes down to making their serves in practice consequential.
Consistency v Variety in practice design
Do you mix your practice session designs up a lot? Or are you the type of coach who basically does the same thing all the time?
Think through your scoring systems
A volleyball practice game scoring system provides examples of how players might be incentivized in ways contrary to what we're after.