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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.

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Putting together a good practice

If you do it right, there's a lot that goes into an effective, well-run practice session. Here are the things you need to incorporate.

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Making practice scrimmages less boring

Let's face it. Just playing normal volleyball games in practice can be boring. How can we avoid that while also getting important work done?

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Planning out a day of setter training

Here are my thoughts on a running a 6-hour setter's clinic, split over two sessions with a break in the middle.

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Volleyball Games
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Encouraging attacking rather than giving up free balls

A coach is looking for some ideas to encourage more attacking and less giving up of free balls in their 6 v 6 play.

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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 Coaching Q&A
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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