Serve receive drills that transfer to matches: seam reads, passer movement, and scoring formats for better first contact.

Libero rules and role explained: rotations, substitutions, and what liberos can and can’t do - plus key skills and how to choose one.

Serve-receive & defense seam responsibilities explained: simple rules, common exceptions, and how to train communication under pressure.

How to set a 5–1 starting rotation: 3 decision rules, a worked example, serve-receive priorities, and common mistakes (with zones 1–6).

What are your favorite drills/games to practice serve receive? That question, or variations of it, come up a lot. Here are some thoughts and ideas.

There is a long-running debate over how to train players to receive serve. Is center-line passing the better choice? Or should platform angle be the…

When it comes to a pre-serve process, keep in mind that both servers and passers should have them, and they should be simple.

A coach of a boys team is having problems fixing the passing technique of a certain player. I share some of my thoughts on how…

Not a good week, unfortunately, as we lost our first league home match of the season, then lost a tough one on the road on…

Some work I did on serving and serve reception got me thinking about the value of including missed serves in pass ratings.