Teaching center-line passing vs. platform angle
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 focus?
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serve reception
Move your feet or move your platform?
"Move your feet" is often heard respect to serve reception. Given the importance of platform angle, should we instead be saying "move your platform"?
Having a pre-serve process
When it comes to a pre-serve process keep in mind that both servers and passers should have them and that in both cases they should be simple.
Coaching Log – Jan 25, 2016
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 the weekend.
Philosophy question: serve reception scoring
Some work I did on serving and serve reception got me thinking about the value of including missed serves in pass ratings.
Coaching Log – Jan 18, 2016
This is an entry in my volleyball coaching log for 2015-16. This week saw our focus shift back to Elitserie play, with our first league match of the second half on
Coaching Log – Dec 21, 2015
A hard-fought loss at Brøndby kept us from being top of the Oresund Liga standings at the break, but we did finish the first half top of the Elitserie.